BURN THE HORSE
When Tennessee-Martin travels to UALR to open the 2012-2013
basketball season on Nov. 9, the Skyhawks will bring some local flavor with
them. Little Rock natives senior Jeremy Washington and sophomore
Myles Taylor will be a big part of the Skyhawks game plan this year.
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| Myles Taylor |
Washington, 6-7, 230 pounds, played on Little Rock Hall’s
2008 state championship team. He averaged 9.7 points and 6.6 rebounds last
season, shooting 49 percent from the
field.
Taylor, 6-7, 250 pounds, was the Ohio Valley Conference
freshman of the year last season after averaging 13.7 points and 5.2 rebounds
last season. He’s another Little Rock Hall product and played in four
consecutive state championship games. One came while as a freshman at Lonoke
and the other three were at Hall.
Overall, it wasn’t a very good season last year for the
Skyhawks. They went 4-27 overall and 0-16 in the Ohio Valley Conference. That
included a 63-45 loss to Arkansas State and a 75-68 loss to Central Arkansas. But
it also included a very nice victory with the Skyhawks going on the road to
defeat Alabama-Birmingham. That was their only victory over a Division I
program last season.
The Skyhawks went 12-21 and 4-25 the previous two years. But
in 2008-2009, Tennessee-Martin went 22-10 and played in the postseason NIT.
