Northwestern University Athletics
Duvancic to Join Big Ten Foreign Touring Team
7/20/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
July 20, 2004
EVANSTON, Ill. - The Big Ten Men's Basketball Foreign Tour Team roster was announced today by Conference officials, and Northwestern will be represented by senior Davor Duvancic.
Penn State head coach Ed DeChellis -- who will lead the touring team -- put together a squad comprised of 12 student-athletes from the conference's 11 schools. The tour runs from August 10-20, and is tentatively scheduled to include five games in France and Italy.
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Duvancic played in all 29 of Northwestern's games last season, starting 13 of them and averaging nearly 30 minutes per outing. He averaged 6.3 and 2.8 rebounds per game, dished out 65 assists and had 16 steals. He returns this season as the only senior scholarship player on the Wildcat roster.
The League's last Foreign Tour Team in 2002 produced seven eventual All-Big Ten selections, including a two-time Second Team honoree in Michigan State's Chris Hill and three Third Team picks in Illinois' Roger Powell, Northwestern's Winston Blake and Ohio State's Velimir Radinovic. Since 1991, two of the Foreign Tour Team's leading scorers have developed into First Team All-Conference picks (Indiana's Greg Graham and Iowa's Andre Woolridge) while Purdue's Brad Miller, who led the 1996 team with 16.0 points per game, took part in last year's NBA All-Star game.
The 2004 Foreign Tour Team will include a pair of DeChellis' own players in Kevin Fellows and Marlon Smith. Smith was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team last season after sharing the Penn State scoring lead with 13.4 points per contest, which ranked second among all League freshmen. Fellows enters his senior season after seeing action in 68 career games.
In addition to Smith, the roster includes four other guards in Indiana's Marshall Strickland, Iowa's Adam Haluska, Purdue's Brandon McKnight and Wisconsin's Clayton Hanson. Strickland was an Honorable Mention All-Big Ten and Academic All-Conference honoree last season after ranking second on the Hoosiers with 10.8 points per game. Haluska redshirted last year at Iowa after transferring from Iowa State, where he averaged 9.2 points per contest and earned All-Freshman Team accolades. McKnight started all 31 games at the point guard position last season and ranked third on the team with a career-best 9.0 points per outing. Wisconsin's Hanson was an effective weapon off the bench for the 2004 Big Ten Tournament Champions and garnered Academic All-Big Ten laurels for the second straight year.
The Foreign Tour Team includes four student-athletes who play the forward position in Duvancic, Illinois' Warren Carter, Michigan State's Delco Rowley and Minnesota's Dan Coleman. In his first year in Champaign, Carter played in 17 games for the Big Ten Champion Fighting Illini and tallied a season-best nine points in the team's opening game. After redshirting his first season on campus, Rowley worked his way into the MSU starting lineup before suffering a knee injury that sidelined him for nine games. Coleman, a Minneapolis native, sat out last season after transferring from Boston College.
DeChellis will also have three centers to choose from in Fellows, Michigan's Amadou Ba and Ohio State's Matt Marinchick. Ba, a native of Africa who speaks five different languages including French, played in seven games last season. Marinchick enters his senior campaign as a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection after playing in 14 games with his first career start last season.
2004 BIG TEN MEN'S BASKETBALL FOREIGN TOUR ROSTER
School -- Player (Pos., Yr., Ht., Wt.) Howetown/High School
ILL -- Warren Carter (F, SO, 6-9, 205) Dallas, TX/ Lake Highlands
IND -- Marshall Strickland (G, JR, 6-2, 195) Winfield, MD/South Carroll
IOWA -- Adam Haluska (G, SO, 6-5, 210) Carroll, IA/Carroll
MICH -- Amadou Ba (C, SO, 6-10, 250) Mauritania, Africa/Bridgton Academy (ME)
MSU -- Delco Rowley (F, SO, 6-8, 250) Indianapolis, IN/Arlington
MINN -- Dan Coleman (F, SO, 6-9, 215) Minneapolis, MN/Hopkins
NU -- Davor Duvancic (F, SR, 6-8, 220) Split, Croatia/MIOC Math School
OSU -- Matt Marinchick (C, SR, 6-10, 260) Hudson, OH/Hudson
PSU -- Kevin Fellows (C, SR, 6-10, 244) Meridian, ID/Meridian
PSU -- Marlon Smith (G, SO, 6-0, 203) Bronx, NY/Archbishop Molloy
PUR -- Brandon McKnight (G, SR, 6-2, 183) South Bend, IN/LaSalle
WIS -- Clayton Hanson (G, SR, 6-5, 195) Reedsburg, WI/Reedsburg
2004 BIG TEN MEN'S BASKETBALL FOREIGN TOUR SCHEDULE
Day, Date -- Opponent/Event (Site)
Tuesday, Aug. 10 -- Depart for France
Wednesday, Aug. 11 -- NO GAME
Thursday, Aug. 12 -- NO GAME
Friday, Aug. 13 -- Frejus Basketball Club (Frejus, France)
Saturday, Aug. 14 -- Marseille-Fos Basketball Club (Marseille, France)
Sunday, Aug. 15 -- Depart for Italy
Monday, Aug. 16 -- Casale Monferrato Basketball Club (Casale Monferrato, Italy)
Tuesday, Aug. 17 -- NO GAME
Wednesday, Aug. 18 -- Casalpusterlengo Basketball Club (Casalpusterlengo, Italy)
Thursday, Aug. 19 -- Cremona Basketball Club (Cremona, Italy)
Friday, Aug. 20 -- Depart for United States
