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Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball
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The Illinois Fighting Illini mens basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Big Ten Conference. Home games are played at the State Farm Center, located on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaigns campus in Champaign, the team is currently coached by Brad Underwood, hired on 18 March 2017. Through the end of the 2013–14 season, Illinois ranks 13th all-time in winning percentage, prior to World War II breaking out, the Fighting Illini mens basketball program had achieved a status which it had never seen prior. Under the direction of coach and athletic director Douglas R. Mills. Through his first five seasons as coach, Combes led the Fighting Illini to three NCAA Final Four appearances in 1949,1951, and 1952. During his tenure as coach, Combes increased the Fighting Illinis offensive output by changing their style of play, Combes implemented Full-court press defense, causing turnovers at a high rate which translated into Fast break points. During the 1957–58 season, Mannie Jackson and Govoner Vaughn were inserted into the lineup as the first two African-Americans to start and letter in basketball at Illinois. Combes also oversaw the Illinis move from Huff Hall to Assembly Hall in 1963, however, the Illini lost to eventual national champion Loyola in the Elite Eight of the 1963 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. The following 1964–65 season, saw several upset victories over defending national champion UCLA Bruins and national powerhouse Kentucky Wildcats at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Henson would lead the Fighting Illini back to their glory after having a number of difficult years following the Illinois slush fund scandal. In 21 years at Illinois, Henson garnered 423 wins and 224 losses, the 214 wins in Big Ten games were the third highest total ever at the time of his retirement. At Illinois, Henson coached many future NBA players, including Eddie Johnson, Derek Harper, Ken Norman, Nick Anderson, Kendall Gill, Kenny Battle, Marcus Liberty, Steve Bardo, and Kiwane Garris. In 1981, Illinois made strides in its return to the spotlight with a 21–8 record, a third-place Big Ten finish. The team received a bye in the NCAA Tournament and beat Wyoming, 67–65, in Los Angeles to advance to the regionals in Salt Lake City. During this season, the Fighting Illini led the Big Ten in scoring for the consecutive season and were again led by Eddie Johnson. Guards Craig Tucker and Derek Harper arrived to add backcourt punch, the top-seeded and top-ranked 1989 Illini were upset 83–81 in the Final Four on a last second basket by Michigans Sean Higgins, ending the schools deepest run in the tournament at that time. Illinois had beaten the Wolverines by 12 and 16 points in two meetings that season. The 1988–89 Illinois Fighting Illini team gained the moniker Flyin Illini by Dick Vitale during an ESPN broadcast that season, the early 1990s Illini were dominated by players such as guards Andy Kauffman, Richard Keene, and Kiwane Garris, as well as centers Shelly Clark and Deon Thomas. Thomas was at the center of a report of misconduct by Iowa Hawkeyes mens basketball assistant coach Bruce Pearl, the Illini were suspended from postseason play for one season for unrelated violations uncovered during the investigation
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2011 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2011 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 68 teams to determine the national champion of the 2010–11 NCAA Division I mens basketball season. The 73rd edition of the NCAA Tournament began on March 15,2011 and this tournament marked the introduction of the First Four round and an expansion of the field of participants from 65 teams to 68. The South and Midwest regional games were replaced by the monikers Southeast and Southwest for this tournament, due to the location of New Orleans and San Antonio. The Final Four featured no top seeds for the first time since 2006, with the highest remaining seed being West Region winner, #3 Connecticut. For the first time since 2000, a #8 seed advanced to the Final Four as Butler, for only the third time ever, a #11 seed advanced to the Final Four as Virginia Commonwealth, one of the First Four teams, won the Southwest Region. Those three teams were joined by East Region champion Kentucky, a #4 seed, Connecticut won its third national championship in the championship game by defeating Butler 53-41. The East Region saw its #11 seed, Marquette, advance to the Sweet Sixteen where they were downed by North Carolina. The Southwest Region saw four of its double digit seeds win, as VCU was joined by #12 seed and citymate Richmond, #10 seed Florida State, and #13 seed Morehead State as first round winners. Florida State, VCU, and Richmond all advanced to the Sweet Sixteen from that region, Butler and #11 seed Gonzaga advanced from the Southeast Region, with Gonzaga losing in the Round of 32 to BYU. For the third time in as many appearances, Vanderbilt suffered a defeat to a double digit seed and this time, they were defeated by Richmond as a #5 seed. The Big East had a record eleven teams make the tournament, due to having more than eight teams qualify, it was possible for intra-Big East matchups to occur in the third round. Two of these matchups did occur as Marquette defeated Syracuse in the East while Connecticut defeated Cincinnati in the West and this is a list of qualifying teams for the 2011 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament. A total of 68 teams entered the tournament, thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 37 teams were granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee, All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 68. Team names are used on ESPN. com scoreboards and team pages. Automatic bids to the tournament were granted for winning a championship tournament. Seeds listed were seeds within the conference tournaments, runners-up in bold face were given at-large berths
