|Sports Update|
|Falcon basketball teams excel in season| The University of Montevallo men’s and women’s basketball teams wrapped up spectacular seasons in the month of March. The UM men’s basketball team earned its eighth NCAA Division II men’s basketball tournament bid in the past 10 years after earning an at-large bid as the No. 6 seed in the Southeast Region. The bid marked the Falcons’ fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Division II men’s basketball tournament. Montevallo, which has won backto-back Peach Belt Conference West Division regular-season championships, captured the NCAA Division II Southeast Region tournament championship during the 2011-2012 season on its way to its first-ever appearance in the national championship game. The Falcons own an 18-8 all-time record in the NCAA Division II men’s basketball tournament.
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Montevallo owns three region tournament championships in the NCAA Division II men’s basketball tournament. The Falcons captured back-toback South Region championships during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons and took home the Southeast Region title last season. All eight of the Falcons’ appearances in the NCAA Division II men’s basketball tournament have come in the past decade under head coach Danny Young. Senior Drico Hightower and sophomore Troran Brown were each selected first team All-Peach Belt Conference following the release of the men’s basketball All-Conference teams March 5 by the conference office. The pair became the fourth and fifth Montevallo men’s basketball players, respectively, to receive postseason recognition since Montevallo joined the conference prior to the 2009-2010 season. Brown and Hightower join former
Montevallo standout D. J. Rivera as first team All-Peach Belt Conference selections. Freddy Little was named third team All-Peach Belt Conference following the Falcons’ first season in the conference back in 2009-2010. Antoine Davis was named third team All-Peach Belt Conference following the 20102011 season, while Rivera was selected first team All-Conference last season. Brown and Hightower finished the regular season among the Peach Belt Conference leaders in several categories. Brown finished fourth in the conference in scoring with an average of 18.3 points per game. The 6-foot-2 guard from Phoenix, Ariz., was fifth in the conference in assists with an average of six assists per game, which also ranked him among the top 10 players in assists nationally in NCAA Division II. Brown was named the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Week once during the regular season.