In nature, fall is the time for change, and the Rainbow Warrior basketball team is looking to turn a new leaf this season.
Head coach Bob Nash has brought in a recruiting class that features a Big East Conference transfer, junior Dwain Williams, and two junior college standouts in Jeremy Lay and Douglas Kurtz.
Add them to 10 returnees, including second team All-Western Athletic Conference member Roderick Flemings and team captain Bill Amis, and the Rainbow Warriors believe they can make a run for the postseason.
“I’m trying to make it to the (NCAA) tournament,” Williams said. “I was at
The ’Bows will play an exhibition game against the
“We got a lot of team camaraderie already; we got a lot of guys who get along,” Williams said. “There’s no egos on the team. I think we are going to be good.”
Williams played two years at
He started his second year at point guard at
“(Williams) is a tremendous outside shooter, but the one ingredient that he has is that he has a tremendous competitive attitude,” Nash said. “When he steps on the floor, he is all about trying to win games. That has sort of spread throughout some of the team. He wants to win and he does it by any means necessary.”
Lay will also factor into the point guard rotation along with junior Hiram Thompson. Lay played two years at Northern Oklahoma College-Enid, where he set school records in scoring and assists on his way to becoming a Bi-State West first-team all-conference pick.
“Jeremy is a young man who has tremendous speed, quickness and strength,” Nash said. “He is probably the truer of the point guards at knowing how to run a team. He has good vision, good passing skills and can shoot the ball from the perimeter.”
Kurtz, a 7-foot center from
“Doug is a big presence down there and that’s what we really need,” Flemings said. “He’s going to be big for us in rebounds and being a defensive post presence.”
Two other transfers, junior guard Zane Johnson (
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