Tim Wise
Head Coach
Sixth Season
Millsaps College, 1989






Tim Wise enters his sixth season as the Millsaps men's basketball head coach after guiding the Majors to a 74-61 overall record the previous five seasons at the helm. The Majors were a perfect 16-0 at home a year ago and have won 42 of their last 50 games overall dating back to the 2006-07 season.

The 2007-08 season provided its share of highlights, with the team winning its first SCAC Championship since 2001, posting the best record in school history at 28-4 and advancing all the way to the Elite Eight in St. Louis before falling to the eventual national champion.

On top of that, D3hoops.com rewarded Millsaps with a No. 6 ranking in the final poll of the season, the highest they've ever finished in the program's 97-year history. They were also recognized as the 17th most improved team in all of Division III basketball.

Wise won just 14 games against 36 losses as head coach during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons after taking over for Millsaps' all-time winning coach John Stroud, but has guided the Majors to a 60-25 record over the previous three seasons to become the fourth winningest coach in school history dating back to 1911.

The Majors lose five, key players from last year’s starting lineup, including SCAC Player of the Year runner-up Edrick Montgomery in the post, and will have to rely on the play of three returning seniors and a pair of juniors.
  
A native of Memphis, Tenn., Wise played both basketball and golf for Millsaps from 1985-89, earning four letters each under head coach Don Holcomb and the late Mary Ann Edge.  Wise graduated from Millsaps in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He holds the Millsaps career record for assists with 552.
  
A 1985 graduate of Memphis University School, Wise coached at three Memphis area high schools from 1989-98.  He started his coaching and teaching career in 1989 at St. Benedict Catholic School in Cordova, Tenn. In 1992, Wise returned to Memphis University School where he coached the junior varsity until 1997. 

In the fall of 1997, Wise moved to newly opened Cordova High School as the men's head basketball coach and head golf coach.
  
Wise is married to the former Rachel Cook of Memphis, who is also a Millsaps graduate.  They have three children, Luke, Anna and Allie.

Justin LeBlanc
Assistant Coach
Third Season
Millsaps College, 2006

Returning to the assistant position for a third season is Larose, La., native Justin LeBlanc. The Majors have combined to go 46-13 in his first two seasons alongside head coach Tim Wise, advancing to the semifinals of the SCAC Tournament two years ago and winning it over the 2nd-ranked team in the country, Centre College, last season.

A graduate of Millsaps College in the spring of 2006, LeBlanc spent all four seasons in a Majors uniform, including dressing out in every game as a true freshman and advancing to the SCAC Tournament all four years.

For his career LeBlanc played in 86 games, averaging 8.0 points per game.  He shot a combined 83 percent from behind the free throw line, 37 percent from the floor and 35 percent from beyond the arc. LeBlanc also ranks fourth all-time in Millsaps history in career 3-point attempts (338).

LeBlanc began playing basketball at the young age of six and continued his time on the court all the way through high school and college, playing guard at South LaFourche HS and Millsaps all four years. LeBlanc also played AAU ball for three years.

A business major with a minor in French, LeBlanc currently serves two roles for the College, first as an assistant coach and then as the intramural director. LeBlanc took over his new position in May of 2006, where he handles the hiring of work-study students along with overseeing scheduling and budgets.

For the men's basketball team, LeBlanc handles travel arrangements and film exchange, while also playing a role in scheduling and recruiting trips.

LeBlanc is the son of Bonnie and Kenneth LeBlanc. He has a twin brother, Jack (25) a high school basketball coach and two sisters, Leslie (28) a nurse, and Courtney (30) a teacher.  He currently resides in Jackson.