Mark Downey
@mdowneyATU
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Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Arkansas Tech University. Also the proud father of two wonderful boys, Bryce and Andrew
Russellville, AR
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Tony Bennett, UVA Head Coach -
“I always ask our guys in the offseason: If you played [last year's version of] yourself one-on-one, could you dominate yourself now? If you can't say yes, then you have not done your job improving.“
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So I have HS players that follow me on here & say they r being slept on yet I see them tweeting about smoking & posting girl fights. ✅off 📝
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We are so excited to be coming back to Arkansas Tech!
#FightOn
#unfinishedbusiness
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Chris Beard is 1 of the best! I am a Huggs guy yet understand both sides. These guys are cut from the same cloth-1 of us-JUCO/small college
After
#TexasTech
defeated
#WVU
62-59 on Wednesday, the
#RedRaiders
celebrated by dancing in the locker room & the video was released. WVU head coach Bob Huggins said it was "classless" and "bad for our game". Chris Beard addressed those comments today:
#WreckEm
@fox34
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“The greatest respect to a great player is to coach him hard!” Doug Collins on Michael Jordan. There are no truer words
#LastDance
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What do you do after a game like that? You go outside and hoop!
#loveitandliveit
#sonsofacoach
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So practice was sloppy today but what happened before we started was magical. Our players all pitched in and bought our student assistant 2K20 for his PS4. Chase works very hard for our program and it was great to see him be appreciated by our guys.
#Changingculture
#TeamNSU
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"Grinding" is working a 12 hour shift in a coal mine! I get to watch hoops all July not "grind!" Hate it when used in our profession!
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Thank you so much! This is not about me. There are so many assistants, players and my own family that have sacrificed to make this happen! I am humbled and grateful for that sacrifice.
Big time congrats to
@ATUMBB
head coach Mark Downey (
@mdowneyATU
) for picking up his 250th career win! Another milestone achieved!
#FightOn
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I am thankful today for my wife! She not only takes care of our fam but she pours a ton into our players and program! She keeps our fuel station stocked so our players have snacks and she made a Thanksgiving meal today with a little bit of home for everyone. I love you Ericka!
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Players-Please stop taking highest offer and go where u r needed most. JC All-American last year goes HM and is avg 7 mins/gm and 2.7 ppg.
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I am very proud! We had 8 players with a 3.0 GPA or above. 1 w a 4.0, 2 over a 3.8 and a team gpa just shy of 3.0. Five made the dean’s list
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How great is this? Giving God the glory on the greatest stage!
Jared Butler (
@J_Hooper11
) was named Final Four MVP after leading
@BaylorMBB
to their first national title.
“I’m not trying to preach a prosperity gospel but our Lord and Savior, I say it all the time: he gets us through everything. Jesus Christ, man, he’s the truth.”
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This just happened to us! Kid talked about head coach relationship and freedom to play his game. I wore him out for a month building a relationship. D1 called, offered and within 24 hours he was committed. I guess the relationship wasn’t too important. Maybe I get him next yr 😂
I just saw a kid committ to a D1 school who is 58-136 in last 6 years (9.6 wins a year) ZERO winning seasons! Had multiple D2 offers from very good WINNING programs. Committed to his only D1 offer. Kids are so brainwashed about D1 it’s crazy! Good luck kiddo!
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The true 🐐! No self proclaimation! As I have said before, MJ would average over 40 in this NBA! Never has there been a killer like MJ!
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First team workout today! Really excited about this group! Our staff has been waiting for today for a while!
#sourtaste
#TeamNSU
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So blessed to spend Spring Break with my two boys in St Louis. Six Flags, TopGolf, time with our cousin Mark Richmond, and some 3rd grade travel basketball! I wouldn’t trade this for the world!
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We as a society have to change. I hurt seeing my players, former players, fellow coaches, friends and family have to deal with racism on a daily basis. I will never understand what it is like to walk in their shoes,But i will walk w/ them and support them until we see that change
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This platform has been the death of many things that I love. So I want to flip the switch and use it as place to build a foundation for God’s word! If you want to witness God’s work, contact me. I am happy to share what he can do for you! I have proof!
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We are excited to have Nate joining us!
#FightOn
#unfinishedbusiness
MBB | Join us in welcoming Nathan Kennedy (
@NateKennedy12
) as an assistant coach for
@atumbb
!
#FightOn
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Lane Odom was a Division 2 Head Coach just two years ago! Great coaches on all levels!
#Respect
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Dear Kobe, Thank you! Prayers to your family from our family! What you were as a man, a husband and a father transcends basketball! I shed many tears today. The hoop family lost a legend we will never forget! Rest In Peace Mamba and Gianna!
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How hard is this to understand? If winning is important to you, you will make the commitment!
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Had an ultra successful weekend for
@RiverHawksMBB
. Raised good $ w/ our golf outing. Our team then played well against our alums. Thankful!
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Hoiberg hired himself an all star cast! All four of these guys are legends!
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Had a great Prospect camp today in the beautiful NSU Events Center! I really enjoyed this group of young men! Also had a great Q&A with all of their parents.
