2021’s making their college decision in the upcoming weeks/months - Go where you’re WANTED! Don’t get hung up on level or division as much as the best fit. Invest in those who invest in YOU! Earning a college degree is a relationship business. Who do you have a relationship with?
A LOT of D3’s pushing D1’s to the brink in these preseason exhibitions… you might want to return that phone call or text to that D3 coaching staff trying to build a relationship with you and help you learn more about their academic and basketball opportunities
#D3hoops
There’s entirely too many high school seniors who look down on D3 basketball who would have absolutely zero chance to be able to earn their way onto the court for this final four game between Mount Union & Whitewater
#D3hoops
Nash Thomas Conley arrived August 22, 2020 at 4:08pm. Baby boy is healthy and doing well at 7 lbs 13 oz and was 21 inches long. Chelsea is doing great and she was a rockstar the past 9 months and crushed the delivery! Logan is pumped to be a big sister!
#TheConleys
#Blessed
Humbled & Honored! Team success leads to individual recognition. This is a coaching staff award! Wouldn’t be here without Coach Clark, Coach Erving, & Coach Christopher! Shout out to this program for the work we’ve put in, the process we’ve embraced, and the journey we’re on!
MBB: Congratulations to Manchester men's basketball head coach Nate Conley for being named the
@HCACDIII
Coach of the Year! Willoughby, Sawyer, Smith, and Columbus earned all conference honors!
Full release:
#MUSpartans
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#SpartanPride
When I got hired at Manchester I promised our team(s) would play hard, play together, and put a product on the court this campus & community would be proud of. We did just that tonight. Lost to a really good opponent. Shoutout to this home crowd tonight for a special atmosphere‼️
D3 🏀 is high level basketball 🏀
D3 🏀 is high level basketball 🏀
D3 🏀 is high level basketball 🏀
D3 🏀 is high level basketball 🏀
D3 🏀 is high level basketball 🏀
D3 🏀 is high level basketball 🏀
D3 🏀 is high level basketball 🏀
“Go where YOU’re WANTED‼️”
I am DAMN proud to be the Head Coach at Manchester University! Stay tuned..
Thank you to our four seniors for everything they gave and contributed to Manchester Basketball!
I’ll forever be indebted to my 1st recruiting class at MU - Love you Carson, Coy, Mitch, & Zach!!!!
Final.
Manchester 73
Anderson 75
The season ends with a 16-11 record & brought home a 3rd-place HCAC finish to our campus
Smith 17pts, 4-8 3’s
Sawyer 16pts, 9reb, 6asst
L Willoughby 15pts
Hampton 9pts, 15reb
Mendenhall 9pts
Shewmaker 7pts
We’ll be back!
#SpartanPride
4 years ago today was my 1st day as head coach for
@Spartans_MBB
We finished our 8th & final preseason practice this morning!
The NCAA got this one right & what a joy it’s been interacting court-side with this TEAM!
Excited for Year 4 / Season 5
🏀Blessed
⚫️🟡Pride
2020 has been tough on everyone one way or another..Coaching college basketball through it has been challenging, stressful, & rewarding. But, today I’m one of the few
@NCAADIII
coaches in the country who gets to coach my guys & I’m going to appreciate them and our opportunity!
Great hire by Bluffton! Seth elevates everyone around him daily! Thank you for trusting me & allowing me to be part of your journey - from student-athlete, to assistant coach, to one of my best friends! The Conley Crew & MU will miss you like crazy! Thanks Coach Clark!
#Stack
🪵
3
@HCACDIII
wins in 6 days for
@Spartans_MBB
Knocked off Transy for the 1st time since 2017, won at AU for the 1st time since 2009, and found a way to win against a tough and well coached MSJ team. 2022 has helped this team continue to buy into the process
#ProudCoach
#GoSpartans
Practice
#1
of the season✅
These guys were hungry and ready for a great 6:00am start!
This TEAM got better this offseason!
This TEAM got better this morning!
