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Big Ten
announces 2005 Men's Basketball Foreign Tour roster
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Head
coach Bruce Weber welcomes players from 11 conference schools
[JULY 27, 2005]
PARK RIDGE -- The Big Ten Men's Basketball
Foreign Tour roster was announced Tuesday by conference officials,
as Illinois head coach Bruce Weber put together a squad comprised of
12 student-athletes from 11 different league schools. The tour,
which runs Aug. 9-19, is tentatively scheduled to include five games
in Spain.
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The future of the Big Ten will be on display overseas, as seven of
the 12 players have completed two or fewer seasons of college
basketball.
The foreign tour team will include a pair of Weber's own players
in guards Calvin Brock and Brian Randle. Brock and Randle both enter
this year after sitting out the 2004-05 season as redshirts. In
addition, the tour squad will have two other guards in Iowa's Mike
Henderson and Northwestern's Evan Seacat. Henderson saw action in
all 33 games with 14 starts at the point guard position last season
to rank fourth on the team with a 4.9 scoring average. Seacat enters
his senior season after seeing action in 73 career games.
The team includes six student-athletes who play the forward
position: Indiana's Marco Killingsworth, Michigan's Ron Coleman,
Ohio State's Matt Terwilliger, Penn State's Brandon Hassell,
Purdue's Matt Kiefer and Wisconsin's Jason Chappell. Killingsworth
redshirted last year at Indiana after transferring from Auburn,
where he led the Tigers in scoring (13.7 ppg) and rebounding (6.9
rpg) in 2003-04. In his first season in Ann Arbor, Coleman worked
his way into the lineup, starting in 23 of 31 Big Ten games to
finish the season with an average of 7.5 points per contest.
Terwilliger saw action in 15 games for the Buckeyes under first-year
head coach Thad Matta. Hassell competed in 20 contests and earned
his first career start against Illinois last season. Kiefer averaged
9.0 points and 4.9 rebounds per game last year, while claiming
Academic All-Big Ten laurels for the second consecutive year. After
sitting out his sophomore season as a redshirt, Chappell returned in
2004-05, competing in 14 games.
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Weber will also have two centers to choose from in Michigan State's
Goran Suton and Minnesota's Spencer Tollackson. Suton sat out last
season as a redshirt, while Tollackson competed in all 32 games last
season with three starts for the Golden Gophers.
The complete 2005 Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour roster
is below.
[Robin Jentes, associate director of communications,
Big
Ten Conference]
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2005 Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour
roster
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School |
Player |
Pos. |
Yr. |
Ht. |
Wt. |
Hometown |
High school |
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Illinois |
Calvin Brock |
G |
Fr. |
6-4 |
185 |
Chicago |
Simeon |
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Illinois |
Brian Randle |
G |
Soph. |
6-7 |
210 |
Peoria |
Notre Dame |
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Indiana |
Marco Killingsworth |
F |
Sr. |
6-8 |
240 |
Montgomery, Ala. |
Central Park Christian |
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Iowa |
Mike Henderson |
G |
Jr. |
6-2 |
190 |
Waterloo, Iowa |
East |
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Michigan |
Ron Coleman |
F |
Soph. |
6-6 |
210 |
Romulus, Mich. |
Romulus |
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Michigan State |
Goran Suton |
C |
Fr. |
6-10 |
250 |
Lansing, Mich. |
Everett |
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Minnesota |
Spencer Tollackson |
C |
Soph. |
6-9 |
275 |
Chaska, Minn. |
Chaska |
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Northwestern |
Evan Seacat |
G |
Sr. |
6-2 |
180 |
Paoli, Ind. |
Paoli |
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Ohio State |
Matt Terwilliger |
F |
Soph. |
6-8 |
215 |
Troy, Ohio |
Troy |
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Penn State |
Brandon Hassell |
F |
Soph. |
6-9 |
210 |
Farmersville, Ohio |
Valley View |
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Purdue |
Matt Kiefer |
F |
Sr. |
6-10 |
225 |
Evansville, Ind. |
Mater Dei |
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Wisconsin |
Jason Chappell |
F |
Jr. |
6-10 |
240 |
New Berlin, Wis. |
West |
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