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More Than the DunkHow Mike Morrison fl oats above the competition

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Coach Porter Four Years of Trust

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One Lucky ChairThe Mertens’ lasting legacy

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Volume 1 • November 30, 2011

How Ryan Pearson went from unknown

to MVP candidate Page 25

Coach Hewitt’sNew Form of

ParadisePage 11

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One Lucky ChairEntering their fi nal season as president and fi rst lady of the uni-versity, the Mertens are looking to add one more chair to their

collection.

By Cody Norman

Page 21

Ryan PearsonBehind the guidance of his mother, the senior forward has established himself as a

prominent player in the CAA.

By John Powell

Page 25

Jeri Porter � e women’s basketball team

has improved in every year that Porter has been on the bench.

� is is her team.By John Powell

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ReservesCody NormanEditor-in-Chief

John PowellManaging Editor

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Leslie Steiger Manager, Communications Team

Page 14Top four CAA opponents for the men’s team

Page 17� e newcomers to Mason basketball

Page 28Roster & schedule for the men’s team

Page 32Roster & schedule for the women’s team

Page 36Top four CAA opponents for the women’s team

Page 38Coach Jim Lewis, the winningest coach in Mason history, makes his return

Page 40Section 124: A View From the Platoon

A New Form of ParadiseAfter postponing a planned vacation to the Caribbean,

Coach Paul Hewitt found a new paradise at Mason.By Cody Norman

Page 11

Cam Long� e former Mason guard tells how diffi cult it is to be playing

professional basketball in an unfamiliar country.

By Cody Norman

Page 39

In his first season at the helm, Coach Paul Hewitt

brings an entirely new

pace to Mason basketball.

Hewitt inherits a team that

won 27 games in the 2010-11

season.

Time Out

With senior Andre Cornelius out for the first 10 games, sopho-more Bryon Allen (above) and freshman Corey Edwards (below) have been thrust into an alternating role at point guard this season.

Game Point

The Mason women take time after a win to pray

with their opponents

from Oakland. They put scores aside, knowing that basketball is more than a

game.

More Than a Game

After his semester-long sabbatical, Doc Nix will return to lead the Green Machine for his sixth season. Fans should expect more “Party Rock” and “Livin’ on a Prayer” this year.

Dream On

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Welcome, Coach Hewitt, to George Mason Univer-sity. Connect2Mason.com looks forward to watching

and covering your fi rst year with the Patriots. (We also like your burger at Brion’s. Good taste.)

Our motto at Mason Cable Network is, “Your face. Your voice.” We look forward to seeing your face and

hearing your voice over the years to come. Let’s go, Patriots!

� e season outlook is quite bright as WGMU eagerly welcomes Paul Hewitt as the new men’s basketball coach. � e NCAA tournament should prepare for a

stampede of Patriots fans!

We’re honored you have decided to embrace the Patriot spirit — what you have undoubtedly encountered is an invigorated commitment to excellence in all arenas of

higher education. Broadside wishes you good luck out there.

We are optimistic for the future of Mason basketball under your helm. We look forward to many winning

seasons and, on behalf of the Mason Nation, � e Morning Breakdown welcomes you to our family!

Student Media welcomes Coach Hewitt to the Mason community. We are excited to have the opportunity to

cover you and the Patriots as you fi ght through the tough CAA gauntlet.

Paradise in a Diff erent Form

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Through chaos and uncertainty, true champions arise.

Paul Hewitt coached 11 sea-sons at Georgia Tech, compil-ing a 190-162 record and fi n-

ishing 17th in all-time career victories. But, after several ineff ective and chaotic seasons,

he was dismissed from the program, mentally and physically drained, and

uncertainty set in. Hewitt needed a break. He and

his wife planned a vacation to St. Maarten, a small paradise

in the Caribbean, as they began adjust-ing to life without basketball. He knew almost immediately that he couldn’t leave the game that he had come to love, but

thought he may be set to view the game in a

diff erent light. Maybe he could

get an opportu-nity in the NBA. Or

maybe, just maybe, he could make the

move to radio or television

and talk about basketball without actually living it.

Nobody would have believed he would return to the bench so soon.

“College coaching was third on the list,” Hewitt said, “if it was even on the list. I was taking a year off .”

Then Mason called. After a brief courtship, paradise took a diff erent form.

“I traded one paradise for another,” Hewitt said. “Th is is one of the best jobs in the league.”

Just months after his dismissal from Georgia Tech, there he was, sitting in front of an excited crowd to be introduced as the ninth men’s coach in Patriots history.

Even though his coaching resume speaks for itself, it was Hewitt’s personality that drew athletic director Tom O’Connor to Hewitt.

“He’s a tremendous human being,” O’Connor said. “I know he’s a great X and O guy, but he has the whole package.”

Away from the court, Hewitt became deeply involved with the Atlanta com-munity. He conducts an annual golf outing and auction to benefi t the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the Boys and Girls

THE TRANSITION FROM LARRANAGA

TO HEWITT

by Cody Norman

Coach Hewitt’s move from ACC to CAA

Coach Hewitt’s move from ACC to CAA

Clubs of Atlanta. He also serves on the board of directors for Hearts Everywhere Reaching Out for Children (H.E.R.O.), which organizes activities and benefits HIV-infected children and Camp Twin Lakes, which works with children with serious illnesses and special needs.

“When you have an opportunity to give back, I think you should,” Hewitt said. “You owe it to yourself, as well as the profession, to be as active as possible.”

