IBCA E-Newsletter

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Items such as a Coaches’ Roundtable, an Issues & Answers Forum plus a session from a Shoot-A-Way representative highlight the agenda for the 2014 Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Spring Clinic.

Of course, outstanding speakers -– former Indiana Miss Basketball and Purdue All-American Stephanie White of the Indiana Fever, Indiana State men’s coach Greg Lansing, Marian University men’s coach Todd Lickliter, Rose-Hulman men’s coach Jim Shaw and Indiana Wesleyan men’s coach Greg Tonagel –- remain a staple for the two-day gathering that is set for April 25-26 at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis. In addition, Shane Adams of Shoot-A-Way of will make a presentation on “Game-Like Shooting Drills.”

Sessions begin at 11:45 a.m. Friday, April 25 and run through 10:20 p.m. that evening. Sessions resume at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 26 and conclude at 12:30 p.m. Cost to attend the clinic is $50 for current IBCA members and $100 for non-members.

The Coaches’ Roundtable tips off the Clinic agenda and will feature retired coaches Sam Alford, Jim Irwin and Donna Sullivan on a panel moderated by Indiana SportsTalk host Bob Lovell. The three coaches will discuss steps that they took to make their programs successful for the long run, and questions from those in attendance will be encouraged. (More on these three coaches can be found elsewhere in this E-newsletter.)

A number of the IBCA Coaches of the Year also will speak during the program (more on each of them can be found elsewhere in this E-Newsletter).

Featured Speakers

Stephanie White, Indiana Fever

Stephanie White is entering her fourth season as an assistant coach for the Indiana Fever.

The 2012 WNBA title held special meaning for White, who was one of the original Fever players in 2000 and a member of the Fever’s All-Decade Team announced in 2009. She retired from playing in the WNBA following the 2004 season, and she has coached in the college or pro ranks since 2003.

White’s hiring in 2011 marked the first time the Fever has hired an assistant coach with pro playing experience. White was reunited with Fever head coach Lin Dunn, the former Purdue coach who recruited White to the West Lafayette campus.

Prior to joining the Fever, White spent four seasons as an assistant coach with the Chicago Sky after previous stints as a college assistant at Ball State, Kansas State and Toledo.

White also has parlayed her playing and coaching into a prominent broadcasting career with the Big Ten Network and ESPN. She appears regularly on the BTN women’s basketball studio show and provides game analysis for both networks.

After leading Purdue to a national championship in 1999 and being drafted by the Charlotte Sting, White was acquired by the Fever in a draft-day trade in December 1999 to lead her hometown team into its first season of existence. A former Indiana Miss Basketball and a Purdue All-American, White played four seasons with the Fever and five pro seasons overall. She still ranks prominently among Fever franchise leaders in games played, minutes, 3-pointers, assists, steals, 3-point percentage and free throw percentage.

Her 93 percent free throw shooting in 2003 remains a Fever record.

White’s legacy as a high school and college star made her one of the state’s most popular figures even before she donned a Fever uniform. Beginning with a prep career at Seeger Memorial High School, White set standards for basketball excellence while becoming an Indiana icon. She averaged 36.9 points and 13.1 rebounds as a high school senior while being named the 1995 national high school player of the year. She led Seeger to a 92-7 record over four seasons and finished her prep career with a then-Indiana record 2,869 points.

White took her game to Purdue and averaged double-figure scoring for the Boilermakers in four straight seasons. As a college senior, she averaged 20.2 points and 4.5 assists while leading Purdue to the NCAA title and earning the 1999 Wade Trophy as the national college player of the year. White finished her Boilermaker career second in school history in points and assists, and she has since been inducted into the Purdue Athletics Hall of Fame.

Greg Lansing, Indiana State University

Greg Lansing recently completed his fourth season as the men's basketball coach at Indiana State. He previously spent eight seasons with the program as an assistant coach, including the final three years as associate head coach.

