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BETHANY, Okla. — The field has been announced and the NCCAA Central Region Champions, Southern Nazarene takes the top spot in the NCCAA National Championship as play begins Wednesday in Winona Lake, Ind.
 
The Crimson Storm (16-12) will take on No. 8-seeded Carver College (11-16) who won the South Region by beating Bob Jones University and Southern Wesleyan.
 
Southern Nazarene has won two NCCAA National Championships with those coming in 1974 and 1977. The Crimson Storm won an NAIA National Title in 1981 and were the national runners-up in 1998. This is the 13^th time SNU has reached a national tournament.
 
THE MAN BEHIND THE STORM
Adam Bohac is in is sixth season at the Head Coach at Southern Nazarene and brings in a 127-63 career record into the national tournament. Bohac is the fastest coach to 100 wins in school history, earning that 100^th win, Dec. 7, 2012, at Arkansas-Fort Smith who eventually won the Heartland Conference Championship. Bohac is only of two coaches in school history to take the Crimson Storm to three straight NAIA National Tournaments. The only other coach to do that in school history is current Director of Athletics Bobby Martin.
 
A BUILDING STORM
Southern Nazarene held an 8-10 record, 18 games into the season, but has gone 8-2 since and finished third in the Great American Conference. Southern Nazarene had to win six of its last eight games to even qualify for the NCCAA Central Region Tournament, and the Crimson Storm did just that. For the fourth time in five years the Crimson Storm will be playing a national tournament. SNU, in its Provisional Stage of the NCAA Division II Membership Process finished in a tie for third place in the Great American Conference at 12-8. 

SNU has gone 8-2 over its last 10 games and touts two of the top scorers in the GAC in All-GAC selections CJ Smith and Quan Conner. Smith led the conference in scoring at 20.4 points per game and Conner was fifth at 17.0 points per game. Conner is also just 85 points away from hitting 1,000 as the senior stands at 915. He has scored nearly 500 points this year alone. Smith also just needs 84 more points to set the GAC single-season mark for points scored.

The Crimson Storm were second in the GAC in scoring at 75.7 points per game and were also second in free throw percentage at 70.8. SNU also has one of the better perimeter defenses in the GAC holding teams to just 34.1 percent shooting from 3-point range.

THE FIELD
On the same side of the bracket as Southern Nazarene is No. 4-seed Point Loma Nazarene and No. 5-seed Union (Tenn.). Point Loma finished 17-11 on the year and 10-10 in the PacWest as they finished seventh. The Sea Lions won the West Region knocking off Azusa Pacific 86-70 in the final. Union finished eighth in the Gulf South at 7-13 in the GSC and went 13-15 overall. The Bulldogs won the South Region Tournament with a 91-76 win over Bluefield College.
 
No. 2-seed Colorado Christian and No. 3-seed Mid-America Christian, both from the Central Region, on the top seeds on the opposite side of the bracket. CCU will play No. 7-seed and host Grace College while MACU will play No. 6-seed Roberts Wesleyan.
 
SNU holds a 29-5 record against the 2014 field. It has only played three other schools in the field holding a 10-5 record against Point Loma, 17-0 record aginst Mid-America Christian and is 2-0 against Colorado Christian. It is the first meeting in school history with Carver.