Year-by-Year Men's Basketball Results

YEAR	ALL	CCIW	HEAD COACH	LINKS
2016	10-15	4-10	Bosko Djurickovic	Results | Statistics | Roster
2015	10-15	5-9	Bosko Djurickovic	Results | Statistics | Roster
2014	16-10	9-5	Bosko Djurickovic	Results | Statistics | Roster
2013	12-13	7-7	Bosko Djurickovic	Results | Statistics | Roster
2012	12-13	6-8	Bosko Djurickovic	Results | Statistics | Roster
2011	16-9	9-5	Bosko Djurickovic	Results | Statistics | Roster
2010	24-6	10-2*	Bosko Djurickovic	Results | Statistics | Roster
2009	15-10	7-7	Bosko Djurickovic	Statistics
2008	13-12	7-7	Bosko Djurickovic	Statistics
2007	16-9	7-7	Bosko Djurickovic	Statistics
2006	10-15	6-8	Bosko Djurickovic	Statistics
2005	12-13	6-8	Bosko Djurickovic	Statistics
2004	15-10	7-7	Bosko Djurickovic
2003	19-6	11-3*	Bosko Djurickovic
2002	28-2	13-1*	Bosko Djurickovic
2001	24-5	11-3	Bosko Djurickovic
2000	22-4	11-3*	Bosko Djurickovic
1999	14-11	6-8	Bosko Djurickovic
1998	17-8	10-4	Bosko Djurickovic
1997	12-13	7-7	Bosko Djurickovic
1996	5-20	3-11	Tim Miller/Gary Rudd
1995	6-19	3-11	Tim Miller
1994	3-21	2-12	Tim Miller
1993	11-13	4-10	Tim Miller
1992	11-15	5-11	Kevin McCarthy
1991	15-11	8-8	Kevin McCarthy
1990	8-18	2-14	Kevin McCarthy
1989	13-11	4-12	Kevin McCarthy
1988	8-18	3-13	Kevin McCarthy
1987	12-14	3-11	Kevin McCarthy
1986	6-20	3-13	Jim Christopher
1985	9-17	7-9	Larry Hamilton
1984	11-15	5-11	Larry Hamilton
1983	9-16	3-13	Jon Swift
1982	8-17	3-13	Jon Swift
1981	7-19	3-13	Jon Swift
1980	14-11	9-7	Jon Swift
1979	16-10	8-8	Jon Swift
1978	15-11	10-6	Jon Swift
1977	11-15	5-11	Jon Swift
1976	18-8	11-5	Jon Swift
1975	17-7	12-4	Jon Swift
1974	8-18	5-11	Jon Swift
1973	3-18	3-13	Jon Swift
1972	8-17	4-12	Jay Burris
1971	16-8	11-5	Jay Burris
1970	11-12	5-11	Jay Burris
1969	12-13	8-8	Larry Hamilton
1968	14-9	10-6	Larry Hamilton
1967	16-8	9-3	Larry Hamilton
1966	12-10	6-6	Larry Hamilton
1965	9-13	4-8	Larry Hamilton
1964	15-8	9-3*	Larry Hamilton
1963	11-12	8-6	Larry Hamilton
1962	11-15	6-6	Larry Hamilton
1961	12-8	Ind.	Larry Hamilton
1960	8-17	Ind.	Dwight Marston
1959	4-21	Ind.	Dwight Marston
1958	5-19	Ind.	Art Keller
1957	14-13	Ind.	Art Keller
1956	12-13	Ind.	Art Keller
1955	8-11	Ind.	Art Keller
1954	7-22	Ind.	Art Keller
1953	7-12	Ind.	Art Keller
1952	7-10	3-7	Loel Frederickson
1951	5-22	1-9	Loel Frederickson
1950	4-21	2-8	Loel Frederickson
1949	5-16	2-8	Bill Strickland
1948	7-12	3-7	L. Paul LaVinn
1947	10-14	4-6	L. Paul LaVinn
Year	All	IIAC	Coach
1946	9-11	Ind.	L. Paul LaVinn
1945	1-10	Ind.	Charles Lynwood, P.T. Hersch and Stan Lewison
1944	----	----	No team-Word War II
1943	11-4	Ind.	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1942	13-6	Ind.	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1941	13-7	5-3	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1940	9-11	2-5	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1939	8-8	2-5	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1938	10-8	5-5	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1937	14-5	7-4	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1936	12-5	7-5	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1935	10-7	6-6	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1934	11-6	5-6	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1933	12-8	7-2	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1932	15-1	9-1*	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1931	9-7	5-7	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1930	15-3	8-4	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1929	4-12	1-10	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1928	4-14	2-11	Herbert "Hub" Wagner
1927	5-13	0-10	Lewis Omer
1926	8-10	4-8	Lewis Omer
1925	11-10	6-8	Lewis Omer
1924	7-10	5-6	Lewis Omer
1923	17-3	10-2	Lewis Omer
1922	10-8	3-4	Lewis Omer
1921	6-8	4-7	Forest A. Loudin
1920	8-5	5-5	Forest A. Loudin
1919	5-5	5-4	Verle Teeter
1918	3-0	2-0	Forest A. Loudin
1917	2-11	0-6	Forest A. Loudin
1916	4-6	1-4	Forest A. Loudin
1915	1-7	0-4	Forest A. Loudin
1914	4-8	0-6	J. Arthur Baird
1913	4-5	3-4	J. Arthur Baird
1912	3-5	Ind.	J. Arthur Baird
1911	3-5	Ind.	J. Arthur Baird
1910	1-6	Ind.	J. Arthur Baird
1909	2-4	Ind.	J. Arthur Baird
1908	2-4	Ind.	J. Arthur Baird
1907	0-4	Ind.	J. Arthur Baird

