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Scots End Season With MIAA Tournament Loss to Hope College

HOLLAND, Mich. - The Alma College men's basketball team ended its season Wednesday evening with an 89-49 loss to Hope College in the MIAA Tournament. Alma was led by Isaac Smith (Merrill) with 11 points and Matt Brown (Midland) with 10 points.

The Scots were limited to just 21 points in the first half and out-scored 46-28 in the second stanza.

Alma was held to just 32 percent shooting from the field and hit just 27 percent of its free throws while Hope shot 47 percent from the field and made half its shots from three point range, including six in the second half, twice as many as the Scots made for the entire game.

Alma coughed up 17 turnovers, generating 28 points for the Flying Dutchmen while the Scots were able to gain just four points off nine Hope turnovers. Alma's lack of bench depth proved a hurdle for the contest as Hope generated 42 points from its bench while the Maroon and Cream got just 16 points from its bench.

Alma ends the season 3-21 overall and 2-12 in MIAA regular season action.

Posted: Wed, February 21st, 2007 at 10:49PM

 

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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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