Men's Basketball |
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| Head Men's Basketball Coach, Scott Schumacher | |
| Blikre Activities Center 213E |  Head Men's Basketball Coach Scott Schumacher |
| Phone: (701) 671-2446 or e-mail | |
| The 2009-10 season marks Scott Schumacher’s 23rd year at the collegiate level. Coach Schu, as his players refer to him, is entering his 20th year as a head junior college coach. In July of 2009 he was named athletic director for the NDSCS Wildcat athletic programs. Having amassed over 350 wins at a winning percentage of more than 60%, Coach Schu is one of the select few coaches that have lead three different junior college programs to a conference championship title. Each of these programs was ranked in the NJCAA top ten national polls. The 2009-10 season will mark Coach Schu’s second season at the helm of the North Dakota State College of Science Men’s Basketball program. In his inaugural season he led the Wildcats to one of their best seasons in the 94 years of the school’s history. The Wildcats set numerous records during the 08-09 season including most wins in a season and a national ranking of 4th. The Wildcats finished the season with a 31-4 record. This included the Mon-Dak Conference championship, Region XIII championship, and a District 11 championship, which lead to a berth at the National tournament held in Hutchinson, Kansas. Along with these team accomplishments, Schumacher was honored by being named the Mon-Dak conference coach of the year and the District 11 Coach of the Year. |
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| Prior to coming to NDSCS, Schumacher was the head coach at 2 different institutions in the prestigious Texas Eastern Athletic Conference (TEAC) for 18 years. He has the distinction of being the only head coach to lead 2 different TEAC basketball programs to conference championships. The two institutions include Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas and Paris Junior College located in Paris, Texas. | |
| Coach Schu was the head coach at Kilgore College for 13 seasons. During the 1997-98 season he led the team to 28 wins while playing for the Regional Championship. This team achieved a high ranking of sixth in the NJCAA national polls. The following season Kilgore won the TEAC Conference Championship, with 26 wins, climbing as high as second in the NJCAA polls. | |
| Previous to his time at Kilgore, Coach Schu was the head coach at Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas for 5 seasons. During the 1991-92 basketball season his Paris team was ranked as high as seventh in the nation. During the 1993-94 season, he led the program to the school’s first TEAC Championship in school history. As a result of this accomplishment Schumacher received the TEAC Coach of the Year award. | |
| In addition to his tri-level championship achievements he has had the privilege of coaching ten players named to the NJCAA All American team. Every sophomore that Schumacher has coached has had the opportunity to continue his education while playing basketball at the four year college level. This list includes fifty-eight players that have signed division I scholarships. Some of the conferences where Coach Schu’s former players have continued their playing careers include the Big East, Big XII, SEC, PAC-10, WAC, Atlantic-10, Big Sky, Missouri Valley, Sunbelt , Southland, Big West, Southern, and SWAC. | |
| A number of his former players have achieved tremendously high honors after leaving his programs. These honors include the Big XII Tournament MVP, Big Sky Tournament MVP, SEC player of the year, European Professional League MVP, NCAA Slam Dunk Contest Champion, and member of an NIT National Championship team to name a few. | |
| Many of Coach Schu’s former players have had the opportunity to play basketball after their college eligibility expired. Three of his former players have played in the NBA. Ruben Nembhard played with the Utah Jazz and Portland Trailblazers; Francisco Elson has played with numerous teams including a starting role with the 2007 NBA champion San Antonio Spurs. Elson is currently playing for the Milwaukee Bucks. Marcus Thornton was a 2009 second round draft pick and is currently playing with the New Orleans Hornets. Two of Schumacher’s previous players, Cheyne Gadson and Marcus Hubbard, have had successful careers playing in the NBDL. He has also had two players, Trey Moore and Darrien Robinson, play for the world renowned Harlem Globetrotters, along with another twenty players that have competed overseas at the professional level. | |
| Coach Schumacher is also very active with junior college basketball at the national level. During the past four years he has served as the president of the NJCAA Basketball Coaches Association, completing two terms. Prior to his term as president, he also held the positions of Vice President and Division I representative. During his terms as president, he was instrumental in implementing the NJCAA Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Classic. This annual event features the top 40 junior college players in Division I, II, and III from across the nation, competing in a doubleheader. | |
