2002-03 News
Oct. 1: FSU’S ADAM ANDERSON RECEIVES PRESEASON ALL-AMERICA HONORS
Senior Center Named To Street & Smith’s Division II Honorable Mention Team
Senior center Adam Anderson (Kent City), a member of the 2002-03 Ferris State University men’s basketball team, has been named to the 2002-03 Street & Smith’s Division II Preseason Honorable Mention All-America Team for the second consecutive season.
Anderson, a 2000-01 Daktronics NCAA Division II All-Great Lakes Region First-Team selection, was among 31 individuals receiving preseason accolades and joined Michigan Tech’s Matt Cameron, Hillsdale’s Matt Mlynarchek and Josh Morgan of Gannon as the only representatives from a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) member institution. Five individuals were named to both the first and second-team squads while 21 others attained honorable mention honors. Cameron, a first-team pick, was the only GLIAC player named to either the first or second teams.
The 6-10 Anderson, who missed the final 23 games last season due to a bone bruise injury (knee) suffered in a 79-59 non-conference win versus Olivet (Mich.) College (11/20/01) at FSU’s Jim Wink Arena, petitioned for and was granted an extra season of eligibility this past summer through the NCAA’s medical redshirt process. Prior to his injury, Anderson had played in three contests and was averaging 15.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game. A 2001-02 Basketball Times Division II Preseason Top 25 All-America honoree, Anderson has scored 10 points or more in 36 of his past 37 career outings, including each of his previous 30 contests.
A first-team 2000-01 All-GLIAC North Division selection, Anderson garnered 2000-01 GLIAC All-Defensive Team recognition while leading the Bulldogs to an 8-18 overall mark. The GLIAC’s 2000-01 leading scorer (21.3 ppg) has scored 1,144 career points to date and presently ranks 17th on the school’s career scoring chart. He notched the school’s ninth best single-season scoring output (555 points) and recorded the fifth-best single-season scoring average by a Bulldog junior during the 2000-01 campaign.
Anderson, a second-team 1999-2000 All-GLIAC pick, currently ranks as Ferris’ career blocks leader (102) and is ninth on the school’s career made free throw chart (326-512). He established FSU single-season records in made free throws (179) and blocks (50) during the 2000-01 season while becoming the 22nd player in the program’s 74-year history to score 1,000 career points. Anderson, who was the first FSU player to earn all-region recognition since former Bulldog standout Day Day Smith (1996-98) was a second-team pick in 1998, is one of four Ferris State players in the last 20 years to earn first-team all-region honors.
The Bulldogs will open the 2002-03 season under first-year head coach Bill Sall at St. Joseph’s (Ind.) Friday, Nov. 22, in a 7:30 p.m. (EST) non-conference contest in Rensselaer, Ind. Ferris returns eight letterwinners from last season’s 4-22 team, which placed seventh in the GLIAC’s North Division with a 1-17 conference mark.
*Street & Smith's Men's Basketball D-II Top Ten & All-American Teams:
1. Metro State (29-6)
2. South Dakota State (24-6)
3. Kentucky Wesleyan (31-3)
4. Shaw (28-5)
5. Michigan Tech (27-3)
6. Salem International (27-5)
7. Washburn (20-8)
8. Assumption (24-6)
9. California, PA (23-6)
10. Tarleton State (25-8)
Possible Breakthroughs: Adelphi (28-3), Bowie State (20-8), Carson-Newman (26-5), U. of Charleston, WV (25-7), Cheyney (17-10), Clayton State (19-9), UC Davis (15-12), Gannon (21-7), Hillsdale (20-8), Incarnate Word (25-4), UMass-Lowell (20-9), Nebraska-Kearney (24-6), North Dakota (19-10), Northwest Missouri State (29-3), Saint Rose (17-13), Seattle Pacific (24-5), Southern Indiana (22-8), Wingate (26-7)
First Team All-Americans:
Jerome Beasley, North Dakota
Bobby Burries, Cal State San Bernardino
Matt Cameron, Michigan Tech
Patrick Mutombo, Metro State
Nick Svehla, Nebraska-Kearney
Second Team All-Americans:
Huggy Dye, Kentucky Wesleyan
Ronald Johnson, Cal State LA
Danny Jones, Tarleton State
Wykeen Kelly, Salem International
J.R. Raymond, Shaw
Honorable Mention All-Americans:
Adam Anderson, Ferris State
Brian Atkins, Concord
Dominic Callori, UC Davis
Dennis Coutee, Southern Indiana
Angel Figueroa, Dowling
Scott Fleming, Northwest Missouri State
Shahar Golan, Assumption
Kyle Gribble, Carson-Newman
Craig Griffin, Merrimack
Djaun Hankins, Wingate
Austin Hansen, South Dakota State
Elad Inbar, UMass-Lowell
Matt Jones, South Dakota State
Luke Kendall, Metro State
Matt Mlynarchek, Hillsdale
Josh Morgan, Gannon
Wayne Nelson, Adelphi
Ramzee Stanton, West Chester
Denver TenBroek, North Dakota State
Tim Washington, Bowie State
Brian Westre, Missouri-Rolla
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