Rob Stone, the next big thing.

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Andy Katz Radio Show on ESPN Radio

Andy Katz
"Today we have up and coming head coach Rob Stone of South Carolina State University. Over the past 2 seasons has has complied 28-9, and 31-6 record, at a no name school in just his first two seasons! He has beaten major teams like Texas, UNC, Maryland, and his team almost upset #1 Syracuse last season... in the Carrier Dome no less. Coach Stone its good to have you on the show today, hell, I am honored to have such a hot name as yours here. But down to business, how have you done this at such a small school.?"

Rob Stone
"Well Andy, its actually kinda easy..."

Andy Katz
"Easy? What.. how has it been EASY?"

Rob Stone
(Chuckles) "Well I have a pretty good offense, I grew up watching and learning the dribble drive, and when I got this gig I was thinking how can I incorporate the dribble drive and the flew. Well I got lucky, I had a couple shooters on this team and it was pretty easy to see how to make it all come together, so before you know it I have a team that can score 70 + points a game even against big time teams and that causes a problem. You see a few other teams doing this these days, Boston College, William & Mary, VMI just changed their scheme to be more like mine, and a few other schools around here. I held a coaching clinic this summer and you wouldn't believe who I had there. I had Roy Williams, Gary Williams, Rick Barnes, Bill Self; to name a few. They all wanted to know how I was doing it."

Andy Katz
"Seems like a pretty tall order, I still find it amazing looking at your recored here, over 50 wins and only 15 losses. Now I know you play in a pretty cupcake league, but before you got to SCST your team was a cupcake! You didn't inherit the greatest team..

Rob Stone
"Well, well now. I think I had wonderful kids. I had Jessie Burton and Everett Spencer, and as you know Spencer was an NCAA All-American, and he will have his jersey retired later this season. He was also drafted in the 1st round by the LA Lakers..He was no cupcake, I did transform him into a superstar in some regards, but I can't play for him.

Andy Katz
Spcencer was a special player... how will you replace his production?

Rob Stone
"Well.... honestly I think we can go above and beyond this year. We may not have a guy who can score 30 a night.. but we have a collection of tremendous players coming in who can certainly fill the bill. I think you will be surprised, BJ Anderson, Marcus Forbes, Jordan Butler, and Mo Olomo can all easily score in double figures, in fact it will be asked of them. Channing Stiggers with his great size I would expect a double double a night from him in our league. And all these guys are great at defense, especially sophomore Errol Stockman is easily the best defender in the MEAC."

Andy Katz
"Looks like you will be on the winning side from day one with players like that! How do you see this season turning out."

Rob Stone
"Our goal each season has been NCAA tournament, and so far my kids have not let me down. I think this year we wont to win most of our OCC games, and especially all of our big name school games, with trips out West to play Gonzaga I think its a goal to beat them. We would love to make a run in the tournament as well.. we went Sweet Sixteen last year, I think we could again. It all counts on how ready these freshmen are."

Andy Katz
"Well I think you guys can do that, you have a great head on your shoulders and all the pieces in place. Good Luck Coach!"

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Good luck with the coming season. Your starting lineup is pretty solid but it will be interesting to see what player steps up to replace Spencers's #. My guess is a big load from the bigman Stiggers in the middle. Typcially that is what I have seen from small school legacies once they land a talented bigman. Your bench looks like it gives you nice size and depth too. At most small schools those guys would be starters.

Make sure you leave a ticket in willcall for me when you take on the Zags at the Kennell. I can't afford a real ticket. They should've made it about 10,000 so us common working folks could actually go to games.

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Good luck with the coming season. Your starting lineup is pretty solid but it will be interesting to see what player steps up to replace Spencers's #. My guess is a big load from the bigman Stiggers in the middle. Typcially that is what I have seen from small school legacies once they land a talented bigman. Your bench looks like it gives you nice size and depth too. At most small schools those guys would be starters.

