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Post by Commissioner on Jun 30, 2020 11:09:41 GMT -5
#52. Walter Poff, 6-1 G, 1951-53.
At his best, as a senior in 1953, Poff was probably better than any of the Albee/Cech/Salci trio (see #46-48, above), but his first couple seasons were not as productive. Poff was the captain of the 1953 squad and a second team All-Missouri Valley selection that year after averaging 16.3 points per game and shooting what was then, especially for a guard, a very high 45.5%. In his first two varsity seasons, he averaged 9.2 and 7.8 points, and a very respectable 3.1 assists in 1952.
After graduation, Poff served as an air force pilot and had a long engineering career, serving as President of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers.
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Post by Commissioner on Jun 30, 2020 13:16:47 GMT -5
#53. Jon Goode, 5-10 G, 2005-08.
After a couple seasons as a solid but unspectacular player, Goode blossomed into the Titans’ star player for the 2008. Goode was one of the few bright spots in a 7-23 season that saw the exhausted Perry Watson give way to interim coach Kevin Mondro. As team captain, Goode led the Horizon in scoring at 19.3 points per game. En route, he shot a sizzling 44.6 percent from behind the three point line, then the second (and now the third) highest percentage in Titan history. All that landed him a spot on the second team All-Conference.
After playing in 29 games as a freshman, Goode had averaged 10.9 points, shooting 41.5% from three, as a soph, and 9.2 points (37.7% three point shooting) as a junior. Goode ranks 7th in three pointers made and 6th in percentage in the Titan career record books, and is 7th in career free throw percentage.
Goode played professionally in Germany, averaging over 20 ppg in 2009. Today Goode Is a radio marketing specialist based in Columbus, Ohio.
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Post by Commissioner on Jun 30, 2020 15:36:19 GMT -5
#54. Carl Pickett, 6-5 F, 1994-1997
Strong at attacking the basket, and capable enough from behind the arc to keep defenders honest (a career 36%), Pickett scored 1075 points in a 4 year Titan career. His best season was his junior campaign, 1996, when he averaged a team best 14.3 points, and was selected to the All-Conference second team and the All-MCC Tournament team. He also led the Titans in scoring in 1995 at 12.4 points per game. Like most Perry Watson players, he was also a hard-nosed defender.
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Post by motorcitysam on Jun 30, 2020 15:43:42 GMT -5
#54. Carl Pickett, 6-5 F, 1994-1997Strong at attacking the basket, and capable enough from behind the arc to keep defenders honest (a career 36%), Pickett scored 1075 points in a 4 year Titan career. His best season was his junior campaign, 1996, when he averaged a team best 14.3 points, and was selected to the All-Conference second team and the All-MCC Tournament team. He also led the Titans in scoring in 1995 at 12.4 points per game. Like most Perry Watson players, he was also a hard-nosed defender. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard kid. I was pleasantly surprised by how good a career he had as a Titan.
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Post by Commissioner on Jun 30, 2020 20:28:12 GMT -5
#55. Arthur Stolkey, 6-1 G, 1941-43, 1946.Like Lee Knorek, Arthur Stolkey’s Titan career was interrupted by WWII. Stolkey was a starter on the Titans’ 1942 and 1943 teams, then served in the Army Air Corps for two years before returning for a final season in 1946. His young 1945-46 teammates gave the veteran the nickname "Pappy." Stolkey led the ’42 Titan team in scoring at 6.3 points per game. That team finished 13-8, with wins over Nebraska, Marquette, and Michigan State. He was team captain In ’43, when Knorek joined the team and the Titans went 15-5 while leading the nation in scoring defense. After being discharged from the service just three weeks before opening night, 25 year-old "Pappy" returned as team captain for the 1945-46 season, and led the team to a 15-8 record. Stolkey was reportedly an exceptional ball handler. The next year Stolkey played for the Detroit Falcons in the NBA’s inaugural season (or more specifically, in the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America, which formed the NBA by merging with the National Basketball League—Bob Calihan’s league--in 1949; the NBA recognizes BAA, not the NBL records). He averaged just 4.4 points but led the team in assists per game. The Falcons, however, folded after that season and Stolkey did not sign elsewhere. There’s not a lot to go on in trying to rank a player from Stolkey’s era who was not so dominant as to be a major focus of national press stories, but I’m impressed enough by the extent to which the Titans won with Stolkey, that he led the team in scoring, and by the fact that he was good enough to play in the nascent NBA. I've probably ranked him too low. Stolkey died on New Year’s eve, 2013, at age 93. Art Stolkey scores
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Post by Commissioner on Jul 1, 2020 8:30:39 GMT -5
#56. Darian McKinney, 6-6 F, 1988-1989
One of the few players on this list to transfer out of UD, McKinney might have been one the Titans really great ones had he stuck around. As a freshman, he was on the MCC’s “All Newcomer” team, averaging 13.4 points and 7.1 rebounds while shooting 50 percent from the floor. As a soph, he was a second team All-Conference player, with 16.1 points and 6.7 rebounds on 57.2 percent shooting, at the time the third highest shooting percentage in Titan history.
