Tim Crowell

Visited campus, 4/22/06. Signed April 2006

04/27/06: Timmy Crowell, who made The Trib's All-Metro team as a point guard at Sandia High, will play at Cincinnati, according to a release on the school Web site. Crowell averaged 11.0 points, 7.5 assists, 4.2 rebounds and 3.0 steals at Midland (Texas) Junior College last season. He graduated from Sandia High in 2004. He averaged 16 points and eight assists as a high school senior." - www.abqtrib.com

04/25/06: The University of Cincinnati basketball program Tim Crowell signed a letter-of-intent with Monday is not the same program Bob Huggins presided over for 16 years. But Crowell said that doesn't mean the Bearcats are going to stop winning. "We're going to turn a lot of heads and put a lot of smiles on Cincinnati fans' faces," Crowell said.

A 6-foot-2, 185-pound point guard from Midland (Texas) College and Albuquerque, N.M., Crowell is the fourth guard to sign with UC during the spring signing period and the fifth player to sign with the Bearcats since Mick Cronin took over as head coach March 23.

Crowell, a first-team all Western Junior College Athletic Conference selection, averaged 11 points, 4.2 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 3.0 steals last season for a team that went 27-6. Midland won 53 games in two years with Crowell running the point." - Enquirer.com

04/24/06: Signed with Cincinnati.

04/18/06: Down to UTEP and Cincinnati, per Rivals.

http://www.midland.edu/athletics/basketball-men/profiles/2005-06/crowell-timmy.htm

Scored 135 points and 115 assists on the season, per www.wjcac.com.

03/16/06: Midland College men's basketball coach Grant McCasland was sitting in his office this week and pondering what his team would have done in next week's NJCAA National Tournament.

Any other year, Midland College would have cruised to Hutchinson, Kan. This year, however, was different as the No. 11-ranked Chaparrals were in the same conference and region as No. 1-ranked Howard College. The Hawks beat the Chaps four times this year, including an 81-71 decision in the Region V Tournament finals. "Every year there's always going to be some team that you have a challenge beating them," said McCasland, whose team was going for an unprecedented third consecutive trip to the national tournament. "This year was Howard. We hope other years that's the exception."

Take away the thorn in the side that was Howard and Midland had another exceptional year, finishing with a 27-6 record. "I thought we played a really difficult schedule and our guys came together quickly," said McCasland, who has compiled a 53-16 record in two seasons as head coach of the Chaps. "They came together because of our sophomores -- Timmy (Crowell) and Arturas (Valeika)."

There's no doubt that the heart and soul of the team was Crowell, the 6-foot-2 sophomore point guard from Albuquerque, N.M., who started in every game of his Chaparral career and finished with 596 points and 451 assists during that time.

During the regional tournament, Crowell played every minute of every game. In the Region V Tournament finals against Howard, Crowell picked up his fourth foul at the 11:10 mark of the second half and when McCasland thought about taking him out, Crowell told him "I'm not fouling out." Crowell stuck to his word and finished with a team-high 18 points. "Not only was he a good basketball player but he was a coach on the floor," said McCasland about his point guard. "That's the greatest compliment you can give a point guard. He was the extension of what I wanted and a lot of times I didn't even have to tell him what to do on the court."

McCasland admits Crowell will be the biggest challenge to replace next year. Crowell, Valeika, along with sophomore guards Ricky Smith and Rashaad Singleton are all getting looks from Division I schools with Crowell getting the most attention. Purdue, Tennessee, UTEP, Houston and UC-Santa Barbara are just a few of the schools interested in Crowell. - Midland Reporter-Telegram