03.23.09
- With the books
officially closed on the 2008-09 basketball
season, the Huntington University squad as well as sophomore guard, Tyler Shively,
finished the year atop an NAIA Division II statistical category.
As a team, the
Foresters led the Division in free throw shooting connecting on 647 of
800 attempts for 80.9%. The runner-up to HU in the category was
Grand View College (IA) who hit 475 of 634 attempts for 74.9%.
Shively, a
sharp-shooting guard from Columbia City, Indiana (Columbia City High
School), was the Division II leader in 3-point shooting percentage.
He knocked down 51 of 101 attempts for 50.5%.
After making NAIA
national headlines in November for hitting a Division II
record-setting
70 consecutive free throws,
Shively also finished the year second
in the nation shooting 88.5% at the line. He followed Ben Falkenberg
of Mt. Vernon Nazarene who hit 89.7% of his attempts.
The Foresters
wrapped up the year with a 20-12 record,
the program's eighth consecutive 20-win season. During the past decade, the Huntington University men’s basketball
program has won five Mid-Central Conference (MCC) titles, five MCC
tournament titles, and has had seven NAIA National Tournament
appearances, including two Final Fours and a National Runner-Up
finish in 2006. Over the 10-year span, the program also has produced
12 NAIA All-Americans and eight MCC Players of the Year. |