Lansing has compiled a 79-55 record as boss of the Sycamores. He owns a mark of 41-31 in Missouri Valley Conference games. Lansing is 7-3 in the MVC Tournament, with three of those victories coming as the lower-seeded team. ISU has reached the NIT the past two seasons, and his 79 career victories rank in the top 10 of ISU’s all-time men’s basketball coaching win list.

In 2013-14, ISU went 23-11 overall, 12-6 in MVC play, advanced to the finals of the MVC Tournament and reached the postseason for the fifth consecutive season – facing Arkansas in the NIT. In 2012-13, Indiana State finished 18-15, advanced to the semifinals of the MVC Tournament and played in the NIT. In 2011-12, the Sycamores posted an 18-15 record and advanced to the CollegeInsiders.com Postseason Tournament.

Lansing burst onto the scene as a rookie head coach with the Sycamore basketball program in 2010-11 as he became just the second-ever Indiana State head coach to lead the team to the NCAA Tournament in his first season. He led the team to a 20-14 record, becoming just the 14th head coach in the history of the Missouri Valley Conference to lead a team to 20 or more victories in their first year at the helm.

Prior to joining the staff at Indiana State, Lansing was the boys' basketball coach at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa. Roosevelt had not had a winning season in 12 years before Lansing’s initial season. The Roughriders went on to have back-to-back winning seasons under Lansing’s direction.

Lansing earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of South Dakota in 1990 and a master’s degree in counseling from USD in 1992.

As a member of the Coyote basketball team, Lansing helped South Dakota reach the NCAA Division II Tournament during his junior and senior seasons, the first NCAA invitations for USD since 1954. He twice was named the South Dakota Defensive Player of the Year. He also is ranked among the USD leaders in career assists.

Following his playing career, Lansing served as a graduate assistant coach at South Dakota for two seasons. In 1992-93 he was a full-time assistant.

Lansing’s father, Dave Lansing, coached high school basketball for 33 years in Iowa. Dave Lansing was inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999. His brother, Steve, is a high school boys’ basketball head coach in Minnesota.

Lansing is married to the former Angie Menser, who is an Indiana State graduate and a former track and cross country Academic All-American for the Sycamores. Angie is a Batesville native and currently serves as ISU’s senior woman administrator and athletics business manager.

Todd Lickliter, Marian University

Todd Lickliter recently completed his second season at the helm of the Marian University men's basketball program. He was named the seventh head men’s basketball coach in program history on June 6, 2012.

In two seasons, Lickliter has guided the Knights to 17-13 and 16-8 overall records with 8-12 and 12-6 marks in the Crossroads League.

Lickliter came to Marian from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he served one season as an assistant coach. Prior to Miami, Lickliter amassed a 169-119 career record as head coach at the University of Iowa (2007-10) and Butler University (2001-07). He also served two stints as assistant coach at Butler (1988-89 and 1999-2001) and a stint as an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan University (1997-99).

In three seasons at the University of Iowa, Lickliter went 38-58. In six seasons at Butler, Lickliter earned a 131-61 record and led the Bulldogs to four post-season basketball tournament berths, including trips to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2003 and 2007. Butler averaged 22 wins those six seasons, winning league titles in 2002, 2003 and 2007. The Bulldogs won four in-season tournaments, including the 2006 NIT Season Tip-Off and the 2006 Wooden Classic.

He was named the 2006-07 Division I Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and was recognized as the High-Major Coach of the Year by collegehoops.net. He was also named 2007 Horizon League Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year after guiding the Bulldogs to a school and league-record 29 victories.

Along with winning at least 20 games in four of six seasons at Butler, Lickliter's student-athletes also excelled in the classroom. Butler's graduation rate of 82 percent for men's basketball in Lickliter's final season ranked best among all Sweet Sixteen teams in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Butler also held the top graduation rate among NCAA Sweet Sixteen teams when the Bulldogs advanced past Mississippi State and Louisville in the 2003 NCAA Tournament.

