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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
