JOSEPH V. LABOLITO. head coach fran dunphy la salle record 1st season at temple

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1 JOSEPH V. LABOLITO head coach fran dunphy la salle record 1st season at temple Fran

2 head coach Fran Dunphy, who guided the University of Pennsylvania men s basketball program to a school-record 310 wins and 10 Ivy League championships over the last 17 years, was named the 17th head men s basketball coach in Temple University history on April 10, Dunphy, who becomes the first person to serve as the head men s basketball coach at two Philadelphia Big 5 institutions, takes over the reins from Hall of Fame coach John Chaney, who announced his retirement on March 13, 2006 after leading Temple to 516 wins and 23 postseason appearances in 24 years. One of the most respected coaches in the nation, Dunphy has personified success over his coaching career. Besides the Ivy League championships and school-record win total, his impressive resume includes 10 NCAA Tournament appearances, nine 20-win seasons, four Philadelphia Big 5 City Series titles, seven Ivy League Players of the Year, three Ivy League Rookies of the Year, five perfect Ivy League seasons and 41 All-Ivy League honorees. Prior to joining Penn s coaching staff, Dunphy served as an assistant under Speedy Morris at his alma mater, La Salle University ( through ). The 58-year old Drexel Hill, Pa. native s coaching career began at the United States Military Academy ( ), where he served as an assistant under head coach Dan Dougherty. In 1975, he left Army to become head coach of his high school alma mater, Malvern Prep. He remained there until becoming Lefty Ervin s assistant at La Salle University ( ). The following year, Dunphy joined current Maryland head coach Gary Williams staff at American University. He returned to La Salle in 1985, serving one more season under Ervin and assisting Morris for two seasons. He left La Salle to become Tom Schneider's top assistant at Penn in In 1989, Dunphy was named the 16th head coach at Penn. He would compile a overall record in his 17-year career. His Quaker teams won an unprecedented 48 straight Ivy League games and four league titles from 1992 through His team posted a 25-3 record and earned a Number 25 ranking in the CNN/USA Today Coaches Poll, the program s first such ranking since the campaign. That year also included a first round upset of sixthseed Nebraska in the NCAA Tournament. In his last eight seasons, Dunphy guided Penn to six Ivy League titles and a league record. From , he led the Quakers to 25 straight league wins, including a perfect 14-0 mark in In , Dunphy s Quakers posted a 25-7 record and won the Fran Dunphy Fact File COACHING EXPERIENCE Penn Head Coach, Overall Record: NCAA Tournament (10): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 Ivy League Champion (10): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 Philadelphia Big 5 Champion (4): 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002 Assistant Coach, La Salle Assistant Coach, , American Assistant Coach, Malvern Prep Head Coach, Army Assistant Coach, playing EXPERIENCE La Salle ( ) Malvern Prep ( ) PERSONAL Birthdate: October 5, 1948 Hometown: Drexel Hill, Pa. Residence: Villanova, Pa. Family: wife, Ree; son, J.P. (19) EDUCATION American University Completed coursework toward doctorate degree in counseling and student development Villanova University 79 Master of Science, Counseling La Salle University 70 Bachelor of Arts, Marketing DREW HALLOWELL 25

3 head coach dunphy vs. all opponents Alabama American Arizona Arizona State Army Auburn Boston College Brown Bucknell Buffalo BYU-Hawaii California Canisius Colgate Colorado Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Davidson Dayton Delaware Detroit Mercy Drexel Duke Eastern Illinois Evansville Fairleigh Dickinson Florida Florida International Fordham George Washington Georgia Georgia Tech Harvard Haverford Hawaii Hofstra Holy Cross Illinois Illinois-Chicago Indiana State Iona Iowa State Kansas Kentucky La Salle school s first outright city-series title since with a perfect 4-0 mark. In , Dunphy coached Penn to a 20-9 record, its fourth 20-win season in five years. The Quakers won the Ivy League with a 12-2 mark and, as a 15-seed in the NCAA Atlanta Regional, gave second-seeded Texas all it could handle before falling in Dallas. A full-time educator on and off the court, Dunphy has served as a lecturer in the Wharton Executive Education program and in the management department of the Wharton School. He is one of the leaders in the local Coaches vs. Cancer campaign and was named to the National Council of Coaches vs. Cancer. He was honored as the 2002 National Coaches vs. Cancer Coach of the Year for his service and tireless dedication to those in need. Dunphy also devotes time to Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Philadelphia s Board of Directors, and his Penn teams have participated in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program each year. He is also a member of the Philadelphia CYO Hall of Fame and the corporate committee of the National Adoption Center's annual Gala. A 1970 La Salle graduate with a degree in marketing, Dunphy was an outstanding player under Explorers head coach Tom Gola. As a junior, he helped the Explorers to a 23-1 record. He served as a co-captain his senior year when he averaged 18.6 ppg and led the team in assists, while also being named the MVP of the Quaker City Basketball Tournament. In 1979, he earned a master s degree in counseling and human relations from Villanova University. In addition, he completed his coursework toward his doctorate in counseling and student development at American University. Dunphy and his wife, Ree, reside in Villanova, Pa., with their son, J.P. John Chaney and Fran Dunphy dunphy vs. all opponents Lafayette Lehigh Manhattan Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Michigan State Monmouth Navy Nebraska New Hampshire New Mexico North Carolina State Northwestern Ohio State Oklahoma State Penn State Portland State Princeton Providence Quinnipiac Rhode Island Rider Rice St. John s Saint Joseph s Saint Louis Saint Mary s (Calif.) San Francisco Santa Clara Seton Hall Siena Southern California Southern Methodist Temple Texas The Citadel Towson Tulane Villanova Virginia Washington Washington State Wisconsin Yale temple men s basketball media guide