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Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference, formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference includes the public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H, in 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association. Big Ten member institutions are predominantly major flagship research universities with large financial endowments, large student enrollment is also a hallmark of Big Ten universities, as 12 of the 14 members feature enrollments of 30,000 or more students. Northwestern University, one of just two members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students, is the lone private university among Big Ten membership. Collectively, Big Ten universities educate more than 520,000 total students and have 5.7 million living alumni, Big Ten universities engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year. Big Ten universities are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In 2014–2015, members generated more than $10 billion in research expenditures, Johns Hopkins University was invited in 2012 to join the Big Ten as an associate member participating in mens lacrosse only. In 2015, it was accepted as an associate member in womens lacrosse. Notre Dame is scheduled to join the Big Ten in 2017 as a member in mens ice hockey. Notes Notes Notes The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference, lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it. Full members Full members Sport Affiliate Other Conference Other Conference The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 mens and 14 womens NCAA sanctioned sports, Notes, * Notre Dame will join the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in mens ice hockey. It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent, ° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in mens lacrosse, with womens lacrosse to follow in 2016. Ohio State and Penn State, like most NCAA fencing schools, have coed teams,2, Mens rowing, whether heavyweight or lightweight, is not governed by the NCAA, but instead by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Rutgers Mens Rowing was downgraded to Club status in 2008,3, Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. 4, Rifle is technically a mens sport, but mens, womens, Ohio State fields a coed team. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the topics of discussion. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a meeting on February 8,1896
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Bruce Weber (basketball)
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Bruce Brett Weber is an American college basketball coach who is currently the mens basketball head coach at Kansas State University. Weber was formerly head coach at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois, Weber has won conference championships and conference coach of the year awards at each of the three schools where he has served as head coach. He has guided his teams to a total of eleven NCAA Tournaments. Weber was the national coach of the year in 2005. Weber began his career with a brief stint as a graduate assistant coach at Western Kentucky University during the 1979–80 season under head coach Gene Keady. In 1980, Weber moved to Purdue University along with Keady and he remained an assistant coach at Purdue for 18 seasons before becoming the head coach at Southern Illinois University in 1998. On April 30,2003, Weber was hired by Illinois to replace Bill Self, the Illini played a tough early season game against North Carolina on December 2 in Greensboro, and were tied at 69 with just six minutes to go. Illinois eventually lost the game 88–81, but it proved to be a good test for the team with no seniors in the starting lineup. Weber faced his toughest test after starting the conference schedule with an even 3–3 mark and he changed many doubters minds by winning the remaining ten games on the conference schedule, winning the Big Ten title outright for the first time since 1952. The Illini finished second losing to Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament championship game and they received a bid as a #5 seed in the 2004 NCAA Tournament, defeating Murray State and Cincinnati in the first two rounds to reach the Sweet Sixteen. A 72–62 loss to top-seeded Duke ended their tournament run, the 2005 season opened with high expectations and the return of all the teams starters. On December,1 the Illini defeated the number-one ranked team, Wake Forest, 91–73, Weber sported a glowing orange blazer for the game, and Assembly Hall was painted orange by the 16,618 fans wearing school colors. The pressure grew for Weber as the victory vaulted the Illini to the top spot in the polls the following week, the Illini won the Big Ten regular season and Tournament titles. In the 2005 NCAA Tournament the team received the overall #1 seed, Illinois defeated Farleigh Dickinson and Nevada in the first two rounds in Indianapolis. In the Sweet Sixteen, Weber led the Illini to a victory over his alma-mater, Milwaukee, Weber coached the team to the best record in school history, finishing 37–2, and tying the NCAA record for most wins in a season. Weber won many coaching awards after the season, including the Naismith Award, despite losing three starters to the NBA, the Illini finished the 2005–06 season with a 26–7 record and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The 2006–07 season had a start, including the first three-game losing streak in Webers tenure. However, the Illini rebounded to finish 23–11 and again qualify for the NCAA tournament
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Demetri McCamey
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Demetri McCamey, Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Austin Spurs of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for the University of Illinois where he completed his season in 2010–11 and was the 2009–10 Big Ten assists champion. He played high school basketball with Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner on the St. Joseph High School basketball team and he was a first-team All-state selection according to numerous publications. As a sophomore, he led the 2008–09 team in scoring average, during his junior season, he led the big ten in assists per game. He holds the Illinois single-season assist/game and single-game assists records, following the 2009–10 All-Big Ten Conference regular season, he was named a first-team All-conference selection by both the coaches and the media. He became the first Fighting Illini to average over seven assists per game over the course of a season during the 2009–10 NCAA Division I mens basketball season, as a senior, he was a third team All-Big Ten selection for the 2010–11 Big Ten season. As a senior his assist numbers fell, but his shooting percentages rose and he was part of a 2005 Chicago area sophomore class that was considered to be the best in the history of the state of Illinois. It included Derrick Rose and his St. Josephs teammate Turner, isiah Thomas is St. Josephs most famous basketball alum, but McCamey was at the time mentioned as the potential next great St. Josephs product. McCamey was considered the second best area prospect after Rose, as a junior, he and Turner attended 2005 Midnight Madness with the Wisconsin Badgers mens basketball team. At the beginning of his season, Chicago Tribune named him to its annual top Chicago metropolitan area basketball players list. The team went to the sectional final before its season ended with a 75–72 sectional final loss to Proviso East High School. During his senior season, his team was listed second to Roses Simeon Career Academy in the preseason Tribune Chicago area high school basketball team rankings. That season, he was named to the second-team Associated