Former York Men's Basketball Coach Jeff Gamber To Coach In National Div. III All-Star Game
The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) today
announced former Albion College coach Mike Turner
and former York (Pa.) College coach Jeff Gamber as
the head coaches for the 2013 Reese's® Division III College
All-Star game, which will be played as part of the 2013 NCAA®
Division III Men's Basketball Championship. Reese's Peanut
Butter Cups are the official candy partner of the NCAA.
The Reese's Division III College All-Star game will be
played on Saturday, March 23, at 3:30 p.m. (EDT), prior to the NCAA
Division III semifinals, at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va.
The teams are composed of two senior student-athletes from each of
the eight regions in Division III and two seniors are been selected
through online voting by fans on D3hoops.com.
This year's NCAA Division III Men's Basketball National
Championship game will be played at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Ga.,
at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 7. The game is being played as the
NCAA celebrates 75 years of March Madness®.
Turner, the 2009 recipient of the NABC Division III Coaches'
Distinguished Service Award, is the head coach of the West team. He
was head coach at Albion College for 38 seasons and completed his
coaching career with a record of 527-319, the most victories of any
coach in program history. The former chair of the NCAA Division III
men's basketball committee, Turner led his teams to four NCAA
Division III tournaments and finished third in the nation in 1978.
Turner and his wife Peg, a grade school teacher, also founded the
Albion College Student-Athlete Mentoring Program in which Albion
student-athletes tutor, read, and mentor over 250 grade school
children annually.
Gamber, the head coach at York College for 36 seasons, retired with
a 493-425 record as the all-time leader in career wins at York. The
1997 recipient of the NABC Division III Coaches' Distinguished
Service Award, he is the former chair of the NCAA Division III
men's basketball committee and was also honored as the NABC
Division III National Coach of the Year in 2005, as he led York to
the NCAA semifinals. Gamber developed the "Three Point Attack"
program, which helped raise funds for cancer research and the NABC
Coaches vs. Cancer program.






