Men's Basketball

Morningside will hold a boys basketball individual day camp from June 11-14 for boys who will be in grades K-8 during the 2012-13 school year.

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The Mustangs will host a four-person scramble on Friday, June 22, at Whispering Creek Golf Club.

Entry fee is $60 per player and includes green fee, card, food, and prizes.

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Morningside College men’s basketball head coach Jim Sykes has announced the addition of two high scoring high school recruits who will join the Mustangs for the 2012-13 season.

The recruits are Brock Giles, a 6-0 guard from Saltillo, Texas, and Collin Schrader, a 6-2 forward from Wall Lake, Iowa, who both averaged over 20 points per game this past season.

Giles is a senior at Saltillo High School, where he averaged 21.3 points per game and led the state with 102 3-point field goals this past season.

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Danny Rudeen, a 6-3 sophomore guard from Sioux City, received the Most Valuable Player award for the Morningside College men’s basketball team at the Mustangs’ post-season awards banquet.

Rudeen was the Mustangs’ leading scorer and third leading rebounder this season with averages of 15.0 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. He ranked second on the team with 79 assists and third with 34 steals for norms of 2.5 assists and 1.1 steals per contest. Rudeen led the Mustangs with 26 double figure scoring performances, including a career-high 24 points in an 89-71 victory against York College on Jan. 5.

Rudeen, who has a 3.85 cumulative grade point average with a major in computer science, also received the Mustangs’ Academic Player of the Year award.

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Trent Miller, a 6-1 junior guard from Gretna, Neb., broke the Morningside College record for steals in a season during the recently completed 2011-12 men’s basketball season.

Miller had 79 steals to break the former Morningside record of 73 steals by Dusty Wadlington in the 2000-01 campaign. Aside from leading the team in steals, Miller also topped the Mustangs with 153 assists. He ranked fifth nationally in the NAIA Division II with an average of 2.5 steals per game and 13th with an average of 4.9 assists per contest. Miller averaged 6.4 points and 3.5 rebounds per game as the Mustangs’ starting point guard.

Miller, a two-year starter, will enter his senior season with career totals of 320 assists and 157 steals to put him within striking distance of the Morningside school-record totals of 425 career assists by Joel Weyand from 1993-97 and 185 career steals by Jack Rother from 2004-08.

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Garth Hamilton and Kevin Zoz have been named 2011-12 Daktronics-NAIA Men's Basketball Scholar-Athletes.

Hamilton, a 6-7 senior center from Lincoln, Neb., has a 3.69 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with a major in psychology counseling.

Zoz, a 6-1 senior guard from Murdock, Neb., has a 3.55 cumulative GPA with a major in business administration.

Student-athletes must be of at least junior academic status and have a minimum GPA of 3.50 in order to be eligible for Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors.

Click here for the complete list of 2011-12 Daktronics-NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Scholar-Athletes.

Danny Rudeen, a 6-3 sophomore guard from Sioux City, was named to the 2011-12 All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Basketball First-Team as selected by the league’s head coaches.

Rudeen was the Mustangs’ leading scorer and third leading rebounder this season with averages of 15.0 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. He also ranked second on the team with 79 assists and third with 34 steals for norms of 2.5 assists and 1.1 steals per contest. Rudeen was the Mustangs’ top scorer in 13 of their 31 contests.

In addition to Rudeen, the Mustangs placed Garth Hamilton and Trent Miller on the All-GPAC Second-Team.

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Garth Hamilton and Danny Rudeen have been named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America College Division Men’s Basketball Team as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Hamilton, a 6-7 senior center from Lincoln, Neb., was named to the Academic All-America Second Team, while Rudeen, a 6-3 sophomore guard from Sioux City, was tabbed to the Academic All-America Third Team.

Hamilton has a 3.69 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with a major in psychology counseling. He is averaging 11.9 points per game and is the Mustangs’ leading rebounder with a norm of 6.9 caroms per game. Hamilton is the 23rd leading scorer in Morningside history with 1,000 career points.

Rudeen has a 3.85 cumulative GPA with a major in computer science. He is the Mustangs’ leading scorer with an average of 15.0 points per game to compliment an average of 4.3 rebounds per game.

Athletes must be of at least sophomore academic status, be a starter or significant reserve, and have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher to be eligible for Capital One Academic honors.

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Garth Hamilton, a 6-7 senior center from Lincoln, Neb., has been named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Men’s Basketball Player of the Week.

Hamilton averaged 21.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 3.0 assists per game and made 14 of 26 field goal attempts for 53.8 percent and 15 of 18 free throw attempts for 83.3 percent in the Mustangs’ two contests last week.

He scored a career-high 27 points to go along with five rebounds to lead Morningside in both categories in a 77-71 victory against Concordia University last Saturday in Seward, Neb. Hamilton posted his second double-double of the season earlier in the week when he had 16 points and a season’s high 12 rebounds and five assists in a 71-69 loss against Grand View University.

Hamilton is the Mustangs’ second leading scorer and top rebounder with averages of 13.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.

Morningside will take a 6-3 record, including a 3-0 record in the GPAC, into a Wednesday home conference game against Dakota Wesleyan University.

The majority of Morningside men’s and women’s basketball games are broadcast on Clear Channel Radio/KWSL 1470 AM.

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Most of Morningside's home men's and women's basketball games are also broadcast live by the college's campus radio station KMSC 92.9 FM. In addition, a live video stream is also available for most Morningside home men's and women's basketball games.