Press 2006–07 Class AA all-state team, McCamey and Turner finished sixth and third to Rose in the Illinois Mr. Basketball voting, and the Chicago Tribune chose both of them as first team All-state selections along with Rose. He was also a first team selection by Chicago Sun-Times, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, McCamey was ranked as the #10, #11 and #10 point guard in the nation as a high school senior by ESPN, Rivals. com, and Scout. com respectively. He was chosen as a third team 2008–09 All-Big Ten Conference player by both the Big Ten coaches and the Big Ten media, McCamey was also a National Association of Basketball Coaches Division I District 7 All‐District second team choice. Since the Big Ten Conference was its own district, this is equivalent to being named second team All-Big Ten by the NABC and he led the 2008–09 Illinois Fighting Illini team in scoring average and was second in assists. On February 12,2009, he scored the game-winning bank shot with 2.9 seconds remaining against Northwestern, although he only ranked fourth in the conference in assists, he had the highest assist average in conference games. McCamey was named co-Big Ten Conference Player of the Week for February 8,2010, on February 20, he recorded 16 assists, which is the fourth highest single-game total in Big Ten history
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State Farm Center
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State Farm Center, stylized as StateFarm Center, is a large dome-shaped indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, owned and operated by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The arena hosts games for the Illinois Fighting Illini mens basketball and womens basketball teams and it opened in 1963 and was known until 2013 as Assembly Hall until naming rights were acquired by State Farm Insurance as part of a major renovation project. State Farm Center opened as Assembly Hall on March 2,1963 and continues to attract attention for its design, from 1963–1965 Assembly Hall was the largest dome structure in North America until the opening of the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The roof is supported by 614 miles of one-quarter inch steel wire wrapped at the base of the dome under intensive pressure, the architect was Max Abramovitz, a University of Illinois alumnus. At the annual Paint the Hall Orange game, everyone in attendance would wear a shirt, resulting in an impressive. State Farm Center has hosted a variety of Illinois High School Association events and it has been the home of the state individual wrestling tournament since 1967. From 1963 to 1995, State Farm Center played host to the finals of the boys basketball tournament. From 1978 to 1995, it hosted the IHSA girls basketball tournament. State Farm Center is also the venue for the annual News-Gazette Broadway Series, which features popular musicals such as Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Rent, and Fiddler on the Roof. In the autumn of 2008, school officials, led by former Athletics Director Ron Guenther, in 2010 a decision was made to renovate rather than replace the building. The architectural firm AECOM has been selected and awarded a contract to design the renovation, surveys were sent out to I-Fund and season ticket holders to gauge demand for various premium seating options. The anticipated renovation cost is between $150 and $160 million, and construction would not start before spring of 2014, as part of the renovations, the naming rights to the arena were purchased by State Farm Insurance for $60 million over 30 years. The State Farm Center began renovations following the 2013–14 mens basketball season, additions of luxury suites, club/loge seats, and all new blue color seats are included in the renovation. In the luxury suites and club seats, there will be concessions where alcoholic beverages will allowed to be served as well as a buffet area. The total budget for the renovation was estimated at $169.5 million, the construction process did cause some conflicts with scheduled sporting events at the beginning of the 2016 fiscal year. The State Farm Centers first game was played on December 2, Kenney Gym located on the campus of the University of Illinois and is named after Harold E. Kenney. The arena opened in 1890 and was known as the Mens Gym Annex. Huff Hall opened in 1925 and was known as Huff Gymnasium until the 1990s and it is named after George Huff, who was the schools athletic director from 1895 to 1935
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Freshman
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A student or pupil is a learner or someone who attends an educational institution. In Britain those attending university are termed students, in the United States, and more recently also in Britain, the term student is applied to both categories. In its widest use, student is used for anyone who is learning, including mid-career adults who are taking vocational education or returning to university. When speaking about learning outside an institution, student is used to refer to someone who is learning a topic or who is a student of a certain topic or person. In Nigeria, education is classified into four system known as 6-3-3-4 system of education and it implies six years in primary school, three years in junior secondary, three years in senior secondary and four years in the university. However, the number of years to be spent in university is determined by the course of study. Some courses have longer study length than others and those in primary school are often referred to as pupils. Those in university as well as those in school are being referred to as students. Six years of school education in Singapore is compulsory. International Schools are subject to overseas curriculums, such as the British, Primary education is compulsory in Bangladesh. Its a near crime to not to children to primary school when they are of age. But it is not a punishable crime, because of the socio-economic state of Bangladesh, child labour is sometimes legal. But the guardian must ensure the primary education, everyone who is learning in any institute or even online may be called student in Bangladesh. Sometimes students taking undergraduate education is called undergraduates and students taking post-graduate education may be called post-graduates, Education System Of Bangladesh, Education is free in Brunei. Darussalam not limited to government educational institutions but also private educational institutions, there are mainly two types of educational institutions, government or public, and private institutions. Several stages have to be undergone by the prospective students leading to higher qualifications, Primary School Secondary School High School Colleges University Level It takes six and five years to complete the primary and secondary levels respectively. Upon completing these two stages, students/pupils have freedom to progress to sixth-form centers, colleges or probably straight to employment. Students are permitted to progress towards university level programs in both government and private university colleges, Education in Cambodia is free for all the students who study in Primary School, Secondary School or High School
