| Adam Baumann Named Academic All-American |
| Thursday, March 4 2004 |
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| Youngstown -- Youngstown State senior center Adam Baumann was named third-team CoSIDA Academic All-American on Thursday, becoming the first men's basketball student-athlete in school history to be named Academic All-America. Baumann, a native of Scottsdale, Ariz., owns a 3.8 grade-point average in Management Information Systems and is on track to graduate this year. He concluded his two-year YSU career on Tuesday in the Penguins' first-round Horizon League Tournament loss to Butler. In that contest he finished with a team-high 21 points. During his senior campaign, Baumann scored 341 points, averaging 12.2 points per contest. He also grabbed a team-best 195 rebounds, an average of seven per game. In his career, he started every game (57) scoring 678 points and grabbing 412 boards. On the first team was William & Mary's Adam Hess, Michigan State's Chris Hill, Hawaii's Michael Kuebler, Belmont's Adam Mark and Connecticut's Emeka Okafor. Okafor was named the Academic All-American of the Year. On the second team was Evansville's Clint Cuffle, Tulsa's Jason Parker, Denver's Brett Starkey, Gonzaga's Blake Stepp and Southeast Missouri State's Derek Winans. Joining Baumann on the third-team was Creighton's Brody Deren and Michael Lindeman, Syracuse's Craig Forth and West Virginia Johannes Herber. |
| Penguins' Season Ends at Butler, 88-57 |
| Tuesday, March 2 2004 |
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| Indianapolis, Ind. -- After playing Butler close in two regular-season contests, the Youngstown State men's basketball team found out how tough the Bulldogs are in the postseason losing 88-57 on Tuesday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse in the opening round of the Horizon League Tournament. The Bulldogs (15-13) had three players score 21 points to end the Penguins' season at 8-20. Senior Adam Baumann, playing in his final game for the Penguins, scored a team-high 21 points to lead Youngstown State. Butler's Jamie Smalligan, Nick Brooks and Avery Sheets were too much to contain each scoring 21 points on the evening as the Bulldogs scored a season-high 88 points. In the first half, Smalligan went off for 18 points eclipsing his career high (15 three times) in just a half of play. Smalligan came into the contest averaging four points per game, but was hot making four 3-pointers in the opening stanza. The Bulldogs scored the first seven points of the game but YSU was able to get within 12-6 on a 3-pointer by Andy Jahnke. Butler then extended its lead by going on an 8-0 to increase its advantage to 20-8 on basket by Nick Brooks. Leading 28-17, Smalligan scored eight of the games next 11 points to boost the Bulldogs' advantage to 34-17. By halftime, Butler had built its advantage to 45-36 on an Avery Sheets basket. Sheets finished the first half with 11 points. Leading the way for YSU in the first 20 minutes was Baumann who had eight points. Butler was hot in the first half making 17-of-30 shots (56.7 percent) and 8-of-16 (50 percent) from the 3-point line. The Bulldogs came out and scored 10 straight second-half points after a Khari McQueen bucket to build a 55-28 lead and never looked back. For the game, Butler shot an impressive 59.6 percent (31-of-52) while the Penguins shot 38 percent (16-of-42). Butler was 12-of-24 from 3-point land and outrebounded the Penguins 30-22. The Bulldogs will continue Horizon League Tournament action against UW-Green Bay on Friday night. Friday's quarterfinals and Saturday's semifinal tournament games will be held at Hinkle Fieldhouse. |