Make sure you leave a ticket in willcall for me when you take on the Zags at the Kennell. I can't afford a real ticket. They should've made it about 10,000 so us common working folks could actually go to games.

Thanks man, I think my 2 freshmen shooting guards can atleast compare to his numbers, one is quick with good inside shooting and one is a 3 point assassin. So we will see how that duo works out. Stiggers will be the focal point of my offense since he could run the court to keep up with transition.

Onto recruiting almost every player came in and surprised me with how highly they were rated, I exceeded a few mid 60s but not almost a starting lineup of 70s+, Stiggers however will be a beast at 7'3 he will be 5 inches taller than any other center in our league.

And I will have 2 ticks for you at will call, but get ready it will be an instant classic.

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South Carolina State Student Courier, Sports Edition



The first week of the 2010 basketball season has arrived and the Bulldogs faced two out of conference opponents to open the season. In the first game of the season the Bulldogs played an ACC foe in the Miami Hurricanes and came away with a big victory in Coral Gambles, Florida winning 71-68 against an athletic Miami team lead by junior point guard Malcolm Grant who shot almost lights out earning 18 points for his team but he was no match for freshmen sensation BJ Anderson. BJ in his first game as a Bulldog scored 33 points and had 7 assist, he shot a staggering 12-20 and a perfect 7-7 from the free throw line. Also showing a diaper dandy performance was Channing Stiggers who had 14 points and 15 rebounds and a pair of blocks to single handily stop a Hurricane post play.

Mia 68
SCST 71

SCST
Anderson 33 points, 7 assist
Forbes 2 points, 3 assist, 2 steals
Stockman 4 points, 2 rebounds
Butler 2 points, 9 rebounds
Stiggers 14 points, 15 rebounds

Bench:
Mo Olomo 5 points
Terry 5 points, 3 rebounds
McFadden 4 points

Miami
Grant 18 points, 3 assist
Rios 8 points
Jones 14 points, 9 rebounds
Russell 9 points, 8 rebounds
Gamble 4 points, 7 rebounds

SCST is now (1-0).

In the second game of the week the Bulldogs travelled to Williamsburg, Virginia to face the Tribe of William & Mary, the winners of the Colonial Conference last season. The Tribe was listed as a powerhouse in their league but was no match for SCST and the high scoring offense that comes with this freshmen class. Four players scored in double figures, lead by Stiggers with 20.

WM 49
SCST 67

SCST

Anderson 17 points, 5 assist, 4 rebounds
Forbes 13 points
Stockman 3 points, 7 rebounds
Butler 10 points, 6 rebounds
Stiggers 20 points, 11 rebounds

W&M
McCurdy 3 points, 5 assist
Sexton 8 points
Andrews 11 points
Cammon 9 points, 10 rebounds
Kitts 8 points, 5 rebounds

SCST is now 2-0

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South Carolina State (SCST) at Wofford (WU)
November 17, 2010	1	2	Final
South Carolina State	38	24	62	Player of the Game: Channing Stiggers (11 points, 10 rebounds)
Wofford	27	22	49

South Carolina State
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Anderson	33	5-11	2-5	0-3	1	4	2	0	3	0	12
Forbes	29	5-6	1-2	3-3	5	3	1	0	0	0	14
Stockman	27	0-4	0-4	6-6	4	1	1	0	0	0	6
Butler	28	4-5	1-1	0-0	3	0	1	2	0	1	9
Stiggers	33	4-10	0-0	3-4	10	0	1	2	3	2	11
TEAM TOTALS		22-50	4-18	12-18	34	10	5	7	11	7	62

Wofford
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Nixon	21	3-4	0-	1-2	2	1	1	0	6	0	7
Salters	15	1-7	0-4	0-0	1	2	0	0	3	5	2
Dahlman	34	4-10	2-6	0-0	3	0	2	1	1	3	10
Martin	32	1-7	0-1	0-0	4	2	3	0	3	2	2
Meredith	34	5-9	0-0	2-2	6	0	0	0	2	4	12
TEAM TOTALS		21-66	3-21	4-8	16	10	10	1	21	16	49

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South Carolina State Student Courier, Sports Edition








The Bulldogs have won the 2010 Puerto Rico Tip-off tournament, they had an easy road to the championship in beating Rider 85-30 and then handed Alabama A&M and big loss 107- 53. Channing Stiggers really showed his potential and was named MVP of the tournament.