4 head coach On Following Hall of Fame coach John Chaney I don t think it is an easy job following John Chaney. Somebody had to do it. Now it s me. On Style of Play We just play basketball. We get it out of the basket. We push it out to the first guy. He pushes it up and if he is open he shoots. If he is not, he passes the ball. We cut. We screen. We play basketball. We do not have a defined style. Our style is to play as well as we can. Some games are going to be high tempo. Some games are going to be low tempo. My coaching style is fair and honest, yet demanding. We have to get things done here and we are going to do it a certain way. It is the way it should be done. Every coach in America wants it done that way to make good decisions on offense and to be disciplined on the defensive end. On Defense Defensively we are going to be as good as we can be in the scoring area. Hopefully we can create some offense off our defense. We are going to be a predominantly man-to-man defensive basketball team that hopefully has a real good feel for what we are trying to do and will not give up any easy baskets. fran dunphy Q&a On Senior Leadership I have appointed Dion and Dustin as cocaptains. They have been around the longest and understand Temple basketball the most. I think they can help me the most in my leadership role. It has to translate to off the court but it will have to translate on the court as well. They will have to play a lot of minutes and play really good basketball and be tremendously dedicated to making Temple better. On the schedule I think it is a tremendously challenging schedule. Right away you start off with the Atlantic 10 being a really good basketball conference. Then you have two extra city games, Penn and Villanova. Add in two more area teams like Drexel and Lafayette along with our Mid-American Conference commitment and right away you are challenging yourself. That does not even include a home game against Rutgers, Cincinnati and a trip to Duke. On playing Penn.. It will be very emotional playing Penn. It will be a very difficult game for me to prepare for. Once the ball goes up though, it is going to be our team against theirs and I will forget all of those things. Year-by-Year Coaching Record at penn Year Record Pct. Ivy Pct. Ivy Finish t-3rd t-3rd nd Ivy League Champion Ivy League Champion Ivy League Champion Ivy League Champion th nd Ivy League Champion Ivy League Champion t-2nd Ivy League Champion Ivy League Champion t-2nd Ivy League Champion Ivy League Champion Overall dunphy and coaches vs. cancer Fran Dunphy has been a major contributor of his time to the American Cancer Society through Coaches vs. Cancer over the last several years and is excited to be able to promote the nation s leading voluntary health organization in this way. For his efforts, he was awarded the national Coach of the Year award in The Coaches vs. Cancer program was created in 1993 by the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) in the wake of the death of former North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano along with the news that former Missouri head coach Norm Stewart was battling the disease. The support for Coaches vs. Cancer has become extraordinary over the years, Dunphy said. The events that our region puts on in the Philadelphia area alone helps raise needed funds for the daily battle against this disease. I am proud to be involved in such an outstanding organization. Coaches vs. Cancer leverages the celebrity of the nation s men s and women s basketball coaches to raise awareness of key cancer issues and to raise money for the American Cancer Society s mission. Coaches and basketball teams from the six Division I Philadelphia schools Drexel, La Salle, Penn, Saint Joseph s, Temple and Villanova participate in several events throughout the year and have helped the program raise over $1 million to benefit the American Cancer Society with events including the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, Coaches vs. Cancer Challenge, Midnight Practice Events, March Madness Breakfast, coaches clinics and local game activities. In , the Big 5 coaches raised nearly $500,000 and became the No. 1 Coaches vs. Cancer program in the nation. All proceeds from the events go directly toward the Society s research, advocacy and patient service programs in each coach s local community. 27

