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THE CLARENCE "BIG HOUSE" GAINES AWARD
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Minnesota State-Moorhead assistant Justin Wieck accepts the 2015 Clarence Gaines award for Chad Walthall at the CollegeInsider.com Award's Banquet on April 3 in Indianapolis. |
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April 4, 2016
2016 CLARENCE GAINES AWARD
HOUSTON, TX -- Lincoln Memorial's Josh Schertz is the recipient of the 2016 Clarence Gaines division II National Coach of the Year.
Schertz led the Railsplitters to a 34-3 record and the first NCAA Division II National Championship game appearance in program history, breaking the league and school record for wins and becoming the first program in SAC history to go undefeated in conference play with a 22-0 mark.
One of the true legends of all-time, Gaines retired from Winston-Salem State University in 1993 with a record of 828-446. At the time he was the winningest active basketball coach in NCAA history. Gaines was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982.
During his 47-year tenure as coach and athletic director at WSSU he coached professional basketball greats Cleo Hill (first African-American from an historically Black college and university to be drafted No. 1 by the National Basketball Association, St. Louis Hawks, 1961) and Earl "The Pearl" Monroe.
2106 CLARENCE GAINES AWARD FINALISTS
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Ken Amman |
Concordia (California) |
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Tobin Anderson |
St. Thomas Aquinas |
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Justin Barkley, Rogers State |
Rogers State |
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Randy Baruth |
Saginaw Valley State |
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Tom Billeter |
Augustana |
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Lonnie Blow, Jr. |
Virginia State |
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Michael Cooney |
West Geogia |
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Jim Crutchfield |
West Liberty |
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Keith Dickson |
Saint Anselm |
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Mick Durham |
Alaska-Fairbanks |
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John Ellenwood |
Ashland |
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Blake Flickner |
Dallas Baptist |
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Donte Jackson |
Stillman |
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Jamahl Jackson |
Emmanuel |
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Steve Kinder |
Humboldt State |
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Ben McCollum |
Northwest Missouri State |
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Bob Pietrack |
Fort Lewis |
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George Pitts |
King University |
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Luke Reigel |
Wisconsin-Parkside |
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Steve Roberts |
Lander |
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Tom Ryan |
Eckerd |
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Danny Sancomb |
Wheeling Jesuit |
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Josh Schertz |
Lincoln Memorial |
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Jim Shaw |
Western Oregon |
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Chad Walthall |
Minnesota State-Moorhead |
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