Coffeyville Ravens ranked third best JC of decade

[Real Deal]

Gotta show some love for my hometown's junior college!

 

Basketball Times rate Ravens third best junior college program of the decade.

 

When Jay Herkelman took over the reins of the Coffeyville Community College men’s basketball program in 1995, he inherited a team in disarray. The Ravens were coming off a 3-26 season and two of those wins were garnered by forfeits.

 

Herkelman replaced the roster and led Coffeyville to a 26-7 record and the Jayhawk East conference title in his first season. Since then, Coffeyville has enjoyed considerable success. In the past decade, the Ravens have won five Region 6 championships, won eight conference titles over the past nine seasons, and have placed at the national tournament five times. Not bad for a small school located on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, an hour away from the nearest metropolitan area of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

The string of success was noted by the magazine Basketball Times in their August 2009 issue. The publication rated Coffeyville as the nation’s third best junior college program in the 2000s.

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1) Chipola (FL)

2) Fresno City (CA)

3) Coffeyville (KS)

4) Midland (TX)

5) Highland (IL)

6) LA City (CA)

7) Southeastern (IA)

8) Southern (ID)

9) Indian Hills (IA)

10) Salt Lake (UT)

 

Not bad company. And here's a list of those who went to CCC and were NJCAA All-Americans and/or moved on to four-year schools:

 

http://www.ccc.cc.ks.us/Athletics/menshoops/halloffame.htm

[La Bomba]

Either an O-linemen or a DT from Coffeyville JC was considering going to Memphis. I'm not sure if he ever committed. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Edited January 29, 2010 by La Bomba