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Kerry Keating enjoyed one of the Broncos most
successful season in 2010-11, leading them to 24
wins – the second most in school history – and the
CollegeInsider.com Post-Season Tournament
Championship. Kevin Foster was named to the All-WCC
First Team and an NABC All-District honoree; Evan
Roquemore was named to the Freshman All-WCC Team and
Troy Payne was named the WCC Defensive Player of the
Year.
The Broncos also set eight team records, seven
individual season records, two individual career
records and four freshman individual records in
2010-11. Foster, who averaged a WCC-leading 20.2 ppg
in 2010-11, was named by CollegeInsider.com to the
Mid-Major All-America Team and the WCC’s Most
Valuable Player. His 140 three’s were No. 1
nationally and No. 9 all-time in the NCAA. Both
Foster and Marc Trasolini scored their 1000th point
this season. All four seniors – Ben Dowdell, Troy
Payne, Nate Mensah and Michael Santos – will
graduate in June 2011.
Keating led the Broncos to 11 wins in 2009-10 and a
fifth-place finish in the league. Marc Trasolini was
named all-league and Robert Smith was named to the
Freshman All-WCC team.
Keating led the Broncos to 16 wins in 2009-10 and a
trip to the West Coast Conference Tournament
semi-finals. In addition to Bryant being named the
WCC Player of the Year, Foster was named the WCC
Newcomer of the Year. Three Broncos were named to
the WCC All-Freshman team with the trio breaking 10
Bronco freshmen records.
It was a record-setting year for the Broncos, who
won the 2008 Cable Car Classic with an 89-88
overtime win vs. UTEP. Bryant became the first
Bronco in school history to score 1,600+ points,
grab 1,100+ rebounds and block 200+ shots. Bryant
finished his career at Santa Clara No. 1 in rebounds
(1,152), No. 1 in blocks (246) and No. 6 in scoring
(1,667). He was No. 1 in the country in
double-doubles, rebounds per game and total rebounds
during regular season play.
Foster's 85 three-pointers in 2009 broke two-time
NBA MVP Steve Nash's Bronco record. Nash set the SCU
record in 1995 when he made 84. Foster also broke
the single season record for three pointers
attempted with 232, breaking the Bronco record set
by Kyle Bailey in 2005 when he attempted 198. In
addition, Trasolini broke the Bronco record for
single season shooting percentage, hitting 68.1% -
shattering a 37-year old record set by Mike Stewart
in 1972 when Stewart shot 64.7%.
Michael Santos and Ben Dowdell were both named to
the WCC Academic Honor Roll with the men's team
posting a 3.1 GPA in the Spring 2009 quarter.
Keating's first Bronco team won 15 games in 2007-08,
finishing fourth in the WCC as the eight-team league
sent a record three teams to the 2008 NCAA
Tournament. Both Brody Angley and John Bryant were
named to the West Coast Conference First Team.
Angley broke the school record for minutes played in
a season; and Bryant led the WCC in blocks and
rebounds and was second in scoring. Bryant broke the
SCU career blocks record, entering his senior year
with 162, and single season record for blocks with
76 his junior year. Mitch Henke was named the WCC
Postgraduate Male Athlete of the Year. In addition,
all four seniors graduated.
Keating was named the 14th men's basketball coach in
Santa Clara history on April 6, 2007 and was
introduced to the media at a press conference on
April 9, 2007. Keating came to Santa Clara after
serving four seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA,
helping the Bruins to Final Four appearances in 2006
and `07. Keating is only the fifth SCU head coach
since Bob Feerick took the reigns of the program in
1950 and the first Bronco men's basketball head
coach to be hired without having attended or coached
as an assistant at SCU since 1926 when Harlan Dykes
was hired as head coach.
Keating made a name for himself as one of the top
recruiters in the nation as well as one of the most
technologically innovative coaches in college
basketball. At UCLA, in addition to helping UCLA to
back-to-back Final Four appearances during Keatings
tenure, the Bruins won two Pac-10 titles, made three
NCAA Tournament appearances and collected a 91-41
record.
Keating played a pivotal role in bringing All-Pac-10
guard Darren Collison to the Bruins, the 21st
overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft by the New
Orleans Hornets. In addition, Keating assisted in
the development of former Bruin Jordan Farmar (L.A.
