They later added players like Jalen Little and Tevin Foster to the mix to help the transition.ĪCU missed out on the conference tournament last year after a late-season slump, but still registered the program’s first winning regular season (16-15) since 2007-08. It all started coming together four years ago when a quartet of freshmen - Jaylen Franklin, Jaren Lewis, Hayden Farquhar and Hayden Howell- arrived on campus and began to turn the program’s fortunes, along with established foundation players like Parker Wentz, Austin Cooke, Duran Porter, Isaiah Tripp, Drake Green and Alexander Milosavljevic. The first season included blowout losses at Duquesne, Maryland and Iowa and the losses mounted over the next two seasons as ACU learned the hard lessons of life at the Division I level.īut Golding was given time to build a program and recruit the kind of players he knew would win at ACU: tough, selfless kids who would buy into the school, the coaches and the program he was trying to put together. Just six years ago, the Wildcats - without a history of sustained success in men’s basketball over the previous 30 years - began the transition from NCAA Division II membership to NCAA Division I affiliation. ACU will find out Sunday afternoon its seed, opponent and region, but what became crystal clear Saturday night was this: head coach Joe Golding and his staff and players have written one of the great stories that thrive in March Madness.
They found it Saturday night at the Merrell Center as the Wildcats beat New Orleans, 77-60, to win the Southland Conference men’s basketball championship and advance to the NCAA Tournament. KATY, Texas - The ACU Wildcats have spent the better part of the last three decades searching for their One Shining Moment.
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