Men's Basketball

Olivet Nazarene University

I University Avenue - Bourbonnais, IL - 60914-2271
Team Office: Tel: (815) 939-5124 Fax: (815) 939-7933
Team website: www.olivet.edu/athletics

Founded in 1907, Olivet Nazarene is a Christian based liberal arts institution that offers nearly 60 Bachelor degree programs and a dozen Master's. Majors offered include Broadcast Journalism, Nutritional Services, Environmental Science, International Business, and Physical Education Teaching and Coaching. US News 2008 report on America's Best Colleges ranked Olivet Nazarene #64 among universites in the midwest offering a Master's degree.

The university is located in Bourbonnais (pop.16k) about 50 miles south of Chicago.

School website
www.olivet.edu

College Profile

Type:

Private, Co-educational

Religious Affiliation:

Yes. Church of the Nazarene

Enrollment:

3,400

Getting In:

Moderately difficult. ACT 25/75: 20-28

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$26,000
Out-of-State: Same

Most Popular Majors

Business - Education - Philosophy

Misc. Information

Ralph Hodge enters his 29th season as ONU's head coach in 2007-08. Hodge inherited a successful program in 1979-80 that had only three losing seasons in the previous 13. Hodge, Olivet's winningest coach, has retained the winning tradition and made Olivet Nazarene one of the most consistent winning NAIA teams in the country. Through 28 seasons, Hodge has posted 577 wins. Over that span, Hodge's teams have won 20 or more games 17 times and won 13 conference championships. During the decade of the 1990's, the Tigers went 266-122 with seven post season tournament appearances and six conference championships. A former Olivet graduate, Hodge was an NAIA honorable mention All American and Olivet's career leading scorer. Hodge had just finished his third season as the head coach of Alwood High School when he was asked to take over the program in 1979-80. In 2006-07, the Tigers posted a 17-12 record but were eliminated in the first round of the NAIA tournament by Park.

Team Name	Tigers
Colors	Purple and Gold
Division	NAIA I
All-Time Record	904-445 (.670)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	17-12	23-11	15-16	114-57 (.666)
Conference	7-3	11-1	9-3	36-16 (.62)
Conf. Finish	2	1	3	5, 1, 2, 2, 2
Post Appear.	1st Rnd	Elite 8	n/a	NAIA 3x
Final 25 Rank	#25	#15	NR	2x

Coaches

Head Coach	Ralph Hodge
	Birthday: 0000-00-00
Started at Olivet Nazarene	1979-80
Contract Expires	?
Record as Head Coach	577-344 (.626)
Record at Olivet Nazarene	577-344 (.626)
Coaching Awards	NAIA District COTY (89), CCAC COTY 6x

Asst. Coaches	Dan Voudrie, Rch Vana, Matt Boling, Stan Chrismark

Recruiting Coordinator

Dan Voudrie, (815) 928-5565, dvoudrie@olivet.edu

Conference and Schedule

Olivet plays in the Chicagoland Conference (www.ccacon.com). The CCAC is comprised of 15 NAIA Division I and II schools; seven schools, however, comprise the NAIA Division I conference. The are located in Indiana and Illinois. It is generally regarded among one of the nation's strongest NAIA conferences. The 12 game league schedule commences in January with games more often than not played on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons. Olivet will play each team twice, home and away. The season concludes with the CCAC tourney which includes all teams, with the conference champion having home court advantage throughout and receives a first round bye. If the top seed is defeated before the championship game, the highest remaining seed hosts the final game.

Conference Opponents

St. Xavier, Purdue-Calumet, U. of St. Francis, Indiana-South Bend, Illinois Tech, and Robert Morris.

Facilities

McHie Arena
Capacity 2,500, Average attendance 1,000.

Style/Stats

Hodge prefers to play man-to-man, but will occasionally run a 2-3 zone and a trapping zone press. Generally runs a motion offense that has a number of variations from one set. Likes to use the 3, 4 and 5 men.