5 coaching staff dave duke asst. coach villanova 74 matt langel asst. coach penn 00 Dave Duke, who served the past eight seasons as a member of Penn men s basketball staff, is in his first season as an assistant coach for the Owls. Duke reunites with head coach Fran Dunphy and former Quaker assistants Matt Langel and Shawn Trice to make up the Temple men s basketball coaching staff. At Penn, Duke played an instrumental part of the development of six Ivy League championship basketball teams. He assisted in the preparation of practices, primarily in the advanced film scouting of the Quakers opponents. Duke also played a major part in the Quakers recruiting efforts and developing the team s perimeter players. Prior to his arrival at Penn in 1998, Duke served three seasons as an assistant basketball coach and director of player personnel of the Atlantic City Seagulls of the United States Basketball League (USBL). He played a key role in the program s back-to-back championship seasons (1997 and 1998), as he was responsible for evaluating players and scouting the talent of the CBA, college basketball and Europe. At the college level, Duke spent eight seasons as the head coach at Lehigh University. At the time of his departure in 1996, he was the school s second all-time winningest coach with 90 wins. When Duke took over the Lehigh program in 1989, he earned a reputation for maximizing his team s talent. Lehigh had lost two of its top scorers to graduation, but he quickly rebuilt the team. Picked to finish seventh in the preseason coaches poll, he guided Lehigh to an record in the season and a spot in the ECC championship game. In 1991, his first season in the Patriot League, Duke s squad finished in the regular season and 12-2 in league play. In he earned East Coast Conference and NABC Area Coach of the Year honors while in he led LU to an ECC regular season championship. Off the court, Duke established the Lehigh Athletic Department s academic monitoring program, with his program boasting a 100 percent graduation rate. Duke recruited and coached eight 1,000- point career scorers and developed five of the top 10 leading scorers in Mountain Hawk basketball history. Duke began his collegiate coaching career at Lehigh as an assistant coach ( ). In his last season as an assistant, he was an integral part in Lehigh earning a bid to the 1988 NCAA Tournament with an East Coast Championship and the most wins in 98 years (21). A 1974 graduate of Villanova, Duke spent five seasons as the head coach at St. John Neumann High School in Philadelphia. He directed Neumann to the Philadelphia Catholic League championship in , and was honored by the Philadelphia Inquirer as the Coach of the Year. In his last two seasons at Neumann, Duke s teams were Duke also coached in the 1993 McDonald s East-West High School All-Star game in Atlanta. Duke is the father of two daughters, Christine and Kelly Ann, and resides in Springfield, Pa. Matt Langel, who helped guide Penn to consecutive Ivy League Championships as an assistant coach under first-year Temple University men's basketball coach Fran Dunphy, is in his first year as an assistant men s basketball coach with the Owls. A first team all-ivy League player as a senior at Penn, Langel, a 2000 graduate of the Wharton School of Business, helped lead the Quakers to two Ivy League titles and NCAA Tournament appearances during his four-year career ( ). The Quakers went 27-1 in Ivy League action in his junior and senior campaigns and sported a overall record. Langel was named Ivy League and Big Five Player of the Week numerous times and received the Big Five s Most Improved Player Award. He was also named to the Holiday Festival All-Tournament team (1998) and the University of California Golden Bear Holiday Classic All-Tournament Team (1999). Langel etched his name in the Penn record books in several different categories. He is a member of the 1,000-point club with 1,191 points in a Red and Blue uniform. He stands second alltime in Penn basketball history in three-pointers made in a game with eight, is eighth in three-pointers made in a season with 70, and fourth in career three-pointers made with 201. Upon graduation, Langel was drafted by Atlantic City of the USBL in 2000 and worked out in the Seattle SuperSonics camp. Following that, he made the trip across the Atlantic Ocean to test the professional ranks in Europe, playing for Chene BC in Switzerland and ALM Evreux Basket in France Pro A. The Moorestown, N.J. native participated in the Philadelphia 76ers summer camp in 2001, but returned to Europe to play for the MBC and Hagan in German Bundesliga I. His last professional stop before returning to Penn as an assistant coach was playing for the Eiffel Towers in Holland. A member of the Friars Senior Society and the University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee while at Penn, Langel, 28, resides in Philadelphia and was married to Tara Twomey on September 16, temple men s basketball media guide

