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RECORDS<br />
Championship Seasons<br />
Conference Championships<br />
Season Conference<br />
Year Record Record Coach<br />
1918-19 7-2 5-1 Bud Dougherty<br />
1919-20 10-2 9-1 Bud Dougherty<br />
1929-30 10-5 9-2 Stewart Ferguson<br />
1930-31 13-2 10-0 Stewart Ferguson<br />
1931-32* 19-1 11-0 Stewart Ferguson<br />
1932-33 <strong>12</strong>-4 10-1 Stewart Ferguson<br />
1938-39 20-3 11-2 Les Belding<br />
1939-40 14-5 7-1 Les Belding<br />
1942-43 21-2 11-1 Les Belding<br />
1945-46 16-6 9-1 Ray Green<br />
1946-47 25-3 10-0 Dave Gorby<br />
1962-63 16-7 10-2 Gordon Fosness<br />
(co-champs with Northern)<br />
1963-64 23-3 11-1 Gordon Fosness<br />
1966-67 19-8 9-3 Gordon Fosness<br />
(co-champs with Dakota State)<br />
1967-68 20-5 11-1 Gordon Fosness<br />
1968-69 19-7 10-2 Gordon Fosness<br />
1970-71 16-6 10-2 Gordon Fosness<br />
1973-74 19-6 10-2 Gordon Fosness<br />
1974-75 14-11 7-3 Gordon Fosness<br />
(tri-champs with SSC and Huron)<br />
1976-77 17-9 8-2 Gordon Fosness<br />
1978-79 26-3 <strong>12</strong>-0 Gordon Fosness<br />
1983-84 15-<strong>12</strong> 11-3 Jim Martin<br />
(co-champs with Tech)<br />
1984-85 16-10 7-3 Jim Martin<br />
(tri-champs with SFC and Tech)<br />
1989-90 21-9 10-0 Doug Martin<br />
1991-92 23-6 8-2 Doug Martin<br />
1994-95 19-11 7-3 Doug Martin<br />
(co-champs with Tech)<br />
1996-97 20-8 13-3 Doug Martin<br />
(co-champs with BHS)<br />
2009-10 28-6 16-2 John Hemenway<br />
* The only loss was in a postseason tournament (regular<br />
season ended 17-0).<br />
• All conference championships were SDIC, except 1945-46<br />
and 1946-47 when Dakota Wesleyan was a member of the<br />
Dakota-Iowa Conference and 2009-10 when <strong>DWU</strong> was a<br />
member of the Great Plains Athletic Conference.<br />
• Dakota Wesleyan has won 28 conference championships.<br />
• In 2009-10, <strong>DWU</strong> also won the GPAC Tournament title.<br />
Undefeated Regular Season<br />
1931-32 (17-0)<br />
<strong>DWU</strong> went on to the National AAU Tournament to win<br />
the first two games before losing the third game to<br />
Schuessler Athletic Club of Chicago 39-35 in overtime.<br />
Undefeated Seasons in<br />
Conference Play<br />
1930-31; 1931-32; 1946-47; 1978-79; 1989-90<br />
Tiger Men’s <strong>Basketball</strong><br />
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TIGERS<br />
Longest Single Season Streak<br />
24 games in a row (1978-79)<br />
The Tigers lost their first and fourth games before winning<br />
24 straight. They lost their first game in the NAIA National<br />
Tournament to Central Washington, ending the season<br />
with a 26-3 record.<br />
19 games in a row (1942-43)<br />
The only losses that year were to Augustana during the<br />
regular season and Cape Girardeau College of Missouri in<br />
the NAIA National Tournament. Cape Girardeau went on<br />
to win the national championship.<br />
Postseason National Tournaments<br />
Year Tournament Record<br />
1931 AAU 1-1<br />
1932 AAU 2-1<br />
1933 AAU 0-1<br />
1937 NAIA 0-1<br />
1938 NAIA 0-1<br />
1939 NAIA 2-1<br />
1940 NAIA 0-1<br />
1941 NAIA 0-1<br />
1943 NAIA 0-1<br />
1946 NAIA 2-1<br />
1947 NAIA 1-1<br />
1964 NAIA 0-1<br />
1979 NAIA 0-1<br />
1995 NAIA II 0-1<br />
2007 NAIA II 0-1<br />
2008 NAIA II 0-1<br />
2009 NAIA II 0-1<br />
2010 NAIA II 1-1<br />
<strong>2011</strong> NAIA II 1-1<br />
In 1945, <strong>DWU</strong> was invited to participate in the tournament, but<br />
the coach declined because many basketball players were<br />
serving in the armed services by tournament time.<br />
• Three national tournament teams reached the quarterfinals:<br />
1931-32 (AAU), 1938-39 and 1945-46 (NAIA).<br />
• In 1937 and 1941, <strong>DWU</strong> finished second in the conference<br />
but was invited to the tournament.<br />
• In 1938, <strong>DWU</strong> finished fourth in the conference but won the<br />
first playoff in the conference to qualify for the national<br />
tournament.<br />
• The first NAIA National Tournament was in 1937. Dakota<br />
Wesleyan played the first game of that tournament, losing to<br />
Southwestern Kansas 54-26.<br />
• In 1939, <strong>DWU</strong> beat Texas West Teachers College, who were<br />
billed, “The Tallest Team in the World.”<br />
• <strong>DWU</strong> has appeared in more NAIA National Tournaments<br />
(19) than any South Dakota College.<br />
• No South Dakota college has appeared in more consecutive<br />
NAIA national tournaments than Dakota Wesleyan (five from<br />
1937-41 and 2007-11).<br />
• <strong>DWU</strong> qualified for the NAIA National Tournament in 2006-07,<br />
2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11. This ties the<br />
school’s longest streak from the 1936-37 season through<br />
the 1940-41 season when Wesleyan also had five<br />
consecutive national tournament bids.<br />
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