| Coach Schu has had the privilege of being the victorious head coach while leading the USA team against the Florida Junior College All-Stars in a game held in Cocoa Beach, Florida. He has also had international experience as the head coach for the USA Junior College All-Star team, leading them to a tournament championship held in the Caribbean islands of Antigua at the Antigua splash tournament. Among their 6-0 record was a triumph over the Antiguan national team in the championship game, who had previously participated in the Olympic qualifying tournament. | |
| Coach Schu served on the USA basketball collegiate selection committee. This appointment was a four year term and was appointed by the NJCAA national office. While on this committee members were responsible for selecting the various coaching staffs and players. Some of the events being represented were the Pan American games, the world championships, U-19 international tournament, the U-18 international tournament, and the U-21 international tournament. He had the honor of serving on this committee alongside some of the game’s top coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Bill Self, Tom Izzo, Fran Dunphy, Ernie Kent, Tubby Smith, and Steve Wojciechowski . | |
| Coach Schumacher has also been a premier speaker at a number of events. Most recently he was a keynote speaker for the NABC at the 2009 Final Four in Detroit, Michigan. He has also been a speaker at numerous clinics such as LSU, Texas A&M, and Texas A&M at Corpus Christie. In the summer of 2007, Coach Schu was responsible for overseeing two of the University of Kentucky’s summer basketball camps. | |
| Scott and his wife, Lisa, an instructor at NDSCS, are the proud parents of three children: Ross (8), Lonna (4), and Alec (1). They currently reside in Breckenridge, Minnesota. | |
| Assistant Men's Basketball Coach, Brandon Colvin | |
| Phone: (701) 671-2548 or e-mail |  Assistant Men's Basketball Coach Brandon Colvin |
| Brandon Colvin, a Waverly, Ill., native, enters his second season as assistant men’s basketball coach under NDSCS head coach Scott Schumacher. In the first season at NDSCS, Colvin helped to lead the Wildcats to a record 31 wins, while also qualifying for the National Tournament. At the tournament, NDSCS won a first round game for the first time in school history. He had the opportunity to coach three all-region performers as well as two NJCAA Division I All-Americans. | |
| During the summer of 2009, Colvin had the opportunity to coach one of the United States entrants in the Wilson Swiss All-Star Tournament, held in Zofingen, Switzerland. His team finished second overall out of 12 teams, winning his pool, before eventually falling in the championship game. | |
| Colvin graduated from Waverly High School, where he played basketball, baseball and ran cross-country.After graduating from high school, he attended Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and worked in the sports information department for five years. He graduated in December 2001 with a bachelor’s of science degree in business computer systems. | |
| After two years of working as a computer consultant, Colvin attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., to work on his master’s degree. He received a master’s degree in sports administration in 2005. While at VCU, he was assistant coach for Atlee High School’s boy’s basketball team. | |
| Colvin’s first college coaching position was at Southwestern Iowa Community College in Creston, Iowa. He joined second year coach, Jerry Drymon in rebuilding a struggling Spartan Basketball Program. While at SWCC, Colvin helped recruit the student athletes that would lead SWCC to their first two winning seasons in over six years. He coached or recruited four all-region performers, including three pre-season All-Americans. | |
| Colvin then moved on to Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas, where he joined Mark Berger’s staff and helped to restart a program that was disbanded for 14 years. In the first season, playing 15 freshmen, the Westerners finished 13-16 in the WJCAC, widely considered to be one of the top Junior College conferences in the nation, producing back to back national champions and a national runner up from 2006 - 2009. | |
| In year two at Western Texas, the Westerners improved to 18-11 and knocked off eventual national champion, South Plains College, as well as 8th ranked Odessa College. In two years he coached three all-conference performers and two Academic All-Americans. More importantly all of his sophomores moved on to play at the four year level. The men’s team finished 8th in the nation in team GPA in 2007-08 with an overall grade point average of 3.05. | |
