Posted Oct 24, 2005 13:42:47
Legendary Louisiana Tech coach Leon Barmore was voted as the coach on the All-Time Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Team released by the league office Monday.
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Barmore Named Coach on All-Time SBC Team
RUSTON ? As part of their 30th season of athletic competition, the Sun Belt Conference announced its All-Time Men?s and Women?s Basketball teams Monday in conjunction with the league?s media day.
Former Louisiana Tech Lady Techster head coach and Hall of Famer Leon Barmore was chosen as the All-Time Women?s Coach while six former Lady Techsters and three former Bulldogs made each of the 30-member squads.
A 26-member media panel made the selections.
During Tech?s 10-year association with the Sun Belt Conference (1992-2001), Barmore led Tech to nine regular season titles, seven conference tournament titles and 10 NCAA Tournaments while registering an impressive mark of 135-9 in SBC regular season games and a 24-3 mark in SBC Tournament games.
As a member of the Sun Belt, Tech advanced to the 1994 and 1998 National Championship games as well as the 1999 Final Four. Barmore was named the Sun Belt Coach of the Year seven times.
Former Techsters Vickie Johnson (1993-1996), Debra Williams (1993-96), Amanda Wilson (1996-99), Tamicha Jackson (1997-2000), Alisa Burras (1998-99) and Betty Lennox (1999-00) were all voted to the 30-member team.
Johnson, Williams, Wilson and Jackson were all named Kodak All-Americans during their college days while all six also played in the WNBA or ABL.
Old Dominion?s Anne Donovan was named the All-Time SBC Women?s Player as the 1983 Naismith Player of the Year led the Monarchs from 1982-85.
On the men?s side, former Bulldogs PJ Brown (1989-92), Lonnie Cooper (1996-99) and Gerrod Henderson (1999-02) were voted to the 30-member team as UAB?s Gene Bartow was named the All-Time Men?s Coach and UNC-Charlotte?s Cedric Maxwell was the All-Time Men?s Player.
Brown, now a member of the NBA?s New Orleans Hornets, played only one season in the Sun Belt earning first team all-conference honors in 1992 while leading Tech to the regular season title that year.
Cooper was a three-time All-SBC selection (97, 98, 99) while scoring 1,451 points, registering 523 assists and 153 steals and nailing a school best 219 three-pointers.
Henderson was a two-time first team All-Sun Belt selection and the 2000 SBC Player of the Year, scoring 1829 career points and making 209 three-pointers.
Western Kentucky, which has been a member of the league for 24 years, had the most players on both teams, with five on the men?s squad and seven on the women?s squad.