After transferring to Central Michigan, McKinney led the Chips in scoring, rebounding, and assists, and was a second team All-MAC selection in 1992. He also played tight end for the Chips football squad. He didn’t make the NBA, but he did make the “taxi” squads for the Rams and Seahawks in the NFL. Unfortunately, he never got into a regular season game, and so doesn’t appear in the NFL's record books.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2020 9:18:51 GMT -5
#56. Darian McKinney, 6-6 F, 1988-1989One of the few players on this list to transfer out of UD, McKinney might have been one the Titans really great ones had he stuck around. As a freshman, he was on the MCC’s “All Newcomer” team, averaging 13.4 points and 7.1 rebounds while shooting 50 percent from the floor. As a soph, he was a second team All-Conference player, with 16.1 points and 6.7 rebounds on 57.2 percent shooting, at the time the third highest shooting percentage in Titan history. After transferring to Central Michigan, McKinney led the Chips in scoring, rebounding, and assists, and was a second team All-MAC selection in 1992. He also played tight end for the Chips football squad. He didn’t make the NBA, but he did make the “taxi” squads for the Rams and Seahawks in the NFL. Unfortunately, he never got into a regular season game, and so doesn’t appear in the NFL's record books. A strong player from my era on campus One correction - everywhere I've seen, he spells it Darian Admin- Corrected. Thank you.www.greensboro.com/darian-mckinney-determined-basketball-player-wants-to-dunk-some-footballs/article_a8ce11ee-2de2-5553-9f9e-89e97f03fb5b.htmlwww.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/darian-mckinney-1.html
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Post by Commissioner on Jul 1, 2020 12:12:32 GMT -5
#57. Terry Page, 6-4 F, 1963-1965
Page averaged 12.3 points and 7.3 rebounds as a three-year starter, peaking at 15.8 and 9.3 as senior captain on the 1965 NIT team. He was drafted by St. Louis late in the 1965 draft, but didn’t play in the NBA. Instead, he took over as Titan freshman coach. Page was inducted into the Titan Hall of Fame in 1985.
The Titans have had a surprising number of good players named Terry: in addition to Page, Tyler, Duerod, and Thomas come quickly to mind.
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Post by Commissioner on Jul 1, 2020 20:01:09 GMT -5
#58. Josh McFolley, 6-1 G, 2016-19
Josh played during some tough times for Detroit, as the Titans lost 67 games over his last three seasons. But McFolley showed up, didn’t complain, stuck around through a coaching change, and contributed as best he could. He was never quite an all-conference player, but he was a solid starter for all four years. He made the Horizon All-Freshman team in 2016, when he averaged 8.5 ppg, and then averaged between 11.1 and 13.8 points the next three seasons—enough to put him 15th on the Titan career list at graduation, although Antoine Davis has already knocked him down a spot.
McFolley was a streaky three point shooter, with a flat-footed, rainbow shot reminiscent of the two-handed set shots of a 70 years prior. He hit 36.2% from deep for his career, and is third on the Titan career list for three pointers made. He also led the club in assists in both 2016 and 2017. On the other side of the ball, McFolley had a keen eye for the passing lanes, and led the Horizon in steals in 2017. He is the Titans all-time leader in steals, a position he is unlikely to relinquish for at least another 4 years.
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Post by Larrytitan65 on Jul 1, 2020 20:53:49 GMT -5
Waiting for Jerry Mr 1000. Swartzfager🏀
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Post by Commissioner on Jul 2, 2020 8:14:04 GMT -5
#59. Bill Wood, 5-10 G, 1987-1990Bill Wood is one of just 3 Titans to average over 5 assists per game since the category became an official NCAA stat in 1984 (the others are Rashad Phillips and Kevin McAdoo). Wood turned the trick in both 1989 and 1990, and is 6th on the Titans all-time assists list. Wood wasn’t a big scorer, but he was a very effective three-point shooter when left open, hitting over 40 percent in all four of his Titan seasons and ranking 3rd on the career list for shooting percentage from behind the arc. He also knocked down 85.4% of his free throw attempts in 1990 and averaged 9.7 points over his junior and senior seasons. Bill graduated summa cum laude, and then earned both a J.D. and M.B.A. from the University. He practices law in Troy. Bill Wood
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Post by Larry on Jul 2, 2020 9:21:24 GMT -5
Who are #s. 59 and 60?
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Post by Commissioner on Jul 2, 2020 12:20:08 GMT -5
Wood is 59. Error corrected. Glad someone is paying attention ;-)
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Post by Commissioner on Jul 2, 2020 12:36:46 GMT -5
#60. Chase Simon, 6-6 G, 2010-12.
I’ll confess that I was never a big Chase Simon fan. His shooting percentages were low, and he doesn’t do especially well in the modern stats that have appeared over the past 20 years (For example, he actually has a negative Box Plus/Minus, a stat that purports to say how many points above an average player he contributed). But he scored a lot of points (1386) for the Titans over three years, and was a second team all-conference selection and the team’s leading scorer in 2010 as the Titans went from 7 to 20 wins.
Post-Titan days, Chase has played in Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Israel, and France.
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Post by Commissioner on Jul 2, 2020 16:27:27 GMT -5
#61. Michael Jackson, 6-0 G, 1992-1995A solid, four-year point guard for the Titans, Michael Jackson ranks 8th on the Titan all-time assist list. Jackson was also a good three-point shooter (39.4% as a junior, 38.3% as a senior, 10th on the Titan list for career three pointers), helping him to average over 12 points in each of his junior and senior years, and finish his career with 1125 points. An aggressive defender as well, Jackson made the All-Tournament team when the Titans won the 1994 MCC conference tournament. He scored 16 in the opening round win over La Salle and led the Titans with 20 in a big, semi-final win over regular season champion Xavier. After graduating, Jackson was a Detroit Assistant coach on the 1998/99 NCAA and 2001 NIT Final 4 teams. He later worked as an assistant coach at Toledo, Dayton, Michigan, Purdue, and Providence. Update, February 16 2021: Michael Jackson appeared with Dan Hasty on the Titan History Podcast on January 30, 2021. soundcloud.com/user-924664921/titan-memory-podcast-michael-jackson. Jackson mentioned that he is now a high school athletic director in Massachusetts, and also runs a basketball training/camps business, MJ5 Sports.
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