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By Pete Conrad , Staff Writer Updated 11:25 PM Wednesday, June 2, 2010

OXFORD — Coach Charlie Coles said his Miami University basketball team needed a good 3-point shooter, and on Wednesday, June 2, the RedHawks got their man in junior college all-star Chris McHenry.

The 5-foot-11, 185-pound junior point guard is transferring to Miami from Garden City Community College in Kansas.

“I’m very excited,” said McHenry, who still is attending class at Garden City. “I think I can bring a lot of leadership and hard work, and I’ll be a threat offensively because I can also shoot it off the dribble.”

That’s no idle boasting by McHenry, a native of Milwaukee, Wis. who already has NCAA Division I experience.

As a freshman at Howard University he scored 29 points against Wyoming, and after transferring to Garden City he averaged 16.0 points as a sophomore, drilled 80 baskets from 3-point range and earned first-team all-region honors.

“He’s a good outside shooter and that’s what we kind of need. We didn’t shoot the ball very well last year,” said Coles, whose team also lost three guards from last season’s squad — senior Kenny Hayes, along with Rodney Haddix and Kramer Soderberg, both of whom transferred — who combined for 79 baskets from the arc.

McHenry is likely to share playing time at point guard with true freshman Quinten Rollins, of Wilmington, Coles said. Allen Roberts, of Middletown, will play at two guard after spending part of last season at point guard.

“He’s a pretty good passer, too, so he’s not all scoring,” Coles said of McHenry. “We expect him to run the offense, him and Rollins, which I think gives us two real good guys at the point.

“He’s a tough kid,” Coles added, “and he can get to the basket. But the thing that excites me is that he can really shoot the 3.”

McHenry set a single-game school record at Garden City when he hit nine 3-pointers against Hutchinson Community College last Jan. 18.

McHenry played in just 11 games at the Division I level for Howard, averaging 9.6 points, and then missed the rest of the season when he became academically ineligible.

Coles said he isn’t worried: “Academically, he did real well in high school and in junior college.”

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