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The 2023/24 Men's Basketball Pre-Season National Rankings have been released by the NJCAA. The Clarendon Bulldogs were slotted at #21 in the opening poll. The Bulldogs are coming off of a 25-6 season last year and a #18 ranking in the final NJCAA poll. The Bulldogs feature a completely retooled roster this season, with 6 NCAA Division 1 Transfers added to replace 4 all conference selections that moved on to 4 year schools. Clarendon College was one of 4 WJCAC Schools featured in the National Rankings. The Bulldogs schedule this season proves to be a tough slate, with 7 games vs Top 10 opponents. Clarendon opens the season on November 1st at Wayland Baptist. 

Location: Clarendon, TX
Enrollment: 1,334
2022-23 Record: 20-5 (8-3) RV in NJCAA Poll 2/6
Head Coach: Hunter Jenkins (3rd season)

Week in Review: 
Won vs #2 Odessa 80-69
Won at NMMI 77-66

As the season is winding down, many teams are starting to position themselves for a postseason run & this week’s National JucoRecruiting.com Team of the Week winner is no different.  Clarendon College out of Region 5 in the Panhandle of West Texas came into the year picked 7th out of 9 teams in the preseason polls.  Currently sitting in 2nd place after a huge win over #2 Odessa at home on Monday night, the Bulldogs finally got the signature win they needed to place themselves firmly on the at-large bubble.  Coach Hunter Jenkins’s group also picked up a road win at New Mexico Military on Thursday, avoiding a letdown after one of the biggest wins in school history.  

On Monday night #2 Odessa traveled to Clarendon hoping to end the Bulldog's undefeated home streak in league play.  The Bulldogs had other plans and raced out to an 18-point lead at one point while never trailing in the contest.  Clarendon shot a blistering 63% from the field and was unconscious from behind the ark (9/12 3pt) at 75%.  Odessa was previously undefeated in Region 5 play and escaped with a 4-point win in the first matchup.  Bowling Green transfer Josiah Fulcher & returning PG Omar Cooper both led Clarendon with 15 points, and Shannon Strickland chipped in 13 highlighting a ridiculous shooting night for the backcourt trio.  Leading scorer Jamal West recorded a double/double with 13p/10r, and emerging 7-footer Jeriah Coleman rejected 5 shots in the paint.  West did not play in 2 of the 3 league losses for Clarendon but seems healthy for the home stretch.  

The Bulldogs traveled to Roswell, NM to face New Mexico Military on Thursday, leading throughout the contest and pulling away with a 77-66 victory at one of the tougher places to play in Region 5.  Jamal West would once again log a double/double with 18p/10r, and this time Coleman decided to join in on the fun with 14p/10r/5b proving to be one of the best frontcourt duos in the country.  Clarendon made 8 3-pointers on the road and went 15-17 from the FT line in the win.  

Tonight Clarendon welcomes surging #24 Midland College, winners of 5 in a row.  The Bulldogs narrowly defeated the Chaps in Midland earlier in the year & both teams are fighting for regional tournament positioning with 5 regular season games remaining.  

National Team of the Week: Clarendon College (jucorecruiting.com)

Bulldog Men's and Women's Basketball Team are off to great starts this season. You can watch all home games on live stream. Beware of scam links on social media accounts. Only click links through accounts associated with Clarendon College. Below are the live stream links for the two teams.

Men's Basketball

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Women's Basketball 

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The Clarendon College basketball team finds themselves in the top 10 of the latest NJCAA rankings. At the mid-way point of the season the Bulldogs are 14-1 and currently ranked #9 in the country.

http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2019-20/div1/polls

The Clarendon College men's basketball teams heads into the semester break with an impressive 12-1 record including 2-0 in the ultra competitive Western Junior College Athletic Conference (WJCAC). The Bulldogs continue to climb the national rankings checking in at #11 this week. 

http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2019-20/div1/polls

The Clarendon College men's basketball team has climbed to #16 in the country after winning 9 of their first 10 games to start the 2019-2020 season.

http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2019-20/div1/polls

An 11-0 start to the season has the women's basketball program receiving votes in the latest NJCAA poll as well.

http://stats.njcaa.org/sports/wbkb/2019-20/div1/polls

After impressive outings at some of the most competitive showcases in all of junior college the Clarendon College basketball team checks in at #21 in the 2019-2020 preseason poll. Coach Amedee and the Bulldogs look to build on their consecutive Region V Tournament births.

https://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2019-20/div1/rankings/preseason

 In what has been a historic season, the Clarendon Bulldogs was able to make the Regional Tournament for the third time in school history and first time in 15 years. Clarendon was led by the steady hands of 2-year starting point guard, Reece Brooks.

Brooks, who was named to the All Conference and All Region teams, averaged 17.2 points per game while shooting 43% from the field and 42.2% behind the arc. Also, he was among the top players in the region averaging 6.8 assists per game and led from the free throw line with 94% . 

On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, Brooks officially signed his National Letter of Intent to the University of Albany, a Division 1 school in Albany, New York. The Great Danes hope to get back dancing in the NCAA Tournament, with the addition of Brooks, since the last appearance in 2015. Brooks becomes the first player to sign a full scholarship to a Division 1 school in 15 years from Clarendon College.

The Clarendon College Bulldogs have secured a spot in the NJCAA Region 5 men's tournament, and will be facing off with McLennan Community College on Wednesday, March 7 at 1 p.m..

The tournament is being held on the campus of Frenship High School in Wolforth, Texas.

If the Bulldogs win, they will face the winner of Thursday’s South Plains vs. Ranger matchup on Friday at 1 p.m.

The Championship game will be held on Saturday, March 10, at 2 p.m.

Here is a link to the Tournament schedule: http://www.njcaaregion5.com/…/2017-…/releases/2018030300zwvh

The Clarendon College Men’s basketball team just finish up two Jamborees on back to back weekends.

First, the Bulldogs attended the always competitive Jerry Mullins Juco Jamboree in Dallas.

The Bulldogs played 5 games in two days against very good teams. Friday night the tipped it off against Temple College, Mountain View College and Eastfield College.  

On Saturday morning they played Northwest Kansas Tech College and Hutchinson County Community College. It was a great experience and measuring stick for the start of the season.  Freshman D’Tavian Walker played very well all weekend.

This last weekend the Bulldogs traveled north to Lamar, Colorado, to play 3 more solid teams at the Lamar College Jamboree. 

They opened up with Lamar Community College followed by Northwest Kansas Tech College and Trinidad State College. The team showed great improvement from a week earlier in Dallas.

The two lone returners in Tavon Alexander and Dashun Dixon played very well over the three games. Newcomers Marcus Ellison, Dominic Obunaka, Quadre Lollis, Nick Hammink, Kobe Allen and  Khalil Newton all did great things to help the bulldogs this weekend.

The Bulldogs next and final scrimmage is this Saturday at 5 PM against the host Hardin-Simmons University in their final tune up before the open up in Nebraska on Halloween Night.