Sellers collects 500th coaching victory
On Nov. 27, the GCSU basketball team was on the road to Montevallo, Al. to compete in the UM Coca-Cola Classic tournament and defeated North Alabama in a nail-bitting game by a single point, 67-66.
The victory marked as head coach Terry Sellers’ 500th win in his overall career coaching basketball.When the game started, in the first few minutes both teams appeared to be evenly matched. However, as the half progressed, the Bobcats began to increase their point margin over the Lions.
The Bobcats gained their first lead above 10 points over North Alabama when junior forward Ryan Aquino sank a jumper with 12:56 remaining in the half to set the score at 16-5 in favor of GCSU.
GCSU continued to spread the point gap for the remainder of the half and when three seconds remained in the half, junior forward Jared Holmes made a jumper and gave the Bobcats a 40-19 lead.
When both teams stepped onto the court for the second half, North Alabama stepped up their efforts and scored 24 points in a row on the Bobcats and took their first lead of the game with the score of 41-40 with 13:39 remaining.
Once the Lions took the lead, they remained in control of the game until 2:59 when a jumper by Holmes gave back GCSU control of the game.
Sellers celebrates a win last year with his granddaughter.
From there, the Bobcats managed to maintain the lead over North Alabama for the remainder of the game and even though two foul shot made by the Lions with one second remaining in the game, they were unable to take back the lead and the Bobcats earned a close 67-66 victory.
“I’ve been very blessed to coach here at Georgia College for my 18th season. I’m very thankful for the opportunities that I’ve got to come here to coach and to be able to stay here as long as I have I’m very appreciative,” Sellers said. “This just means that I’ve coached for a long time, I’ve had good enough players that have been able to win those games. Coaches don’t ever win games, players win the games. I’ve been very blessed.”
On Nov. 19, the Bobcats earned their second victory of the season when they faced Carson-Newman in Greenville, Tenn.
At the start of the first half, GCSU was quick to seize the lead and take control over the game. When 7:22 remained, the Bobcats earned their first 10 point lead over the Eagles when a tip-in by senior forward Josh Hurst set the score at 19-9.
The Bobcats did not let up when the second half began and continued to dominate and increase their lead over Carson-Newman.
GCSU took their first lead above 30 points when sophomore guard Nate Hamilton made a steal and then drained a three-pointer with 9:09 left in the game to give the Bobcats a 49-17 lead. As the clock began to run out, the Bobcats succeeded at keeping the Eagles at a distance and the game ended in a GCSU victory with the final score at 60-30.
The victory as Carson-Newman marked as Sellers’ 300th win at GCSU.
On. Nov. 20, the Bobcats had their first loss of the season in a heartbreaking 60-57 defeat by Tusculum in the Tusculum Classic in Tenn. The Bobcats had their second loss of the season on Nov. 23 at the Tusculum Tournament when they were defeated by Anderson University.
“The two losses basically came down to not getting stops, especially in the Anderson game where I think the whole second half were just trading baskets back and forth,” Holmes said. “The main thing is that we have to make key stops to win key games.”
On Nov. 26, GCSU was able to put their two losses behind and defeated West Florida at Montevallo, Al.
At the start of the first half although the Argonauts scored first, the Bobcats took control of the game shortly afterwards. Once they gained the lead, GCSU maintained their lead. When the second half started, GCSU continued to dominate over the Argonauts. At 15:50, sophomore forward Ryan Legates drained a three-pointer that gave the Bobcats their first lead over 10 points in the second half.
The Bobcats are back in action on Dec. 4 where they will be at home to face Lander in the UM Coca-Cola Classic.
“We’re going to continue to work everyday and just try to improve on all areas of the game,” Sellers said. I think we need to work on areas like our execution and our defense. We’ll try to just continue to improve.”
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