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Did You Know?
- Wooster's 1,472 all-time victories (entering 2007-08) are the second-most
amongst NCAA Div. III schools.
- Wooster owns the best winning percentage of any NCAA team (all divisions) of the 2000s
with a success rate of .859 (232-38).
- Wooster is one of just three programs in all of college
basketball (Kansas and Utah are the others) that boasts three coaches with 300 career wins
at that same
school — Steve Moore (490), Al Van Wie (302), and E.M. “Mose” Hole
(412).
- The Scots have made 16 trips to the NCAA Tournament since
1990, reaching the “Final
Four” in
2003 and 2007.
- Wooster has won 14 NCAC regular season titles and 10 NCAC Tournament titles in the past 20 years.
- Wooster has won more than 20 games in 17 of the last
20 seasons, including 12 straight seasons — the longest streak
in Div. III.
- Wooster led all of Div. III in attendance in 2002-03
with 29,179 total fans in 18 home games.
- Wooster finished second in Div. III attendance in 2006-07
with an average of 1,943 fans per home game.
- Wooster was ranked No. 1 in Street & Smith's Pre-Season
Div. III Top-10 Poll for the 2006-07 season.
- Wooster was ranked No. 1 in the D3hoops.com Top-25
poll during the 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07 seasons.
- Wooster led Division III in scoring margin (21.5 points
per game) for the 2005-06 season.
- Wooster's 14-0 record to start the 2004-05 season was
the best in school history.
- Coach Steve Moore has been named NCAC Coach of the Year
seven times in the last 16 seasons.
- Bryan Nelson (’03) was named the 2003 Div. III Player of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
- Brandon Johnson (’09) was named NCAC Newcomer of the Year for the 2005-06 season — the fourth Scot to garner this honor in the past 11 seasons.
- Matt Schlingman (’05) earned first-team Academic All-American honors for 2004-05 after posting a 3.99 GPA.
- Kyle Witucky (’06) was one of 16 finalists from all NCAA divisions for the Bob Cousy Award, given annually to the nation's top point guard.
- James Cooper (’08) became just the third player in NCAC history to earn Player of the Year honors twice (2006 & 2008).
- James Cooper (’08) became just the second player in school history to score 2,000 points in his career (2,037).
- Tom Port (’07) and James Cooper (’08) each
earned All-American honors in 2005-06 and 2006-07, becoming the 9th and
10th Wooster players to garner that honor.
- Tom Port (’07) was named NCAC and Great Lakes Region Player of the Year; Steve Moore named NCAC and Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year for 2006-07.
- Kyle Witucky (’06) became the fourth Scot basketball
player to earn a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship since 1995.
- Former Scots Larry Shyatt (’73) and Scott Duncan (’78) are assistant coaches at Florida and UCLA, respectively.
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