Four major contributors return for Bowling Green’s men’s basketball team when the team opens play in the
new Stroh Center in November.
Seniors Scott Thomas and Dee Brown, redshirt junior A’uston Calhoun, and junior Jordon Crawford return
from a team which went 14-19 overall and 8-8 in the Mid-American Conference. BG started the 2010-11
season with a 2-9 record before going 11-4 and then finishing the season 1-6. At one point, the Falcons
were 7-3 in the MAC, but struggled late in the season to finish .500 in league play.
The upcoming season will be the fifth for head coach Louis Orr at BG. He is 60-66 overall and 32-32 in
MAC play in his four years with the Falcons.
While BG had problems shooting the ball last season – 43.2 percent from the field, 29.7 percent on threes
and 64.2 percent from the free-throw line – Orr said you can’t let your shooting dictate how you play,
it must improve for the Falcons to be successful.
"If your defense and rebounding are consistent, if your toughness is consistent and how hard you
play is consistent, you can overcome shooting woes," Orr said. "For us to be able to win a MAC
championship and be consistent in terms of the whole year, our offensive efficiency has to go up …
that’s our challenge from the very beginning."
Thomas, 6-foot-7, has been an honorable mention All-MAC pick in each of the last two seasons. He enters
his senior year needing 142 points to reach 1,000 for his BG career.
"Offensively, he needs to be a more efficient shooter in terms of his percentages from the three and
from the free-throw line," Orr said. "He’s a guy who can have a great game and come close to
having a triple-double without scoring 20 points. He adjusted to that a little bit last year.
"He’s a do-it-all guy for us," Orr added. "We need him to score, but we also need him to
do all the other things that he does for us."
Brown, 6-3, averaged 10.4 ppg last season and is within reach of 1,000 for his career after scoring 718
points in his first three seasons at BG.
"He ended the year well. He played with a certain level of efficiency and confidence at the
offensive end and he improved defensively," Orr said. "He can score in a lot of different ways
… If he can find a consistent rhythm on offense and continue to grow defensively, I can see him having
a big year."
Calhoun, 6-7, started slowly last season, but finished as BG’s top scorer, averaging 12.5 ppg. Calhoun
scored in double figures in 19 of the final 24 games in the season, including seven games with 20 or
more points. An honorable mention All-MAC selection, Calhoun also averaged 5.6 rebounds per game and led
the team with 25 blocked shots.
"Early in the year, he just played off (his) talent," Orr said. "He had to basically learn
how to play with four other guys and use his talents. And to me as a coach, that was a challenge … It
was a process, you kind of had to grow with him.
"As he got better and blended in with everyone else, we got better," Orr continued. "He
has a lot of confidence in himself and I think he grew. He is talented enough he can make the players
around him better and that’s the challenge for him."
Crawford, 5-6, showed a lot of potential at point-guard last season. He led the team with 132 assists
with only 70 turnovers.
"He has potential to be a really good leader because he’s vocal and he has a hunger to learn the
game," Orr said. "He’s learning how to run a team. In high school, he was a scorer and had a
lot of freedom on the court. He was the first option offensively. But with us, he has got to run a team,
get all the guys involved and then figure ways he can create and make some plays and make shots."

Torian Oglesby, 6-7,and walk-on Wiley Roberts, 5-7, are the other seniors on the team.
"He’s a highlight film dunker," Orr said about Oglesby, a junior college transfer who has
played one season with the Falcons. "I want him to be more productive and become a better
defender."
Other juniors on the team are Luke Kraus, 6-2 and James Erger, 6-6.
"No doubt (Luke) is our best on the ball defender and one of our toughest, most physical
guards," Orr said. "He just brings a certain level of toughness to our team."
Cameron Black, 6-10, and Craig Sealey, 6-6, are sophomores this season.
Black is currently recovering from a stress fracture suffered after the season was over.
"He’s a guy who can make a big jump for us. At times last year, he provided the size and the
presence on both ends," Orr said about Black. "In time, he’s going to be one of the best big
guys in the league.
"He’s got to get stronger and become the best athlete he can become, because skill will take care of
itself."
As for Sealey, who averaged only 7.5 minutes per game in 20 appearances last season, Orr said: "We
have to get Craig more minutes. He’s too talented and too good of an athlete (to sit)."
There are four new faces looking for playing time this season – Anthony Henderson, a 6-1 redshirt
freshman who was the Toledo City League player of the year and a first-team All-Ohio selection in
2009-10; and freshmen Jehvon Clarke, 6-1, and Desmond Rorie, 6-9, who were teammates at Canton Timken
High School last season; and Chauncey Orr, 6-4, the coach’s son who is the career leading scorer at
Bowling Green High School. In the Division I All-Ohio voting last season, Orr was a first-team selection
and Clark was on the second team.
"The redshirt year was a big plus for him … We didn’t redshirt him because of a lack of talent,
that wasn’t the issue. The issue was trying to make Anthony the best he can be when he steps on the
court," Orr said about Henderson. "His body has changed from (being in) the weight room. He’s
much more aggressive. His understanding in terms of how we play and what we do has grown.
"Anthony is a talented scorer. There will be a time when he’s going to be one of the best scorers in
this league," Orr added.
There are three players from the 2010-11 season no longer on the roster. Joe Jakubowski and Mike Dabney
have completed their eligibility. Danny McElroy, who played two years for the Falcons, has transferred
from the program.
Jakubowski is a native of Rossford.
"(He was) a big part of our program, a guy you could always count on. He never missed practices and
he never missed games. He led by example and he had that experience," Orr said about Jakubowski,
who was in Orr’s first recruiting class at Bowling Green.