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So proud of this guy today! Andrew was honored at school with reading and comprehending 25 books. He was also one of a few in his class with 100% fluency in math addition and subtraction. My wife would say he got the brains from her! 🤔🤐🤓😉🙄
#proudpapa
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Thanks Chris! I appreciate your friendship more than you know! You get COY awards when you have good players and great people around you.
Big congrats to
@mdowneyATU
on another Coach of the Year award. One of the best in our game, but an even better friend and mentor.
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We have spots on our roster open for next season! Come join us!
We will also have an offensive skills/shooting camp for all ages to follow on that day!
🚨 Arkansas Tech University Basketball
Elite Camp 🏀 Tucker Coliseum 🏟️
9-12th grade 24’s and Available players
Register Now
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Proud of these seniors! Congrats gentlemen! They have laid the brick for us to build upon!
#TeamNSU
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4ever grateful to my 1st coaching boss, Dave Davis. Told me if I ever did this 4 anything other than the young men, I need 2 get out of it!
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This is great stuff!
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Love the fact that all 4 teammates run to help Kendrick up after the foul!
#character
&chemistrywins!
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“You are only a success when you perform a successful act... you have to do it again!” Phil Jackson.
#LastDance
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Let me tell you about “A Little Blue Bird” God will meet us right where we are but he may require you to wait for him to reveal His Glory and an open door. He will renew, strengthen, create, restore and work on you if you are patient. This has been a hard lesson! Let’s talk about
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Listen up athletes. He has made himself a great player!
“He was on the furthest court that you could be on. I went over there and was trying to drink my coffee and wake up, and this guy is pressing at 8 a.m. No one else on his team is pressing, just him.”
🎙 Coach Huggins on recruiting Jevon Carter ⬇️
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Proud of my wife
@D2Diva
for not only saving a good friend’s life but also spreading awareness about a killer disease! Humbled to be a part!
Kidney donor Ericka Downey wins the USBWA's Most Courageous Award
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Bad MNF match-up, bad college hoop lineup, No OU football, no OSU football, no HS football, NO EXCUSES!We need you Tahlequah to come watch this group! You will not regret it! I promise you!
#TeamNSU
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God has been doing some amazing things in my life through some pretty tough times! I heard this today and it felt like an anthem! God just keeps showing up! He came back into my life in January and I am trusting every step. ?’s.. let’s talk. DM me! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Marcus Smart is making “WINNING PLAYS” He is all over the court! Players-don’t be a spectator! Do whatever your team needs you 2 do 2 WIN!
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What an amazing opportunity to share my faith walk with the NSU FCA last night! Always tough to share my story but hopefully beneficial to some. Thanks Coach Varner for having me! You are doing amazing things with this group!
#prayfirst
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This group has been working! They deserve your support! I hope that everyone will get behind this team. They will be fun to watch!
#TeamNSU
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On a zoom call today, I learned a lot from some great high school coaches in Arkansas->some great 🏀 minds. We are so excited to be back in the state! I look forward to seeing many of you this Fall.
#ATU
#UnfinishedBusiness
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GOOD coaches coach by fear, GOOD coaches coach by love, but the GREAT coaches coach using both!! Discipline is LOVE!
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Great opportunity for our program!
Watch Shockers exhibition men's basketball
#watchus
🏀
@RiverHawksMBB
🆚
@GoShockersMBB
📅 Tuesday, Oct. 29
⏰ 7:00pm CT
📺 YurView KS (Cox Ch. 2022)
💻 Live Stream:
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NSU Men’s Hoops would like to thank
@gary_cacy
and
@PIKEThetaEp
for providing a wonderful lunch today on the last day of our break! We are thankful for your help and support! Thank you Tahlequah for helping us make it thru break well fed!
#grateful
#TeamNSU
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Happy Birthday to my bride! She is traveling today and we miss her! Have a wonderful day sweetheart!
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I have been here 15 minutes and literally heard each one of these already.
Don’t forget these common phrases:
“You guys do a heck of a job.”
“Do you know___? Yeah that’s my guy!”
“Oh you’re here until __? I’ll hit you up.”
And my personal favorite...
“If there’s ever anything I can do for you, let me know.”
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Great team win! Caleb was great, Tanner Mouse made some big plays and Josh Ihek with a double double as well!
Caleb Smith records a double-double with a career high 28 points and 11 rebounds for
@RiverHawksMBB
#TeamNSU
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Happy Palm Sunday, wishing this holy day brings an end to coronavirus all over the world, in God’s name, Amen
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We get the most compliments about our Shooting camp! We go 5 straight hours of teaching offensive hoop skills. Drills you can take home and make yourself a player in the driveway! Join us on Aug 4th!
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Heck yeah! Well deserved! Cejay had an exceptional first freshman year! Good thing for ATU fans, he has another freshman year next season! Congratulations Cejay! I know your family is proud of you! And I am as well!
#FightOn
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So proud of my oldest son,
@BryceBeavers
leading his team to a conference title. So awesome to see my two son’s embrace and love the sport that has given me so much!
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It has been a great week for ATU Men’s Basketball! Future is bright!
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Had a great NSU Christmas party! 2night we celebrate our program, tomorrow morning we help the less fortunate!
