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Season Ends With 85-63 MIAA Tournament Loss to Hope

HOLLAND, Mich. - The Alma College men's basketball team ended its 2005-06 campaign with an 85-63 loss to Hope. The Scots end the season 10-16 (3-11 MIAA) with an MIAA Tournament first round exit.

Alma was led by Mike Murphy (Hemlock) with 12 points and Greg Nelson (Manistique), Isaac Smith (Merrill) and Cory Massey (Grand Rapids/Wyoming Lee) with 11 points each.

The Scots were down by 16 points at halftime, 47-31, despite shooting .538 from the field but came out of the locker room determined. Though still not enough, Alma was outscored just 38-32 in the second stanza, shooting .387. It was about opportunity as the Scots got just 26 looks in the first half to Hope's 34.

Three point shooting was key as Alma saw just 21 chances from beyond the arc but was able to convert on just six of those while Hope shot over 40 percent from three point range.

Hope returns to action Saturday at 6 p.m. when it faces Albion at Calvin College in MIAA Tournament play.
 

Posted: Wed, February 22nd, 2006 at 11:22PM

 

Alma College boasts a 12-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a liberal arts approach to undergraduate education, 28 academic majors, self-designed programs of emphasis, pre-professional programs in law and medicine, and an intensive Spring Term that provides opportunities for innovative courses, travel classes, research and internships.

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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.

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