Because of his personality and direction, Hewitt made a name for himself as a natural recruiter. He attracted some of the top play-ers – players like Chris Bosh, Jarrett Jack and Thaddeus Young – to Georgia Tech over his 11 seasons.

He maintains a relationship with each of those players, refusing to let go of that fam-ily bond even in the toughest of times.

“When you sign them and they come to play for you, you’re signing them for life,” Hewitt said. “There are going to be some times that test that togetherness. But when tough times are around, that’s when you’ve got to be there.”

Coming from the ACC, one of the premier conferences in college basketball, he believes that the lines

of disparity between conferences has nearly vanished. While he likely will not get the same one-and-done players he courted at Georgia Tech, Hewitt will now have the opportunity to develop his young players.

“One thing I’ve always emphasized is player development,” Hewitt said. “I want to make sure these guys are prepared for life after college basketball, whatever that may be, because there is something after basketball for them.”

Regardless, Hewitt won’t lower his expec-

tations. He will go after the best players and aim for the highest rung as Mason and the CAA increase their notoriety throughout the nation.

During his time at Sienna College, Hewitt legitimized the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and led his group into the NCAA tournament for the first time in 2000. After moving to Georgia Tech, Hewitt guided the Yellow Jackets to the NCAA Championship in 2004, something no other coach in Mason history can boast.

Upon coming to Fairfax, he inherited a team with experienced veterans. He was handed a roster that returned three start-ers from last year’s 27-win team, won the Colonial Athletic Association regular season title and reached the NCAA tourna-ment before losing to top-seed Ohio State.

“I studied the roster before coming here. I talked to a lot of people in the league,”

Hewitt said. “Jim [Larranaga] left a great team.”

Unlike Larranaga, Hewitt brings an offensive philosophy that allows for an up-tempo, fast-paced style

of play. He encourages his team to push the ball up the floor, giving them the first seven seconds of the shot clock to run in transition.

“I have found that most players would prefer to play in that system,” Hewitt said.

Hewitt’s style will play right into the strengths of his team, allowing seniors Ryan Pearson and Mike Morrison to use their size, strength and athleticism to get out in space.

And even through all of the chaos and uncertainty this offseason, Mason landed a true champion in Paul Hewitt.



The Rams will look to build on the momen-tum generated from last year’s unexpected run to the Final Four. They will be without four of their top five scorers from last season, but return several players who played key roles in their 28-12 squad. VCU

will be led by senior for-ward Bradford Burgess, who ranked in the top 15 in the conference in scoring and rebounding a year ago. They’ll also return a pair of talented sophomore post players in 7-foot D.J. Haley and 6-foot-9 Juvonte Reddic.

“I don't sit there every night and look at my Final Four ring and dream about last year. I want to focus on having that success again."Shaka Smart

With four starters and two key reserves com-ing back from last year’s 21-10 squad, Drexel will be among the favorites to capture the CAA title. Senior Samme Givens, a second-team All-CAA pick in 2010 and this year’s preseason Player of the Year, led the confer-ence in rebounding and

was the only player in the CAA to average a double-double. Junior guard Chris Fouch averaged a team-high 14.9 ppg off the bench and was named to the All-CAA third team. Forward Dartaye Ruffin and point guard Frantz Massenat were selected to the All-Rookie squad.

“The expectations

are a little bit different, so

we’ve got to be ready to have that bullseye on our back.”

Bruiser Flint

The Competition Drexel Dragons

VCU Rams


For the first time in his four seasons at James Madison, Matt Brady has a core group of up-perclassmen returning. That nucleus begins with senior Julius Wells, who entered the season ranked 11th in school history in scoring with 1,311 points. Junior guard Devon Moore, who averaged 11.4 ppg

and notched 137 assists in 2011, has continued growth as the team’s floor general and will be crucial to the Dukes’ success this season. Rayshawn Goins aver-aged 9.7 ppg and 6.8 rpg a year ago and will be key in helping to fill the void left by former first-team All-CAA forward Denzel Bowles.

“We’ve got to protect our

home court. And if we can

do that, we can compete

in this conference.”

Matt Brady

A breakdown of some of the strongest men’s teams in the CAA

After earning his second straight CAA championship and his fourth NCAA tourna-ment bid in 2011, Old Dominion coach Blaine Taylor will be counting on several players to fill new roles this season. Leading the way for the Monarchs will be senior Kent Bazemore, who,

after making a league-best 76 steals last season was named the CAA Defensive Player of the Year. Old Dominion, which led the nation in rebounding last year, has two of its top front court players back in senior Chris Cooper and junior Nick Wright.

“The league race and our conference tournament is a show. And it’s turned into a really good show over the last half-dozen years.”Blaine Taylor

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THE NEWCOMERS

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THE NEWCOMERSAnnie Lawler

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Rachel McNair

Anali Okoloji

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THE NEWCOMERSAn introduction to the newest Mason basketball players

How would you rate the crowd support at Mason?

6.0 8.0 6.0

9.5 7.0

Amber Epps Mike Morrison Evelyn Lewis

Ryan Pearson Taleia Moton

“It’s not like one of the big schools.”

“� e people that are here are great but there’s still open seats.”

“I transferred from Penn State, so I’ve seen great support there.”

“� is is my home right here. I’m happy with my home.”

“If 5 is average, 7 is a little above average.”

