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Kiel Turpin of Lincoln College named NABC NJCAA Player of the Year
Whiteman
named NABC NJCAA Coach of the Year
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[May 04, 2011]
After leading Lincoln College to
back-to-back NJCAA national championships and earning back-to-back
NJCAA national tournament MVPs,
Kiel Turpin (7-foot, 215 pounds;
Normal West High School) has been selected by the National
Association of Basketball Coaches as the 2011 NJCAA Player of the
Year.
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 Turpin scored 19 points, pulled down seven rebounds and blocked
three shots to lead the Lynx over Mott Community College (Mich.) in
this year's title game. His efforts won him the tournament MVP award
for the second straight season. He is just the second player ever to
win the MVP honors twice at the DII national tournament, joining
Jeff Massey of Owens Technical College (1992, 1993).Turpin
averaged 15.5 points and 7.9 rebounds a game. He also ranked fourth
nationally in blocked shots (3.4).
This adds to Turpin's list of awards for the year. He was also
the player of the year for MWAC Region 24, first-team all-American
and the 2011 NJCAA DII Player of the Year.
He will play the next two seasons with Florida State University
in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
In addition, Lincoln College head coach
Kirk Whiteman has been
named the 2011 UPS NABC NJCAA Coach of the Year. Whiteman guided the
Lincoln College men's basketball team its second-straight NJCAA
Division II championship in just his third year as head coach.
In his first year, Whiteman came up just short with a third-place
finish in the 2009 national tournament. In 2010 his team captured
the school's first-ever national title in men's basketball, and this
season's squad made it back-to-back championships with their 74-67
win over Mott Community College (Mich.) in the title game.
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Lincoln is just the third team since the creation of Division II
in 1986 to repeat as champions.
In 2011, the Lynx spent the first two weeks of the season at No.
1 in the DII rankings and eventually won the Region 24A, District 13
championship.
In Whiteman's three years as head coach, the Lynx are 85-23,
capturing three conference titles and producing three NJCAA
first-team all-Americans.
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[Text from
NJCAA file received from Kirk Whiteman,
Lincoln
College]
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