Dick Walters
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Evansville |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1946/1947 (age 69–70)[1] |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1978–1985 | Evansville |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
|
MCC Champions (1982) MCC Tournament Champions (1982) | |
Dick Walters (born 1946/1947) is an American 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 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- ↑
- ↑ "Eugene Register-Guard - Google News Archive". News.google.com. 1982-04-05. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
External links
- Beginning of Another Life for Aces, Sports Illustrated