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From left: CoachM of the Year Dick Sauers. (Albany Stata) Dlvi
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lege Division; Bill Jones, (Jacksonville State) Division II.
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L E X IN G T O N , KY — For the
first time, the nation’s college basket­
ball coaches have selected their
Coach o f the Year and Award winner
from (he same university.
John Thompson, coach o f the
Georgetown University Hoyas, was
named Coach o f the Year by the Na­
tional Association o f Basketball
Coaches (N A BC ) at their annual
meeting here. Earlier, the N ABC
named Patrick Ewing as winner o f
the 1985 Award as the best male bas­
ketball player in the nation.
Recipients o f both awards are de­
termined annually by a vote o f the na­
tion’ s college basketball coaches.
Three other coaches also were
honored here today as the best in their
respective divisions.
Also named Coach o f the Year
were: Bill Jones o f Jacksonville (A la ­
bama) State University in N C A A D i­
vision II; Richard Sauers o f the State ,
University o f New York at Albany
(Albany State), in Division 111; and
Denny Lehnus o f Kankakee Com­
munity College o f Illinois, in the Jun­
ior College Division.
In 13 seasons as head coach o f
Georgetown
University,
John
Thompson has compiled an impres­
sive 296-106 record, a .736 winning
percentage.
But during the past four years, long
to be remembered as the Patrick
Ewing era, Thompson’s teams have
amassed 110 wins against only 22
losses, a winning percentage o f .833.
Georgetown’s 1985 Final Four
presence marks the third time in four
years the Hoyas have made the elite
field. North Carolina prevailed in a
dramatic 1982 championship game,
but Georgetown won last year’ s title
with a 84-75 victory over Houston.
The Hoyas compiled a 34-2 record
this year heading into the Final Four,
despite the pressures o f being defend­
ing national champs. Thompson has
guided Georgetown to the N C A A
tournament nine times, and 1985
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Thompson named
Coach of the Year
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marks the team's seventh consecutive
appearance. The former Providence
College standout and Boston Celtic
has led his teams to 11 consecutive
postseason tournaments.
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Thompson earned another honor
from the coaches: he assumed the
post o f NABC president at the group's
annual banquet.
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John Thompson. NABC Coach of the Year
BILL JONES
Bill Jones proves that you can go
home again. A 1966 graduate o f Jack­
sonville (Alabama! State University,
where he averaged more than 18 points
a game over two seasons, he returned
to his alma mater in 1974 as head
coach.
This season Jacksonville State
posted a 31-1 record and won the
N C A A Division II championship.
The sole blemish on the Gamecocks*
record was a season opening loss to
Belmont Abbey. Their subsequent
3 1-game winning streak is college
basketball’ s longest at present.
On their way to the title, the
Gamecocks posted a 16-0 G u lf South
Conference record, the first time
that feat has been accomplished.
They went on to win the GSC T o u r­
nament, the South Region Tourna­
ment and the Division II quarterfinals
by one point with a buzzer-beating
30-foot jum p shot.
Jacksonville State nipped South
Dakota State 74-73 to win the N C A A
Division II Championship.
In 11 seasons at Jacksonville State,
Jones has taken his teams to the
N C A A playoffs eight times while
posting a 213-92 record. Prior to
returning to JSU, he coached two
seasons at the University o f South
Alabama, turning in a 28-17 record.
DICK SAUERS
D ak Sauers took over the reins as
head coach at Albany Slate in 1955,
following the worst season in the
school’ s history In the 30 subsequent
seasons, the Danes have never suf­
fered a losing season
This past year, as his team was
compiling a 22-6 mark, Sauers be­
came the 38th college coach to reach
the 500-win plateau He upped his
career record to 501-223, the best o f
any active coach in Division III.
Sauers is seldom called by his first
name; he has instead been known as
“ D o c" since earning a doctorate from
Penn Stale University in 1961 The
54-ycar-old native o f Pennsylvania
earned his undergraduate degree
from Slippery Rock Slate College.
Sauers is a member o f the N C A A
Basketball Rules C ommittee
DENNY LEHNUS
Denny Lehnus has compiled a
305-59 winning record in his II sea
sons as head basketball coach at Kan­
kakee Community College in the
Chicago suburb His Cavaliers posted
a 31-9 record this season in taking the
Region IV Junior College Champion­
ship and a second-place finish in the
national junior college champion­
ships in Hutchinson, Kansas, earlier
this month. Kankakee lost to Dixie
C ollege 57-55 in the championship
game.
This was the second time in the last
three years tha Lehnus has led his
Cavaliers to the regional title — the
last time was in 1983 - and the fourth
time in the last six years that his team
has been ranked nationally among
the top ten junior colleges in the na­
tion.
Lehnus is a graduate o f Anderson
(Indiana) College where he played
varsity baseball for four years before
starting his basketball coqching ca­
reer. He coached at the high school
level in Illinois before taking over the
Kankakee |ob in 1974
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Racing fans’ last weekend
The $30,710 Futurity and the
$19,100 Derby — both for quarter
horses — w ill be the richest events on
the program during the final three
days o f the Portland Meadows 1985
meeting Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Nosey Devil which races for Claude
and Pauline Copeland o f Salem, Ore­
gon, is the solid favorite to win the
$9,555 winner’s share o l the derby
and stretch her meet win record to 7
wins in 8 starts. She was fastest among
the 10 finalists, running 4(X) yards in
20.50 second — a length better than
the second quickest. Go Bugs
The fastest qualifiers in the 350-
yard futurity, scheduled Saturday,
were Little Bit Dimmer, owned by
Route 5 Racing Ranch o f Walla Walla
and Joyful Bailey, which races for
Rita and Ray Doerksen o f Camas.
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The championships remain to be
decided during the final three days:
ihe thoroughbred riding title and the
quarter horse trainer title.
Jockey Doug Moore, with 62 wins
through Friday, A pril 19, was only six
behind Buford Mills Jr for first place
among thoroughbred riders. Moore,
who is 27, will take time out from his
race-tracking Monday, A pril 22, to
marry Lathy W'hite ol Battleground
Claude Copeland and Baxter An-
druss stand at 14 12 respectively in
their battle for No. I among quarter­
horse trainers. Copeland could clinch
it if his favorite Nosey Devil wins the
Portland Meadows Derby, closing
day.
The twin-trifecta — which is Port­
land Meadows' effort Io give patrons
a lottery-like bet — was expected to
offer patrons a $30,000 jackpot when
the track opens for its final three days
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