The Record Book - Creighton University Bluejays

Creighton Basketball GlossaryAll-AmericansCreighton’s men’s basketball program has produced24 All-Americans in 85 seasons, beginningwith Leonard Lovley in 1923-24. Kyle Korver was aconsensus All-American in 2002-03 while pickingup second-team honors from the A s s o c i a t e dPress, USBWA and ESPN.com. Michael Lindemanearned second-team Verizon Academic A l l -America honors last year as well.Altman, DanaC r e i g h t o n ’s all-timewinningest coach with175 wins, Dana Altmanis the only coach inM V C history to leadhis school to sevenstraight years ofimproved records.Altman has won twoM V C r e g u l a r - s e a s o ntitles, four MVC Tournament crowns and led histroops to five straight NCAA Tournament appearancesin the last five seasons.Apke Brothers, Tom and RickFormer Bluejay coach Tom Apke is the onlycoach in school history to have led Creighton to theNCAA Tournament in his first season with the team(1974-75). A team captain on Creighton’s 1964-65NCAA Tournament team, Apke went on to coachthe Jays to a 130-64 record from 1974-81.While Tom was coaching the Bluejays to thepostseason, his brother, Rick, was beginning toblossom as a player.After Rick averaged 6.4 pointsper game during his freshman season, he burstonto the scene as a sophomore with a scoringnorm of 16.8 points per game. Rick went on toscore 1,682 career points from 1974-78, now thesixth-highest total in school history.Bevilacqua, Dr. Lee C. “Doc”Inducted into the Creighton University AthleticHall of Fame in 1988, Dr. Lee C. Bevilacquabecame the first person associated with Creightonathletics to be honored by the Missouri ValleyConference Hall of Fame when he was presentedwith the MVC Award of Merit on September 1,1998, in St. Louis, Mo.Bevilacqua died in the fall of 1998 while on aroad trip with the men’s soccer team. He had spentmore than 30 years (1962-82, 1986-98) as the CUAthletics Department’s team physician withoutreceiving any form of monetary compensation.Benjamin, BenoitA two-time A P All-America center for theBluejays in theearly 1980s,Benoit Benjaminbegan a 15-yearN B A career in1985 as the thirdoverall draft pickin the first roundby the LosAngeles Clippers.Benjamin isthe all-time leaderfor blocked shotsin Missouri ValleyConference historywith 411 rejections.As a junior during the 1984-85 season, heled all of NCAA Division I in blocked shots and wasthe nation’s second-leading rebounder.BlowoutsThe most lopsided victory in Creighton historywas a 57-point triumph, 63-6, against Midland duringthe 1925-26 season. Conversely, Creighton’smost lopsided defeat was a 66-point thumping, 96-30, by Illinois during 1948-49.Collin, Conrad “Cornie”Twice an all-MVC forward and the league’s leadingscorer, Conrad “Cornie” Collin suffered a kneeinjury during a football scrimmage against thefreshmen prior to the 1933 grid season. Despitewithdrawing from both the football and basketballteams due to the injury, Collin became the first athletein school history to captain both squads.Conference AffiliationCreighton is in its second stint as a member ofthe Missouri Valley Conference. The Bluejaysbegan play in 1916-17 with membership in both theNebraska Collegiate Conference and We s t e r nCatholic Conference. After playing the next fiveseasons as an independent, Creighton was amember of the North Central Conference from1922-27 before beginning its first stint in the MVCfrom 1928-48. Prior to the 1948-49 season, theBluejays withdrew from the MVC and remainedindependent until rejoining the Valley prior to the1977-78 season.Conference TitlesDespite a 29-year hiatus from the MissouriValley Conference, Creighton has won more MVCregular season championships than any of theother nine current members of the league. In fact,Creighton’s total of seven outright titles trails onlyOklahoma A&M (11) and Kansas (10) and is tiedwith Cincinnati. The Jays’ six shared league titlesCreighton’s All-AmericansRick Apke (1974-78)AP honorable mention, 1976; CoSIDA Academicsecond team, AP honorable mention and SportingNews special mention, 1977; CoSIDAAcademic firstteam, AP honorable mention, 1978Ed Beisser (1940-43)PIC Magazine first team, Sporting News third team,SIR Magazine honorable-mention, 1943Benoit Benjamin (1982-85)Catholic Digest All-American, 1983; AP honorablemention, 1984; ESPN second team, NABC thirdteam, AP honorable mention, UPI honorable mention,1985Jim Berry (1955-59)Catholic Digest college division, 1958, 1959Dennis Bresnahan (1969-71)CoSIDA Academic, 1970Rodney Buford (1995-99)AP honorable mention, 1999Jack Chapman (1957-60)Catholic Digest college division honorable mention,1960Conrad Collin (1931-34)Second team College Humor, 1933James Farr (1987-89)UPI Small All-America second team, 1989Dick Hartmann (1958-60)Catholic Digest college division honorable mention,1960Dick Harvey (1956-60)Catholic Digest college division, 1958-59; CatholicDigest honorable mention college division, 1960Werner Jensen (1927-30)Second team Helms Foundation, 1929Arthur Kiely (1930-33)New York Sun, 1933Kyle Korver (1999-03)AP honorable mention, Basketball America honorablemention, collegeinsider.co m M id-Major A l l -American, 2002; AP second team, ESPN.com sec -ond team, Senior CLASS second team, USBWAsecond team, Basketball Times third team, DickVitale third team, NABC third team, Foxsports.comfourth team, colleg einside r.com Mid-Major A l l -American, collegeinsider.com, 2003Ralph Langer (1940-43)NEA first team, SIR Magazine first team, SportingNews honorable mentionMichael Lindeman (2000-Present)Verizon Academic second team, 2003Leonard Lovely (1920-24)Helms Foundation, 1924Herb Millard (1960-62)Catholic Digest college division honorable mention,1961Vernon Moore (1981-85)AP honorable mention, 1985Bill O’Dowd (1987-91)USA Today Academic first team, 1990Chuck Officer (1960-62, 1963-64)Catholic Digest college division honorable mention,1961Bob Portman (1966-69)Basketball Weekly first team, Helms Foundation firstteam, AP honorable mention, Sporting News honorablemention and UPI honorable mention, 1968Paul Silas (1961-64)Brooklyn Tablet first team, Cage Scope first team,Helms Foundation third team, AP honorable mentionand UPI honorable mention, 1962; Cage Scope firstteam, Converse second team, AP and UPI honorablemention, 1963; Brooklyn Tablet first team,CoSIDA Academic first team, Helms Foundation firstteam, Converse second team, NABC second team,US Basketball Coaches second team, AP thirdteam, UPI third team and Sporting News honorablemention, 1964Maurice Van Ackeren (1929-32)Honorable mention College Humor, 1931105 2003-04 Creighton Men’s Basketball