2011-12 Hofstra Men's Basketball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
2011-12 Hofstra Men's Basketball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
2011-12 Hofstra Men's Basketball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com
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Tradition<br />
Speedy Claxton - Two-time<br />
America East Player of the Year<br />
and <strong>Hofstra</strong>’s all-time<br />
assists leader<br />
the Facts<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong> University played its first<br />
intercollegiate basketball game in<br />
1936.<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong>’s all-time record is 1102-815<br />
over 72 seasons.<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong> has recorded 41 winning<br />
seasons.<br />
<strong>Hofstra</strong>’s 2001 NCAA and America East<br />
Championship banners are unfurled at<br />
the Mack Sports Complex<br />
Rick Apodaca is presented with a<br />
<strong>com</strong>memorative ball after scoring his<br />
1,000th career point<br />
Loren Stokes - <strong>Hofstra</strong>’s all-time<br />
fourth leading scorer. Named<br />
CAA Player of the Year in 2007<br />
Antoine Agudio, <strong>Hofstra</strong>’s<br />
second all-time leading scorer<br />
also holds the school threepointer<br />
record as well<br />
<strong>Hofstra</strong>’s last three Directors of<br />
Athletics – Harry Royle, Jack Hayes<br />
and Jim Garvey<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong> has appeared in eight<br />
NCAA Tournaments, four National<br />
Invitation Tournaments and two<br />
College <strong>Basketball</strong> Invitational<br />
Tournaments.<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong>’s 1959-60 team, coached<br />
by the legendary Butch van Breda<br />
Kolff, posted the best record in<br />
school history at 23-1.<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong> has seen five players, Bill<br />
Thieben, Rich Laurel, John Irving,<br />
Craig “Speedy” Claxton and Charles<br />
Jenkins, get drafted into the National<br />
<strong>Basketball</strong> Association, and another<br />
player, Norman Richardson, sign as<br />
a free agent.<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong> has had five players –<br />
Bill Thieben, Rich Laurel, Craig<br />
“Speedy” Claxton, Norman<br />
Richardson and Charles Jenkins<br />
(three times) – win the Haggerty<br />
Award, symbolic of the best player<br />
in the metropolitan New York area.<br />
• The Pride won ECAC Holiday<br />
Festival Championships in 1998,<br />
1999 and 2006.<br />
• <strong>Hofstra</strong> won America East<br />
Championships in 2000 and 2001.<br />
The Pride after receiving their 2001 NCAA Championship rings<br />
<strong>Hofstra</strong> hosted its first postseason games in 2005-06, holding two NIT Games at the Mack Sports<br />
Complex<br />
Director of Athletics Jack Hayes and Head Coach Tom Pecora present<br />
<strong>Hofstra</strong> President Stuart Rabinowitz with a <strong>com</strong>memorative 1000th<br />
victory ball<br />
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