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JUCO basketball championship
Chipola College Indians take out Florida Title The Chipola College
Indians captured the men’s FCCAA/Region VIII state Basketball Championship
Saturday with a 71-59 win over defending champion Okaloosa-Walton.
The Indians, who had beaten OW three times in the regular season, Chipola followed with a 7-0 run to go up 42-23 at the break.
Foster opened the second half with a jumper and then a three to
give the Indians a 47-23 lead, their biggest of the night.
OW rallied with a 7-0 run to get within 10 of the Indians with 5
minutes remaining. But it was too little, too late, as the Indians went on
to win by 12. |
Chipola’s first year head coach Chris Jans, said, “We’re looking
forward to playing at nationals. I feel like we’ve got just as good a chance
as anybody out there.”
Chipola finished the season at 29-3.
Chipola defeated Broward, 81-64, on Friday in the semi-finals. The Indians beat Florida Community College, Jacksonville, 85-72, Wednesday in the first round.
It has been a season of
firsts for Chipola. In the first season since being renamed
Chipola College, first-year coach Chris Jans was named Panhandle Coach of the Year. And
for the first time since 1998, the Indians won the conference
championship.
First on the list of reasons for Chipola’s success is Je’kel Foster who
was named Panhandle Conference Player of the Year. Foster is first
in the state in free-throw percentage, shooting an unbelievable 85
percent from the line. He averaged 17.3 points per game, ranking number
13 on the state scoring list.
Chesapeake College
In his first regular season at the helm of the Chipola program, head coach Chris Jans led his Indians to an 11-1 league record and 30-3 overall, pushing his career record to 157-43. Jans came to Chipola from Howard College in Big Spring, TX, where he led Howard to an overall record of 29-4 in 2003. Jans' captured the 1998 NJCAA National Championship in his first head coaching job at Kirkwood CC (Cedar Rapids, IA).
Chipola entered the
tournament as the top-ranked team in Florida and fifth in the national
poll.
Chipola advances to the NJCAA National Tournament, March
16-20, in Hutchinson, KS.
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