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Section: Champions

The Championship Season

The NJCAA national championship trophy, draped with a net, was on display during a Hunt Center celebration of the team’s accomplishment.

Head Coach Bill Foy and his 2004-2005 Dragons basketball team surprised everyone but themselves by taking the NJCAA national championship in Hutchinson, Kan., on March 26.

“These guys had a goal, had confidence and played well as a team,” Foy said. “They are a great group of guys who became the best they could be at the end of the season and through the tournament run.”

“These young men showed 8,000 basketball fans in Hutchinson, Kansas, what teamwork is all about,” PJC President Dr. Pamela Anglin said during a celebration in PJC’s Hunt Center, welcoming home the new national champions. “This is the greatest team and greatest coach in the United States.”

The Dragons defeated the nation’s No. 2 team, San Jacinto College, in the finals of the NJCAA Region XIV tournament to earn their first trip to the national finals since 1959.

The unranked Dragons then swept through a four-game schedule in the national tournament that included sixth-ranked College of Southern Idaho and 16th-ranked Moberly (Mo.) Area Community College, which they defeated 70-61 in the tournament finals to win the NJCAA title.

The national title is the first for the PJC Dragons in basketball. PJC made it to the nationals in 1959 and came home with the fourth-place trophy.

Foy, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind., has compiled a 203-118 record during his 10-year tenure at Paris Junior College. The last seven years at PJC have been exceptional. His teams have advanced to the finals of the NJCAA Region XIV state tournament five times while compiling a 162-69 record.

This year’s sophomore-laden team that won the NJCAA national title has compiled a 54-16 record over the last two seasons.

Dragon Rod Earls, from Little Rock, Ark., was named MVP of the tournament, while teammate Alexander Starr received the Charles Fesher Sportsmanship Award. Foy was named Coach of the Tournament. Earls, Starr and teammate Michael Battle were named to the All-Tournament team.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches named Foy Junior College Coach of the Year.

“It feels great, because very few coaches get to end their season by winning a national championship,” Foy said.

Coach Bill Foy named NABC Coach of the Year