by Jimmy McCollum | Nov 2, 2011 | Sports
Jordan Burgason scored 19 points to pace Lipscomb to a 97-69 win over Freed-Hardeman Tuesday night. The Bisons defense had 16 steals and forced 24 turnovers. Lipscomb, as expected, got plenty of contributions from their freshmen. Malcolm Smith had 14 points and eight rebounds. Starting guard Zavion Williams added 12 points and eight rebounds. Damarius Smith, a redshirt freshman starter, scored seven points and had six rebounds. Check out the game coverage below by Lumination reporters David Ball and Mike Coscia, as well as the in-game blog by Lumination Editor-in-Chief Hunter Patterson. Please upgrade your browser Photo Credit: Whitney Jarreld...
by Hunter Patterson | Oct 5, 2010 | News Slider, Sports
ESPN had hoped an exhibition basketball game it was planning to promote a book written about former Lipscomb basketball coach Don Meyer by one of the network’s reporters would be played at Allen Arena. But, because the Bisons had other commitments — including a game against Stillman College and a trip to the “Dean Dome” to play North Carolina — during the same time period, the inaugural Don Meyer Classic is going to be played at the Curb Event Center and feature Lipscomb’s rivals, Belmont University. The plan, as put forward by the author, ESPN baseball analyst Buster Olney — who covered Lipscomb and Belmont during his stint at the Nashville Banner — was to have the classic pit two of Meyer’s former basketball teams — LU and Northern State in Aberdeen, S.D. — against each other. The game is to be played on Nov. 9, the date the book, How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer , is to be published by ESPN Books. For last few years, Olney has been working on the book about Meyer’s life. Meyer received the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at the 2009 ESPYs for his courage after cancer was discovered in his body during surgery to remove a leg after he was in a near-fatal car wreck in 2008. His will to win on and off the court is chronicled in the book about the coach who has victories by any men’s coach in NCAA basketball history. He is also known for his influential coaching style and his five C’s to a successful team: Concentration, Courtesy, Communication, Competition and Consistency. It was a matter of logistics and the determination to fulfill a previous commitment that had Lipscomb...
