USD Men's Basketball 2006-2007

BRAD HOLLAND 13th year Two-time WCC Coach of the Year

The 2006-2007 season will be Brad Holland's 13th at the helm of the USD men's basketball program. Holland has guided USD to 126 victories over the past eight seasons, including a personal-best 20 win season in 1999-2000. USD's all-time winningest coach for men's basketball with 182 victories, he is a two-time West Coast Conference Coach of the Year. This past season he led the Toreros to an 18-12 overall mark and semi-final appearance in the West Coast Conference Tournament. Senior Nick Lewis was named First Team AII-WCC while senior forward Corey Belser was tabbed the WCC Defender of the Year and National Defender of the Year by Collegelnsider.com. In 2004-05 he directed the Toreros to a 16-13 overall mark and 3rd place finish in the competitive West Coast Conference. USD tallied the biggest turnaround in Division I basketball for wins with an improvement of 12 victories. With the team's 69-61 home win over San Francisco on February 9th , Holland notched his 161 st career USD victory to become the program's all-time winningest coach . Collegelnsider.com tabbed Holland as the 2004-05 West Coast Conference Coach of the Year. Seniors Brandon Gay and Brice Vounang were both named to the NABC District 15 Second Team. In 2002-03 he guided USD to an impressive 18-12 mark; to the 2003 West Coast Conference Basketball Championship title; and to the program's first trip to the NCAATournament in sixteen years. That season was highlighted early on by the team's 86-81 overtime win at UCLA. The Toreros would go on to tally a 10-4 2nd place finish in the WCC standings. With the 2nd place mark the Toreros earned a double-bye into the WCC Tournament semifinals; they knocked off San Francisco in the semi-final , then beat Gonzaga in front of a national TV audience in the title game to earn the league's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. They gave the Stanford Cardinal a battle before falling 77-69 in NCAA 1st round action . Senior center Jason Keep became the program's first ever 1st Team NABC District 15 selection Five seasons ago, for the second straight year, Holland guided the Toreros to a 16-13 mark and a semifinal appearance in the West Coast Conference Championships. The Toreros earned qual– ity nonconference wins over UC Irvine and San Diego State (4th straight year) , along with key WCC wins over Santa Clara (on the road) and San Francisco (twice). Senior guard Andre Laws became the first Torero since 1987 to earn NABC District 15 honors (2nd Team). Seven seasons ago he guided the Toreros to a 20-9 overall mark and 10-4 wee finish . The 20 wins and 1 owee victories were the school's most since the 1987 season. For his efforts , Holland was