Granville, Ohio- Denison senior
Ricky Radtke and head men's basketball coach
Chris Sullivan were named in this year's National Association of Basketball Coaches Division III All-District teams and Coach of the Year selections.
Radtke was named to the NABC Division III All-District second team for District seven after earning first-team all-conference honors for the first time as a Big Red after leading the team to its first North Coast Athletic Conference regular-season championship. He led the Big Red in rebounds with 138 and was third on the team in points, scoring 292. In the NCAC, he garnered the best field goal percentage and sat in the top fifteen in three statistical categories. Radtke finished his career at Denison with 1,128 points and a shooting percentage of 0.618(428-692), etching his collegiate career in the record books as the best career shooting percentage in program history.
Head Coach
Chris Sullivan was named Coach of the Year for District 7. In his fifth season, Sullivan led the Big Red to a program-high 24 wins. On the way to their historic year, Denison broke its program consecutive-win streak with 12 and became first-time NCAC regular season champions after going 14-2 in conference play. In a highly competitive conference tournament, the Denison Big Red secured only its second NCAC tournament championship in program history after defeating The College of Wooster 79-68. With this year's success, Sullivan and his staff were named NCAC Coaching Staff of the Year and now holds a 72-45 record and a 0.615 winning percentage after five years as head coach, putting him in the top nine winningest coaches in Denison's history.