Men's Basketball - 2002-03 Season

Geneseo State 70, Delaware Valley 61
(First Round of Dr. Kleppinger Tip-Off Classic at Alvernia College)

READING (PA) -- The Delaware Valley College men's basketball team opened its 2002-03 season with a 70-61 loss to Geneseo State in the opening round of the Dr. Kleppinger Tip-Off Classic hosted by Alvernia College.

The Aggies will now play Salisbury State University in Saturday's consolation game at 1:00 p.m.

The game marked the return of Bill Dooley to the Delaware Valley sidelines. Dooley coached the Aggies from 1998 to 2000 before relocating to Ireland for two years, where he became the Irish National Coach. Dooley returned to the area this summer and returned to the Aggies when Bob Simmons accepted an assistant's job at Division I Lehigh University.

Geneseo State broke a 28-all halftime score with a 42-point, second-half effort to defeat Delaware Valley by nine. The Aggies led 37-36 in the opening moments of the second stanza as Josh Wurtz hit a basket with 15:46 to go. However, Geneseo went on a 14-0 run to take command of the game and the Aggies never got closer than seven points the rest of the way.

Freshman Kevin Wright paced Delaware Valley with 12 points while sophomores Kevin Wolf and Randall Graves added 11 and 10 points respectively. Graves also had six assists and four steals.