Dick Walters

Dick Walters
Current position
Sport(s)	Basketball
Title	Head coach
Team	Evansville
Biographical details
Born	1946/1947 (age 69–70)^[1]
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1985	Evansville
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
MCC Champions (1982) MCC Tournament Champions (1982)

Dick Walters (born 1946/1947) is an American former college basketball coach. He coached the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team from 1978-1985. Walters was hired after the entire 1977-78 Evansville team perished in a plane crash during the season in December 1977.

Walters is a graduate of Illinois State University and achieved a record of 202-56 in the Junior College ranks at the College of DuPage prior to accepting the Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball job.

Following the Purple Aces NCAA appearance in 1982, Walters interviewed for the Univ. of Wisconsin head coaching position but chose to remain at Evansville with a new 5-year contract.^[2]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Standing	Postseason
Evansville (Midwestern Collegiate Conference) (1978–1985)
1978-1978	Evansville	13-16
1979-1980	Evansville	18-10
1980-1981	Evansville	19-9
1981-1982	Evansville	23-6	1st	NCAA 1st Round
1982-1983	Evansville	13-16
1983-1984	Evansville	15-14
1984-1985	Evansville	13-16
Evansville:		114-87
Total:		114-87
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

References

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↑ "Eugene Register-Guard - Google News Archive". News.google.com. 1982-04-05. Retrieved 2012-07-23.

External links

Beginning of Another Life for Aces, Sports Illustrated

Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball head coaches

G. B. Schnurr (1919–1920) Clem McGinness (1920–1921) Harlan Miller (1921–1922) Charles Holton (1922–1923) John Harmon (1923–1930) Bill Slyker (1930–1943) Emerson Henke (1943–1946) Arad McCutchan (1946–1977) Bobby Watson (1977–1978) Dick Walters (1978–1985) Jim Crews (1985–2002) Steve Merfeld (2002–2007) Marty Simmons (2007– )

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