La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Basketball Media Guides University Publications 1983 La Salle Explorers 1983-1984 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/basketball_media_guides Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Explorers 1983-1984" (1983). La Salle Basketball Media Guides. 27. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/basketball_media_guides/27 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Basketball Media Guides by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i z*****?* FOUNDED 1863 ENROLLMENT 3,600 PRESIDENT Brother Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR William D. Bradshaw (La Salle, 1969) ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Joseph F. O'Donnell (La Salle, 1965) ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR . Kathleen Wear (West Chester State, 1969) NICKNAME Explorers COLORS Blue & Gold CONFERENCE Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference AFFILIATIONS NCAA, ECAC, Philadelphia Big 5 1983-84 LA SALLE COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROSTER NO NAME CLASS POS HT WT HIGH SCHOOL/HOMETOWN 22 * Black, Steve JR G 6-4 185 Overbrook/Philadelphia, PA 24 * Butts, Albert JR F-C 6-9 215 South Philadelphia/Philadelphia, PA 20 *Greenberg, Chip SO G 6-4 185 LaSalle/Abington, PA 25 *Jones, Gary SO G 6-2 175 Pennsbury/Morrisville, PA 44 Koretz, Larry FR F 6-8 220 G.A.R./Wilkes-Barre, PA 11 * Lewis, Ralph JR F 6-5 180 Frankford/Philadelphia, PA 13 Moran, Victor FR F 6-7 190 Central Bucks West/Doylestown, PA 21 *Philson, Dallas JR G 5-11 170 South Philadelphia/Philadelphia, PA 5 Roach, Paul SO G 6-0 175 Cardinal O'Hara/Broomall, PA 14 Tarr, Rich FR G 6-2 170 Shamokin Area/Shamokin, PA 23 Tiano, Pete JR G 6-3 185 Abington/North Hills, PA *Lettermen Returning Head Coach: Dave "Lefty" Ervin Assistant Coaches: Marcel Arribi, Joe Mihalich, Sam Rines NUMERICAL ROSTER 5 Paul Roach 14 Rich Tarr 22 Steve Black 25 Gary Jones 11 Ralph Lewis 20 Chip Greenberg 23 Pete Tiano 44 Larry Koretz 13 Victor Moran 21 Dallas Philson 24 Albert Butts PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Tiano te-AN-o Koretz CORE-its TABLE OF CONTENTS 1983-84 Fingertip Info/Roster Inside Front Cover Table of Contents Page 1 The La Salle Story Page 2 La Salle President's Biography Page 3 Athletic Administration Biographies Page 4 Lefty Ervin, Head Coach Page 5 Assistant Coaches Page 6 Meet The Explorers Page 7 Profiles of Explorer Varsity Players Pages 8-18 Explorer 1 ,000 Point Club, Coaching Records Page 19 NIT and NCAA Tournaments Page 20 NBA Draft Picks Page 21 1982-83 Season Statistics and Results Page 22 1 983-84 Pre-Season Outlook Page 23 Ail-Time Records Vs. Opponents Page 24-26 All-Time La Salle Records Pages 27-28 Explorer Results Year By Year Pages 29-33 Big Five History Page 34 MAAC History Page 35 Opponent Profiles Pages 36-46 Behind The Scene Page 47 La Salle's Finest Page 48 1983-84 Road Headquarters, Media Information Inside Back Cover 1983-84 Schedule Back Cover This handbook is dedicated to the members of the Press, Radio and Television corps by La Salle College's News Bureau with the cooperation of the College's Department of Athletics. For further information, please call, write or wire: Sports Information Department La Salle College News Bureau Philadelphia, PA 19141 Office Phone: 215-951-1605 La Salle College, now in its 121st year of houses lecture rooms and laboratories for service to higher education and the study and research in biology, chemistry, geol- Philadelphia community, was founded March ogy, physics and psychology. The air- 20, 1863 by the Brothers of the Christian conditioned, 200,000 volume David Leo Schools and derives its name from the founder Lawrence Memorial Library and six other aca- of the Christian Brothers, St. John Baptist de demic buildings are located on the main La Salle. campus. Today, almost 7,300 day and evening divi- The Army ROTC program is available to sion students attend classes on La Salle's 58 freshman, who may apply for ROTC scholar- acre campus located at 20th and Olney adja- ships for advanced studies. A total of 90 men cent to the historic East Germantown section and women are enrolled in the program. of the city. La Salle's day and evening divisions offer Olney Hall, a multi-purpose modern facility, degree programs in Arts and Sciences and contains 39 classrooms, 15 seminar and study Business Administration. An MBA program rooms, and 107 faculty offices as well as such began in 1976. Graduate programs are also special purpose areas as a planetarium, an offered in theology, education, and bilingual amphitheater, language laboratories, and /bicultural studies (Spanish). La Salle initiated audio visual rooms. It houses the liberal arts Philadelphia's first Weekend