Hall of Fame
The 1978-79 Bulldog Men's Basketball team won the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Association regular season championship with a 9-3 record and posted a 20-8 overall mark. Up until that season, it was only the third 20-win campaign in school history and prior to last year's Bulldogs, held the school record for scoring average at 86.4 points per game.
Head Coach Willard Sims placed five players on the all-conference team including the league's Most Valuable Player in Terry Bussard. Leading scorer, Ved Green, was also a first team honoree as he averaged 17.7 points in 28 games played. Honorable mentions were David Winslow, Mark Sanders, Matt Maddox, and Bill Woodall.
The Bulldogs finished the season ranked seventh in the NCAA Division II and earned a bid to the NCAA South Central regional in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Bussard, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame as an individual in 1991, left Truman as the all-time leading scorer with 1,382 points and as the career assists leader with 582, a mark he still holds.
