Orange Men’s Basketball
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Orange’s Xandrell Pinnix, Malachi Poole & Kai Wade talk winning summer tournament
From the department of “stuff we’re ridiculously late in posing,” the Orange men’s basketball team won the Black Session of the Orange Summer Heat summer basketball tournament in June. And how...
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Orange volleyball’s Ella Wimsatt & Caitlin Carden discuss win over Jordan
Only six games into the 2022 season, the Orange volleyball team has been through plenty. There was uncertainty about who would coach the team throughout the summer until Kelly Young, who...
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Thompson named Most Outstanding Men’s Basketball Player in Central Carolina Conference
Following a season where he became the most accomplished scorer for the Orange men’s basketball team since Connor Crabtree, Jerec Thompson has received among the highest individual honors from the Central...
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Alumni Update: McMullin named NJCAA Division III All-American for Sandhills Community College
Joey McMullin: After the Sandhills Community College men’s basketball team reached the National Junior College Athletic Association National Championships, McMullin was named a Division III NJCAA All-American on Wednesday. McMullin was...
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Alumni Update: Crabtree advances to Round of 32 in NCAA Tournament with Richmond
Photo by University of Richmond Athletics Connor Crabtree: Crabtree became the first former Orange basketball player to play in an NCAA Tournament game since 1996 last week. Crabtree played in 13...
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Alumni Update: Crabtree heads to the Big Dance with Richmond
Connor Crabtree: The Richmond men’s basketball team is headed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2011. The Spiders upset top-seeded Davidson 64-62 in the Atlantic 10 Tournament Championship game...
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Orange Panther of the Week: J.J. Thompson
This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is senior point guard J.J. Thompson. On December 30, Thompson scored a career-high 27 points as the Panthers defeated Granville Central 67-58 in the...
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Former Orange guard McMullin named Region X MVP as Sandhills Community College wins conference championship
Life moves fast. Just ask Joey McMullin. In 2016, he had been a high school student for only three months before he found himself, much to his surprise, playing extensive minutes...
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Northwood men’s basketball ends Orange’s season 65-52; Thompson scores 24 in final game
When an adolescent Jerec Thompson played in the Mebane Parks and Recreation Department on a pee-wee team, he was so shy about entering games, his father Jeremy, who was also the...
