FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2, 2006 MSSU men's basketball announces signing Southern inks Lake Hamilton (Ark.) guard JOPLIN, Mo.   Missouri Southern head men's basketball coach Robert Corn announced today the signing of Daniel Hurst for the 2006-07 season. Hurst, a 6-foot-2 and 175-pound guard, will join the Lions from Lake Hamilton High School in Pearcy, Ark. He averaged 18.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.8 steals per game as a senior in 2005-06 under Wolves coach Jamie Bridges. "We're really excited to have Daniel in our program," Corn said. "He's an excellent fit for us. He's an outstanding student and a very bright young man and we feel like he has an excellent future on the basketball floor as well." Hurst has had a highly-decorated prep career on the hardwood. He won all-state honors in both his junior and senior years after being named to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Super Sophomore Team in 2004. Hurst also was a Future Star Award winner as a sophomore before winning the three-point shootout and making the all-star team at a top 25 camp in his junior year. Prior to his senior season, Hurst was also picked for the all-star team at the Mr. Basketball Tournament in Nebraska during the summer of 2005. As a senior, Hurst shot 48.7 percent from the field and 35.6 percent from three-point distance. He also connected on 78.4 percent from the free throw line. The son of R.L. and Sharon Hurst, he intends to study pre-medicine at Missouri Southern. Hurst is the first signing announced this spring by the MSSU men's basketball squad. He joins incoming freshman Kyle Schrage (Carl Junction, Mo.) and junior college transfer T.J. Britton (Poplar Bluff, Mo./Mineral Area CC) as newcomers to the Lions in 2006-07. Missouri Southern finished the 2005-06 season with a 12-16 record but made its eighth consecutive appearance in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Postseason Tournament. Coach Corn, fourth in victories among active MIAA coaches, is 264-218 in 17 years at the helm of the Lions. He has guided Southern to six 20-win seasons in his career.