2008 Woodie Awards
Men's Basketball
By: Tom Parr
Issue date: 12/1/05 Section: Sports
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The early part of the schedule was noticeably grueling with games against ranked Hanover College and Transylvania University in the Sodexho Classic at Maryville University.
Webster senior forward Christian Basillio was selected to the All Tournament team, one of the few bright spots of the tourney.
Two other tough road losses came Nov. 22 at Washington University and most recently Nov. 26 at University of Tennessee-Martin, a Division I school.
"It was tough competition," said junior center Ben Monnig. "Hanover was ranked ninth, Wash U. is always tough and Tennesse-Martin is a D-I school. With the exception of the Transylvania game, we played tough."
The Nov. 26 Tennessee-Martin game had early promise for the Gorloks as the visitors even led 26-24 with seven minutes left in the first half before the University of Tennessee-Martin began to pull away.
Webster had no answer for the UT-Martin backcourt of Jared Newson and Jeremy Kelly who dropped a combined 44 points on the Gorloks.
Still, not a bad outing considering UT-Martin had just come off a loss to D-I power Louisville and goes on to play Purdue and Illinois later in their campaign.
Sophomore Corey Kuhn scored 16 points and sophomore Darin Hoggatt added 12 off the bench.
The Gorloks hit the road again, this time traveling to Eureka College Wednesday before finally playing home at 7 p .m. Dec. 3 in Grant Gymnasium against Millikin University.
That is a game that Monnig and the Gorloks are looking forward to.
"It'll be good to get on our floor in front of our fans," Monnig said.