Rider 30
SCST 85

SCST
Anderson 15 points, 6 assist
Forbes 14 points
Stockman 4 points, 5 rebounds
Butler 3 points, 8 rebounds
Stiggers 26 points, 16 rebounds

Bench:
Mo Olomo 15 points


Rider
Griffen 12 points, 2 asssit
Turiaf 3 points, 8 turnovers
Thompson 0 points
Valdez 4 points, 2 rebounds
Caton o points, 0 rebounds, 1 steal




In the second game of the week the Bulldogs faced Alabama A&M. They were no match for SCST who walked away with the title handily. Bj Anderson found Channing Stiggers for a career high.

A&M 53
SCST 107

SCST

Anderson 10 points, 7 assist
Forbes 8 points
Stockman 9 points, 8 rebounds
Butler 7 points, 9 rebounds
Stiggers 46 points, 16 rebounds, 3 blocks

A&M
Simpson 4 points
Jackson 16 points
Beeler 3 points
Belt 6 points
Iman 6 points, 3 rebounds

SCST is now 6-0

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South Carolina State Student Courier, Sports Edition



The third week of the season saw the Bulldogs open its conference schedule for 2010-2011 and travel to Charleston, West Virginia. The Bulldogs handily beat conference foe Morgan State in Maryland, 79 to 53. Channing Stiggers continued to dominate with 20 points and 20 rebounds. In a shootout in West Virginia the Bulldogs came away the winner in a high scoring affair with the Thundering Herd of Marshall. SCST won 82-73 with Errol Stockman coming out of his shell to have 29 points, and as a side note BJ Anderson rolled his ankle and missed most of the action. To wrap out the week the Santa Clara Broncos made the trip to the east coast to try their hand at the Bulldogs but like every team this season they were knocked out. The Bulldog lead the entire game and won 110-45, Channing Stiggers had 45 points to lead the way.

Stats and Scores:



MSU 53
SCST 79

SCST
Stiggers 28 points, 20 rebounds
Anderson 12 points, 9 assist




MU 73
SCST 82

SCST
Stockman 29 points, 7 rebounds
Stiggers 21 points, 8 rebounds
Forbes 11 points, 3-3 3pt



Santa Clara 46

SCST 110

Bulldogs
Stiggers 45 points, 15 rebounds
Anderson 15 points, 18 assist
Forbes 20 points, 4-4 3pt
Butler 12 points, 16 rebounds

SCST is now 9-0

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South Carolina State Student Courier, Sports Edition



The South Carolina State Bulldogs, riding a 9 game win streak faced two Big South opponents in the final week of November, taking on High Point and UNC Asheville. High Point came into the game with a 21 game regular season win streak. They were ranked #24 in the country and led by Nick Barbour who averages 26 points a game and shooting 46% from 3. UNC Asheville is a bottom feeder of the Big South, only winning 4 games last season

Stats and Scores:


UNCA 55
SCST 81

SCST
Stiggers 18 points, 9 rebounds
Forbes 18 points


#24
HP 70
SCST 82

SCST
Stiggers 14 points, 9 rebounds
Forbes 14 points, 1 steal
Anderson 19 points, 3 assist

High Point
Barbour 21 points
Law 10 points, 3 rebounds, 3 blocks

Nick Barbour



SCST is now 11-0

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South Carolina State Student Courier, Sports Edition



The early season game of the year, the mid major championship are just a few names thrown around when SCST flew out to the west coast to take on #9 Gonzaga (8-0) in the Kennel. Which Bulldog would come out on top? It was a packed out and as quoted by the midmajority.com "It was an electric atmosphere, one of the best scenes in mid major basketball in years." SCST came out shooting 3s and hitting big buckets. Mark Few had to call a timeout and rally his Bulldogs in at the 13 minute mark when SCST went up 22 to 20. Defense was the key as SCST didn't look back and won the game 89 to 61, holding Gonzaga to under 30% shooting from the field and Austin Daye from having a big game.