College in area departments of English, education, his- September, 1975, enabling men and women to tory, languages, political science and take courses exclusively on Saturdays and sociology. Sundays. La Salle also offers Evening Division Hayman Hall, the college's $4 million physi- courses off-campus in Northeast Philadelphia, cal recreation center which opened in 1972, Bucks County and Center City. The 350 contains the Joseph Kirk Memorial Natatorium member faculty is composed of Christian with separate swimming and diving facilities, Brothers, priests and lay professors. The col- and underwater observation deck, and seats lege has been coeducational in the evening for 1 ,700 spectators. Three regulation size bas- division since February, 1967 and in its day ketball courts, a one-twelfth mile indoor sus- school since September, 1970. pended track, and areas for fencing, wrestling, Students at La Salle come from some 200 squash, handball, gymnastics and general public and private schools in 30 states, most of exercise are other features of the complex. them located in the northeastern part of the Eleven residence halls and two garden-type United States. Twenty countries are also apartment complexes accommodate more represented in the student body. More than 75 than 1,000 out-of-town students. A $2 million, percent of them plan graduate work and about three-story College Union Building includes a 1,000 degrees are conferred annually on day Little Theater as well as dining halls, assembly and evening division seniors. La Salle's alumni rooms, ballroom, and other student facilities. totals more than 26,000 with more than 80 per- An annex to this building has recently been cent of them still living and working in the tri- added. state area of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and The $2.5 million Holroyd Science Center Delaware. 2 BIOGRAPHY of BROTHER F. PATRICK ELLIS, F.S.C., Ph.D. PRESIDENT of LA SALLE COLLEGE Brother F. Patrick Ellis, F.S.C., Ph.D., became two terms. La Salle College's 26th president on January 1,1977 Brother Ellis, a 1946 graduate of Baltimore's after having served as director of development and Calvert Hall College High School, received an A.B. vice president of the corporation of thecollegesince degree in English from the Catholic University of June, I969. Born in Baltimore in 1928, he succeeded America, Washington, D.C., in 1951. He earned a Brother Daniel Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., who served as master's degree and doctorate in English from the the president of the college for the previous seven University of Pennsylvania. and one-half years. A member of the Board of Trustees of Manhattan Brother Ellis, a member of the Brothers of the College, NY; of St. Mary's College, Winona, Christian Schools since 1946, joined the La Salle Minnesota, and St. John's College High School. staff in 1960 as an assistant professor of English. He Washington. Brother Ellis is the son of Mrs. Harry J. has been at the college since then except for a term Ellis who lives in Baltimore. as principal of La Salle High School, in Miami, Fl, He is chairman of the Campus Boulevard from 1962 to 1964. Consortium, a cooperative organization of institu- Brother Ellis returned to La Salle in 1964 and tions on Olney Ave, and is president of the James A. served as director of the college's Honors Program Finnegan Foundation. until 1969 when he was named director of develop- He is past co-chairman of the Greater ment and vice president of the Corporation. Brother Philadelphia Partnership and on the executive com- Ellis was awarded a Lindback Foundation Award for mittee of the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges distinguished teaching in 1965 and currently holds and Universities, and on the boards of the American the academic rank of professor of English. Council on Education; the Greater Philadelphia First Brother Ellis served at Philadelphia's West Corporation; the Afro-American Historical Museum, Catholic High School for boysfrom 1951 to 1958 and the Friends of Independence Hall, and the Commun- again from 1959 to 1960 in various capacities includ- ity Leadership Seminar. He has been named to a ing chairman of the English Department and gui- record three-year term on the Philadelphia dance director. Diocesan Council of Managers. The author of numerous articles in educational La Salle College is a Catholic church-related publications, Brother also conducted a "How to coeducational college founded in 1863 with more Read Great Books" series for the "University of the than 7,000 men and women in its day. evening, week- Air" on Philadelphia's WFIL-TV in 1960and 1965. He end divisions, and graduate schools. It is located at is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was president of 20th St.