Lickliter became the first coach in Horizon League history to be honored by the NABC as Coach of the Year. He owns three of the top single-season win totals in Butler history, including 29 wins in 2007, 26 in 2002 and 27 in 2003. The Bulldogs also won 20 games in 2004.

Lickliter ranks fourth on Butler's all-time list for basketball coaching victories. He ranks second among Butler head coaches with at least three seasons in winning percentage (.682) and second in number of 20-win seasons (four). He became the first Butler coach to reach 50 career wins in just two seasons and the first to achieve 100 victories in five seasons. And, he's one of just four coaches in the history of the Horizon League to guide a team to the NCAA "Sweet Sixteen.”

Lickliter began his collegiate coaching career at Butler in 1988-89 under Joe Sexson, his former college coach. He left Butler after one year to accept a head coaching job at Danville High School, where he remained for three seasons.

He returned to the collegiate ranks in 1996 as an administrative assistant on Barry Collier's staff at Butler. Lickliter accepted an assistant coaching position at Eastern Michigan in 1997 and remained on the Eagles' staff for two seasons before returning to Butler in 1999.

In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Lickliter had high school head coaching stints at Park Tudor High School in Indianapolis (1979-87) and Danville High School (1987-88, 1989-92). He also coached a partial season in Saudi Arabia with the Ah Ahli Sports Club-Jeddah.

Lickliter, 58, has had a presence in Indiana basketball dating back to his days as a three-year starting guard at North Central High School in Indianapolis, where he played for his father, Arlan. He began his college career at North Carolina-Wilmington before transferring to Central Florida Community College. He played one season at Central Florida, earning his associate degree in 1977. He then transferred to Butler, where he played his final two collegiate seasons, 1977-79. He earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education from Butler in 1979.

Lickliter and his wife, Joez, have three adult sons – Ry, Garrett and John.

Jim Shaw, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Jim Shaw has led Rose-Hulman to six NCAA Division III Tournament appearances, five regular-season conference championships and four conference tournament titles in his 20 years as head coach of the Fightin' Engineers.

Shaw most recently became the second men’s basketball coach in Rose-Hulman history to win 300 games in his career, including 82 wins over the last four seasons. He now holds a 303-221 career mark.

The recent run of success includes NCAA Division III Tournament appearances in 2012, 2013 and 2014; Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament championships in 2012, 2013 and 2014; and conference regular-season titles in 2013 and 2014. In addition, the Engineers have won 20 games three straight times for the first time in school history (with six 20-win seasons total).

Recognized by his peers as one of the top coaches in the NCAA Midwest Region, Shaw has been named conference Coach of the Year five times during his Rose-Hulman tenure (1996, 1997, 2001, 2013 and 2014). In 2013, he was recognized by the National Association of Basketball Coaches as Midwest Region Coach of the Year and was also a finalist for the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year award.

Shaw’s teams have qualified for the D-III National Tournament six times. His Engineers won the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament in 1996, giving Rose-Hulman its first NCAA berth in seven seasons. They earned subsequent NCAA berths in 1997 from the ICAC, in 1999 from the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, and in 2012, 2013 and 2014 from the HCAC.

His 2013 team also led the nation in scoring defense, allowing fewer than 52 points per game.

Shaw began his college coaching career at Rose-Hulman under current DePauw coach Bill Fenlon. He spent five seasons working under both Fenlon and former Rose-Hulman coach Bill Perkins. The Engineers compiled a 72-55 record during that five-year span.

Shaw’s coaching career has not been limited to the collegiate level. He served as an assistant coach under Pat Rady at Terre Haute South High School from 1986-88, where he coached former NFL tight end Tony McGee and former Indiana University and NBA player Brian Evans. During that two-year stint, the Braves went 40-9 with two sectionals and a regional title, and were ranked No. 1 in Indiana.

Shaw graduated from Terre Haute South in 1978, and he earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from Indiana University in 1982. He added a master’s degree in sports administration from Indiana State in 1989.

