THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, April 15, 1995 TAG: 9504150415
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ED MILLER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 61 lines
Allen Iverson may return home for a game next season, if details of a proposed match between Georgetown and Hampton at Hampton's Convocations Center can be agreed upon.
``It hasn't been finalized,'' Hampton athletic director Dennis Thomas said. ``But we're trying to get everything worked out.''
Hampton is moving to Division I next season and already has Minnesota and Florida State on its tentative schedule. Those games are on the road, however.
By playing at Hampton, Georgetown would give Iverson a chance to play in his hometown for the first time since his junior year at Bethel High in 1993, when he led the Bruins to state titles in basketball and football and was named Group AAA player of the year in both sports.
Iverson missed his senior year at Bethel after being jailed for his part in a bowling-alley brawl. He served four months of a five-year sentence before being given conditional clemency by then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder.
Iverson completed his high school education at an alternative school and enrolled at Georgetown last September. He averaged 20 points per game and was voted Big East freshman of the year this past season.
NSU RECRUITING UPDATE: Norfolk State coach Mike Bernard is hoping to add four players next year and expects to have his first signing within the next two weeks.
``Our priorities are to recruit a three-man (small forward), a four-man (power forward) and a five-man (center),'' Bernard said. ``We'd also like another guard.''
Division II schools traditionally do their recruiting later than their Division I brethren, for obvious reasons.
``We get what they've left behind,'' Bernard said.
The Spartans will be a senior-dominated team next year and will have four starters returning. Bernard said he is hoping to sign freshmen, rather than junior-college transfers, and bring them along slowly.
``We're just trying to get in the Division I mode,'' he said. The Spartans are planning to move to Division I in 1997.
Last year, Bernard signed five junior-college players, bringing in instant help for Norfolk State's run at a national championship. The Spartans advanced to the Division II Final Four before losing to eventual national champion Southern Indiana.
``For us to bring in a junior-college player this year, it would have to be someone very exceptional,'' Bernard said. by CNB