Men's Basketball

Wittenberg University

P.O. Box 720 - Springfield, OH - 45501
Team Office: Tel: (937) 327-6454 Fax: (937) 327-6428
Team website: www4.wittenberg.edu/news/athletics/

Founded in 1845, Wittenberg is predominantly a liberal arts institution that is nationally recognized for its east Asian and Russian area studies. Despite its small size, the university offers 100 Bachelor degree programs. Majors offered include Theatre Arts Management, Piano and Organ, Journalism, Cartography, Dance, Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Marine Biology, and African-American/Black Studies. US News 2008 report on America's Best Colleges ranked Wittenberg #118 among liberal arts institutions.

Wittenberg is located in Springfield (pop.70k) about 90 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

School website
www.wittenberg.edu

College Profile

Type:

Private, Co-educational

Religious Affiliation:

Evangelical Lutheran

Enrollment:

2,100

Getting In:

Moderately difficult. ACT 25/75: 22-27

Tuition + Room & Board:

In-state: ~$39,000
Out-of-State: Same

Most Popular Majors

Business -Education- Political Science

Misc. Information

Head coach Bill Brown completed his 15th season at Wittenberg in 2007-08. Overall, no program has been more victorious. Consider the facts: Since 1911, the Wittenberg men's program is first in victories, second in winning percentage (.716), and first in NCAA appearances and wins. Wittenberg has not had a losing season since 1955 and since 1970 as had twenty-eight 20 win seasons. Brown, a defensive strategist, is a former Wittenberg graduate who took over the reins in 1993-94. Aware of the winning tradition, Brown has continued the great success. Under Brown, the Tigers have compiled a .801 winning percentage, have won six conference titles, and made nine NCAA appearances. Prior to coming to Wittenberg, Brown coached at Kenyon and Wooster colleges (D3) and was an assistant at Ohio University (D1). The Tigers finished with an overall mark of 16-10 in 2007-08 but did not receive an NCAA bid.

Team Name	Tigers
Colors	Red and White
Division	NCAA Division III
All-Time Record	1575-628 (.714)

Recent Record (Last 8 Years)

	Last Yr	Last Yr - 1	Last Yr - 2	Previous 5 Years
Overall	16-10	22-5	30-4	119-23 (.838)
Conference	12-4	13-3	13-3	74-6 (.925)
Conf. Finish	2	2	2	2, 1, 2, 1, 1
Post Appear.	n/a	n/a	Finals	NCAA 4x
Final 25 Rank	NR	#17	#6	2x

Coaches

Head Coach	Bill Brown
	Birthday: 1951-10-11
Started at Wittenberg	1993-94
Contract Expires	?
Record as Head Coach	403-184 (.686))
Record at Wittenberg	343-85 (.801)
Coaching Awards	NCAC COTY 4x, NCAA District COTY

Asst. Coaches	Travis Schwab, Al Cridge, Randy Lincicome, Drew Denisco

Recruiting Coordinator

Travis Schwab, Ph. (937) 327-6495, tschwab@wittenberg.edu

Conference and Schedule

Wittenberg plays in the North Coast Athletic Conference (www.northcoast.org) comprised of 10 schools from Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Wittenberg and main rival, College of Wooster, are the perrenial powers. Over the last 17 years, only once has either Wooster or Wittenberg not won the NCAC. League play commences in early December. All teams but two are played twice, home and away. Games are often played on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons and are piggybacked with the women's. The farthest away game is at Allegheny, about 300 miles from Springfield. The season concludes with the NCAC tourney which takes the top eight teams and the tourney winner receiving an automatic NCAA berth.

Conference Opponents

Ohio Wesleyan, Kenyon, Denison, Allegheny, Earlham, Oberlin, Wooster, Wabash, and Hiram.

Facilities

HPER Center
Capacity 3,000, Average attendance: 2,000

Style/Stats

In 2005-06, Wittenberg was ranked #1 in scoring defense, holding opponents to 54.6 ppg. In 2006-07, they were ranked #6 at 58.8.