Couldn’t be prouder & more excited to be the head coach of this program!
#SpartanPride
1st day of classes tomorrow! Exciting times ahead is a understatement!
Thank you
@CoachErvin_
for the summer he crushed & directly contributed positively to
@Spartans_MBB
Coach hit the recruiting trail, built relationships, & brought DUDES to campus! Proud Head Coach!
6:00am Friday Leg Day💪💪
I’m SO proud of how this team has turned adversity into opportunity pushing themselves and their teammates to make BIG steps forward the last 6 weeks. It’s a
#SpartanPride
thing
#BuiltDifferent
#CovidSucks
⚫️🟡🏀
Professor Clark!
Assistant Professor
Exercise Science
Manchester University
Day
#1
Proud of you my guy
@sclark21_
Never too old for first day of school photos
It’s been 70 days since MU’s Men’s Basketball Team has played a game. WE’RE BACK tonight for our first contest of 2021‼️
Logan is pumped it’s GAME DAY & so is her daddy 🤪
Catch the live action online at 5:00pm
#GoSpartans
⚫️🟡🏀
Not the result we wanted against a tough opponent but what a special place
@ManchesterUniv
is! Thanks for ALL the support tonight from those in attendance and everyone who tuned in from home! Looking forward to improving moving forward
#SpartanPride
Practice
#1
✅
I love this game! Such an exciting time of year with effort and energy through the roof!
Shoutout to ‘19
@Spartans_MBB
alumni
@KennyDoss4
for speaking to our team at the end of practice! Invaluable resource for our program, campus, & community!
#SpartanPride
First day of classes followed up by our first team meeting of the year tonight! I’m blessed to be the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Manchester University because of MY GUYS! Can’t wait to watch this team grow & COMPETE every single day. Let’s rock 🤙🏽🤙🏽
#SpartanPride
#HardWork
REALLY proud of this team! They work hard, play together, care about each other, & brought home a Conference 🏆! Shout out to the students, administration, campus & community for the support tonight & all season long.. Love ya Fellas
#TogetherOn3
#SpartanPride
A lot of unsigned / undecided 2022’s out there getting ready to make a really big life decision in the upcoming weeks and months.. Best advice you can receive - GO WHERE YOU’RE WANTED! Invest in those who invest in you 💯
Hearing from strangers in restaurants how impressed they are with your team’s behavior and manners during their team meal will ALWAYS make this Head Coach proud
@Spartans_MBB
#SpartanPride
Many have reached out about my guy
@sclark21_
He isn’t going anywhere. He had an incredible career opportunity that he is going to crush as a full-time faculty member at MU. He will continue to be an essential part of our student-athletes positive experience moving forward
#Fam
Fun night hosting the guys for a really good team meal at the house! The Spartans officially start the season one week from tonight at Trine!
#LetsGooo
🟡⚫️
Excited to welcome
@sclark21_
to Manchester University! Seth is a high character and hard working rising star in the coaching profession! He will be a great role model for our student athletes and contribute positively to our program, campus, and community!
#SpartanPride
MBB: A couple of big-time performances from a pair of freshmen this afternoon!
Jackson Jannsen (Carmel, Ind.) and Brandon Christlieb (Ashley, Ind.) helped propel the Black & Gol to victory today.
#MUSpartans
l
#ManchesterUniversity
PUMPED to be back in our gym and hosting prospect camp today
@ManchesterUniv
‼️ A LOT of talent & future college basketball players are signed up to participate & compete this afternoon. Can’t wait for this one
#SpartanPride
Men’s basketball off to a great start to the semester & crushing the first week back at school! Great study table session this morning in the PERC classrooms
#SpartanPride
I can’t express the excitement and energy our program had being together in the PERC tonight for our first team meeting. MU is a special place with special people and this team and program is very hungry to make this campus and community proud
#SpartanPride
#HardWork
Heading into my 14th year as a college coach & recruiting AAU hoops - I genuinely enjoy the recruiting grind! Can’t wait to watch some DUDES this weekend in Fort Wayne at the Bill Hensley Memorial Run N Slam! Also, LOVE catching up & connecting with so many stud coaches
#Blessed
The pandemic recruiting year was an unprecedented process. But, I’ve seen A LOT of DUDES committed to
@NCAADIII
institutions
D3 always has been and definitely will continue to be an elite level of college basketball
Excited for the 2021-22 season
#RunYourOwnRace
#D3Hoops
Lost a tough game to a talented team on our home floor tonight
However, peaking into the gym at halftime to see our girl ripping cartwheels to entertain everyone makes for one damn proud Daddy!