Greg Tonagel, Indiana Wesleyan

Greg Tonagel recently completed his ninth season at the helm of the Indiana Wesleyan University men’s basketball team.

Since becoming the Wildcats’ coach in April 2005, Tonagel has guided IWU to unprecedented success both on and off the court. With a 235-75 record, seven conference championships, four elite eight appearances and this past season, Tonagel reached uncharted territory by leading the Wildcats to their first NAIA Division II national championship. For his efforts, he was named the NABC/NAIA Division II National Coach of the Year.

Tonagel has been named the conference Coach of the Year five times. His teams have spent time in the top five of the national polls in each of the last eight years. Despite being a head coach for only nine seasons, Tonagel already is the winningest coach in IWU program history. He has the highest winning percentage, the most regular season victories, the most post-season victories, the most national tournament appearances and the most wins in the school history along with the only seven conference championships.

A former Valparaiso University point guard, known for his hard work and energy, Tonagel has brought those characteristics to the Wildcats’ basketball program. Tonagel was introduced as the IWU men’s basketball coach on April 1, 2005. Drawing from experience gained from leading the Valparaiso Crusaders to four NCAA tournament appearances as a starting point guard, along with the tutelage of mentor Homer Drew, Tonagel has helped orchestrate a new era of Wildcats’ basketball.

Indiana Wesleyan has posted the seven best seasons in program history under Tonagel. The team set a school record with 31 wins in 2013-14. Previously, the Wildcats had set school records with 30 wins in 2006-07 and tied that mark with 30 wins in 2009-10.

Prior to Tonagel’s hiring, the Wildcats had won seven games and finished last in the Mid-Central Conference. The program improved by 10 wins under Tonagel’s tutelage in his first year on the bench and reached the NAIA Elite Eight in his second season. Making a name for himself when it comes to program building, Tonagel has done it through sound developmental teaching and high-caliber recruiting.

Known for defense, the Wildcats led the nation in scoring defense at 59 points per game at the completion of the 2006-07 regular season. They also ranked in the top 10 in the nation in six defensive categories in 2009-10. Although it all starts on the defensive end for the Wildcats, an up-tempo, aggressive offensive style that utilizes skilled and creative play has rejuvenated Luckey Arena into a fantastic place to experience a basketball game. Tonagel and his staff have introduced an innovative offensive style that players want to be a part of and fans desire to see.

Perhaps the biggest influence that Tonagel and the staff have had on the program is the "I am Third" culture. Fostering a mentality that seeks to put God first, others second and oneself third has created a culture of success. Success that comes from enlarging those around you. It's a success that comes from serving a purpose greater than oneself.

Tonagel’s teams have passion and toughness. They are known for the work ethic. Whether it is writing a paper, helping a neighbor or working out in the gym, Tonagel demands commitment and 100 percent effort from each student-athlete.

Many consider Tonagel’s weight and conditioning programs to be as challenging as any around. Players learn to bond together, which is the only way to survive these grueling workouts.

Prior to his current position, Tonagel served as Director of Basketball Operations at Valparaiso University, where he played in four NCAA Tournaments. He also led his LaPorte High School team to the last single-class State Finals in 1997.

Tonagel and his wife, Amy, have three children – Jace, William, and Allie. The coach is active in a number of organizations and causes, most notably his church.

Jason Delaney, Indianapolis Tech

Jason Delaney recently completed his third season as boys' basketball coach at Indianapolis Tech, leading the Titans to the Class 4A state championship.

Delaney's teams have gone 64-12 during his tenure at Tech, including a 27-2 mark in 2013-14. In 10 seasons as a head coach, his career record is 145-90.

A 1995 graduate of Lafayette Central Catholic, Delaney competed in basketball for the Knights. He attended Ball State University, where he received a bachelor's degree in secondary education in 2001.

