2016-17 Lycoming College Men's Basketball Record Book
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Two-time NABC All-District selection Jonathan Pribble ’06 2016-17 Lycoming College men’s Basketball Record Book Lycoming 200 ........................................................................................................2-5 Individual Single-Season Records .............................................................35-38 MAC 100 Century Team ..........................................................................................6 Team Single-Season Records ............................................................................39 Conference Champions......................................................................................7-8 Single-Game Records ..........................................................................................40 NCAA Tournament Teams......................................................................................9 Game-by-Game Results ................................................................................41-61 Awards & Honors .............................................................................................10-12 All-Time Postseason Opponents ................................................................62-63 All-Time Participants ......................................................................................13-17 In the National Rankings ....................................................................................64 Year-by-Year Records & Statistics ...............................................................18-19 100-Point Games ...................................................................................................65 Coaching Records .................................................................................................20 Overtime Games ....................................................................................................66 Year-by-Year Leaders ......................................................................................21-23 Game-by-Game vs. Opponents ..................................................................67-81 Conference Leaders ........................................................................................24-25 All-Time Records vs. Opponents ......................................................................82 NCAA Division III Leaders ...................................................................................26 Tip-Off Tournament History/Records .......................................................83-84 1,000-Point Club ..............................................................................................27-31 Basinger Tournament History/Records....................................................85-86 Career Records .................................................................................................32-34 Lamade Gym ...........................................................................................................87 Lycoming 200 During the 2011-12 academic year, the Lycoming College athletic department releases a series of 200 key moments in the athletic program’s history in conjunction with the school’s bicentennial. Below are the moments that have to do with men’s basketball from the list. men’s basketball team from the building’s construction and the wrestling (1956) 7. First Basketball Team, 1907-08 and women’s basketball (1978) teams also used the building as their headquar- While the Seminary began to leave its impact on the football field and track cin- ters. Today, the building still stands as the Fine Arts Building, although the ath- ders, the boys at the school quickly became interested in this new sport from letic arenas have long since vanished from the building. New England called basketball. Invented in 1892 by Dr. James Naismith, the boys at the Seminary began playing the game just 10 years later, practicing each 21. John Lindemuth, 1927 night in a small gym. It took five more years, though, before the team would From just down Fourth Street in Newberry, Lindy was a eight-time letterwinner make its interscholastic debut, albeit under difficult conditions. In Holmes’ his- at the Seminary, posting letters with the football (three), track and field (three) tory, she said, “The team had a small schedule and did not play well due to poor and basketball (two) teams. As a right end on the football team, Lindy worked his training rules and a lack of stamina. They only practiced once a week against a way to the captaincy as a senior. The 1927 Dart yearbook proclaimed that, “Some team of scrubs.” From those humble beginnings of a 0-3 season, starting with a morning he will awake and find himself famous.” Sure enough, 14 years later, 57-14 loss to Wyoming Seminary, the team turned into a winner just two years Lindemuth began to leave a legacy that is still in evidence today. He was ap- later, finishing 5-1. proached by Little League creator, Carl Stotz, and along with coaching a team, he 10. The Insurmountable Seminary, 1916 became the member of the board. He eventually became a full-time employee and became the commissioner of the organization in 1955, helping to spread One year after finishing 4-6 overall, the 1916 Dickinson Seminary boys’ basket- the Little League World Series into an international event. His connection to the ball team left its mark as perhaps the greatest team in the Seminary’s history. At Lycoming College never wavered, either, as the Athletics Hall of Famer was cen- the very least, it was the only one to enjoy an undefeated season. With Howard tral in having the Little League teams from the World Series stay in the college Robbins on the sidelines, the Seminary five allowed just one opponent to come dorms in the ‘50s before dorms were built on-site in South Williamsport. In the within five points of it, as the Jersey Shore Y.M.C.A. fell to Seminary by a com- ‘80s, he also endowed a scholarship prize at the school. bined seven points in two games. With only eight men on the squad, the team leaned heavily on its starting five, captain Ray Krebs and Lewis Wynn started 27. Earl Z. MCKay, 1932-41 at forward, Ward Lewis played center and Roland Wolf and George Foresman played at guard. Krebs and Lewis each averaged in double figures. At the end of Earl Z. McKay spent more time around the Seminary’s ballfield and the Hilltop the season, the Seminary team hit its stride, more than doubling the scores of Gymnasium than anyone in the first half century of the school’s athletics history. Lewisburg High School (50-18), Lock Haven Normal (65-9) and York High School He was a star quarterback for the Seminary and a basketball captain before grad- (55-14) during the team’s final three games. uating in 1925. After spending four years at Cornell University, he returned to the hilltop and served as an assistant coach under Bob Heisel. When Heisel stepped 11. Ray Krebs, 1916 down as football coach in 1932, McKay took on the duties of head football and basketball coach. During his decade with the football team, despite taking over There really was no doubt who the star of the undefeated 1916 team was – rangy a squad that eliminated its athletic scholarships due to the Great Depression, he forward with a solid jumper, Ray Krebs was a three-year starter for the Seminary led the team to four winning seasons and the 1936 Eastern Junior College Cham- basketball team. Consistently the team’s leading scorer as a junior, he was an pionship. On the basketball court, McKay’s teams were even better, posting a easy pick as captain. Early in the season, he led the team to a two-point win then-school-record 81-45 (.643). In between, he helped the athletic program over the Jersey Shore Y.M.C.A. Later in the season, he outscored both Elmira Free transition from Seminary teams to Junior College teams beginning in 1935. His Academy, 28-24, and Lewisburg High School, 25-18. Besides the high-scoring tenure at Dickinson Junior College was cut short in 1942, though, as he enlisted averages on the basketball court, Krebs was also the captain of the football team in the war effort, serving as a Red Cross Field Director. in 1915, starting at left halfback. 29. Men’s Basketball Team, 1934-35 15. M. Ross “Cardy” Swartz, 1923-30 During his first two years as head basketball coach, Earl Z. McKay quickly led the A graduate of Lebanon Valley College, M. Ross Swartz, better known as “Cardy,” team to one of the most dramatic jumps in the school’s history, taking the team came to Dickinson Seminary straight out of the minor leagues. A pitcher in Read- from a 5-5 record in 1933 to an 11-4 mark in 1934. In 1934-35, while the athletic ing and Rochester, Swartz came to the hilltop in 1923 as the athletic director department made the transition from a focus on its prep school students to its and the football, men’s basketball and baseball coach. For the next six years, he junior college students, McKay developed one of the finest teams in school his- held those titles. On the gridiron, Swartz’ teams finished under .500 just twice tory led by junior college students Bernard Dempsey, Howard Springman and and he finished his tenure with a 28-17-4 (.612) record. In his first two years, he the star of the squad, Don Manno. The team posted several impressive wins, coached two of the best squads in the prep school’s history, posting an 11-2 including taking down Keystone Junior College, 47-16, Bucknell Freshmen, 49- record. On the basketball court, he took a team that went 3-7 in his first year and 14, and the Mansfield Teachers College, 48-21. The Mansfield