Favorite TV Show: Fresh Prince of Bel-AirBasketball Idol:Chris Paul

Pregame Meal:Spaghetti and MeatballsPro Sports Team:Boston Celtics

Favorite TV Show:Spongebob If I could play for any coach, I’d play for...Paul Hewitt

Basketball Idol:Kevin GarnettFavorite TV Show:Pretty Little Liars

Pro Sports Team:Philadelphia PhilliesIf I could play for any coach, I’d play for...Phil Jackson

Basketball Idol:Larry BirdIf I could play for any coach, I’d play for...John Wooden

Pro Sports Team:OKC � underPregame Meal:Pasta & Chicken

Mike Morrison: More Than the Dunkby John Powell

Hancock. Front court. Morrison! E x c l a m a t i o n point George Mason!” came

the call from Gus Johnson.Mason fans remember the

call almost as well as they remember the play. After tipping a shot, Luke Hancock sent the ball down the court to Mike Morrison – alone – for the dagger of a dunk to end the game and send Mason to the third round of the NCAA tournament.A testament to the moment,

Morrison was running on so much adrenaline that his perspective was a bit less detailed.“All I know is I contested the

shot, the ball bounced to one of my players and I ended up with the ball,” he said. “Once it came to me, I don’t remember dunking it. All I remember is mouthing ‘we got it, we got it.’ Apparently I dunked it too.”His dunks are known

around Fairfax and it is a skill to which he is d e d i c a t e d . M o r r i s o n practices so he can be the best dunker wherever he plays and fans love the theatrics; he realized that very important fact when he made his first dunk as a Patriot. “I just got in the game with

two minutes left in the first

half,” Morrison recollected. “It was a buzzer-beater at the end of the half. It was cool. [Andre Cornelius] dropped it off to me in the break, and I sort-of quick-dunked on somebody.”He is the first to admit that

sometimes his emotions get the best of him, but his game is for the fans. And he has had to overcome some difficulty to be that crowd-pleaser.

The week before his sophomore year of high school, Morrison

tore his patellar tendon, the tendon that connects the kneecap to the shinbone. The injury generally requires full surgery to be

repaired. When people see him on the court, though, they do not see a crippled forward for a reason: his dedication to getting back to full strength took a long journey. “I rehabbed. I missed most

of the season,” he said as he thought through his sophomore season. “But I didn’t finish rehab and I rushed back because I wanted to play. And that’s why I never got strong again.”When asked if he would do

anything differently, he was adamant.“I wouldn’t play that whole

season,” he said.


“Just keep on truckin’ man, everyone has their obstacles.”

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Running Speed: 8.9 ft./sec.

“I’d let that season go.”Through the rest of high

school and his first three years of college – six basketball seasons – he did not realize the damage it caused. Only after his junior year he realized how the stopped rehabilitation hurt his chances at regaining that strength. He even feared he could never regain it completely.


It took a lot to balance his sheer love for the game with an effort to keep his body strong and healthy. “Right now, I’m in the best

shape of my life,” he said.

In his final season, fans and administration alike have recognized that dedication

to his craft and to his team.

When the Patriots lost their head coach and Luke Hancock – members of their tight-knit family – Morrison kept the team calm and upbeat, not missing a step. “I ran into Michael Morrison

over at the field house,” said Tom O’Connor, Mason’s athletic director, at the press conference announcing Larranaga’s departure. “Michael was very – I love Michael – he was very upbeat. He understood Coach Larranaga was leaving. He handled it in a very mature way.”It is a side that fans do not

often see of Morrison. They see him get rough on the court, throw down dunks, and get mad about fouling out. But they do not see his non-game-time persona. He is relaxed off the court, and a leader on the team. Through dealing with surgery that threw his playing career in flux, the departure of a head coach, and the exit of a starter, he knows that life goes on.“Just keep on truckin’ man,

everyone has their obstacles,” he said. “Everybody has problems, family stuff. Just keep going.”

Height to ball: 10.9 ft.

Average speed of ball slam: 18 ft./sec.

Acceleration of ball: 260 ft./sec.2

One Lucky Chair by Cody Norman

Heading into their final basketball season at Mason, Alan and Sally Merten have one last goal: to add another chair to their collection.

In the far corner of Mason Hall office D103, there sits a modest-looking bar stool. It’s an old chair with nicks up and down the

legs and a flattened cushion on the seat. Certainly not an object with pristine visual appeal, but an object with as much history as its body alludes.

“I bring all the new recruits into my office to show them this chair,” said President Alan Merten. “I tell them that I need a few more like it.”

Back on March 26, 2006, right in the midst of the Patriots legendary run into the Final

Four, Merten sat in that chair as he watched his team knock off the No. 1 seeded Connecticut Huskies in their Elite Eight match-up in D.C.

He was seated in the late Abe Pollin’s box at the MCI Center, taking in the game from what would become his lucky chair.

That same lucky chair that now sits in his office.

“Before I left the box and

headed down to the floor, I told Mr. Pollin, ‘That’s my lucky chair,’” Merten said. “And it showed up in my office some-time the next day.”

When Merten and his wife Sally took over as president

and first lady of George Mason University in July of 1996, the university schooled just 24,000 students, most of whom commuted from within the Northern Virginia area. It has since become the fastest-growing university in Virginia, eclipsing the 30,000-student

mark.One of his first duties as

president was to replace the men’s basketball coach, Paul Westhead. While he was not di-rectly involved with the search process, Merten made it clear to the athletic department that any potential hire had to inter-view with him first.

“I believe, and Sally believes, that there is a strong relation-

ship between the university and athletics,” Merten said.

Shortly after the search began, Jim Larranaga, coach of Bowling Green State University, met with Merten and was offered the coaching job at Mason.

