Leathernecks Top 250 Scorers

beauspencer · Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:39 pm

Renewing the countdown in a different manner.

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Tere North · Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:42 am

Welcome back Beau

beauspencer · Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:58 pm

Tate Stensgaard

Rocky Swishterson · Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:08 am

Thank you, Beau for picking up this very interesting feature again.

beauspencer · Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:46 am

Bob Jahn (248th)

WIU0812 · Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:05 pm

Top 250 is very impressive to be able to count down all of those ex players I doubt many schools even know their top 250 most probably stop counting after top 50 or at best 100. Interesting to see that Tate has already broke into that category.

beauspencer · Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:59 pm

Roger Nickell

beauspencer · Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:04 pm

WIU0812, I created a pivot table from a database I created using season-by-season statistics throughout history. It was difficult as the WIU Athletics records from pre-1950 have been lost (possibly in the Morgan Gym fire?). All records from 1903-1949 were compiled through microfilm research. Not all box scores were reported by the newspaper. Many early records are not complete, so the Top 250 is not 100% accurate near the bottom of the list. Unfortunately, we may never know exact scoring totals from the early, early days of WIU Basketball.

beauspencer · Mon Jun 23, 2014 7:49 pm

Bill Hungate

beauspencer · Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:38 am

I lagged on this project again. It's pretty time consuming writing reports and digging up pictures, so as promised I will finish the list, but not as flashy.

Note: This is an unofficial list, though I have collaborated with the sports information office. I personally researched all of the pre-1950 box scores by pouring through the Macomb Journal archives. There are no records from before 1950 in the WIU Athletics archives. My best guess is that they were housed in Morgan Gym and lost in the fire. By using Journal archives, there were some games that didn't have a full box score, or didn't have a box score at all (especially the further back you go).

Rank -- Player -- Points
250. Gene Toms - 165
249. Tate Stensgaard - 168
248. Bob Jahn - 168
247. Roger Nickell - 170
246. Bill Hungate - 170
245. Orville Day - 171
244. Paul Lee - 175
243. Andre Charles - 175
242. Keith Archie - 177
241. Nathan Koster - 179
240. Rich Lowrey - 183
239. Jordan Foster - 184
238. Randy Jones - 186
237. Dannie Robbins - 189
236. G.V. James - 189
235. Ronald Cook - 191
234. Larry Hilt - 194
233. Kenneth Epperson - 195
232. Lamont Bunton - 199
231. Ryan Shriver - 201
230. Tim Chase - 202
229. Ray Harris - 207
228. Tony Moore - 208
227. Doc Warren - 209
226. Gary Lorenz - 212
225. Martin Lovdahl - 212
...to be continued