Durant Wins AP Player of the Year: Texas’ Kevin Durant was chosen as the Associated Press’ college basketball player of the year, the first freshman and first Longhorn to receive the honor. The 6-9 Durant was fourth in scoring (25.8 points per game) and rebounding ( 11.1 per game) this season while leading the Longhorns to a 25-10 record and a victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament. He was also the Big 12 and freshman player of the year while shooting 47 percent from the floor, 40 percent from three-point range and 82 percent from the free-throw line. Durant, who succeeds J.J. Redick of Duke as the award’s recipient, received all but two votes from the 72-member panel. Those votes went to senior forward Alando Tucker of Wisconsin. [4/01/07]
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Seven C’s of Leadership
Former college basketball coach Mike Jarvis is back with a new book, The Seven C's of Leadership.
"Every one of us has leadership within us and this book offers fascinating principals that work in any setting—from the locker room to the executive board room. In The Seven C's of Leadership, Coach Jarvis lays out the essential ingredients of leadership."
-Jay Wright, NCAA Championship Men’s Basketball Coach, Villanova University
"At a time in America when we are witnessing an epidemic of opioid addictions and deaths, along with suicides, we need Coach Jarvis' Seven C's of Leadership – grounded in the power of Christ alone where we should all make our stand.”
-Lietenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired), Bronze Star recipient, and Member 112th U.S. Congress
"The Seven C's of Leadership is a slam dunk! Coach Jarvis has always been an outstanding leader because he has the ability to decipher what true leadership really means.”
-Dale Brown, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, LSU, 1972-1997, Member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and Shaquille O’Neal’s college coach