“Jim told us that he was going to build a program and that he wasn’t here for the short term,” Mrs. Merten said. “He said he would take us to the NCAA Tournament in three seasons and we made it in two. So he made good on his promise, just as he makes good on all of his promises.”

The new coach and president,

along with their wives, devel-oped an almost immediate friendship.

“My wife and I were very impressed with President Merten’s leadership ability,” said Larranaga, the Patriots’ head coach for the last 14 seasons. “He would interact with deans of the colleges and then come out and be a huge fan of the basketball team.”

“Sally was always there with him. It was a team effort.”

As their friendship off the court progressed, Larranaga’s success on

the court was incredible.With one week left to play

in his second season as head coach, Larranaga and the Patriots clinched at least a share of their first CAA title in the his-tory of the university. Without hesitation, Merten ordered an airplane and had it fly around the university with a banner that read, “George Mason University: CAA Champions.”

“Most people would have waited to see if we won it out-right,” Larranaga recalled. “But his thinking was that, whether we won or tied, we were going to win our first regular season conference championship and we should be proud.”

The Mertens have attended nearly every home basketball game throughout their tenure, sitting in their courtside seats at


“Sally was always there with him. It was a team effort.”Jim Larranaga


half court.“Long before everybody else

jumped on the bandwagon, he was promoting how good we were,” Larranaga said. “He talked to the national media about how proud he was, not just of the basketball success, but of the success academically.”

Then, the unthinkable occurred in March of 2006.

Th e Patriots rode a hot streak throughout the NCAA tourna-ment, reaching the school’s fi rst and only Final Four.

Th ey were in the midst of an incredible run and the Mertens were there the entire way, fl ying on the plane with the team to almost every game.

“Most presidents don’t fl y on the planes because they don’t have that kind of relationship with the coach or the players,” Larranaga said. “But President Merten would come out to our practices. He cared that much about our program.”

Th rough all of the noise sur-rounding the men’s basketball program, Merten and his staff were primed to take advantage of the spotlight and morph the university into one of the big-gest, fastest-growing universities in the state of Virginia.

“People wanted to write about us and they’d run out of things to say about our basket-ball team,” Merten said. “Every morning we would meet and discuss how we were going to take advantage of all the media attention, how we were going to get our academic programs out there. And, somehow, we did. We were in newspapers and on televisions all over the world.”

With all of the exposure came a rapid infl ation in admissions requests. Th ere were 350 per-cent more inquires, 54 percent

of which came from out-of-state students. More and more people fl ooded the Internet, applying for the chance to en-roll in Mason.

“March of 2006 was the best [public relations] month that George Mason, the man, ever had,” Merten said. “He had more attention in one month than he did in 250 years.”

Since then, the university has continued its hasty growth, consistently

appearing in the U.S.

News and World

R e p o r t ’s list of Up-a n d - C o m i n g Schools in America. Th e campus has now branched out to Arlington and Prince William as Merten and the administration have poured more than $450 million into construction.

Over the last fi ve years on the court, Mason has com-piled a 107-57 record. Th ey’ve helped legitimize the CAA, earning a trip to three postsea-son tournaments.

Th e 2010-11 Patriots notched the longest win streak in school history, winning the regular season conference title on their way to a third round appear-ance in the NCAA tournament.

Yet, with everything that Merten has accomplished while employed as president of Mason, he remains humbled by the pace at which this univer-sity has grown.

Each game, with four minutes left to play in either half, he rises

to a thunderous ovation from the student sections. He points his air-powered gun into the stands and sends a t-shirt into the hands of one lucky fan.

“It reminds me of what I’m here for. And that’s the stu-dents,” Merten said. “Th is is a very special place and a very special university. It has meant a lot to Sally and me to be able to play a role in making this a bet-ter university. To see what we’ve created, particularly what we’ve cre-ated in respect to the enthu-siasm from the student body, it’s just been incredible.”

As the time nears that the

Mertens’ tenure as president and fi rst lady will end, so too does their time sitting courtside at Mason basketball games.

Th is is their last basketball season, their last CAA tourna-ment, and their last NCAA tournament.

But it is also their last chance to fi nd another seat to place in the far corner of Mason Hall offi ce D103.


At the beginning of February, Ryan Pearson was named ESPN’s Player of the

Week. He was on the front page of the media enterprise’s college basketball section, went on tele-vision shows to give publicity to the team, and started the team’s hair club, going unshaven as the team continued to win. After a 16-game winning streak, Mason electrified the nation again, and

Pearson was the perfect ambas-sador.

He credits his success to a lot of people, holding Jim Lar-ranaga, the coach that recruited him, in high regard. Even before running through a full practice with the current coach, Paul Hewitt, he knew the new coach was a good fit. He credits his high school coaches for getting him recruited to a D-I program. But their influences all pale in comparison to the influence of

the woman that raised him.“My mom, she really fell in love

with the campus, with the area,” Pearson said. “When I came for my visit, I just felt like I was at home, like these guys treated me like I was on the team.”

When Pearson left his home in Far Rockaway, New

York, he was looking for a men-tor. He found a leader in John Vaughan, a guard that took the

FROM MENTEE TO MENTORby John Powell


young forward under his wing. Vaughan’s forte was clearly not in teaching Pearson how to be a better forward – coaches were for that – but on how to lead a team.

“JV my freshman year, John Vaughan, basically took me un-der his wing and basically told me that I was talented and to just keep working hard,” Pear-son said. “Just don’t get discour-aged the way things were going on, that I was a freshman and I got a long way to go. He took me under his wing and showed me the ropes. He and Darryl Monroe, I just tried to watch them and learn from them.”

