2011-12 Mens Basketball Guide

The 2011-12 University of Southern Mississippi basketball media guide has been designed as a source of information for the news media and Golden Eagle basketball fans. Every effort has been made to include pertinent and timely information. Should you need additional information, such as feature material and/or photographs, please direct your inquiries to the Southern Miss Athletic Media Relations Office at:

Southern Miss Athletic Media Relations Office

118 College Drive #5161 Hattiesburg, MS 39401

Athletic Media Relations Office
118 College Drive #5161-0001
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
Phone: (601) 266-4503

Overnight Mailing Address:
Central Receiving
2609 W. 4th Street
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
Phone: 601-266-4503

Office Phone

601-266-4503

To help further in covering Southern Miss basketball during the coming season, news releases, photos, videocassettes and audio-cassettes, and other services are available to accredited members of the news media.

ria. The website in question must be directly affiliated with a traditional news service, agency or company and employ a full-time staff. Also, the individuals representing the website in question must be a legitimate sports/news reporter and must provide written authorization from their respective editor to illustrate that they are directly affiliated with a traditional news service, agency or company. A letter from anyone other than an editor will not be accepted. The Athletic Media Relations Office has the final authority on whether any individuals from any organization will be issued media credentials. Space also will be made available to professional scouts. We do not provide complimentary tickets to the media.

Space will also be made available to professional scouts. Spouses, dates, and nonworkers will not be permitted in the working press area. Sorry, we do not provide complimentary tickets to the media.

We will no longer mail credentials once the season starts. All credentials not picked up at the Athletic Media Relations Office prior to game day will be at the press WILL CALL located at the tunnel on the southwest side of Green Coliseum. Media photography space is limited and credentials will be issued using the same priorities as for media credentials.

Office Fax

601-266-4507

Andrzejewski’s Cell 662-312-7663

Working Credentials

All credential requests for Southern Miss home games should be directed to Tim Andrzejewski, Associate Director of Media Relations, IN WRITING. Credentials will be issued on a priority basis with national publications, daily newspapers, wire services, originating radio and television networks, television tape crews, and student newspapers from Southern Miss and the visiting school receiving top priority.

Requests from weekly newspapers and radio stations that cover the Golden Eagles or the visiting team on a regular basis will also be honored on a space-available basis. Credentials for Internet sites will be granted to the official Southern Miss Athletics site, the visiting team’s official Web site and the Conference USA’s official Web site, as well as internet companies that run sports-related content websites only if the company in question meets both of the following crite-

Web Site
SouthernMiss.com
either through the home team or the Southern
Miss Athletic Media Relations Office.

Media Parking

Parking is limited and passes will be issued on the same priority basis as for the working media credentials. Press parking is located in the Payne Center parking lot, east of Green Coliseum. Passes can be picked up will call at the east side Ticket Booth. Media members are asked to enter the Coliseum at the top of the ramp near the Ticket Office.

Southern Miss Press Row

The Golden Eagle basketball press row is located on the south side of Green Coliseum and is reached via the tunnel entrance located on the Coliseum’s southwest side.

Road Game Credentials

Media members covering Southern Miss may make road game credential requests

Southern Miss Athletic Media Relations Department

Services

The Southern Miss Athletic Media Relations Office will provide game programs, notes, updated scores of other games, and cumulative stats prior to the game, and play-by-play will be available at halftime and the end of the game. Complete booklets which include play-by-play, stats (team and individual), and coaches quotes will be available as soon as possible after the game. Pregame food and soft drinks are available. Fax services are available.

Jack Duggan
Assistant Director of
Athletics/Media
Relations

Shirley Hill
Associate Director of
Athletic Media
Relations

Tim Andrzejewski
Associate Director of
Athletic Media
Relations

Kyle Neaves
Assistant Director of
Athletic Media
Relations

Ty Stewart Secretary

Telephone

Individual service should be requested directly through i Tech at (601) 266-4000. Use the Athletic Media Relations Office as a campus contact for location purposes. Several telephones are available on press row for local and credit card and collect long distance calls. The main press row number at Green Coliseum is (601) 266-5428.