2021-22 SCAC Men's Basketball Headlines
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Record 28 SCAC Men's Basketball Student-Athletes Named to NABC Honors Court
July 20, 2022KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The National Association of Basketball Coaches announced the 2021-22 NABC Honors Court, recognizing those men’s collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics during the past season. The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference was represented by a conference record 28 student-athletes. -
Four SCAC Men's Basketball Teams Earn NABC Team Academic Excellence Award
July 20, 2022KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the 10th annual Team Academic Excellence Awards last week and four Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men's basketball programs were recognized.
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SCAC Announces 2022 Man of the Year Finalists
July 05, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference announced today the five finalists for the 2022 SCAC Man of the Year award. The award recognizes the conference’s senior male student-athlete who has best distinguished himself throughout his collegiate career in the areas of academic achievement, athletic excellence and service and leadership.
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SCAC Has 301 Winter Sports Student-Athletes Earn Academic Honor Roll Accolades
June 16, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) announced its Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll today for the 2021-22 winter term and 301 student-athletes made the list.
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Trinity Leads Five SCAC Members Ranked in Final Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings
June 16, 2022CLEVELAND, Ohio - Trinity University finished the year in 20th place to lead five SCAC institutions ranked in the prestigious 2021-22 Division III Learfield Sports Directors' Cup final standings.
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Austin Falke Chosen to Lead Texas Lutheran Men’s Basketball
June 07, 2022SEGUIN, Texas – Austin Falke (FALL-key), who helped guide the Bulldogs to four NCAA Tournament Appearances and four SCAC Championships as an assistant, has been named the new head men's basketball coach at Texas Lutheran University, Director of Athletics Bill Miller announced today.
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TLU's Wacker Retires after 37 Years of Coaching
June 01, 2022SEGUIN, Texas -- Mike Wacker, who led Texas Lutheran University to two Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships and two NCAA Tournament appearances, is retiring after 37 seasons and 782 wins as a head basketball coach at the high school and collegiate level.
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Trinity Wins 11th Straight SCAC Presidents' Trophy Title
May 19, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- By the third-largest margin in the 60-year history of the award, Trinity University won 10 of the league's 18 contested championships to retain possession of the Southern Athletic Conference Presidents' Trophy for a record 11th consecutive year.
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Trinity Leads Three SCAC Members Ranked in Winter Learfield Directors' Cup
April 06, 2022CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Currently in 19th place, Trinity University leads three SCAC institutions ranked in the prestigious 2021-2022 Division III Learfield Sports Directors' Cup winter standings
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Texas Lutheran SAAC Captures Fifth "Change for the Better" Title
March 17, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference office announced today that the Texas Lutheran University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is the winner of the league's "Change For The Better" campaign, marking the third consecutive time and fifth time in six years that the TLU SAAC has earned top honors.
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Trinity's Sechi Earns D3Hoops.com All-Region Recognition
March 16, 2022MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Trinity University's Enzo Sechi was recognized by D3hoops.com Tuesday as the website released the 2021-22 All-South Region teams. A First Team selection, Sechi was the only SCAC men's player to earn All-Region honors.
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Alaekwe, Sechi Earn NABC First Team All-District Honors
March 16, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) released the 2021-22 All-District teams Tuesday morning, and two Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men’s basketball players earned a spot on the District 10 All-District squad.
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SCAC Announces 2021-22 Winter All-Sportsmanship Teams
March 11, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) today announced its 14th annual winter All-Sportsmanship teams. A total of 32 student-athletes were selected to the 2021-22 squad in the sports of men's basketball, women's basketball, men's swimming and diving and women's swimming and diving.
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Trinity Extends Its Lead In Pursuit of SCAC Presidents' Trophy
March 10, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Trinity University picked up winter sports championships in men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving and women's basketball to take a commanding lead in the race for the 2021-22 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Presidents' Trophy.
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Trinity Falls To No. 6 Mary Hardin-Baylor In NCAA Tournament
March 05, 2022BELTON, Texas - Trinity University Men's Basketball fell 98-82 in its road NCAA III playoff game at No. 6 University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Saturday evening.