It was clear from day one that Pearson would have a big role. In his rookie year, he played in

every contest when he was healthy, a total of 32 games. He shot just under 50 percent from the field and his strong play throughout that campaign led to a CAA All-Rookie Team nod.

Vaughan and Monroe left, but their message proved to pass the test of time. Alongside Louis Birdsong and Cam Long, he stepped up as a leader of the sophomores and a leader of the team.

“My sophomore year, I stepped into a leadership role,” Pearson said. “We only had one senior in Lou Birdsong, and it was Cam, but I knew that I was going to be playing a lot more minutes my sophomore year. I had to become more vocal.”

Pearson delivers the same

message that Vaughan gave him. But if anyone on the team had an excuse to pass the baton of leadership off, it might have been Pearson.

“Scarred but not slowed” was the title of last year’s Washing-ton Post feature on the head-line-stealing forward. Pearson had a childhood accident in 2001 that left him with 32 pairs of staple marks, a right leg that is shorter than the left, and a basketball career that appeared to end before it could begin.

But when he was given an op-portunity to play again, he made the most of it. With hard work and dedication, he is renowned as one of the more unorthodox forwards in the CAA, but the change of pace keeps teams off guard and he gets the ball in.

He knew what it took to get there, and he does not let any of his teammates off the hook.

“These [freshmen], when they came to visit, they chilled with us and they basically look up to us,” Pearson said. “They need us to show them the ropes and that’s basically what I’m going to try to do, deliver the same message that John Vaughan, Darryl Monroe and those guys

delivered to me.”

Preseason CAA Player of the Year was Pearson’s expected title from the

team’s fans all across the coun-try. Even with Cam Long on the team, who was projected to be taken in the NBA draft, Pearson was one of the central facilita-tors of the offense last season.

If given the ball on the blocks, he would find a way to get it in the net, with a pair of arms and legs flailing in the process. A double-double average would not catch anyone by surprise, but even with all the work, he never wants to take the credit.

“It’s a great honor,” he said of the possibility to win the Player of the Year award. “I’m about to have an MVP-type season for my team, whatever that means. I’m not going to go out there and get selfish. I’m going to go out there and play a team game. I’m going to rely on my team-mates just as much as they rely on me.”

That is why he is the team lead-er. He steps up to make plays and gives the credit to everyone around him. The respect, he has shown, is deserved.

“I’m not going to go out there and get self-ish. I’m going to go out there and play a team game.”


inkedLeslie Pearson did not

seem too big into the idea of her 15-year-old getting his first tattoo. But, wearing her down

slowly, her son was able to change her mind.

“My fifteenth birthday, I re-ally wanted a tattoo. My mom wasn’t with it at first,” Ryan Pear-son said. “But then I was bug-ging her so much she just took me and was like, ‘You know what, here.’ And then next thing I know I just went tattoo crazy.”

Years went by and his body was slowly filled with messages.

“Wisdom” and “Faith” are on the inside of his biceps. He has a throw-back to his hometown with “NYC” and tells Mason fans who he plays for with his “Family 1st” tattoo.

Even mid-season, the tattoos change. Last year, he had to pro-tect his new elbow tattoo by wearing a faux-sleeve over it.

Pearson knows that basketball may not be his income-earner forever, and that tattoos are not as accepted in the office as they are on the court. But is he stop-ping any time soon?

“As of right now, nope,” he

answered. “When I’m done bouncing basketballs and I want to get a real job and stuff like that, I think I’m going to be out of the tattoo business.”

Getting the team on its feet is his first priority but, if history proves to be true, fans should be seeing more ink on his arms in the near future. However, he has no specific plans for his next tattoo.

“It’s still in the making,” Pear-son said. “But it’s coming soon, I can guarantee that.”

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“I got it basically just to represent where I’m from. I always wear it and whenever anybody asks me - in any room I step in - I’m always the first to say ‘I’m from New York.’ I’m proud of it.”

“I always put family first. I do this for my family, I play the game for my family. I just go out there and represent my family name.”

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Jim LewisAssistant Coach West Virginia University, ‘68Alexandria, Va.

Jana AshleyAssistant Coach

University of North Alabama, ‘02Rome, Ga.

Jeri PorterHead CoachLiberty, ‘91Capital Heights, Md.

Greg PulliamAssistant Coach

Liberty, ‘99Lynchburg, Va.

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After four years, Jeri Porter finally has a team she can call her own.

Finally, everybody is on the same page. They know what they need to accomplish. And their

expectations are high.When she signed on with Mason, she took

over a team that was struggling. In the 2007-08 season, the Patriots went 9-21 overall with a 3-15 conference mark. They grinded out the season with only one home conference win.

Clearly, there was a change needed at the top.Porter will be the first to say that year one in

Fairfax was a struggle. The team won four games all year, but things were looking up. The program was moving in the right direction.

“It may sound simple, but I think we’ve gotten better every year,” Porter said. “I think we’ve gained a little bit more confidence every year. I think we’ve proven to ourselves with each year that we can be competitive.”

They went 10-20 overall in her second year and, last year, they finished with their best conference mark in recent history. The team did not show a winning record, but they showed progress. The grassroots transformation was taking hold.

Most importantly, she did it the honest way. When recruiting for the team, there was no bend-

ing the facts. She let everyone know that the team was rebuilding. Some young players only want to succeed and see results immediately, but others wanted the challenge to turn a team around.

