April 23, 2008

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Stephen F. Austin men's basketball coach Danny Kaspar announced Wednesday the addition of Girod Adams to the Lumberjack roster for the 2008-09 season.

Adams is a 5-10 point guard from Topeka, Kan., by way of Cloud County Community College in Concordia, Kan.

"We feel that Girod is an excellent point guard prospect who can handle and shoot the ball very well," Kaspar said. "I expect him to give (2007-08 starting point guard) Eric Bell a good run for his money next year. In addition to being a solid player, Girod is also the type of guy who will fit in well with our current group of players. He's a very good young man who works hard and is conscientious of his academic performance both on the court and in the classroom."

Already a proven winner at the college ranks, Adams helped lead his Thunderbirds team through a tough Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference schedule and on to the NJCAA Region VI semifinals in consecutive seasons. As a sophomore this year, Adams was named honorable mention all-conference.

In this season's Region VI semifinal game -- against eventual NJCAA Final Four participant Seward County -- Adams scored a season-high 23 points on six 3-pointers, which tied for the third-best single-game total from beyond the arc in the Jayhawk Conference this season.

For the season, Adams averaged 8.0 points per game with 3.5 rebounds per contest and led the team with 106 assists. He hit a team-high 46 3-pointers and shot 41.6 percent from the field. Adams' 67 steals also led Cloud County.

Adams posted 12 double-figure scoring games, including two with 20 or more, and dished out at least five assists on six different occasions. In perhaps his best game of the year, he put up 15 points, 10 assists and six steals in a win over Butler on Jan. 2.

Adams joins two early signing period additions and a second spring signee to give the Lumberjacks four players in their current signing class.

SFA is coming off its best season since becoming a Division I program in the 1986-87 season. The Lumberjacks went 26-6 this season and won a share of the program's first-ever Southland Conference championship. SFA earned a berth in the National Invitation Tournament, where the 'Jacks fell to eventual championship game participant UMass.

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