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Tim
Wise
Head Coach
Fifth Season
Millsaps College, 1989
After guiding the Majors to their seventh best finish in school
history at 18-9 overall and 11-3 in SCAC play, including winning
14 of the final 18 games of the season, Tim
Wise returns for his fifth
season
as
head
coach
of the men's basketball team with a 46-57 overall record.
Wise won just 14 games against 36 losses in his first two seasons
(2003-04, 04-05) after taking over for Millsaps' all-time winning
coach John
Stroud,
but has guided the Majors to a 32-21 record over the previous two
seasons to become the fifth winningest coach in school history
dating back to 1911.
The Majors
return
all five players from last year’s starting lineup including
SCAC Player of the Year runner-up Edrick Montgomery in the post.
Montgomery was a unanimous First Team All-SCAC selection while
posting 10 double-doubles and averaging 17.1 points and 9.8 rebounds
per game.
A native of Memphis, Tenn., Wise played both basketball and golf
for Millsaps from 1985-89, earning four letters each under head
coach Don Holcomb and the late Mary Ann Edge. Wise graduated from
Millsaps
in 1989 with
a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He
holds the Millsaps career record for assists with 552.
A 1985 graduate of Memphis University School, Wise coached at three Memphis
area high schools from 1989-98. He started his coaching and teaching
career in 1989 at St. Benedict Catholic School in Cordova, Tenn. In 1992, Wise returned to Memphis University School where he coached
the junior varsity until 1997.
In the fall of 1997, Wise moved
to newly opened Cordova High School as the men's head basketball coach
and head
golf coach.
Wise is married to the former Rachel Cook of
Memphis, who is also a Millsaps graduate. They have
three children, Luke, Anna and Allie.

Justin LeBlanc
Assistant Coach
Second Season
Millsaps College, 2006
New to the Millsaps
staff last season and returning to the assistant position this season is Larose,
La.,
native
Justin LeBlanc. The Majors went 18-9 in his first season along side head caoch
Tim
Wise,
advancing
to the semifinals of the SCAC Tournament.
A graduate
of Millsaps College in the spring of 2006, LeBlanc spent all four seasons
in a Majors uniform, including dressing out in every game as
a true
freshman
and advancing
to the SCAC Tournament all four years.
For his career
LeBlanc played in 86 games, averaging 8.0 points per game. He
shot a combined 83 percent from behind the free throw line, 37
percent from the floor and 35 percent from beyond the arc. LeBlanc
also ranks fourth all-time in Millsaps history in career 3-point
attempts (338).
LeBlanc began
playing basketball at the young age of six and continued his
time on the court all the way through high school and college,
playing guard at South LaFourche HS and Millsaps all four
years. LeBlanc
also played AAU ball for three years.
A
business major with a minor in French, LeBlanc currently serves
two roles
for the College, first as an assistant coach and then as the
intramural director. LeBlanc took over his new position in May
of 2006, where he handles the hiring of work-study students
along with overseeing scheduling
and budgets.
For the men's
basketball team, LeBlanc handles travel arrangements and film
exchange, while
also playing a role in scheduling and recruiting trips.
LeBlanc is
the son of Bonnie and Kenneth LeBlanc. He has a twin brother,
Jack (24) a high
school basketball coach and two sisters, Leslie (27) a nurse, and Courtney
(29) a teacher. He
currently resides in Jackson.
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