“Trust me, some kids don’t want to step into a rebuild, and they’ll tell you that,” Porter said. “It’s a recruiting process. You respect that and you move on. Some kids are intrigued by the opportunity to bring their own individual talent into a situation that’s going to make a major difference.”

It was not Porter’s first involvement in college basketball. Out of high school, she was recruited by Liberty University and caught fire in her

junior year. The awards piled up. She was the two-time team Most Valuable Player and made the first-team All-Big South Conference. She scored a combined 717 points in her junior and senior years, putting her in the upper echelon of scorers in the history of the program. In 1998, she was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame.

But it was not enough. She stepped away from the playing side and

immediately stepped into the role as an assistant coach at her alma mater. In her final year as an assistant, Liberty only took one loss, winning the regular season and the conference tournament.

“I can remember going from being a student-

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Coach Porter

Four Years of Trust


athlete to being a graduate assistant, and a full-time assistant and thinking, ‘Man I had no idea what was going on behind the scenes. All the work, all the preparation, the recruiting, and film breakdown,’ “ Porter said.

“And then I can recall six years later going from being an assistant to being a head coach and feeling like, ‘Man! Once again, I’m not doing the same job,’ All of it is in the confines of college women’s basketball, but as you transfer from one role to another, I think you’re really enlightened as you move on.”

That enlightenment from dealing with each different type of pressure paid off.

After a stint with the University of North Alabama, she took the head-coaching job at Radford University, Liberty’s conference rival. She led her girls to a 93-85 record with

a 43-39 conference mark. Most notably, she brought the Highlanders to their second-highest win total in the program’s history with 23 wins.

It was at Radford, after their increasing success, that Porter recruited Taleia Moton, a high school point guard who was brought on to be a central part of her head coach’s offensive attack. Little did she know, the 5-foot-6-inch guard would become a central piece to her team.

Moton originally signed on to play for Mount St. Mary’s more than four years ago. Unfortunately,

her head coach resigned before the guard could suit up for the first time. It threw her into a tailspin. The former coach called Porter, who acted quickly on the possibility of signing the leading scorer of Prince George’s County high school basketball.

Again, Moton’s head coach, this time Jeri Porter, left the program and signed on to bring the Patriots back to glory. The guard followed suit.

“It’s humbling,” Porter said when asked about Moton’s decision to transfer. “We work hard as coaches to develop relationships with all of our kids to get to know them and have that special bond as people, not just as athletes.”

With pride in her recruiter, Moton followed her north. She signed on to lead Porter’s offense. No matter where the head coach went, Moton would follow through

on the promise because she was convinced that her coach’s offense worked.

“Once a point guard has bought into your system and believes in what you’re doing, I think that’s always a hard sell for the next coach coming in,” Porter said. “Taleia and I, obviously there’s a great relationship off the court.”

Gone are the days that CAA play is dominated by one team. Old Dominion no longer runs the

gauntlet with ease, especially after Mason won their first game against the Monarchs in Porter’s first season. James Madison won

the last two titles but, without their Player of the Year, it looks to be a tough road for the Dukes. With a changing of the guard at the top of the conference, the Patriots have set themselves up well to slide into the top.

The team’s aim is no less than to become the next perennial power. The fact that Porter has improved the Patriots’ record in each of her years with the team bodes well for fans in Fairfax.

“I don’t expect you to support me until I’m putting a product on the floor that’s worthy of support,” Porter said. “In all honesty, in our first three seasons here, as

we’ve gotten better and as we’ve grown, I’ve been very pleased and impressed with the support that we’ve gotten to this point.”

The coaches will continue to bolster their local recruiting and Porter will be able to attract players because of her experience. In their head coach, they have a friend who has been through the good times and the bad times, a coach who has stood in their shoes, someone who seems physically unable to let her players down.

Throughout the team, whether they win or lose, there is one common theme: Complete trust.

“We work hard as coaches to develop relationships with all of our kids.”


The Blue Hens not only bring back the most electric player in the CAA, All-American Elena Delle Donne, but also return their other four starters, making them one of the most experienced teams in the conference.

Donne is the tallest player on the preseason All-CAA teams, standing at 6-foot-5. She was named the Player of the Year and the Rookie of the Year her first season, only the second CAA women’s player to earn both honors in one year. She averaged 25.3 ppg last year and looks to hit that mark again.

“Obviously, Elena Delle Donne is Preseason Player of the Year,” Coach Tina Martin said, “and rightfully so. She had a good summer, playing for the world

university team. I think Elena is definitely looking forward to this season.”

Martin is entering her sixteenth season with the Blue Hens. In 10 of her last 12 seasons, Delaware has accrued 20 wins. Under her tenure, the team has put up a 278-175 mark. The team went to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament to close out their 2011 campaign, where they lost 58-55 against Toledo in the first round.

“In our backcourt, we are better be-cause we’ve got the true point guards,” Martin said. “I think it’s harder when you have somebody like a Shante Evans, like an Elena Delle Donne, because everybody is expecting it, everybody is looking for [them to take possession].”

Coach Beth Cunningham returns four of her starters from the 2010-11 campaign. They made their most recent appearance in the WNIT last season, unable to make the NCAA tournament since 2009.

They should improve on last year’s 19-12 record with the help of senior for-ward Courtney Hurt, who was vying for the Preseason Player of the Year award after monstrous numbers last season.

She was the best in the nation with 12.4 rpg last year. She scored double-digits every game last year, scoring 23.2 ppg good for second in the nation.