6 coaching staff shawn trice asst. coach penn 95 jeff wilson dir. of operations temple 04 Shawn Trice, an assistant on Fran Dunphy s Penn staff in , joins Dunphy at Temple University as one of his assistant men s basketball coaches. A 1995 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Trice, in his first season as an assistant coach, helped lead the Quakers to an Ivy League championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in Prior to entering the coaching profession, Trice worked as a sports coordinator for the YMCA in his hometown of Detroit, Mich. for seven years. Trice was a two-time All-Ivy League honoree during his career, earning second-team honors as a senior and honorable mention honors as a junior. He played a part in three-straight undefeated Ivy League seasons and participated in three NCAA Tournaments. The Red and Blue went overall during his career and 42-0 in his final three seasons of Ancient Eight action. As a senior, Trice scored a career-high 26 points against rival Princeton. He also led the team in rebounding in 14 of Penn s 28 games and had 10 or more rebounds in five contests. He finished his career averaging 7.7 points per game, 6.0 rebounds per game and shot 51.6 percent from the field for his career. Prior to returning to Detroit, Trice played professional basketball overseas. He played for Kvarnby Evergreen in Sweden for a season and for Yulon Dragons in Taiwan for several months. Jeff Wilson, who served as the coordinator of men s and women s basketball operations at the University of Pennsylvania last season, is in his first year as the director of men s basketball operations at Temple University. Wilson, a 2004 Temple graduate with a bachelor of science degree in sports and recreation management, previously worked in the Owls sports media relations office as a student assistant. Prior to his year at Penn, Wilson served as a regional scout for Marty Blake and Associates/The Court Report. He spent the basketball season traveling throughout the Mid-Atlantic region evaluating talent for NBA teams. In the summer of 2004, Wilson was the general manager for the Philadelphia Fusion of the American Basketball Association. Besides his work with Temple athletics as an undergraduate, Wilson served as a public relations intern for the Philadelphia 76ers from January 2003 to January 2004 before moving on to become the franchise s basketball operations intern. The 24-year-old Wilson resides in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. DREW HALLOWELL 29

7 support staff dwayne killings asst. dir. operations hampton 03 Steve spiro athletic trainer temple 02 Dwayne Killings is in his first year as the assistant director of men s basketball operations at Temple University. Killings, who will coordinate the Temple men s basketball program s video needs, joined the men s basketball staff after working the previous three years with the Charlotte Bobcats organization. Killings, who graduated with honors from Hampton University ( 03), joined the Bobcats staff in the fall of 2003 as a fan relations representative. In this position, he produced and executed fan interactive events at Bobcat games as well as the WNBA s Charlotte Sting games. After serving two years as a fan relations representative, Killings moved into the positions of assistant video coordinator for the Charlotte Bobcats and video coordinator for the Charlotte Sting. He assisted in all aspects of the video operation for the Bobcats, from log and editing video to filming games and practices while overseeing the operation for the Sting. In addition to his responsibilities as video coordinator, he worked two seasons assiting with NBA advance and college scouting in preperation for the NBA Draft. The 25-year-old Amherst, Mass. native is familiar with the Atlantic 10 Conference. Killings started his collegiate career as a member of the UMass basketball team in 1999, playing two seasons with the Minutemen before transferring to Hampton. He also has ties to Temple, as he was a recipient of a Camille O. and William H. Cosby Scholarship. Steve Spiro, a 2002 Temple University graduate, is in his third year as an assistant athletic trainer at his alma mater. In his role on the Temple sports medicine staff, Spiro is the primary athletic trainer for the men s basketball team. In his undergraduate years at Temple, Spiro served as the head student athletic trainer for the men s soccer and the women s lacrosse teams. He also served as a student athletic trainer with the Owls football team. Upon graduation with a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology, the Onset, Mass. native enrolled in the master s program at the University of Miami (FL). While at Miami, he served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer with the women s volleyball team, covering the fall and spring seasons as well as all evaluation, rehabilitation and treatment sessions. He also worked as a graduate assistant athletic trainer with the Hurricane football team. After earning his master s degree in sports medicine from Miami ( 04), Spiro joined the staff of the Pawtucket Red Sox as an assistant athletic trainer. With the Triple-A club, he assisted the head trainer with injury prevention, daily treatment, taping and rehabilitation. He was also responsible for implementing the Boston Red Sox strength and conditioning program. Spiro resides in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. support staff Essie Davis Secretary Team Managers Larry Dougherty Media Relations Tamra Greer Academic Coordinator Pat Leonard Academic Coordinator Marley Abram Lauren Adee Olumide Ademeyo Tyler Deane temple men s basketball media guide Trevor Fick Dan Haubert Shannon Hodge Raheem Mapp

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