Lakers) and Arron Afflalo (Detroit Pistons), both
NBA first round picks. He recruited and aided in the
athletic maturation of Russell Westbrook, who was
drafted No. 4 in the 2008 NBA Draft (Oklahoma City
Thunder). Keating was also responsible for signing
Kevin Love, the No. 1 high school player in the
country, who went on to be a first-team All-American
and the Pac-10 Player of the Year his freshman year.
Love was the No. 5 pick in the 2008 NBA Draft and is
now with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
In 2005, Rivals.com tapped Keating as one of the
country's Top 25 collegiate recruiters, and in 2004,
he was featured in a USA Today article about the
rigors of college basketball recruiting. With a
respected knowledge of technology and its use in
recruiting, Keating was featured in articles about
the topic in both the Los Angeles Times and The
Chronicle of Higher Education, in addition to
serving as a frequent clinician on the topic. In
2003, Scout.com named Keating the "most high tech"
assistant in the nation. In the 2003-04 Athlon
Sports College Basketball Preseason Magazine,
Keating was named one of the Top 10 assistant
coaches in the U.S. His recruiting efforts helped
UCLA earn the nation's No. 4 incoming freshman class
in 2004 (Rivals.com) and the No. 13 recruiting class
in 2005 (Scout.com); and the No. 1 player in 2007,
Kevin Love.
During his two seasons at Tennessee (2001-03) under
Buzz Peterson, Keating helped the Volunteers land
top-ranked recruiting classes - highlighted in 2003
by freshman C.J. Watson, who led the Southeastern
Conference in minutes played and was the league
leader in assists. In 2002-03, Tennessee was 17-12
overall and advanced to the first round of the NIT.
Prior to Tennessee, he spent the 2000-01 season
under Peterson at Tulsa in the Western Athletic
Conference. That season the Golden Hurricane was
26-11 overall and won the NIT crown.
From 1998-2000, Keating was an assistant coach under
Peterson at Appalachian State in Boone, N.C. During
those two years, the Mountaineers were 44-17
overall, won two regular season conference titles,
made two appearances in the Southern Conference
championship game and earned a 2000 NCAA berth. At
ASU, he worked with backcourt players and was also
responsible for on-campus recruiting and scheduling.
Keating helped aid in the development of Tyson
Patterson, the 2000 Southern Conference Player of
the Year.
Keating's coaching relationship with Peterson began
in the Southeastern Conference at Vanderbilt in
1994-95, when they were both assistants on Jan van
Breda Kolff'ss staff at Vanderbilt. Keating and
Peterson, now the head coach at Appalachian State
after a spell with the Charlotte Bobcats, worked
together at four different schools. Before his stint
at Appalachian State, Keating spent three seasons
(1995-98) at his alma mater, Seton Hall, as an
assistant coach under George Blaney and Tommy Amaker.
With the Pirates, Keating helped produce two All-Big
East guards, Shaheen Holloway and Lavell Sanders,
along with current Milwaukee Bucks forward Adrian
Griffin.
From 1993-94, Keating was an administrative
assistant under Dave Odom at Wake Forest. The Demon
Deacons, led by Randolph Childress and Tim Duncan,
were 21-12 overall and advanced to the second round
of the NCAA Tournament. Duncan has won two NBA MVP
titles and Childress played in the NBA Final for the
Nets vs. Duncan's Spurs team in 2003. Duncan,
Childress and Odom were inducted into the Wake
Forest Hall of Fame in 2008.
The 1993 Seton Hall graduate was a walk-on for head
coach P.J. Carlesimo's Pirates during the 1989-90
season. Keating began his coaching career the next
year when he served as a student assistant coach and
video coordinator from 1990-93. During his four
years in South Orange, N.J., the Pirates won a total
of 88 games and played in the NCAA Tournament each
of his last three seasons. In 1991, Seton Hall
advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight.
Keating was born on July 15, 1971 in Stoughton,
Mass., and was raised in Rockville Centre, N.Y. He
attended high school at Archbishop Molloy and
graduated from Seton Hall Prep. His father, Larry,
is one of the country's top collegiate athletic
administrators. Currently a senior associate
athletic director at Kansas, he was Athletic
Director at Seton Hall University from 1985-97 and
also served as the Associate Commissioner of the
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) in Edison,
N.J.
Keating married the former Treena Camacho on Aug.
24, 2008 in the Mission Church on the Santa Clara
campus and they live in San Jose with their
one-year-old son Jaxon Anthony. |
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