Cunningham enters her ninth season with VCU. She fell one game short of completing four consecutive seasons with 20 wins or more, finishing 19-12 to close out last season. The Rams lost 72-66 to St. Joseph’s in the first round of the WNIT.

Delaware Blue Hens

VCU Rams

“In our backcourt, we are better because

we’ve got true point guards.” Tina Martin

The Competition A breakdown of some of the strongest women’s teams in the CAA


Despite their ranking just inside of the top four conference teams, the Pride has high hopes for this season resting on the shoulders of junior forward Shante Evans. Coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey enters her sixth year with Hofstra look-ing for another postseason berth.

Evans sealed an All-American nod on the honorable mention team, a first for the program. She averaged a double-double last season with 18.4 ppg and 11.0 rpg. She was the first sophomore in the program’s history to put up 1,000 points by her sophomore year.

“You knew she was special,” Kilburn-Steveskey said of Evans. “I remember

one of my assistants was watching at a gym one time and she said, ‘You’ve got to see this kid.’ She’s got incredible hands and feet, she’s got the size. [At Hofstra,] she felt like she could achieve her goal. I think she believed in what we said.”

Unlike the other teams in the top four, the Pride is looking to bounce back from a relatively down year.

“We know the ins and outs of how to win a game, keeping it together and maintaining,” Kilburn-Steveskey said. “The attitude is really exciting, pushing for great things. We feel like we can have a phenomenal year.”

The 2010 CAA tournament went the way of the Dukes, and Coach Kenny Brooks’s girls captured another title in 2011. Needless to say, after being ranked to finish third in the conference, James Madison is playing to prove their nay-sayers wrong.

“The last five years, we’ve had the Player of the Year. I think this year’s makeup is different; we’ll be a little more balanced basketball team,” Brooks said. “We’ve won two CAA Championships in a row. Our goal is to win another one. We started this year off with a little bit of a chip on our shoulder. You have to

use it as motivation.”They won the conference last year,

finishing with a 26-8 final record. As the No. 11 seed, the Dukes lost to No. 6 Oklahoma 86-72 in the Women’s NCAA Tournament at Charlottesville to close out their 2010-11 campaign.

“I think we have capable young ladies that can step in and fill the void due to graduation,” Brooks said. “I’m looking forward to these kids stepping up and getting their turn to carry on tradition. They’re excited and they’re looking for-ward to getting this thing going.”

Hofstra Pride

JMU Dukes

“The attitude is really exciting, pushing for great things. We feel like we can have a

phenomenal year.” Krista Kilburn-Steveskey

“We started this year off with a little bit of chip on our shoulder. You have to use it as motivation.” Kenny Brooks


If anyone decides to write a book about assistant coach Jim Lewis, he has the perfect title: “I Coached Your Momma and Your Daddy, too.”

“It’s true,” Lewis said. “I’ve started that circle. We’re recruiting a couple players whose mothers played for me here at Mason.”

Lewis has been coaching for more than 40 years, spending time at nearly every possible rank in women’s basketball. He began his career as an assistant at Tennessee State University in 1969 and coached a number of USA Basketball teams, winning three gold medals in three years. He received his first collegiate head coaching position at George Mason University in 1984 and coached the first ever Mason basketball game in the Patriot Center.

“We played even before the men did that night,” Lewis recalled.

After compiling a track record of success in Fairfax, Lewis left the collegiate ranks to become the first head coach of the

Washington Mystics in 1997. After several more pit stops over the course of 13 seasons, including a stint as the coach at T.C. Williams High School, Lewis reached out to Coach Jeri Porter this offseason in hopes of reuniting with the green and gold.

Hiring Lewis, who is the most winningest coach in the program’s history, was a no-brainer for Porter.

“I realize that when I hired Coach Lewis, a lot of people didn’t quite get it,” Porter said. “They didn’t really understand the thought process. But there’s

no way that, when given the opportunity, you don’t hire someone like [Lewis].”

While the state of the university has certainly changed since his departure, many things have remained constant.

With his 201 wins, Lewis is still the most storied coach in Mason women’s basketball history. But, if he has it his way, that record won’t stand long.

“I hope Coach Porter breaks it,” Lewis said. “Actually, I hope she breaks it this year.”

Lewis has retained his old school coaching style, as much of the admiration and respect he receives from the women stems from his

willingness to help them succeed on the floor. He is a frequent contributor at practice, running the floor and working up a sweat right alongside his players.

“That’s the only way I know how to do it,” he said. “I’m still a young guy at 64.”

Perhaps most telling, a simple mention of his name draws an affirmative reaction from the cur-rent players.

“He’s just a lot of fun to be around,” said sopho-more guard Amber Easter. ”How can you not smile when you hear his name?”

While Lewis was brought in to work with Mason’s current frontcourt, he also serves as a bridge to narrow the gap between past and pres-ent Patriots. And, despite being a legend, he has embraced his new role as an assistant coach and is excited for his return to the Mason Nation.

“It’s been 14 years and it feels like I left yesterday,” he said. “I couldn’t be happier to be home.”

“It’s been 14 years and it feels like I left yesterday. I couldn’t be happier to be home.”

Coming Home by Cody Norman


Cam Long is no stranger to the hardwood.

He enjoyed one of the most successful tenures in the history of Mason basketball,

posting an impressive 1,416 points over an illustrious four-year career. He was projected to go in the second round of the 2011 NBA Draft but, after falling short, signed a contract to play overseas in Siauliai, Lithuania – a place where the collegiate star is a stranger.

