CU, FSU, UC Top WVIAC Women's Basketball Coaches' Poll

(PRINCETON, W.Va.)---If the annual coaches' poll is any indication, the 2007-08 WVIAC women's basketball season is slated to be one of change.  The league's head coaches have selected Concord as the favorite to claim the school's first-ever WVIAC regular season title.  Traditional powerhouse Glenville State is picked eleventh after a tumultous off-season.  Add newcomers Pitt Johnstown and Seton Hill to the mix and it could be a very interesting season in the WVIAC women's basketball ranks.

Concord received nine first place votes to sit atop the poll.  Second place Fairmont State got four nods for the top spot and is second.  Charleston garnered the remaining two first place votes to place third.  West Liberty State and Shepherd round out the top five.

Pitt Johnstown, Wheeling Jesuit, and West Virginia complete the upper half of the predictions in sixth through eighth.  Seton Hill, Salem International, Glenville State, and Ohio Valley sit in the ninth through twelveth spots.  Alderson-Broaddus, West Virginia State, Bluefield State, and Davis & Elkins complete the balloting.
 

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Former All-American and Successful Prep School Coach Danny Sancomb To Return to Wheeling Jesuit

WHEELING, WV, Aug. 1, 2007 — Former Cardinal star basketball player and men’s assistant basketball coach Danny Sancomb has agreed to return to Wheeling Jesuit University, this time to do double duty as athletic director and head men’s basketball coach. When Sancomb was last part of the Cardinal men’s staff, the University dominated the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) with back-to-back 20-win seasons, only the second time in the school’s basketball history.

He replaces Jay DeFruscio, who moved on to the NBA Indiana Pacers this past June as an assistant to head coach Jim O’Brien, also a former WJU men’s basketball coach.

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