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SUNY Cobleskill's McCarthy Among Six Candidates Inducted into NJCAA Basketball Hall of Fame for 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The 2012
Basketball Hall of Fame class has been released by the NJCAA
Men’s Basketball Coaches Association. The 2012 class
includes one of the best national tournament players in NJCAA
history, Jim Boyce of Burlington Junior College (now known as
Southeastern Community College, Iowa), as well as former Vincennes
University (Ind.) players Carl Landry and Clarence Walker.
Three deserving coaches making up this year’s class includes
Gene Bahnsen of Wharton County Junior College (Texas), Buster
Gilliss of Bismarck State College (N.D.) and Kevin McCarthy of SUNY
Cobleskill (N.Y.).
Since its inception in 1984, a total of 130 coaches, players and
special contributors have been inducted into the NJCAA Men’s
Basketball Coaches Assn. Hall of Fame.
Bahnsen, Boyce, Landry and Walker will be honored at the 2012
NJCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship banquet on
March 19 in Hutchinson, Kan. Gilliss will be honored at the 2012
NJCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship banquet on
March 19 in Danville, Ill. McCarthy will be honored at the NJCAA
Division III Men’s Basketball Championship banquet on March
14 in Loch Sheldrake, N.Y.
Kevin McCarthy
Head Coach
SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, N.Y.
In 17 seasons as the head coach of SUNY Cobleskill, Kevin McCarthy
led the NJCAA Division III program to 339 wins and posted a 74.4
winning percentage. He led the Tigers to 13 consecutive 20-plus win
seasons with several milestones in-between.
Under McCarthy the Tigers won three Region 3 Championships and
advanced to the NJCAA Division III Men’s Basketball
Tournament three times (1998, 2005, 2008) – twice qualifying
to the semifinals (1998 and 2008).
He won NJCAA District Coach of the Year honors three times and
Mountain Valley Conference Coach of the Year four times. He was
also named New York State BCANY Coach of the Year in 1998 and in
2010 was named to the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame.
McCarthy has received several honors during his career recognizing
his uncompromised integrity. He received the Guardian of the Game
Award for Educational Excellence in 2004 from the National
Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the National Award for
Ethics, Integrity, Service and Success in 2009 from the NJCAA
Men’s Basketball Coaches Association.
A former NJCAA basketball player at Clinton Community College
(N.Y.) in the early 1970s after completing an exceptional prep
career at Fort Edward High School in his hometown of Fort Edward,
N.Y., McCarthy would move on to Plattsburgh State University in
Plattsburgh, N.Y., where he would continue his basketball career
and earn his undergraduate degree.
McCarthy has represented the interests of the two-year college
basketball community from 1996-2008 as a member of the NABC Junior
College Advisory Board and was a member of the NJCAA Men’s
Basketball Coaches Association board of directors for 12 years. He
also served as the head coach of the NJCAA All-Star team in
2006.
In addition to coaching, McCarthy has served as SUNY
Cobleskill’s athletic director since 1996 – a position
he still holds today – and was the 2004 National Association
of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Junior College Athletic
Director of the Year.
*Release courtesy of Mark Krug, NJCAA Director of Media
Relations & Assistant Executive Director
