The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks won their second consecutive Southland Conference regular season championship tonight with a 66-62 win at UT-San Antonio. And if Danny Kaspar doesn't win Southland Conference Coach of the Year, then the people who vote for it should never be allowed to vote again... for ANYTHING.
Coach Kaspar has taken a program that was not just in the toilet, it was backing up the entire sewer system. SFA had won just 10 games in the two seasons prior to Kaspar's hiring.
In the nine years since, Kaspar has coaches the Jacks to 155 wins, four 20-win seasons, an NIT appearance, and two regular season league championships. And in the process, he has been able coach some very unheralded players who were hardly recruited by anyone else into tough, productive winners. A classic example is the job Kaspar has done with center Matt Kingsley.
The Jacks will open Southland Conference Tournament play as the top seed. They will play No. 8 Southeastern Louisiana (13-16, 7-9 SLC) Thursday night in the first round of the SLC Tournament. SFA has already clinched a berth in the NIT, but what they really want is the Tournament Championship. That would put SFA in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in history.
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