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College recruiting
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In college athletics in the United States, recruiting is a term used to describe for the process in which college coaches add prospective student athletes to their roster each off-season. This process typically culminates in a coach extending an athletic scholarship offer to a player who is about to graduate high school or a junior college. During this recruiting process, schools must comply with rules that uphold the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s underlying principles of fairness and these rules or bylaws define who may be involved in the recruiting process, when recruiting may occur and the conditions under which recruiting may be conducted. Recruiting rules seek, as much as possible, to control intrusions into the lives of prospective student-athletes, to be considered a “recruited prospective student-athlete”, athletes must be approached by a college coach or representative about participating in that college’s athletic program. NCAA guidelines specify how and when they can be contacted, letters, telephone calls, and in-person conversations are limited to certain frequency and dates during and after the students junior year. The NCAA also determines when the athletes can be contacted by dividing the year into four recruiting and non-recruiting periods,1, during a contact period, recruiters may make in-person, on- or off-campus contacts and evaluations. Coaches can also write and/or phone athletes during this period, during an evaluation period, they can only assess academic qualifications and playing abilities. Letters and phone calls are permitted, no in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts arent, during a quiet period, they may make in-person recruiting contacts only on the college campus. Off-campus, recruiters are limited to phone calls and letter-writing, during a dead period, they cannot make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on- or off-campus or permit official/unofficial visits. However, phone calls and letters are permitted, during the recruiting process, the prospective student-athlete goes on an official visit to the school that theyre being recruited by. An official visit is a prospective student-athlete’s visit to a college campus paid for by the college, NCAA recruiting bylaws limit the number of official visits a recruit may take to five. The NCAA has imposed stringent rules limiting the manner in which competing university-firms may bid for the newest crop of prospective student-athletes. Such rules limit the number of visits, which a student-athlete may make to a campus, the amount of his expenses that may be covered by the university-firm. During recruitment, a coach may ask a prospective player to sign a National Letter of Intent or NLI for short. The NLI is a program with regard to both institutions and student-athletes. No prospective student-athlete or parent is required to sign the NLI, by signing a NLI, a prospective student-athlete agrees to attend the designated college or university for one academic year. Student-athletes are assured of a scholarship for a minimum of one full academic year. By emphasizing a commitment to an institution, not particular coaches or teams
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ESPNU
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The channel is primarily dedicated to coverage of college athletics, and is also used as an additional outlet for general ESPN programming. ESPNU is based alongside ESPN Events at its headquarters in Charlotte, as of February 2015, ESPNU is available to approximately 73,594,000 pay television households in the United States. The network was launched on March 4,2005, with its first broadcast originating from the site of Gallagher-Iba Arena on the Oklahoma State University campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The networks first live event was a game of the Ohio Valley Conference mens basketball tournament between Southeast Missouri State University and Eastern Kentucky University. The network was launched as a response to rival College Sports Television, ESPN was also being investigated by the U. S. ESPN and XOS Technologies entered into a partnership for college athletics websites to compete directly with CSTVs growing internet presence. On August 28,2006, ESPNU launched a new SportsCenter spin-off focusing entirely on college sports, the program, SportsCenterU, was originally scheduled to be broadcast from ESPNs headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, however ESPN instead chose to originate the show from Charlotte. Mike Hall was the lead anchor until August 2007, when he left for the new Big Ten Network. He was replaced by Mike Gleason and Lowell Galindo, the two are joined on-set by color commentators that vary depending on the sports season. The same day as SportsCenterUs debut, ESPNU launched the website ESPNU. com, the site included live streaming of college sports events, a multi-media player dedicated to college sports, podcasts and ESPN Motion clips of studio programming from the ESPNU television network. In addition to its sports coverage, ESPNU has simulcast ESPN Radios midday program over its airwaves since 2008. The program airing for the majority of time was The Herd with Colin Cowherd. Following Cowherds departure and several weeks of guest hosts taking over the timeslot, ESPNU was added to most Comcast systems in time for the start of the 2009–10 college football season. This ended several years of negotiations and somewhat of a feud between Comcast and ESPN over carriage of ESPNU, cablevision added ESPNU to its systems on March 23,2010. ESPN announced that the trial was a success and, although the channels are no longer available to Brazilians, ESPNU is carried on PlayStation Vue and Sling TV. The lawsuit claims ESPN violated the Most Favored Nations clause and we will not renegotiate settled contracts and will vigorously defend this legal action, the apparent sole purpose of which is to get a better deal. Dish Network moved the channel from its Classic Gold 250 package to its Classic Bronze 100 package on September 30,2009, however, it claimed that the move had nothing to do with the lawsuit
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Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship
