Mode: | Basketball |
Year: | 2009–10 |
Team: | Old Dominion Monarchs |
Conference: | Colonial Athletic Association |
Short Conf: | CAA |
Record: | 27–9 |
Conf Record: | 15–3 |
Asst Coach1: | Jim Corrigan |
Asst Coach2: | John Richardson |
Asst Coach3: | Robert Wilkes |
Champion: | CAA tournament & regular season champions |
Tourney Result: | Round of 32 |
Sex: | none |
The 2009–10 Old Dominion Monarchs basketball team represented Old Dominion University in the 2009–10 college basketball season. This was head coach Blaine Taylor's ninth season at Old Dominion. The Monarchs compete in the Colonial Athletic Association and played their home games at the Ted Constant Convocation Center. They finished the season 27–9, 15–3 in CAA play to win the regulars season championship. They also won the 2010 CAA men's basketball tournament to earn the CAA's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. They earned an 11 seed in the South Region where they upset 6 seed Notre Dame in the first round before losing to 3 seed and AP #19 Baylor in the second round.
In the CAA preseason polls, released October 20 in Washington, D.C., Old Dominion was predicted to finish first in the CAA.[1] Sr. C/F Gerald Lee was selected to the preseason all conference first team and was picked as the conference preseason co - player of the year with Hofstra's Charles Jenkins. Jr. G/F Ben Finney was a preseason conference honorable mention.
Monarch Men's Basketball 2009–2010 roster | |||||||
G/F | 24 | Kent Bazemore | Sophomore (RS) | 6'5", 190 lb | (Kelford, North Carolina) | ||
F | 33 | Keyon Carter | Junior (RS) | 6'8", 218 lb | (Riveiera Beach, Florida) | ||
F | 20 | Chris Cooper | Sophomore | 6'9", 215 lb | (Woodridge, Virginia) | ||
G | 22 | Marquel De Lancey | Sophomore | 6'0", 190 lb | (Alexandria, Virginia) | ||
G/F | 35 | Ben Finney | Junior | 6'5", 220 lb | (Portsmouth, Virginia) | ||
F | 21 | Frank Hassell | Junior (RS) | 6'8", 245 lb | (Chesapeake, Virginia) | ||
G | 2 | Josh Hicks | Freshman | 5'9, 160 lb | (Virginia Beach, Virginia) | ||
G | 15 | Trian Iliadis | Sophomore | 6'3", 185 lb | (Perth, W. Australia) | ||
G | 3 | Darius James | Junior | 6'1", 165 lb | (Virginia Beach, Virginia) | ||
C/F | 40 | Anton Larsen | Freshman | 7'0, 240 lb | (Copenhagen, Denmark) | ||
F | 12 | Gerald Lee | Senior | 6'10", 250 lb | (Uusikaupunki, Finland) | ||
G | 23 | Marsharee Neely | Senior | 6'2", 190 lb | (Greensboro, North Carolina) | ||
F | 1 | Nick Wright | Freshman (RS) | 6'8", 205 lb | (Suffolk, Virginia) | ||
Source[2]
|-!colspan=9| Exhibition|-!colspan=9| Regular Season|-!colspan=10| 2010 CAA men's basketball tournament|-!colspan=10| 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament