Dick Walters

Dick Walters
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Evansville
Biographical details
Born 1946/1947 (age 67–68)[1]
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1985 Evansville
Accomplishments and honors

Championships

MCC Champions (1982)
MCC Tournament Champions (1982)

Dick Walters is a former college basketball coach. He coached the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team from 1978-1985. Walters was hired after the entire 1977-78 Evansville team perished in a plane crash during the season in December 1977.

Walters is a graduate of Illinois State University and achieved a record of 202-56 in the Junior College ranks at the College of DuPage prior to accepting the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball job.

Following the Purple Aces NCAA appearance in 1982, Walters interviewed for the Univ. of Wisconsin head coaching position but chose to remain at Evansville with a new 5-year contract.[2]

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Evansville (Midwestern Collegiate Conference) (1978–1985)
1978-1978 Evansville 13-16
1979-1980 Evansville 18-10
1980-1981 Evansville 19-9
1981-1982 Evansville 23-6 1st NCAA 1st Round
1982-1983 Evansville 13-16
1983-1984 Evansville 15-14
1984-1985 Evansville 13-16
Evansville: 114-87
Total: 114-87

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References

  1. "Eugene Register-Guard - Google News Archive". News.google.com. 1982-04-05. Retrieved 2012-07-23.

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