6/9/2023 0 Comments Region x tournament![]() The Storm finished 23-7 during the 2012-2013 season and 22-5 during the 2013-2014 season.ĭuring the 2014-2015 season, the Storm finished 10-0 in conference play during the regular season and once again captured another outright Tarheel Conference Regular Season Championship. Although ranked in the top 10 nationally throughout the season, the Storm’s journey came up a bit short in the Region X Tournament Finals against rival Sandhills. Ridge’s squad finished the season 29-3 record. The Storm captured another outright Tarheel Conference Regular Season Championship in 2011-2012. In the first round, the Storm was upset by eventual national champions Mountain View College and finished 4th in the National Tournament. After capturing the Regular Season, Region X Tournament and District Tournament Championships, the Storm returned to the NJCAA National Tournament, this time in Loch Sheldrake, N.Y. Davidson-Davie was ranked #1 in the national polls for 15 weeks total, and 10 weeks consecutively. The Storm finished with a program-high 34 wins against just 2 defeats. After returning only two players from the previous season, Ridge and his staff brought in a recruiting class that would help push the Storm to the top of the NJCAA polls for the first time in program history. The 2010-2011 season was one for the record books. ![]() The team won the Region X title for the first time and defeated an extremely talented Montgomery College – Germantown In the District VII title game to advance to the NJCAA National Tournament in Delhi, N.Y. The third season, 2009–2010, saw the Storm program continue to flourish, overcoming a number of injuries to go undefeated in the conference, capturing the outright Regular Season Championship. In the 2008-2009 season, the Storm was ranked as high as 4th in the nation with a record of 25-7 and were again regular season Co-Champions of the Tarheel Conference. Ridge coached the inaugural Storm team (2007-2008) to a national ranking of 9th in the nation in NJCAA Division III rankings, a Co-Championship of the Tarheel Conference regular season and an overall record of 22-7. During 2006-2007, Ridge was the assistant men’s basketball coach at Guilford College, helping lead them to an NCAA Division III Elite Eight showing. He turned the Golden Eagles from a bottom dweller into one of the Central Carolina Conference’s top teams over six seasons. Ridge made his college head-coaching debut in 2007-2008 with the Storm following a successful stint as the boys’ basketball coach at East Davidson High School in Thomasville, N.C. Unfortunately, the Storm did not get to attend the 2019-2020 NJCAA D2 National Tournament due to it being canceled because of the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Storm won the District VII Championship for the 8th time in 16 years. In national tournament play, the Storm finished 8th in 2010, 4th in 2011, 5th in 2016, 7th in 2017, 2nd in both 20 and 5th in 2023. In eight of the sixteen seasons, the Storm has advanced to both the District VII Championships and the NJCAA National Tournament. Ridge has directed the Storm to ten outright regular-season Tarheel Conference Championships while being Co-Champions in four seasons. Also, the Storm has compiled a record of 240-19 (92.6 %) at home since the start of the program in 2007. His 84.17% winning percentage is also the highest winning percentage in the country during this time frame. ![]() The 431 wins are the most wins by any National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II or Division III program in the nation over the sixteen-year span. Under the leadership of Head Coach, Matt Ridge, the Storm has won 431 games in fifteen years, against just 81 losses. Head its 16-year history, the men’s basketball program at Davidson-Davie Community College has become one of the elite junior college programs in the country.
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