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Men's Basketball
SENIOR COLLEGIATE STARS CLASH IN DIGIORNO ALL-STAR GAME AT PHILIPS ARENA
March 26, 2007
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CONTACT: Rick Leddy, NABC Public Relations Director ATLANTA, Ga. (March 26, 2007) - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) has assembled 21 of the nation's top senior college basketball players who will meet Friday night in the DiGiorno All-Star game at 7:30 p.m. at Philips Arena. John Brady, head coach at Louisiana State University, will coach the American team while George Mason University coach Jim Larranaga will lead the National team. Brady and Larranaga guided their respective teams to berths in the 2006 Final Four in Indianapolis. The American team has a top scorer in guard Trey Johnson of Jackson State, who averaged 27.1 points per game this season. Joining Johnson in the backcourt are Texas Tech's Jarrius Jackson, Aaron Brooks of Oregon, Maryland's DJ Strawberry and Jamaal Tatum of Southern Illinois. A pair of 6-11 seniors, Kyle Visser of Wake Forest and Sean Denison of Santa Clara lead the frontcourt along with forwards Justin Doellman of Xavier, Carl Landry of Purdue, Dan Nwaele of Air Force and Caleb Green of Oral Roberts. Larranaga's National team has a pair of 20-plus points per game scorers in Bobby Brown of Cal State Fullerton and Iowa's Adam Haluska. Blake Schilb of Loyola-Chicago, Coby Karl of Boise State, Torrell Martin of Winthrop and Zabian Dowdell of Virginia Tech round out the backcourt. Arizona's Ivan Radenovic and Courtney Sims of Michigan, both 6-10, anchor the front line with forwards Rashad Jones-Jennings of Arkansas-Little Rock and Cartier Martin of Kansas. State. Tickets for the game are available at the Philips Arena box office, all Ticketmaster outlets and at ticketmaster.com.
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