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The Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament held each spring in the United States. It is organized by the Illinois High School Association, from 1908 to 1971, it was a single tournament contested by nearly all high schools in Illinois. In 1972, the tournament was divided into two based on school size, each producing a separate champion. In 2008, the tournament was divided into four separate divisions, the Illinois High School Basketball Championship was the first tournament to be called March Madness. The term was first used about the Illinois tournament in 1939, within the class, schools are geographically assigned to a regional, which is, in turn assigned to a sectional which, finally, is assigned to a super-sectional. Regional tournaments are generally between four and eight teams, depending on the number of teams in an area in a particular class. There are four regional tournaments within each sectional and two sectionals within each super-sectional, within the regional, coaches seed the teams. The winners of the four regional tournaments then meet in a single elimination sectional tournament, for example, in 2011, in the Class 2A Casey Sectional, there were four regionals, Flora, Monticello, St. Joseph and Robinson. Three of these consisted of five teams and one of six. Before the playoffs began, the IHSA assigned the winner of the Flora Regional to play the winner of the Monticello Regional. The winners of the St. Joseph and Robinson regionals played in the regional semifinal. The winner of the tournament then faces the winner of another sectional champion for the super-sectional championship. This winner advances to the state tournament, the state tournament in each class is composed of the four super-sectional winners, and are randomly assigned to play each other in the semifinal round. The winners of the semifinal round compete for the championship the next evening. The state semifinals are held on a Friday, with the championship. Classes 1A and 2A share the weekend, while 3A. Under the current four class system, each class has four super sectional games, each sectional has four regionals, giving each class 32 regional tournaments. The format in the two class system was similar, in the two class system, each class had 8 super-sectional games, and thus 16 sectionals and 64 regionals
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Luther Head
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Luther Dale Head is an American professional basketball shooting guard. Head attended Chicagos Manley Academy where he averaged over 20 points, eight assists and those numbers earned him All-City honors and he was selected MVP of the Blue Division of the Chicago Public League. Led by Head and head coach Bo Delaney, Manley had a perfect 12–0 record, Manley finished 26–7 overall, losing to state runner-up Chicago Westinghouse in the Public League quarterfinals. During the season, Head posted 10 triple-doubles, in a game against Chicago Wells, Head broke the city record and recorded the second-highest number of assists in a game with 25, earning Prep Player of the Week honors from the Chicago Tribune. That game also earned him Gatorade Prep Player of the Week honors, during the IHSA State Playoffs, Head scored 26 points and contributed 15 assists against Marshall in a first-round playoff victory. He would then post a triple-double in a win over Steinmetz. During the summer, Head attended the Adidas ABCD Camp in New Jersey, as a senior, Head averaged 22 points, eight rebounds, six assists and five steals in the rugged Red-West Division of the Chicago Public League. He would earn First-Team All-State honors in 2001 from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Associated Press, Head was also selected to play in the Wendys All-Star Classic as a senior. He played primarily point guard in high school but occasionally played shooting guard to complement his abilities, Head also finished sixth in the voting for Mr. Basketball in the state of Illinois following his senior year. However, to college scouts, Heads senior year was seen as a disappointment as a few of his statistics dropped since junior year. Nevertheless, he would sign his letter of intent to play basketball for the University of Illinois where he became the first Illinois recruit from the Chicago Public League since 1994. As a freshman at the University of Illinois, Head saw limited playing time, coach Bill Self had a veteran team which included Brian Cook and Frankie Williams, so he had little need to play a freshman. His playing time increased as the season progressed and he started 13 games, Head averaged 4.5 points in 16.6 minutes per game for the season while shooting 51 percent from the field. His first season showed Heads individual talent for shooting and defense as he was second on the team with 34 steals, in that same game, he tallied four assists and three steals against the Aztecs. His season-high for assists was six against Kansas in the Regional Semifinal game which proved that he could perform on the stage against even the best teams in the nation. A pelvic injury slowed Head during the season and caused him to seven games. The arrival of two point guards, Dee Brown and Deron Williams, prevented Head from becoming a consistent starter and pushed him to the shooting guard. He improved as his injury healed and shot 58.5 percent from the floor in his last 10 games while hitting 48 percent of his shots from behind the three-point line in his last 11 games
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Jeffrey Jordan
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Jeffrey Michael Jordan is an American former basketball player who played for the University of Central Florida Knights and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini. He played high school basketball for Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, Jordan is the elder son of retired Hall of Fame National Basketball Association player Michael Jordan, who played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards, and the older brother of Marcus Jordan. Jeffrey Jordan has been the subject of local and national media attention, Jordan also played football in his sophomore year at Loyola Academy. Jordan graduated from Loyola Academy on May 26,2007 and he received scholarship offers from Valparaiso and Loyola University Chicago, and was actively recruited as a preferred walk-on by Davidson, Penn State, Northwestern, and University of Illinois. Jordan decided to play as a preferred walk-on at the University of Illinois, jeff Jordan enrolled at the university in 2007 as a psychology major with an academic scholarship. On January 22,2009, it was announced by the university that Jordan would receive a full scholarship, on June 24,2009 Jordan announced he was leaving the University of Illinois’ basketball team to focus on school and his life after basketball. Jordan later decided to return to the team, but after the 2009–10 season, he received a release to transfer to the University of Central Florida alongside his brother, in January 2012, Jordan left the UCF team for personal reasons. As of November 4,2013, Jordan lives in Portland, Oregon, jeff Jordans profile at University of Illinois Athletics Illinibasketballhistory. com Photo of Jeffrey Jordan dated January 10,2009