#Reasonfortheseason
#TeamNSU
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Yesterday was Media Day for Year 27. I am excited to work with this staff who have become family! Also excited to add Dusan Radivojevic to the staff in December. It is great to have former players like Dusan and Marcus Pillow with us!
#FillupTucker
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#FightOn
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Looking forward to our Elite Camp tomorrow Aug 12th. So many prospects excited about NSU Hoops
#TeamNSU
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“He doesn’t have the crap that all of us have from recruiting and social media... it’s all crap!”
@CoachPainter
is simply the best! Always tells it like it is. Do what you are good at to help your team win!
Players need to hear this.
@CoachPainter
talking about something most players don't want to do...
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Happy Birthday
@BryceBeavers
Can’t believe you are going to be driving soon. Year 15! We are so proud of you! I hope you have an amazing day!
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Please lift up one of my players and his family in prayer! He lost his grandmother today! She is definitely in a great place and happier than she has ever been!
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So glad to see my timeline change from hate filled election banter 2 all these young athletes signing NLIs and living out their dreams!
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Excited 2 announce we will have an open scrimmage with Midwestern St at 2pm on Sat 11/4 at NSU Events Ctr. Donations go to Hurricane Relief
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'One very strong family that will last forever': Why Billy Gillispie's kidney donor says she got more than she gave.
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A quote I always like. “Know your role or you won’t have one”.
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What a shot! Stone Cold! I love the call by
@vypesportsguy
Bill Huddleston. It is time this community gets behind this team! Come watch us on Saturday against in-state rival Central Oklahoma. Women start at 1:30 and The Men follow at 3:30.
#TeamNSU
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This is the way you subtly use your platform to be a servant for Christ! This dude is a rock!
2024 Masters ⛳ Champion
“My buddies told me this morning, you know my victory was secure on the cross...
Whether I win this tournament or lose this tournament, my identity is secure forever."
~ Scottie Scheffler
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Proud of each one of these guys! They all grew in their own way on and off the floor. They helped turn the corner for NSU Basketball and made me look really good. Thank you! I love you guys!
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Now more than ever, we need Godly men! Let’s gooo... “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,”
Philippians 1:9-10
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We always appreciate former players coming back to help our current players and team to get better! These individuals are proud NSU alum! Thank you so much! I hope we are making you proud!
#characterchemistrytoughnesswin
#TeamNSU
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This goes 4 me too! If you don’t truly love basketball, you can’t play 4 me! I have a hard time coaching guys that don’t make it a priority!
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I am so happy for Mark Richmond! He has paid his dues!
@RichWha
Congrats my friend! Well deserved! You are going to kill it at Notre Dame!
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It was a tough season 4 me but it is special texting all my boys 2night that are going DANCING! My guys r winners!
#TeamNSU
it is coming!
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Amen!!!
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It was a great honor to speak at the OBCA Coaches Clinic yesterday! I am so grateful to a small part of the basketball community in the great state of Oklahoma!
2019 Oklahoma Coaches Association Summer Clinic – July 21-26
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Thanks to
@EricPMusselman
@cmoser1162
&
@RazorbackMBB
for having us in to watch practice today. Picked up some great stuff and the pace of practice was unreal. The attention to detail and the organization was on the highest level. Hog hoops is in great hands.
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Grateful that our players take some time to help our youth hoop teams in NE Oklahoma.
#TeamNSU
#PrayFirst
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BE BOLD!! Be Bold for God’s Kingdom! Be Bold in our trust for God’s Will! Be Bold for our family! Men, let’s be Bold in proclaiming our faith! We need to Man Up for our people! God has put this Boldness on my heart today. Enjoy the Sabbath! What a beautiful day!
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I want our God all over Twitter! Let’s shine his light! If you don’t know God, reach out to me. He has been amazing lately. “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,”
1 Peter 2:2
My new favorite verse!
#pray1st
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Thank u 2 our alumni for returning & celebrating our great tradition of hoops @ NSU! And thank u 2 all that helped 2 make this a great event
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Lebron Just said game was taken from them. Does he now get fined! I get his frustration but IT WAS A BLOCK! He was moving and fell sideways
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If you feel that you are now in a disturbing place of darkness, just know that God puts you there to shine your light. So be the light that God wants you to be!
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The basket was huge today for Trent! So happy for him and our team!
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Happy Mother’s Day to this beautiful soul! We thank you with everything with have! We would not be able to make it without you. I love you and I hope you have a wonderful day!
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So excited about Czar and the rest of our recruiting class!
#FightOn
🚨👀 In-state talent returning home! 🚨
@ATUMBB
head coach Mark Downey (
@mdowneyATU
) announces the addition of Czar Perry to the roster for 2021-22!
Read up on Czar ⬇️
#FightOn
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If you are upset that school is starting, just think, we are that much closer 2 the start of NSU RiverHawk Hoops! Let the 3's rain!
#TeamNSU
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We can’t fix the past, so why dwell in it? We can’t predict the future, so why worry? We can be PRESENT, and TRUST God! I haven’t always been present thru this storm. “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matt 6:33
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