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LEVELLAND, Texas - The South Plains College Texan basketball team's undefeated record has helped them to receive 14-of-16 first place votes and the No. 1 ranking in the NJCAA basketball polls released Tuesday afternoon.

South Plains (18-0, 3-0 WJCAC) began the season with a No. 18 national ranking in the pre-season poll, but quickly sped up to No. 7 in the November 15 poll after knocking off ranked opponents Trinity Valley and Lamar State-Port Arthur in the second weekend of the season.

By Adam Zuvanich of the Odessa American

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J.E. Pressly calls himself a 12-year man. He spent 12 years as the Odessa High baseball coach upon moving to the Permian Basin, served 12-year stints as a county commissioner and justice of the peace, and is now in his 12th year as a member of the Odessa College Board of Trustees.

Thanks to Midland College athletic director Forrest Allen for this report

Congratulations to MC women's basketball coach Ron Jones who recorded his 500th collegiate coaching victory in a 65-60 contest with the New Mexico Junior College Lady T-Birds back on December 1, 2011. The game was played in Hobbs, NM during the 2011 WJCAC Preconference Tournament.

Jones, who began his college coaching career at Western Texas College in Snyder, opened this season with a 491-138 record. The 2011-12 season marks his 20th as a college coach (two seasons at Western Texas College and 18 at Midland College).