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2020–21 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Basketball Team
The 2020–21 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team represented Western Kentucky University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hilltoppers were led by head coach Rick Stansbury in his fifth season and played their home games at E. A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, Kentucky as seventh-year members of Conference USA. The team finished the season in first place in the C-USA East Division and with the best conference record overall at 18-6 . They defeated UTSA and UAB to advance to the finals where they lost to North Texas. They received a bid to the 2021 National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Saint Mary’s in the First Round before losing to fellow conference member Louisiana Tech in the quarterfinals. Center Charles Bassey was named the Conference USA Player of the Year, and Defensive Player of the Year. Taveion Hollingsworth joined Bassey on the All-Conference Team, while Josh Anderson joined him on C-USA’s All-Defen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Stansbury
Richard Lee Stansbury (born December 23, 1959), is an American college basketball coach who most recently was an assistant coach at the Memphis Tigers men's basketball, University of Memphis. He was the head coach at Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball, Western Kentucky from 2016 to 2023 and at Mississippi State Bulldogs men's basketball, Mississippi State from 1998 to 2012. Stansbury completed his tenure at Mississippi State ranked 9th all-time in Southeastern Conference (SEC) wins. He is a member of the Campbellsville University Athletics Hall of Fame."Tiger Tracks", ''The Campbellsvillian'', Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 2014), p. 25 Early life Born in Battletown, Kentucky, Stansbury played high school basketball for Meade County High School in Brandenburg, Kentucky from which he graduated in 1977. From 1977 to 1981, he played college basketball at Campbellsville College (now Campbellsville University) in Campbellsville, Kentucky. He led the team to the National Association of Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2020 Conference USA men's basketball tournament was to be the concluding event of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, 2019–20 Conference USA (C-USA) 2019–20 Conference USA men's basketball season, men's basketball season. It was to be held from March 11–14, 2020 alongside the 2019 Conference USA women's basketball tournament, C-USA women's tournament in Frisco, Texas, at the Ford Center at The Star. The winner of the tournament was to receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2020 NCAA tournament. Only the first day of games were played before the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeds Only 12 conference teams play in the tournament. The top four teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Teams are seeded within one of three groups. After each team had played 14 conference games, the teams were divided into groups based on conference record at that point in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the List of cities in Kentucky, second-most populous city in Kentucky (after Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville), the 14th-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the List of United States cities by population, 59th-most populous city in the United States. By area, it is the country's List of United States cities by area, 33rd-largest city. Lexington is known as the "Horse Capital of the World" due to the hundreds of Equine industry in Kentucky, horse farms in the region, as well as the Kentucky Horse Park, The Red Mile and Keeneland race courses. It is within the state's Bluegrass region. Notable locations within the city include venues Rupp Arena and Central Bank Center, colleges and universities such as the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood High School (Kentucky)
Greenwood High School (often referred to as GHS) is a 4-year high school in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States. It is one of four high schools serving Warren County Public Schools. History Greenwood High School was opened in 1990. In 2023, the school began a series of construction projects, including a new media center, a new health and wellness building next to the football field, a new hallway with classrooms, new flooring and windows, and new turf for the football, soccer, baseball and softball fields. Athletics Softball *2007- State Champions *2008- State Champions *2013- State Champions 44–0 Soccer * Women-1 State Championship Title 2019 Cross country and Track Greenwood's Cross Country program is also very successful, with students having won the state championships in 2004, 2005, 2008, and 2009. Other sports and clubs *Baseball *Basketball *Volleyball *Football *Golf *Softball *Tennis (2011 singles state champion) *Golf *Swimming & Diving *Cheer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Preparatory Academy
Baton Rouge ( ; , ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It had a population of 227,470 at the 2020 United States census, making it Louisiana's second-most populous city. It is the seat of Louisiana's most populous parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, and the center of Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area, Greater Baton Rouge, which had 870,569 residents in 2020. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, the Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed the development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas. Baton Rouge has developed as a culturally rich center, settled by immigrants from European nations and African peoples brought to North America as sla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