MID-Major Poll

#1
#2

Gonzaga 61
Goodson 19 points
Dobbins (Freshmen, HS All-American) 12 points, 3-3 3pt
Daye 12 points, 4 rebounds
Dancy (FR, 4 star) 2 points, 3 rebounds
Sacre 4 points, 7 rebounds

South Carolina State 89
Anderson 10 points, 6 assist
Forbes 20 points, 4 steals
Stockman 12 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals, block
Terry 14 points, 5 rebounds
Stiggers 17 points, 7 rebounds

SCST is now 12-0. #1 in Mid-Major.

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Great job of coaching your guys against Gonzaga. I don't think I have ever seen Coach Few so irriate.

Keep up the solid play and SCSU will be making a name for themselves in the NCAA tourney.

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Great job of coaching your guys against Gonzaga. I don't think I have ever seen Coach Few so irriate.

Keep up the solid play and SCSU will be making a name for themselves in the NCAA tourney.

Called 3 timeouts in the first half, I think Few gave up on the second half of the game. But since i've finished the season the 'zags finish pretty well.

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South Carolina State Student Courier, Sports Edition



In the final week of the out of conference schedule the Bulldogs faced Drexel and UNC Greensboro in the Great Alaska Shootout. Riding an 11 game win streak the Bulldogs came into the games with a lot of confidence and it showed on the court as they were able to defeat both teams by a wide margin 22 points against Drexel and 35 over UNC Greensboro. As always Channing Stiggers was the most dominate player and was named MVP of the tournament. Upon returning back to campus the Bulldogs faced Drexel again in a regular season matchup where they came away with another win, this time only winning by 12, 74-62. The team was tired after all the traveling and looked very unprepared.

Stats and Scores:



Drexel 43
SCST 65

SCST
Stiggers 21 points, 13 rebounds, 2 blocks
Anderson 12 points, 6 assist




UNC Greensboro 33
SCST 68

SCST
Stiggers 29 points, 19 rebounds
Anderson 15 points, 7 assist
Forbes 12 points, 6 rebounds




Drexel 62
SCST 74

SCST
Stiggers 14 points, 14 rebounds
Butler 17 points, 8 rebounds


SCST is now 14-0

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Andy Kats Radio Show

Andy Kats: Coach Stone, on of my favorite guest, its good to have you here again on the show. It seems you told me before the season that if you could go undefeated in the out of conference section of your year you would be ranked in January, and here you are with a top 25 squad sitting at #23. For the first time in 78 years of basketball SCST is ranked.

Coach Stone: Thank you Andy, and yes it feels good. We had that as our number one goal coming into the season; win out the out of conference and take down the MEAC. We are pleased with the wins and we are estactic to be ranked for the first time. As you know most of my team is freshmen, seven players to be exact and we found a way to win big games.

AK: You have used a combination of defense and 3 point shooting to win ball games as opposed to your old style of shooting lots of buckets and hoping to score, what changed?

Coach Stone: I brought in a big recruiting class, we targeted shooters and defensive players only. There were some big names we could have brought in but we felt it was better to stick to our game plan and not jump on the guys who had name value but to go after OUR guys. We had a few guys targeted that we knew would take this school to the next level.

AK: One of those guys is Channing Stiggers who most NBA scouts can only saw Wow about.

Coach Stone: Channing is a big boy, a hoss and a prime time guy. We offered early, got lucky. Every major school was banging down his door but they were too late, we got lucky he was right in our back yard. He will have a long career in the NBA.