Wait to crush it Lo!
Happy National Girls & Women in sports day babygirl 💪💪
Winning is fun. The guys we get to coach make it fun. But nothing makes this coach more proud than a waitress telling me she had the most polite group of young men she’s ever had this evening after always getting nervous seeing a large party walk through the doors
#ProudCoach
Our record isn’t where we want it to be as a team, but this
@Spartans_MBB
team plays HARD and as a result of their effort we are never out of a game. I’m so proud to lead this team in front of this incredibly supportive campus and community home game after home game
#SpartanPride
Practice
#1
✅
Couldn’t be prouder to be the Head Coach for
@Spartans_MBB
& coach the young men we have in our program!
Can’t wait to attack the 23-24 season with these guys!
#SpartanPride
I’m extremely proud of this team for how they’ve responded to a season full of uncertainty and adversity!
30+ Covid Tests ✅
3 seniors who left it all out there✅
2 Xs as many road games as home games ✅
6 freshman playing 10+ mpg✅
I’m a blessed man being the HC @ MU
MBB: Final l Franklin 78, Manchester 73
Franklin gets a steal and a score at buzzer as the Grizzlies fight past Manchester in today's HCAC Tournament Semifinal.
Saddened to hear that the 19-year old victim of a fatal shooting Friday night in Fort Wayne was, in fact, former Luers standout John Peterson. Here's a clip of John signing with Manchester last May. Gone too soon.
#RestInPeace
Overheard some incoming FR chatting in the weight room about their HS stats. Be proud of who are & where you come from - but none of that matters anymore. Those 19-22 year olds you’re about to line up across from at practice
#1
really don’t care. Stay humble. Get Hungry. Compete.
Incredibly blessed with another birthday and opportunity to watch some basketball at SportOne today! Excited to finally be courtside watching some studs play hoops again! Stay safe and healthy out there everybody
#TrulyBlessed
#Big33
#MaskGang
😷⚫️🟡
Fun night for our squad having our Black & Gold scrimmage! The HC took a 4 point L tonight but give the other team credit for the W! Shoutout to the lead official for showing up and helping our guys guard without putting their hands on the other team! Love ya Pops!
#SpartanPride
@CortizBuckner
is a 5th year senior who led our team in mpg, ppg, apg, and guarded the other team’s best guard in 2020-21. He’s played 0 minutes with a broken foot this season…
Look at the passion from this guy supporting his teammates‼️
Huge contribution today💯
#SpartanPRIDE
MBB: Final l
@Spartans_MBB
88, Transylvania 80
Starting the New Year with a WIN! All five starters scored in double figures as the Spartans knock off the Pioneers.
Recap:
Pics:
#MUSpartans
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#SpartanPride
Too many young players are misguided throughout the recruiting process worrying about the wrong stuff. Don’t focus on promises of playing time and where your friends are going. Focus on if players graduate and the success they have after graduation
The 🏀 stops bouncing 1 day
We are off to an incredible start recruiting 22s & crushed camps‼️I need to thank my staff for their work, effort, & support!
@sclark21_
&
@DarvoniC
- isn’t possible without you guys and our
@Spartans_MBB
players all about high character & hard working fellas coming to campus
ALWAYS a special time of the year! Manchester’s basketball season officially kicked off today & we had the team over for our annual October cookout! Very proud to have our kids grow up around the young men in this program! Ready to be practicing again tomorrow!!
