Bobby & Danny Lynch Named to NABC Academic Honor Roll

by Sports Information
6/1/04

LANCASTER, PA - Franklin & Marshall College men's basketball forward Bob Lynch (Jr., Richboro, PA/Council Rock) and center Dan Lynch (Jr., Richboro, PA/Council Rock) have been named to the 2004 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Academic Honor Roll.

The NABC Academic Honor Roll salutes players at four-year colleges who are in their junior or senior years and hold a cumulative 3.2 grade point average or higher. Overall, the Lynch twins were among over 700 selections from NCAA Divisions I, II and III as well as NAIA Divisions I and II.

One of four All-Centennial Conference selections this year for F&M in men's basketball, Bob Lynch earned second team All-CC honors this year as he led the team in scoring (472 points), points per game (15.7 ppg), rebounds (220), rebounds per game (7.3 rpg), offensive rebounds (98) and defensive rebounds (122), while ranking second in blocked shots (23).

The January 5 and 26 Centennial Conference Player of the Week, he now has 780 points, 368 rebounds, 32 blocked shots and 79 assists in 69 games as he is on pace to join the 1,000 point club and become the tenth player in school history to record 1,000 points and 500 rebounds.

A College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District and All-America candidate for the 2004 season, he is majoring in Physics and Mathematics.

A mathematics and chemistry major, Dan Lynch tallied 112 points, 105 rebounds, 18 steals, four blocks and 27 assists coming off the bench this year as he raised his career numbers to 157 points, 151 rebounds, four blocks, 40 assists and 27 steals.

Overall, both Lynch twins were named to the 2003 & 2004 All-Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll as the pair are among the leaders in the Conference in GPA among student-athletes.

In addition, the Lynch twins naming to the NABC Academic Honor Roll ties Franklin & Marshall for the most selections among Centennial Conference institutions as Swarthmore seniors Jacob Letendre and Chris Loeffler were also named to the name. Overall, six Centennial Conference athletes were named to the team as Johns Hopkins senior Kevin Marquez and McDaniel junior D.J. Hines rounded out the selections.

Ranked #6 in the final D3hoops.com poll, Franklin & Marshall College captured the Centennial Conference Championship and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they advanced to the NCAA "Elite Eight"

The tournament berth marked the 19th in the history of men's basketball at the College as the team earned NCAA bids in 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986-1996, 1999 and 2000, including appearances in four Final Fours (1979, 1991, 1996, 2000).

F&M, which knocked off Hampden-Sydney 78-76 in the round of 32, defeated Gwynedd Mercy (92-72 W) in the "Sweet 16", but fell to Amherst 82-70 in the "Elite Eight" to conclude the season among the top eight teams in the nation.

For F&M, which concluded the year with the 19th 20-win season under head coach Glenn Robinson (674-235), the team's 26-4 record (17-1 in Centennial Conference play) marked the program's best mark and highest winning percentage (.867) since the 1996 team concluded the year 29-3 (.906) in the NCAA "Final Four".