*Denotes a CCIW or Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship

 

Coach	W	L	Pct.
J. Arthur Baird (1907-14)	19	41	.317
Forrest Loudin (1915-18, 1920-21)	24	37	.393
Verle Teeter (1919)	5	5	.500
Lewis Omer (1922-27)	58	54	.518
Herbert "Hub" Wagner (1928-43)	170	107	.614
Charles Lynwood (1945)	0	3	.000
P.T. Hersch (1945)	0	2	.000
Stan Lewison (1945)	1	5	.167
L. Paul LaVinn (1946-48)	26	37	.491
Bill Strickland (1949)	5	16	.238
Loel Frederickson (1950-52)	16	53	.232
Art Keller (1953-58)	53	90	.371
Dwight Marston (1959-60)	12	38	.240
Larry Hamilton (1961-69, 84-85)	132	128	.508
Jay Burris (1970-72)	35	37	.496
Jon Swift (1973-83)	126	150	.457
Jim Christopher (1986)	6	20	.230
Kevin McCarthy (1987-92)	67	89	.429
Tim Miller (1993-1996)	24	64	.353
Gary Rudd (1996)	1	9	.100
Bosko Djurickovic (1997-present)	317	199	.614
Total	1,097	1,184	.481

 

The Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Carthage's First League

From 1912 to 1941, Carthage was a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association (IIAA) for football, men's basketball, baseball, men's golf and men's track and field. According to former Illinois State University track and field coach Joe Cogdal, the league had its roots in the 1870s when a number of Illinois schools banded together for oratorical contests. The first intercollegiate football game within this association was played in 1881 between Illinois State and Knox College, and a football association was established for the 1894 season.

The IIAA was formed in April 1908 for a May 22 track and field meet with eight charter members, including the Bradley Polytechnic Institute (later Bradley University), Illinois College, Illinois State Normal University (later shortened to Illinois State University), Illinois Wesleyan University, Knox College, Lombard College (now defunct), Millikin University and Monmouth College. By the 1910-11, the league had expanded to 13 teams with the addition of Eureka College, Hedding College (now defunct), Lincoln College, Shurtleff College (now defunct) and William & Vashti College (now defunct).

Four schools were added for the 1912-13 season, including Augustana College (Ill.), Carthage College, Eastern Illinois Normal University (later shortened to Eastern Illinois University) and McKendree College. Southern Illinois Normal University (later re-named Southern Illinois University-Carbondale) became the 18th member during the 1913-14 academic year. Three more schools were added in 1914-15 to boost the membership to 21 schools. Those three were Blackburn College, St. Viator College (now defunct) and Western Illinois Normal University (later shortened to Western Illinois University). William & Vashti closed in 1917 reducing the league to 20 members, but Lake Forest College and Wheaton College (Ill.) joined the circuit in 1919-20 when the league name was changed to the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association (IIAC), bringing the membership up to 22 schools.

Several other schools joined in the 1920s, including Mount Morris College (joined in 1920 and now defunct), Northern Illinois Normal University (joined in 1922 and later re-named Northern Illinois University), Elmhurst College in 1925 and North Central College in 1927. Blackburn withdrew following the 1923 season, and Hedding College closed in 1927 and was subsequently bought out by Illinois Wesleyan.

Somewhere along the line, the IIAC gained the nickname of the Little 19 Conference, even though the membership ranged from the high of 24 in the 1927-28 season schools to just five by the spring of 1942. Lincoln pulled out after 1928 spring season and subsequently shifted from a four-year school to a junior college. Lombard quit after 1929, and the school closed in 1930 and was taken over by Knox College. Mount Morris closed following the 1931-32 academic year. The conference really began to falter after the 1936-37 season when 12 schools withdrew to form the Illinois College Conference. Those 12 schools were Augustana, Bradley, Illinois College, Illinois Wesleyan, Knox, Lake Forest, McKendree, Millikin, Monmouth, North Central, Shurtleff (closed after the 1956-57 academic year and absorbed by Southern Illinois University) and Wheaton. St. Viator closed in 1939, and Olivet Nazarene University took over its campus in 1947. Carthage, Elmhurst and Eureka withdrew from the IIAC in December 1941, leaving only five schools: Eastern Illinois, Illinois State, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois and Western Illinois.

