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| Jesse Johnson, VandySports.com, has an article on Rivals where he breaks down each of Vanderbilt's non conf. opponents. Check ho he spells Beano's name. 
Link-o-la - http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.asp?highlight=drake&CID=849289
"The Drake Bulldogs
Conference: Missouri Valley
Game Date: November 29th
Rundown: The Drake basketball program enjoyed a cinderella season last year. A program that had been at the bottom of the MVC for years, shocked many by winning 28 games, capturing both the league's regular season and tournament championships and received a high-seed in the NCAA Tournament. The magical season put the Bulldogs on the map and now the program will attempt to stay on the map with a new head coach and a number of key players departed.
First year head coach Mark Phelps comes to the program after serving as an assistant coach to Herb Sendek at both Arizona State and North Carolina State. Phelps will bring with him the motion offense that has been a staple with Sendek's teams while also maintaining the Bulldogs desire to shot a ton of three-pointers.
Josh Young returns to lead the Bulldogs under new coach Mark Phelps.
Gone however is conference player of the year Adam Emmenecker and the athletic Leonard Houston, so the Bulldogs will rely heavily on junior Josh Young and senior forward Jonathan Cox. Young, who was all-conference last season, averaged 43.4-percent from behind the arc as a sophomore and scored nearly 16 points per game. Cox was second in the conference in rebounding with 8.6 boards per game and also proved to be a weapon from behind the arc, shooting at a 44-percent clip.
Others that Phelps will depend on will likely be sophomore guard Josh Parker, Cal-Irvine transfer Adam Templeton and junior college signee Craig Stanley. Parker played sparingly last season but has a solid stroke from long range while Templeton also has a reputation for shooting effectively from behind the arc. The 5-foot-11 Stanley will likely compete for the starting point guard spot.
Outlook: Phelps will be challenged with not only replacing some very effective, even near heroic players but he will also be challenged to replace a family in legendary coach Tom Davis and his son Keanu Davis, who built the Bulldogs into a respectable program over the past couple of years. Phelps does have talent returning that should work into his desired approach of shooting threes. Vanderbilt's game with Drake will take place in Cancun, Mexico as part of the Cancun Challenge. The Bulldogs may not have an answer for Ogilvy but Vanderbilt may be pressed to answer the challenge of Drake's outside attack. In a completely foreign setting and with not many experienced shooters on the team, the Commodores will need to play solid defense at the perimeter and not let the game become a game of 3s."[/i]
He also has this picutre of Velvet in the middle of the article -
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| [quote]Mc Bulldog (9/18/2008)
Jesse Johnson, VandySports.com, has an article on Rivals where he breaks down each of Vanderbilt's non conf. opponents. Check ho he spells Beano's name.
Link-o-la - http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.asp?highlight=drake&CID=849289
"The Drake Bulldogs
Conference: Missouri Valley
Game Date: November 29th
Rundown: The Drake basketball program enjoyed a cinderella season last year. A program that had been at the bottom of the MVC for years, shocked many by winning 28 games, capturing both the league's regular season and tournament championships and received a high-seed in the NCAA Tournament. The magical season put the Bulldogs on the map and now the program will attempt to stay on the map with a new head coach and a number of key players departed.
First year head coach Mark Phelps comes to the program after serving as an assistant coach to Herb Sendek at both Arizona State and North Carolina State. Phelps will bring with him the motion offense that has been a staple with Sendek's teams while also maintaining the Bulldogs desire to shot a ton of three-pointers.
Josh Young returns to lead the Bulldogs under new coach Mark Phelps.
Gone however is conference player of the year Adam Emmenecker and the athletic Leonard Houston, so the Bulldogs will rely heavily on junior Josh Young and senior forward Jonathan Cox. Young, who was all-conference last season, averaged 43.4-percent from behind the arc as a sophomore and scored nearly 16 points per game. Cox was second in the conference in rebounding with 8.6 boards per game and also proved to be a weapon from behind the arc, shooting at a 44-percent clip.
Others that Phelps will depend on will likely be sophomore guard Josh Parker, Cal-Irvine transfer Adam Templeton and junior college signee Craig Stanley. Parker played sparingly last season but has a solid stroke from long range while Templeton also has a reputation for shooting effectively from behind the arc. The 5-foot-11 Stanley will likely compete for the starting point guard spot.
Outlook: Phelps will be challenged with not only replacing some very effective, even near heroic players but he will also be challenged to replace a family in legendary coach Tom Davis and his son Keanu Davis, who built the Bulldogs into a respectable program over the past couple of years. Phelps does have talent returning that should work into his desired approach of shooting threes. Vanderbilt's game with Drake will take place in Cancun, Mexico as part of the Cancun Challenge. The Bulldogs may not have an answer for Ogilvy but Vanderbilt may be pressed to answer the challenge of Drake's outside attack. In a completely foreign setting and with not many experienced shooters on the team, the Commodores will need to play solid defense at the perimeter and not let the game become a game of 3s."[/i]
He also has this picutre of Velvet in the middle of the article -
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Instead of Beano do we now call him Neo? or constantine?
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Coach k says: "Stop calling me Beano."
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| What is that guy's screen name? Keanu Bites? or somesuch?
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