92ND SEASON | SIX NSIC CHAMPIONSHIPS |
ONE NCAA ELITE EIGHT (‘15)
WEEK FOUR GAME NOTES
2016-17 MSUM Men’s Basketball Roster No. 1 3 5 10 11 12 13 14 15 24 25 32 35 41 44
Name Johnny Beeninga Tanner Kretchman Ayob Ayob Jon Doss Chris Olson Matt Anderson Matt Nelson Aaron Lien Briton Bussman Evan Hines Cody Dorow Joe Sevlie Mackuei Puondak Addison Park Ben Lauer
POS G G F G G F F G G G G F F F/C F
HT 6-1 6-0 6-7 6-4 6-1 6-7 6-9 6-4 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-6
YR Fr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Fr. R-Fr. Sr. Sr. So. Fr. R-Fr. Fr. Sr. So. Fr.
Head Coach: Chad Walthall (Concordia College, ‘91) - Seventh Season Assistant Coach: Justin Wieck (University of Iowa, ‘06) - Third Season Assistant Coach: Tim Bergstraser (St. Cloud State, ‘14) - Second Season Strength & Conditioning Coach: Travis Anderson Athletic Trainer: Keith Wiedrich Student Manager: Jordan Cresap
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE # 1 (Johnny) Ba-NIN-ga # 5 (Ayob) A-YOUB # 14 (Aaron) LEAN # 15 BRITON - BRIT-un # 35 MACKUEI PUONDAK - Ma-KWEE PAWN-dock # 44 (Ben) LAU-er
2016-17 MSUM ATHLETICS QUICK FACTS UNIVERSITY FACTS Location.....................................Moorhead, Minn. Founded....................................................... 1887 Enrollment................................................. 7,500 Nickname................................................ Dragons Colors............................................... Red & White Mascot...................................................... Scorch Affiliation....................................NCAA Division II Conference............... Northern Sun Intercollegiate President............................... Dr. Anne Blackhurst Athletics Director.............................. Doug Peters Alma Mater(Year)..................Bemidji State (1998) Associate Athletics Director...........Chad Markuson Athletics Phone.............................. 218-477-2622 Athletics Fax.................................. 218-477-2324
BASKETBALL HISTORY First Year..................................................... 1924 All-Time Record............................... 1,130-1,054 Home Field......................Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse Capacity..................................................... 3,000 2015-16 Overall Record................................ 30-6 ................... 14-2 Home • 11-1 Away • 5-3 Neutral 2014-15 NSIC Record/Finish......35-4/T-1 Overall .................................................... 1st NSIC North 2016-17 Letterwinners Ret./Lost...................5/5 2016-17 Starters Returning/Lost...................3/2
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Hometown/Previous Team Maple Grove, Minn./Wayzata Fargo, N.D./Davies Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada/Kildonan East Chicago, Ill./Taft Blaine, Minn./Braham Fall Creek, Wis./Fall Creek Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount Moorhead, Minn./Moorhead Milnor, N.D./Milnor Skokie, Ill./Niles West Moorhead, Minn./Moorhead Red Wing, Minn./Red Wing Sydney, Australia/Bass Sioux Falls, S.D./Lincoln Sioux Falls, S.D./O'Gorman
Assistant Coach: (Justin) WICK
TEAM FACTS Head Coach.....................................Chad Walthall Record at MSUM (Yrs.)........................ 146-53 (7) Career Record (Yrs.)........................ 262-121 (14) NSIC Championships (Last).......6 (2015-16, NSIC North) Assistant Coaches . Justin Wieck, Tim Bergstraser Student Manager............................Jordan Cresap Strength & Conditioning.............. Travis Anderson Head Athletic Trainer.......................Andrea Scott Men’s Basketball Athletic Trainer...Keith Wiedrich
MSUM ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS Media Relations Assistant/MBB... Evan A. Hooper E-mail..............................hooperev@mnstate.edu Cell.......................................... 608.509.8659 Assistant AD for Media Relations........... Tom Berg E-mail.........................tom.berg@mnstate.edu Office....................................... 218.477.2550 Marketing/New Media...................... Jon Wepking E-mail.................... jon.wepking@mnstate.edu Office....................................... 218.477.2113
2016-17 MEN’S BASKETBALL