Before leaving to join his new team in August, Long thought back to the Patriots’ trip to Italy and expected his overseas bas-ketball venture to be equally fascinating.

“We had such a great time in Italy sight-seeing,” Long said. “The people were easy to talk to and some things were comparable to the states. I can’t say the same for out here.”

With little to no background in the native language, Long has struggled to adjust to a culture

in which he is an outsider. He has struggled to find an efficient way to communicate with his teammates, making it difficult for Long, the point guard, to call plays and direct traffic for his team.

“On the floor, there is no communicating

at all,” Long said. “As the point guard, how are you supposed to lead a team that might not understand you?”

Even in practice, Long has had a difficult time understanding offensive plays and de-fensive schemes. His coach speaks very little English and goes over game strategies in Lithuanian, leaving many of the American players, including Long, lost.

“There are times in practice that he’ll talk for a while and the translator on our team will say one sentence,” Long said. “So there is no telling what I am missing out on.”

For the first time in his life, Long has been forced to deal with such a rough transi-tion into an unfamiliar world on his own. Without his mother and his brother, who were regulars at Mason basketball games, in Lithuania with him, Long has had to learn to cope with the stress while doing his best to keep an open line of communication with his family back home.

Soon after Long arrived in Lithuania, he got word that his grandmother had passed away.

“We were very close,” Long said. “It’s defi-nitely tough on me. And it’s tough on my family.”

When Long was a young boy in Palm Bay, Fla., he spent a good bit of his time with

his grandmother. During summers and off-days, Long would walk through the door of her house at 7 a.m. to the smell of fresh eggs, grits, sausage and buttermilk biscuits.

“She used to throw down in the kitchen,” Long said. “I never ate a bowl of cereal at grandma’s house. There was no telling what she was going to cook, but whatever it was, I was definitely ready to eat.”

He and his grandmother developed an incredible bond over the years. She did her best to keep him entertained, all the while keeping him in line no matter how old he got.

“You go over there and do what you got to do, but hurry back home as soon as pos-sible,” his grandmother told Long, the last words she would tell him before her pass-ing. “Be safe and behave while you’re gone. If you don’t, you’ll have a whooping waiting for you when you get back home.”

Yet, through all the trials and tribulations involved in immersing himself in a new culture, Long appreciates the opportunity to play basketball overseas and would con-sider making it a career.

“If I’m going to different places, at least I can say I got the opportunity to travel the world,” Long said. “How many other people can say that?”

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As a diehard fan of Mason basketball, I’ve come across a variety of ups and downs over

the past two years. I try my hardest to push the ups above the downs in my mind because, after all, the ups have been pretty damn good. Even during the rare mishaps of Mason basketball, I still find the silver lining in the situation. When we got stomped

by Ohio State last season in the NCAA tournament, I couldn’t help but see the bright side of an incredible season as a whole. Or even Coach L leaving for Coral Gables was, of course, a stinger at first. But the signing of Coach Hewitt only showed promise for the future.

February 9, 2010. One of those dates that will go down in my book of unforgettable games. We hosted VCU in an insane 82-77

win in overtime. After going down 41-28 at the half we forced OT to win a huge game at home. I remember not only standing up for the entire game, but everyone was standing on their chairs for the game. At one point, I literally felt my chair rattling as every student was jumping up and down. What put the icing on the cake for me in this game was the fact that we beat VCU. I can’t stand the Rams. I’m even willing to bet that 99 percent of Mason fans would pick VCU if they could select any team they would like to see fall to Mason.

15 straight games. That’s how many games Mason won in a row last year. To top that all off, it was to close out the

regular season leading into the CAA tournament. The winning streak was an incredible way to close out the season and each game we just wanted to keep the streak going. Who knows how long it could have gone if we started it even earlier? Everyone has to remember that beard streak going along with the winning streak. In an interview with The Washington Post, Ryan Pearson said,

“Everybody come out here, we looking rough, we looking a little intimidating.” Maybe it was the team beards that helped contribute to the epic winning streak. Either way, going from 10-5 to 25-5 was a pretty sweet season ending streak. But no one could have predicted what was about to happen in the NCAA tournament.

Selection Sunday. All of the players and coaches were on stage in the Johnson Center with a giant television watching the se-

lection show with the fans. The only thing that would have been sweeter would have been CBS camera crews on site to watch our team’s reaction. Watching Mike Morrison and Ryan Pearson liter-ally jump out of their chairs as we got matched up with Villanova will just be another awesome image I will never forget.

Clutch in Cleveland. I have been to a lot of sporting events in my life, and many of them stand out as favorites. However, it

is exciting to say that the Mason vs. Villanova game will go down as the best game I have ever attended. First of all, just being in the atmosphere of the NCAA tournament was something that I’ve never experienced before. As the game got closer and closer to the final buzzer, the Mason faithful were getting more and more anx-ious when the score kept fluctuating. ‘Nova winning, now Mason winning, back to ‘Nova winning. However, once Luke Hancock hit that memorable 3-pointer my roommate Mark and I proceeded to share the most emotional man-hug of our lives. Between that hug, experiencing that game with my roommates, and Gus Johnson screaming “Hancock…AHHHH!” and “Exclamation point George Mason!” (Which will undoubtedly go down as one of my favor-ite sports calls of all time) made that game THE best I have ever attended.

The joy and excitement that Mason basketball has brought me over the past few years is absolutely incredible. No matter

what, I will always remember not just watching our Patriots play, but experiencing it as well. It feels good to know that I’ll always bleed the green and gold, and am honored to be able to forever call myself a part of Mason Nation.

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