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Highland Park, Illinois
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Highland Park is an affluent suburban city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about 25 miles north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2010 census, the population was 29,763, Highland Park is one of several municipalities located on the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area. Highland Park was founded in 1869 with a population of 500, Highland Park was named from its parklike setting at a lofty elevation relative to the lake. The town annexed the village of Ravinia in 1899, Highland Park has several attractions including a vibrant downtown shopping district and the Ravinia Festival. Ravinia Festival is an open-air pavilion seating 3,200, which hosts classical, pop and it has been the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1936. Concert-goers can purchase seats in the pavilion or tickets to sit on the lawn. Many visitors arrive early and picnic on the lawn before and during the concerts, the Ravinia Festival is located in the Ravinia District, originally an artists colony which still retains much of its early character and architecture. Highland Park has several structures listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Landscape architect Jens Jensen lived in Highland Park and designed a number of projects in the community that are listed on the register, there are two public beaches in Highland Park, Rosewood Beach and Park Avenue Beach. Highland Park is also home to the North Shore Yacht Club. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the city has an area of 12.2 square miles, of which 12.2 square miles is land and 0.039 square miles. Its geographic features include a 100-foot-high bluff running along 6 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and deep, elevations range from 580 to 725 feet above sea level. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 29,763 people residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 91. 05% White,1. 84% Black or African American,2. 9% Asian,0. 18% Native American,0. 03% Pacific Islander,2. 51% of some other race and 1. 48% of two or more races. As of the census of 2000, there were 31,365 people,11,521 households, the population density was 2,537.5 people per square mile. There were 11,934 housing units at a density of 965. 5/sq mi. The racial makeup of the city was 91. 20% White,1. 78% African American,0. 08% Native American,2. 28% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,3. 46% from other races, and 1. 18% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8. 90% of the population,19. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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UCF Knights men's basketball
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The UCF Knights mens basketball team represents The University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, United States. UCF competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Knights play their home games in the CFE Arena located on the universitys main campus. They are coached by Johnny Dawkins who was hired in 2016, the Knights have appeared in the NCAA Division II Tournament six times, including the Final Four in 1978. UCF has reached the NCAA Division I Tournament four times, UCF has won twelve conference championships, seven regular season championships, and five tournament championships. UCF played its first intercollegiate basketball game before the team even had a nickname, in the Division II era, under Torchy Clark, UCF found great success including a DII Final Four appearance. UCF has competed in the Atlantic Sun Conference, from 1992 until 2005, as a Division II team, the Knights had been a charter member of the Sunshine State Conference from 1975 to 1984. The Knights also had a brief stint in the Sun Belt Conference. UCF has had six head coaches since organized basketball began in 1969, the Knights have played nearly 1,200 games in their 44 seasons. In that time, three coaches have led the Knights to the postseason, Torchy Clark, Kirk Speraw, and Donnie Jones. Clark in 1976,1977,1978,1980,1981, and 1982, Speraw in 1994,1996,2004, and 2005, and Jones in 2011 and 2012. Clark is the coach to successfully lead the Knights past the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Speraw is the longest tenured coach in history at 17 seasons. Clark remains the winningest coach in history with 274 wins in 14 seasons. Donnie Jones, who was hired in 2010 was fired by UCF on March 10,2016, Johnny Dawkins, who was fired by Stanford, was hired on March 22,2016. Eugene Torchy Clark, served as FTUs, then UCFs, first head basketball coach, in 1969, Clark, who was a Wisconsin high school coach, was responsible for starting the universitys basketball program from scratch. The creation of the program had only approved by the Florida Board of Regents five months prior to his hire. That year, as a club team, the Knights went 11–3. The first season would serve as an omen for UCF basketball, in 1978, Clark led the Knights, which at the time were riding a 24–game winning streak, to the Final Four in Minnesota
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Champaign, Illinois
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Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The city is 135 miles south of Chicago,124 miles west of Indianapolis, Indiana, the United States Census Bureau estimates the city was home to 84,513 people as of July 1,2014. Champaign is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois, and the states fourth-most populous city outside of the Chicago metropolitan area, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with its sister city of Urbana. Champaign is also the home of Parkland College which serves about 18,000 students during the academic year. Due to the university and a number of well known technology startup companies, it is referred to as the hub, or a significant landmark. Champaign houses offices for Abbott, Archer Daniels Midland, Caterpillar, Deere & Company, Dow Chemical Company, IBM, State Farm, and Intel all of which are Fortune 500 companies, and for Sony. Champaign was founded in 1855, when the Illinois Central Railroad laid its rail track two miles west of downtown Urbana, originally called West Urbana, it was renamed Champaign when it acquired a city charter in 1860. Both the city and county name were derived from Champaign County, during February 1969, Carl Perkins joined with Bob Dylan to write the song Champaign, Illinois, which Perkins released on his album On Top. The two Champaign, Illinois songs are not similar to other, except that Bob Dylan was involved in both of them. On September 22,1985, Champaign hosted the first Farm Aid concert at the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium, the concert drew a crowd of 80,000 people and raised over $7 million for American family farmers. In 2005, Champaign-Urbana was the location of the National Science Olympiad Tournament, the city also hosts the state Science Olympiad competition every year. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign once again hosted the National competition on May 20–22,2010, in 2013, Champaign was rated fifth best place in the United States for a healthy work-life balance. According to the 2010 census, Champaign has an area of 22.457 square miles. Champaign is located on high ground, providing sources to the Kaskaskia River to the west. Downtown Champaign drains into Boneyard Creek, which feeds the Saline Branch of the Salt Fork Vermilion River, Champaign shares a border with the neighboring city of Urbana, together they are home to the University of Illinois. Champaign, Urbana, and the village of Savoy form the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area also known as Champaign-Urbana. It may also be known as the Twin Cities or Chambana. The following diagram represents localities within a 35 miles radius of Champaign, the city has a humid continental climate, typical of the Midwestern United States, with hot summers and cold, moderately snowy winters
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Memphis Tigers men's basketball
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The Memphis Tigers mens basketball team represents the University of Memphis in NCAA Division I mens college basketball. The Tigers have competed in the American Athletic Conference since 2013, as of 2011, the Tigers had the 29th highest winning percentage in NCAA history. They play home games at the FedExForum, ESPN Stats and Information Department ranked Memphis as the 19th most successful basketball program from 1962 to 2012 in their annual 50 in 50 list. The predecessor of the University of Memphis, West Tennessee State Normal School, zach Curlin began coaching the team in 1924. The Tigers joined the Mississippi Valley Conference in 1928, the team played its early home poines a local high school gym, a local YMCA, and in a room on campus called the Normal Cage which allowed only six inches from the court lines to the walls. In 1929, a $100,000 facility on campus named Memorial Gym became the Tigers home, curlins last season coaching the Tigers was in 1948, by which time the school had been renamed Memphis State College, it would become Memphis State University in 1957. In 1951, the new $700,000 Field House gym was opened for Tiger home games, in 1952, John Wallesea became the first Memphis State player to be drafted by the NBA. Forest Arnold became the schools first All-American in 1954, the Tigers made the NCAA tournament for the first time in 1955 under coach Eugene Lambert. Bob Vanatta became the coach in 1956 and took the Tigers to the NIT final. Win Wilfong became the teams second All-American in 1957, in 1962, Dean Ehlers took over coaching duties. The Tigers began playing its games at the Mid-South Coliseum in 1964. Moe Iba became the coach in 1966, the same year the team joined the Missouri Valley Conference. Ibas four years running the program are considered the low point in the history of Memphis basketball, however, the Tigers did not remain down for long. In 1970, Gene Bartow was named head coach, the 1970 season also saw the first games of Larry Finch and Ronnie Robinson, two all-time greats. Larry Finch scored 24 points in his first appearance as a freshman, in 1971, the Tigers led by Finch and Robinson upset conference rival Louisville. At 11-2, they were ranked #19 after not reaching the Top 20 in a decade, early in the 1971–1972 season, Memphis State fell in a heart breaker to No.2 Marquette after leading by five points with five minutes to go. After defeating Louisville in Freedom Hall, the Tigers shared the Missouri Valley Conference title in 1972 with Louisville, Louisville won a playoff to represent the MVC in the NCAA Tournament while the Tigers went to the NIT for their fifth time. During the 1972–1973 season, seniors Finch and Robinson led the Tigers to one of their most successful seasons, Memphis State won the MVC outright in 1972 after winning 14 straight games
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Port Arthur, Texas
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Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County within the Beaumont−Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area of the U. S. state of Texas. A small portion extends into Orange County and it is ninety-one miles east of Houston. The population was 53,818 at the 2010 census, early attempts at settlements in the area had all failed. However, in 1895 Arthur Stilwell founded Port Arthur, and the town quickly grew, Port Arthur was incorporated as a city in 1898 and soon developed into a seaport. It eventually became the center of a oil refinery network. The Rainbow Bridge across the Neches River connects Port Arthur to Bridge City, Aurora was an early settlement attempt near the mouth of Taylor Bayou on Sabine Lake, about 14 miles long and 7 miles wide. It is an estuary formed by the confluence of the Neches. Through its tidal outlet 5 miles long, Sabine Pass, Sabine Lake drains some 50,000 square miles of Texas, the town was conceived in 1837, and in 1840 promoters led by Almanzon Huston were offering town lots for sale. Some were sold, but Hustons project failed to attract many settlers, the area next was known as Sparks, after John Sparks, who moved his family to the shores of Sabine Lake near the site of Aurora. The Eastern Texas Railroad, completed between Sabine Pass and Beaumont, Texas, passed four miles west of Sparks, however, the American Civil War soon began, and rail lines were removed. In 1886, a hurricane hit the coast, causing the remaining residents to dismantle their homes. By 1895, Aurora had become a ghost town, Arthur Stilwell led the resettling of the area as part of his planned city of Port Arthur. Pleasure Island now separates the city from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the 18. 5-mile man-made island was created between 1899 and 1908 by the Corps of Engineers to support development of the port. Arthur Stilwell founded the Port Arthur Channel and Dock Company to manage the port facilities, the port officially opened with the arrival of the British steamer Saint Oswald in 1899. When oil was discovered in the region, Port Arthur developed for a time as the center of the largest oil refinery network in the world, Port Arthur is located at 29°53′6″N 93°56′24″W east of Houston. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 143.8 square miles. The average relative humidity is 90% in the morning, and 72% in the afternoon, as of the 2000 census, there were 57,755 people,21,839 households, and 14,675 families residing in the city. The population density was 696.5 people per square mile, there were 24,713 housing units at an average density of 298.0 per square mile
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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec
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FIU Panthers men's basketball
