FSU'S DENNIS SPRINGS NAMED TO DAKTRONICS ALL-REGION SECOND TEAM

Senior Guard Chosen As One Of Great Lakes Region's Top Players

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Senior guard Dennis Springs (Toledo, Ohio/Scott) of the 2005-06 Ferris State men's basketball team has been named to the Daktronics All-Great Lakes Region Second Team in an announcement made today (March 8).

Springs joined Ashland's Justin Brown and Callistus Eziukwu of Grand Valley State as second-team all-region representatives from a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC)-member institution. The other second-team selections included Jonathan Griffin of Missouri-St. Louis along with J.B. Jones of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.

The first-team honorees were Daktronics Great Lakes Region Player of the Year Chris Thompson of Southern Indiana, Drury's Collins Harris, Sullivan Sykes of Saint Joseph's (Ind.), Northern Michigan's Ricky Volcy and Dustin Pfeifer of Findlay. The first-team members are forwarded along to the national ballot and now eligible for All-America recognition.

The 5-6 Springs, who currently leads the league in assists (5.7 apg) this season and ranks as the league's fourth-leading scorer (16.7 ppg) this campaign, was honored as a first-team GLIAC North Division selection this year. Springs’ current career average of 6.2 assists per game ranks tied for 17th place all-time in NCAA Division II history and is the GLIAC’s top career performance average for all games played. He has 707 career assists to date and is 15th on the all-time NCAA Division II assists leaders list. The two-time (2003-04 & 2004-05) GLIAC North Division Second Team honoree presently ranks 17th nationally in assists along with 38th in steals (2.3) this season among the latest (March 6) NCAA-II National Statistical leaders.

Springs, who has compiled 27 double-figure scoring outings to date this season, currently is listed among the school's all-time performers in five statistical categories including ninth in scoring with 1,484 career points. He earned GLIAC North Division Player of the Week Award honors three times this campaign. Springs attained NCAA-II Great Lakes Region All-Tournament Team kudos as FSU advanced to the NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen during the 2004-05 campaign. He also set a school single-season record with 213 assists last year and presently tops the school's all-time assists leaders list. Springs also received GLIAC North Division All-Defensive Team kudos for the third-straight campaign and picked up GLIAC All-Tournament Team recognition as the Bulldogs earned runner-up honors in the conference's annual postseason tournament last weekend (March 3-4) in Allendale, Mich.

Ferris State, which is presently 18-12 overall this season, is the eighth seed for this weekend's NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional Tournament and will face top-seeded host Saint Joseph's (Ind.) in Saturday's (March 11) third regional quarterfinal round contest with tipoff set for 7 p.m. (EST) at SJC's Richard F. Scharf Alumni Fieldhouse in Rensselaer, Ind.

The Daktronics team is voted on by the sports information directors of the region's member institutions and sponsored by Daktronics, Inc., an acknowledged world leader in scoring, timing and programmable display systems for virtually every sport at every level of competition. The company also markets DakStats® sports statistics software with programs for football, basketball and baseball available.