In 1950, the league changed its name from the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Association to the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference when Eastern Michigan University and Central Michigan University brought the membership to seven schools. Eastern Michigan and Southern Illinois both left after the 1961-62 academic year. Eastern Michigan went independent for several years before joining the Presidents’ Athletic Conference for two seasons in 1964-65 and 1965-66. EMI returned to independent status for a time before joining the Mid-American Conference in 1971. EMU did not begin competing in MAC men’s basketball until 1974-75 or in football until 1976.

Southern Illinois also played as an independent for several years before joining the Academic Athletic Conference of Midwestern Universities for two seasons beginning in 1970-71 and 1971-72. SIU returned to independent status for three seasons prior to joining the Missouri Valley Conference for men’s basketball in 1975-76 and for football in 1977. The MVC dropped football as a conference sport in 1985, and SIU became a charter member of the Gateway Football Conference that same year, along with former Little 19 schools Eastern Illinois, Western Illinois and Illinois State.

Northern Illinois left the IIAC for the Mid-American Conference in 1966, dropping the league to four members. The final demise of the IIAC came in 1969 when Illinois State left to join the Academic Athletic Conference of Midwestern Universities. Illinois State is now a member of the Missouri Valley conference. The remaining three IIAC schools disbanded the league at the end of the 1969-70 academic year. Central Michigan joined the Mid-American Conference in 1971. Western Illinois was admitted to the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU) in 1978-79 after eight years as an independent, and Eastern Illinois joined WIU in the AMCU in 1982-83 after 12 years as an independent. The AMCU changed its name to the Mid-Continent Conference in 1989-90 and to the Summit League in 2007-08.

Among the other IIAC members, seven later helped form the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin. Those seven were Augustana (Ill.), Carthage, Elmhurst, Illinois Wesleyan, Millikin, North Central and Wheaton (Ill.). Bradley is currently a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. Blackburn and Eureka are members of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Illinois College, Knox, Lake Forest and Monmouth are members of the Midwest Conference, although Illinois College and Lake Forest were once part of the CCIW. McKendree is an NAIA affiliate and a member of the American Midwest Conference, and Lincoln is now a two-year school and a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association.

Did You Know?

• Carthage’s first men’s basketball game was a 30-20 loss to the Keokuk YMCA team in Keokuk, Iowa, on Jan. 11, 1907. The first home game took place on Jan. 25, 1907, with a 23-14 loss to Lombard College.

 

• Lewis Omer, Carthage’s head football coach (1921-35), head men’s basketball coach (1921-29) and athletic director, is credited with originating the Illinois High School Association’s state basketball tournament. Omer organized the first tournament in 1908 in Oak Park, Ill., while serving as the Northwestern University men’s basketball coach. He was inducted into the Carthage Athletic Hall of Fame in 1985.

 

• At least three games in the 1922-23 season were broadcast on Carthage radio station WCAZ: the Jan. 19 Parsons game, the Jan. 24 Monmouth game and the Feb. 7 Mount Morris contest. Due to the paucity of radio stations at the time, WCAZ was reportedly received in as many as 40 states. A report in the Hancock County Journal said that the Mount Morris game was heard as far away as Rochester, N.Y., St. Paul, Minn., and Denver, Colo.

 

• Carthage’s first gymnasium and pool was begun in 1905 and opened on Jan. 11, 1907, at a reported cost of $12,500. A leak in the pool baffled all attempts at repair, and the building was subsequently converted to Biology Hall. The College broke ground for new fieldhouse on May 12, 1930, this one with a price tag of $100,000. The facility opened for varsity basketball practice on Nov. 17, 1930, and the Red Men played their first game in the new fieldhouse on Jan. 9, 1931, and defeated Culver-Stockton College, 28-19. The facility was dedicated on Jan. 16, 1931, as the Red Men lost to Augustana College (Ill.) by a 31-23 margin. The last home basketball game in the Carthage fieldhouse was on March 1, 1964, when the Red Men wrapped up their first CCIW title with a 68-54 win over Millikin.

 

• Following the College’s move to Kenosha, Wis., in 1964, the men’s basketball team played its 1964-65 home schedule in the high school gymnasiums of Kenosha St. Joseph and Kenosha Tremper on the city’s south side and the old Kenosha Bradford gymnasium in downtown Kenosha. The 1964-65 team also had one unusual practice site, the gymnasium on the old Racine College campus, now the DeKoven Center on the that city’s south side. The Carthage Physical Education Center, constructed at a reported cost of $850,000, opened with a varsity-alumni contest on Dec. 4, 1965, followed by the first intercollegiate game, a 68-65 win over Aurora University, on Dec. 6, 1965.

 

• In a Jan. 26, 1966 preliminary game prior to the Carthage-Illinois State University varsity contest at the Carthage Physical Education Center, the Marquette University freshmen team got 24 points from George Thompson to defeat the Carthage freshmen squad, 87-80. Thompson went on to have an All-American career at Marquette and is still that school's all-time leading scorer.