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But for Davidson basketball, his vision is always forward. With legendary college coaches such as Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Kansas’ Bill Self and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes praising his work and his program, McKillop could be excused if he grew just a bit complacent. McKillop’s work certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed. His 33rd Davidson team will write its own chapter in the school’s basketball archives. It’s not hyperbolic to say the McKillop Era at Davidson has reached legendary status. The Wildcats are a fixture in March with McKillop at the helm. Nine of his Davidson teams have played in the NCAA Tournament, eight others in the NIT, one in the CBI. He dominated his rivals in the Southern Conference, won more games than any coach in conference history and more games than any Davidson coach. Sixteen of his Davidson teams have won at least 20 games. Was named Southern Conference Coach of the Year 10 times and gained that same distinction in his first year in the A-10. Took the 2008 team with the great Stephen Curry to the Elite Eight and finished the season in the nation’s Top 10. McKillop’s resume is Hall of Fame worthy. Driesell loved it when Davidson’s home court at the Baker Sports Complex was named “McKillop Court” at the end of the 2013-14 campaign, McKillop’s Silver Anniversary season. Each has great respect and admiration for the other.

Last year, he surpassed the 600-win mark.ĭriesell and McKillop are Davidson basketball. Driesell, recently elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame, put Davidson on the national basketball stage for the first time, and McKillop came along 21 years later to restore that greatness and build on it. He does it at every opportunity, and there are plenty of those since McKillop has molded Davidson basketball into one of the nation’s warm and fuzzy stories.Īs we head into the 2021-22 season, Driesell and McKillop stand shoulder to shoulder as Davidson miracle makers. McKillop has always been first in line to praise Lefty. It used to be that when basketball historians wrote of Davidson College basketball, they dealt with the miracle that former coach Lefty Driesell created by taking the Wildcats from college basketball obscurity to the nation’s Top 10. 3 seed, knocking off regular season champion Rhode Island 58-57 in the final. The Wildcats won their first A-10 Tournament in 2018 as the No. Davidson’s seven-year regular season record in the A-10 is 76-43 (plus 10-5 in A-10 Tournaments), and it produced the school’s first ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament in 2015 as well as three NIT invitations, including the first as a host in 2019. It’s the kind of thinking that has served Davidson basketball well.Īfter seven seasons of competing in the tough A-10, it’s a philosophy that works and pays huge dividends.

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Read the full article here.Bob McKillop’s 32-year tenure as Davidson’s head basketball coach has always been guided by his philosophy that the next step should be up. To make it even harder, this obstacle is capable of pushing players aside and even underground, the latter being a mistake also present on our Mistakes page. In this stage, there are usually very few goals scored, as it is tough to break through your opponent's defense while the giant swinging axe is in play. Before you will be able to play against Pluto, you have to beat his three henchmen. And this all happens in less than a second. Pluto usually uses the following, successful tactic: right from the start he will walk towards the ball, head or kick it against the left swinging axe exactly so that the balls bounces from the axe right into your goal. Your opponent in the boss round is Pluto, wearing the Rocket Costume. In Round 4, there will be two axes, going in the opposite direction and this is especially very hard. The ball has a chance to stay on the axe for most of the game, wasting your time away. It will go at a steady pace, and stay like that for the whole game.

The Obstacle in this stage is one of the very hardest: the Giant Swinging Axe. Collage Stage 14 is a photo gallery of the fourteenth stage in Death Mode.