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