AK: What was it like to go to Gonzaga and win in on of the most intimidating environments in the NCAA?

Coach Stone: Fierce, its my favorite word to use. We trained long and hard knowing it was going to be hard. Mark Few is a great coach, and the Kennel is loud and hard to play in. We went to Cameron Indoor to get a feel of what it will be like for us, and we played multiple sounds in the gym when we worked out to make it hard for our guys to hear. We went in cocky and we ran them out of the building.

AK: One last one coach and we will let you go, I know you are busy on your way to Alabama for a recruit visit. But give us a preview of the MEAC and the tourny.

Coach Stone: The MEAC is a tough conference, no one gives it much credit but its a tough league to win in. Lots of talent, great guard play and most important fierce rivalry. We have an X on our back each game, our opponents fans really try to get into our heads and its a great league. I think we will do well as always and as of right now we are projected a 4 seed in the NCAA, if we make it there it will be a proud accomplishment.

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NCAA Basketball Rankings - AP Top 25
RK	TEAM	RECORD
1	Duke	18-2
2	Florida	14-0
3	Memphis	14-3
4	Gonzaga	16-1
5	Michigan State	11-1
6	WASHINGTON	14-2
7	Michigan	12-4
8	Xavier	13-5
9	UNLV	12-3
10	Arizona	17-3
11	Georgetown	16-2
12	Oklahoma	13-2
13	Georgia Tech	11-4
14	Cinci	9-2
15	Oklahoma State	15-3
16	Kansas	10-1
17	Texas	18-3
18	Saint Louis	18-4
19	DePaul	11-0
20	Iowa State	11-4
21	Penn State	20-0
22	Villanova	16-5
23	South Carolina State	14-0
24	Pittsburgh	11-5
25	Boston College	10-6

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South Carolina State Student Courier, Sports Edition

vs Delaware State W 64-63
Stiggers 20 points, 12 rebounds

vs Howard W 80-68
Stiggers 25 points, 12 rebounds

vs Bethune Cookman W 93-41
Stiggers 26 points, 15 rebounds
Anderson 25 points, 9 assist

vs Coppin State W 85-45
Stiggers 15 points, 7 rebounds

@ Winston-Salem St. W 79-50
Stiggers 28 points, 9 rebounds

@ Florida A&M W 81-34
Anderson 36 points, 11 assist (9-13 3pts)
Stiggers 12 points, 10 rebounds

vs MD-Eastern Shore W 77-42
Stiggers 16 points, 3 rebounds (ouch)
Frobes 16 points (4-4 3pt)

vs Norfolk State W 68-51
Butler 17 points, 16 rebounds
Stiggers 5 points, 6 rebounds (injured and did not play 2nd half)

@ NC A&T W 79-76
Stockman 20 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals
Stiggers 17 points, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks

@ Hampton W 89-77
Stiggers 16 points, 8 rebounds
Anderson 10 points, 10 assist

@ Bethune Cookman W 65-40
Stiggers 18 points, 6 rebounds
Anderson 9 points, 5 assist, 5 steals, 3 rebounds

@ Coppin State W 83-63
Stiggers 12 points, 6 rebounds

vs Winston-Salem St. W 103-64
Stiggers 18 points, 5 rebounds
Butler 21 points, 6 rebounds

vs Florida A&M W 83- 54
Stiggers 17 points, 9 rebounds
Anderson 18 points, 7 assist

@ MD Eastern Shore W 52-47 (OT)
Stiggers 15 points, 7 rebounds
Anderson 9 points, 9 assist

@ Norfolk State W 107- 52
Stiggers 31 points, 8 rebounds
Butler 15 points, 10 rebounds, 6 blocks


vs Morgan State W 94-52
Anderson 21 points, 5 assist, 3 steals
Stockman 16 points, 5 rebounds
Stiggers 16 points, 11 rebounds

SCST is now 32-0 (15-0)