#SpartanPride
Senior guard
@CortizBuckner
led the 20-21
@Spartans_MBB
squad in scoring (14.4ppg), assists (4.2apg), and FG% (56%) while being named HCAC Honorable Mention. Buckner will return for the 21-22 season! Hear some of his favorite memories on campus so far..
Fun evening hosting these guys for a team meal & some NBA playoff hoops to celebrate the last week of classes! Couldn’t be prouder raising two healthy & happy kids around college athletics & these young men in our program!
#SpartanPride
Would not be a head college basketball coach without this guy’s support and friendship through the years. Best of luck to
@AlbionMBB
this season. Always got tough and talented teams who get after it. Got better today!
#SpartanPride
Collecting all our guys jersey, short, and travel suite sizes in 2020 is very different than when I played in college. Smediums for everybody!
#ShortShortsAreBack
⚫️🟡
This is hard to watch. Fortunate to have this facility in the city of Fort Wayne growing up: I remember playing in the grand opening 3v3 Gus Macker in grade school, to my first AAU recruiting event as a GA, to the last AAU event held this past May.. Sad day in the basketball 🌎
One of best parts of coaching is having individual film sessions with your players. So much growth can happen when one is willing to put the time in and recognize the good and bad. Stats only tell part of the story. The film tells the whole thing
#HardWork
#SpartanPride
PSA to 2024 recruits: as college rosters are being uploaded daily - there’s a handful of 2023’s we were invested in recruiting that went some place else that aren’t even on rosters this October. I’d strongly suggest GOING WHERE YOU’RE WANTED. Invest in those who invest in you!
Like most
#D3hoops
junkies, I watched multiple Sweet 16 games this evening! Biggest storylines? Trine & Guilford programs both won 22 games a season ago & didn’t hear their name called on Selection Monday. Both are hosting Elite 8 rounds pursuing a Final 4. Motivated teams >
🔥🔥
Not sure I’ve seen a stat line like Zach Sawyer’s this past week.
Doing anything and everything to help us win & guarded two really elite guards like crazy along the way!
17.5ppg
11.0apg
10.5rpg
Most importantly = 2-0 on the week‼️‼️
#SpartanPride
HCAC Men's Basketball | Athlete of the Week
Congrats to the Men's Basketball Athlete of the Week:
Zach Sawyer,
@MUSpartans
Full Release:
#TheHeartofD3
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#D3Hoops
We’re off! Excited to be hosting our Varsity HS Shootout today! Some really good teams on campus. Looking forward to a competitive day of hoops!
#SpartanPride
I could care less the level of college hoops you commit to: D1, D2, D3, NAIA, Juco, USCAA, NCCAA - if your commitment graphic pops up on my feed I’m definitely clicking on your bio and watching your Hudl highlights for fun 🤣🤣 Am I the only the one who is a
#HoopsFilmJunkie
?!
Great annual tradition for my crew to travel up north to Glen Arbor, MI to spend some quality time together before the basketball season begins in a couple weeks!
#TheConleys
#Blessed
#CountingDownTheDays
3rd annual trip Up North for the Conley Crew! Always a great time with my family and a beautiful destination in Glen Arbor, MI!
It’s officially October, and we’re ready for the Manchester basketball season ahead!
#Blessed
#TheConleys
PUMPED to welcome the class of 2025 to
@ManchesterUniv
today - FINALLY! Can’t wait to see what this group accomplishes over the course of their next four years on and off campus!
#SpartanPride
#GameChangers
1st day of classes at
@ManchesterUniv
‼️
Pumped to see our guys back on campus & in the gym/weight room on Day
#1
What will that packed gym & weight room look like in a week? A month? During the long season?
This is the foundation of what we do at MU🏀
#HardWork
#WelcomeHome
A little hard to process its August 1st today, but kicking the month off right with more live hoops and I am really excited to welcome some DUDES to visit
@ManchesterUniv
’s campus this month
#260
#317
#765
#219
#517
Whose next?!