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Massey Leads Team as it Falls At No. 10 Albion

ALBION, Mich. - The Scots' men's basketball team dropped its 10th consecutive game with an 80-57 loss at Albion Wednesday.

Cory Massey (Grand Rapids/Wyoming Lee) scored 28 while no other Scot scored more than eight points.

The Britons shot nearly 62 percent for the game while holding the Maroon and Cream to just 35 percent from the field.

Albion, currently ranked 10th in the latest d3hoops.com poll, also hit half of its attempts from beyond the three point line while the Scots struggled, shooting 25 percent at that range.

Alma returns to action Saturday when it travels to Tri-State for a 1 p.m. game.

 

The Alma College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team claimed its eighth consecutive regional championship at the SIFE USA Regional Competition in March 2008. The competition awards the SIFE teams that are most effective in teaching the principals of market economics through outreach projects in their communities.

 

Coach Profile

Terry Smith

Terry Smith

Smith graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Physical Education in 1984. After graduating, Smith got his start in coaching when he was the boy’s basketball coach at Fulton High School while working as a teacher at Ithaca High School. From there he moved to Cedar Springs High School were he coached and taught and won his first district championship in 1987.

The following year, Coach Smith got his first taste of coaching in the college ranks when he was an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ferris State University and was part of the team that won a GLIAC Championship and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA DII Tournament.

After a year at FSU, Coach Smith left for Lake Superior State University where he served for three years as an assistant coach before being promoted to the head coach position in 1991. In five years time, Coach Smith had turned around the LSSU program. In 1996 his team won the first League Championship for LSSU since joining the GLIAC in 1978. During this time, Coach Smith also earned his M.A. in Physical Education from Central Michigan University.