Delaney began his career as a head coach at Waldron in 2003-04, guiding the Mohawks to the Class A state championship with a 27-0 undefeated season.

He then moved to Southport for four seasons, to Anderson Highland for one season, to Indianapolis Washington for one season and then to Indianapolis Tech for the past three seasons.

His teams have won two sectionals (2004, 2014), two regionals (2004, 2014), two semistates (2004, 2014) and two state championships (2004, 2014).

Shane Adams, Shoot-A-Way Basketball

Shane Adams has been a Shoot-A-Way clinician since 2004, speaking at more than 50 clinics over the past 10 years. He will talk to the IBCA audience on “Game-Like Shooting Drills.”

Adams has coached high school basketball for eight seasons, five years in Colorado and three years in Ohio. His teams have captured four conference championships, two regional titles, two Elite Eight crowns and one state championship.

In Ohio, Adams was boys’ basketball coach at Upper Sandusky High School from 2010-13 with a record of 38-27.

In Colorado, Adams was a boys’ basketball assistant at Sangre de Cristo High School for three seasons, helping the team to a 61-13 record over that span and a state championship in 2001. He became the Sangre de Christo girls’ head coach for two seasons, going 32-12 and leading the team to a regional crown.

He also has been a girls’ basketball head coach at Del Norte (Colo.) High School and an assistant women’s basketball coach at Adams State College in Colorado.

Adams also owned and operated the ABC Basketball Skills Academy from 2004-08. He specialized in shooting and skills instruction for junior high and high school athletes from all over the state of Colorado.

IBCA Clinic Schedule

Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26, 2014

Friday, April 25, 2014 Auditorium
11:45-12:40 p.m.	Round Table Discussion: Moderator, Bob Lovell Retired coaches Sam Alford, Jim Irwin and Donna Sullivan
12:45-1:15 p.m.	Welcome/IBCA Issues & Answers: Chris Benedict, Steve Witty and Marty Johnson
1:20-2:00 p.m.	Greg Lansing, Indiana State University
2:05-2:45 p.m.	Jason Delaney, Indianapolis Tech: "Winning Basketball"
2:50-3:30 p.m.	Kristi Kaniewski Ulrich, Penn: “Defensive Techniques and Strategies”
3:35-4:15 p.m.	Al Rhodes, Penn: “Program Development”
4:15-5:30 p.m.	REGISTRATION
Main Gym
5:30-6:25 p.m.	Stephanie White, Indiana Fever
6:30-7:10 p.m.	Awards, Introductions, Special Recognition: Virgil Sweet Awards Roy Gardner/Mildred Ball Awards Administrators of the Year George Griffith Champion & Runner-up Coaches Award Coaching Victory Milestones Introductions of College Coaches in Attendance
7:15-8:05 p.m.	Shane Adams, Shoot-A-Way Basketball: “Game-Like Shooting Drills”
8:10-9:15 p.m.	Greg Tonagel, Indiana Wesleyan University
9:20-10:20 p.m.	Todd Lickliter, Marian University
Saturday, April 26, 2014
8:00-8:30 a.m.	Donuts and coffee
8:30-9:10 a.m.	Brent Keck, Perry Meridian: “PM Concepts, Drills and Man-to-Man Offense” Chris Giffin, Lawrence North: “My Favorite Practice Drills”
9:15-9:55 a.m.	Kent Chezem, Covington: “Developing Perimeter Players” Rich Schelsky, Western Boone: “WeBo Defense and Drills”
10:00-11:00 a.m.	Jim Shaw, Rose-Hulman: “The Rose-Hulman Five-Out Motion Offense”
11:05-11:45 a.m.	Jamie Kolkmeier, Corydon Central: “Panther Switching Man-To-Man Defense” Gretchen Miles, Washington: “Competitive Team Drills”
11:50-12:30 p.m.	Aaron Wolfe, NorthWood: “Skill is the Divider – Player Development” Steve Goans, Evansville Mater Dei: “Transition Early Offense”