athletes to be inducted into JP Morgan Chase Hall of Fame The JP Morgan Chase Scholarship Basketball Tournament inducts its eighth class into the JP Morgan Chase Scholarship Basketball Tournament Hall of Fame January 11-15. The Hall of Fame's Class of 2005 consists of center Jeanette Glover of Roberts Wesleyan College, who led her Raiders to their first tourney championship as the MVP of the 1998-99 event, and forward Guy Vickers of SUNY Brockport, who was a First Team All-Tournament pick on the Golden Eagles' 1971-72 and 1972-73 tourney title squads. Glover is her college's first Hall of Fame selection, while Vickers is Brockport's second Hall of Famer, joining 2003 Golden Eagle inductee Kristin Roseti. Glover, a Toronto, Ontario resident, and Vickers, who lives in Englewood, New Jersey, will be inducted on Sunday, January 9 at the tournament's Seedings and Pairings Dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the RIT Inn & Conference Center. Besides being the longest-running NCAA Division III Tournament in the country, the JP Morgan Chase is also the nation's largest in-season NCAA Division III basketball tournament with 16 squads, eight women's and eight men's teams, playing 24 games over five days at five campus sites. The participating area schools are Keuka College, Nazareth College, Roberts Wesleyan College, University of Rochester (defending men's and women's champs), RIT, St. John Fisher College, SUNY Brockport, and SUNY Geneseo. The women's (5:30 p.m.) and men's (8 p.m.) championship games will be held on Saturday, January 15 at RIT. Glover, a 5-8 center, earned MVP honors for the 1998-99 tournament after pacing Roberts Wesleyan to its first title (the women's tourney began play in 1993-94), leading the three-game event in scoring (25.3 ppg), rebounding (11.7 pg), and field goal shooting (30-50, 60.0 percent). The junior collected 20 points and her tournament career-best for rebounds (16) in the Raiders' 70-51 semi-final victory over three-time defending champ William Smith College, thus breaking the Herons' tourney-record 10-game win streak. She then notched her tournament career-best for points with 30 and added 10 rebounds in Roberts Wesleyan's 69-61 championship contest decision over St. John Fisher. Glover, who missed her senior season due to knee surgery, was a second Team All-Tournament pick in 1996-97 (13.7 ppg, 10.0 rpg, Raiders finished 7th) and 1997-98 (Roberts was 5th, she led tourney in scoring with 22.0 ppg and was second in rebounds with 12.7 pg and steals with 3.3 pg). In nine (6-3) tournament games, Glover averaged 20.3 points, 11.4 rebounds, and 2.6 steals per contest, hitting 58.7 percent (71-121) from the field and 61.2 percent (41-67) from the foul line. She set four tournament records: most career points (183) and rebounds (103), and most field goals made in one tourney (30 in 1998-99) and one game (13 vs. Fisher in 1998-99). Glover, who graduated in 2000 as a dean's list elementary education and psychology major, finished her three-year career (60-33) under head coach Mike Faro with 13 Raider records, including her team's all-time marks for most points (1597) and rebounds (981). The 1996 graduate of Paul B. Smith Academy in Toronto is presently teaching at the International School of Bucharest in Romania after playing professional basketball in Western Australia during the 2000-01 season. Vickers, a 6-4, 185 lb. defensive-minded forward who played in the tournament's pre-expansion (four teams) era, was a First Team All-Tournament selection on Brockport's 1971-72 and 1972-73 tourney title squads. The transfer from University of Buffalo averaged 14.5 points and 7.0 rebounds per game as a sophomore as the Golden Eagles claimed the 1971-72 two-game event by running past St. John Fisher 107-76 in the title contest. He led the 1972-73 tournament in rebounding (12.5 pg) and field goal shooting (17-29, 58.6 percent) while averaging a fourth-highest 19.5 ppg as Brockport edged St. John Fisher 91-82 in the double-overtime championship game, in which Vickers totaled his tournament career-bests for points (30) and rebounds (17). As a senior in 1973-74, he averaged 11.5 ppg as the Golden Eagles downed Roberts Wesleyan 101-58 for third place. In six (5-1) tournament games, Vickers averaged 15.2 points and 9.5 rebounds per contest. Vickers, who graduated in 1974 as a social work major, finished his three-year career (63-18) as a starter under head coach Mauro Panaggio as Brockport's sixth career scorer (942 points) and ninth all-time rebounder (451). The 1969 graduate of Elmira (N.Y.) Free Academy, who was an Honorable Mention All-American in 1972-73 when Brockport (24-6) finished fourth in the NCAA College Division National Championship Tournament, is presently the vice president of community affairs and president of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation in New York City. |