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The FIU Panthers mens basketball team represents Florida International University in Miami, Florida, United States. The schools team competes in Conference USA. They are currently led by head coach Anthony Evans and play their games at the FIU Arena. On April 15,2012, Richard Pitino left his position as the head coach at the University of Louisville to become the head coach at FIU. He was able to compile an 18-14 record in his season as head coach. His FIU team set a record for the best conference record in school history, additionally, FIU reached the Sun Belt Tournament Championship game as a four seed, before falling to Western Kentucky, 65-63. On April 3,2013, Richard Pitino was hired to become the head coach at the University of Minnesota. On April 15,2013, Anthony Evans left his position as coach at Norfolk State University to become the head coach at FIU. FIU mens basketball team had its lone NCAA Tournament appearance in the 1995 tournament under then Head Coach Bob Weltlich, FIU won the TAAC Basketball Tournament and in doing so earned an automatic bid for the NCAA Tournament. FIU was seeded #16 and played the #1 seeded UCLA Bruins in the first round of the West Regional, the Panthers lost the game to the Bruins by the score of 92–56, being the first tournament win in UCLAs successful run to the National Championship that year. Weltlich noteably said during the interview, If anyone knows of any openings out there. The Sunblazers men’s basketball team was featured in a second-season episode of Miami Vice entitled The Fix. The Panthers have appeared in one NCAA Tournament
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Grafton, Ohio
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Grafton is a village in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, along the East Branch of the Black River. The population was 6,636 at the 2010 census, the Lorain Correctional Institution and several other prisons are located in and near Grafton. Grafton was platted in 1846 when the railroad was extended to that point, the villages name may be a transfer from Grafton, Massachusetts. Grafton is located at 41°16′33″N 82°3′11″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.74 square miles, of which 4.71 square miles is land and 0.03 square miles is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 6,636 people,965 households, the population density was 1,408.9 inhabitants per square mile. There were 1,008 housing units at a density of 214.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 65. 0% White,32. 7% African American,0. 2% Native American,0. 3% Asian,1. 2% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 3% of the population. 20. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.07. The median age in the village was 36.2 years. 10. 4% of residents were under the age of 18,13. 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24,43. 9% were from 25 to 44,26. 3% were from 45 to 64, and 5. 6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 79. 7% male and 20. 3% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 2,302 people,832 households, and 643 families residing in the village. The population density was 510.0 people per square mile, there were 853 housing units at an average density of 189.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 83% White,0. 52% African American,0. 35% Native American,0. 26% Asian,0. 22% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 74% of the population. 19. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.17. In the village, the population was out with 28. 2% under the age of 18,8. 1% from 18 to 24,30. 5% from 25 to 44,23. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 93.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.4 males, the median income for a household in the village was $52,446, and the median income for a family was $60,139. Males had an income of $40,833 versus $26,732 for females
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Meyers Leonard
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Meyers Patrick Leonard is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Illinois before being selected by the Trail Blazers with the 11th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft, Leonard, born in Woodbridge, Virginia, grew up in Robinson, Illinois, a small town in southeastern Illinois. When he was six years old, his father James, a pro, was killed in a freak bicycle accident. When he was in grade, the young Leonard gained a surrogate family. Brian Siler, an agent in Robinson who had a son of the same age, was aware of Leonards family situation. Leonard regularly attended the Silers church and went on family vacations, according to ESPN. com writer Dana ONeil, Looking to shoehorn the relationship into a convenient box, outsiders have called this Meyers version of The Blind Side, but the comparison is inaccurate. The book and subsequent movie tell the story of Michael Oher, on the contrary, Tracie loves her son, loves him so much that she was willing to accept help. Leonard entered high school as a guard, but was converted to center after a growth spurt between his freshman and sophomore years. ONeil called him something of an anomaly, adding that Leonard gained all that height without losing his coordination or his fast-twitch muscles. Leonard led Robinson High School to the IHSA class 2A state championship before choosing to play basketball at the University of Illinois. As a freshman at Illinois in 2010–11, Leonard averaged 2.1 points and 1.2 rebounds per game in 8.2 minutes per game, as a sophomore in 2011–12, Leonard averaged 13.6 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. Leonard was named Big 10 Co-Player of the Week on December 5,2011 after averaging 16.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game in two Illinois victories. Leonard was also named Big 10 Player of the Week on December 26,2011 after averaging 16.5 points and 14.5 rebounds per game in two games, following the season, Leonard was named Honorable Mention All Big-10. Leonard was drafted with the 11th overall pick by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2012 NBA draft, on July 13, he signed his rookie scale contract with the Trail Blazers. On October 31,2012, Leonard made his NBA debut, logging 23 minutes and he made his first career start on November 21,2012 against the Phoenix Suns, where he finished with 12 points and 5 rebounds. On March 30,2013, he had a season-best game with 22 points and 10 rebounds in a loss to the Golden State Warriors. Leonards numbers dipped from his rookie to sophomore season, falling behind fellow second-year big man Joel Freeland as the backup to starter Robin Lopez. He saw action in 29 fewer games in 2013–14, with his minutes and points per game cut in half, on January 2,2014, he had a season-best game with 8 points and 10 rebounds in a 134–104 win over the Charlotte Bobcats
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