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Trinity Men's Basketball Notches Largest Postseason Victory in Program History over Whitworth
March 04, 2022BELTON, Texas - Trinity University Men's Basketball put together one of its most dominating postseason performances in program history Friday afternoon as it defeated Northwest Conference Champion No. 25 Whitworth University, 77-52, on the campus of No. 6 University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
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Trinity Men to Face Whitworth in NCAA First Round
February 28, 2022INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Trinity University will face Whitworth University in the first round of the 2022 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship on Friday, March 4.
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St. Thomas Men Repeat as SCAC Tournament Champions With 77-58 Victory Over Trinity
February 27, 2022SHERMAN, Texas -- In a game of runs, it was University of St. Thomas that made the last one, closing out the contest by scoring 19 of the game's final 25 points to pull away from Trinity University and take a hard-fought 77-58 SCAC title game victory Sunday afternoon on the campus of Austin College.
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St. Thomas' Alaekwe, Schreiner's Elrakabawy Headline 2021-22 All-SCAC Men's Basketball Selections
February 26, 2022SHERMAN, Texas – In exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), senior guard Christian Alaekwe of University of St. Thomas was selected as SCAC Men’s Basketball Player-of-the-Year while Schreiner University head coach Marwan Elrakabawy earned SCAC Coach-of-the-Year honors.
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Trinity's Clark Earns Second Consecutive SCAC Men's Basketball Elite 19 Award
February 26, 2022SHERMAN, Texas -- In an announcement made today at the conference tournament, Trinity University's A.J. Clark was named the 2022 SCAC Men's Basketball Elite 19 award winner.
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St. Thomas Cruises to SCAC Title Game with 75-56 Victory Over Centenary
February 26, 2022SHERMAN, Texas -- Top-seeded University of St. Thomas went on a 19-4 run midway through the first half, blowing open a close game to take a commanding 41-19 halftime lead and never looked back in defeating fifth-seeded Centenary College, 75-56, Saturday afternoon at the 2022 SCAC Men's Basketball Tournament at Austin College.
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Trinity Rolls to SCAC Championship Game With 88-65 Victory Over Schreiner
February 26, 2022SHERMAN, Texas - Less than four minutes into the second half, Trinity University had doubled its seven-point halftime lead and pushed the margin to as much as 26 before eventually settling for an 88-65 semifinal victory over Schreiner University Saturday afternoon at the 2022 SCAC Men's Basketball Tournament.
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Centenary Defeats Texas Lutheran in First SCAC Quarterfinal
February 25, 2022SHERMAN, Texas - Fifth-seeded Centenary College went on an 18-3 second half run to retake the lead and put away fourth-seeded Texas Lutheran University 64-56 in quarterfinal round action at the 2022 SCAC Men's Basketball Tournament Friday afternoon at Austin College
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Buzzer Beater Tip-In Sends Schreiner to SCAC Semifinals
February 25, 2022SHERMAN, Texas - Trailing by one point with 1.7 seconds remaining, Schreiner University's Jalen Ned tipped in his own miss as the buzzer sounded and the third-seeded Mountaineers pulled out a 51-50 quarterfinal nail-biter over sixth-seeded Southwestern University Friday afternoon at the 2022 SCAC Men's Basketball Tournament.
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Around the SCAC - February 21
February 22, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- SCAC weekly releases for the week spanning from Monday, February 14th to Sunday, February 20th.
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SCAC Announces 2022 Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket
February 20, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- The SCAC office today announced the men's bracket for the 2022 basketball tournament, which will be begin Friday, Feb. 25 in Sherman, Texas on the campus of Austin College.
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Trinity's Clark Earns Second CoSIDA Academic All-District Selection
February 18, 2022GREENWOOD, Ind. - Senior guard AJ Clark of Trinity University Men's Basketball was selected to the Academic All-District 8 lineup for the second time in his career by the College Sports Information Directors of America in its release Thursday.
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Around the SCAC - February 14
February 16, 2022LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- SCAC weekly releases for the week spanning from Monday, February 7th to Sunday, February 13th.
