ROCK HILL, SC—Winthrop head men’s basketball coach Pat Kelsey announced a 30-game schedule for the 2015-16 season that features 15 home games and the Preseason NIT. The schedule includes 12 non-conference matchups and 16 league contests as the Eagles look to prepare themselves for a run with hopes of playing in the NCAA Tournament. “This […]
ROCK HILL, SC— Winthrop women’s basketball head coach Kevin Cook has announced the Eagles will play a 29-game schedule in 2016-17 which includes 15 regular season home contests and road games against powerhouse Baylor, Ohio State, and an appearance in the Paradise Jam tournament during Thanksgiving. For the first year since the 2012-13 season Winthrop […]
ROCK HILL, SC—Basketball legend Lynette Woodard, a two-time U.S. Olympian, a four-time All-American, the all-time Division I women’s scoring leader, a 10-time Hall of Fame inductee, and the first woman to play for the world-renowned Harlem Globetrotters has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Winthrop women’s basketball program, it was announced today by head […]
ROCK HILL SC—Former University of Kentucky player Amani Franklin, a native of Stone Mountain, Georgia, has been named the Director of Basketball Operations for Winthrop women’s basketball, it was announced today by head coach Kevin Cook. Franklin was a four-year member of the Kentucky Wildcats team that reached the 2010 NCAA Tournament Elite 8. She […]
ROCK HILL, SC— Former Winthrop men’s basketball standout Jimmy Gavin signed a contract to play with the NBA’s Orlando Magic for the 2016 summer league. Gavin, who worked out for the Orlando on May 20th in a pre-draft workout, signed with the Magic following Thursday’s NBA Draft. Gavin has been working tirelessly to prepare for […]
ROCK HILL, SC—The Winthrop women’s basketball team is set to play in the 2016 Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands when the Eagles travel to the Caribbean during Thanksgiving for the three-day tournament that will take place Nov. 24-26 at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center in Charlotte Amalie. The Eagles will begin […]
ROCK HILL SC—Winthrop women’s basketball coach Kevin Cook has announced that former LSU standout Ashley Johnson has been hired as an assistant coach leaving one coaching position still to be filled. Johnson’s playing career spanned from 2004 to 2008 as she helped lead LSU to four consecutive appearances in the Final Four and three Southeastern […]
