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MEN’S BASKETBALL RANKED TENTH BY THE SPORTING NEWS
The Southwest men’s basketball team enters the
2007-2008 campaign with a number ten ranking in The
Sporting News Pre-Season Top 10 Poll. The Saluqis return
three part-time starters from last year’s squad that
went 28-7, won its second straight Region VII
championship, and finished eighth in the NJCAA national
tournament.
Southwest is under the direction of Head Coach Verties
Sails Jr., now in his 29th season as the Saluqis’
mentor. Sails has compiled a 612-240 record in his
career including 19 Western Division championships, 15
TJCCAA state titles, and nine national tournament
appearances.
The 2007-2008 Saluqis will be led by a pair of
sophomores from Marion, Arkansas – 5’11” point guard
Emmanuel Cheers, who averaged 7.8 points and 4.8 assists
as a freshman, and 6’5” forward A.J. Nance, who scored
11.1 points per game last season and was named to the
TJCCAA All-Western Division and Region VII
All-Tournament Teams. Also back is 6’0” guard Antonio
Young, a product of Memphis Westwood High School who was
the Saluqis’ top three-point shooter a year ago with 56
baskets from behind the arc.
Also figuring into Sails’ plans for this season are
sophomore transfers Dominique Johnson, a 6’4” guard from
Detroit who played his freshman season at St. Clair
Community College, 6’7” forward Leon Martin, a Memphis
native who prepped at Sheffield High and played at
Vincennes University as a freshman, and 6’9”, 250-pound
Nick Stigger, who has played at Hillcrest High in
Memphis, Montclair Prep School, and Connors State College.
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