
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 23, 1994                   TAG: 9403230077
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

HODGE TOPS ALL-STATE TEAM FOR COLLEGES

Old Dominion's Odell Hodge, a former Laurel Park High School standout, has been named the state Division I basketball player of the year in balloting by Virginia sports information directors.

Hodge, a sophomore center, and Virginia Commonwealth's Kendrick Warren were unanimous all-state selections. They were joined on the first team by Junior Burrough and Cornel Parker of Virginia and Kent Culuko of James Madison.

The second team was made up of Don Burgess of Radford, Matt Hildebrand of Liberty, Kenny Harris of VCU, Michael Hodges of Richmond and Clayton Ritter of James Madison.

Lefty Driesell, who guided James Madison to the Colonial Athletic Association tournament title and an NCAA Tournament berth, was named the state's Division I coach of the year.

In other college basketball:

Ed Conroy, an assistant coach at VMI this season, will join Joe Cantafio's staff at Furman.

Cantafio, who spent eight seasons as head coach at VMI, was named coach of the Paladins on Monday.

Conroy was a three-year starter at The Citadel, graduating in 1990. He spent three years as an assistant coach at North Carolina State under Les Robinson before moving to VMI for the 1993-94 season.

Ramon Williams, another first-year assistant for Cantafio this season, said he planned to stay at the institute, contingent on Cantafio's replacement. Williams was a standout player at VMI from 1986-90 and played high school basketball at William Fleming.

by CNB