Chicago Maroons men's basketball

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Chicago Maroons men's basketball
Chicago Maroons logo.svg
University University of Chicago
Head coach Mike McGrath (17th season)
ConferenceUniversity Athletic Association (UAA)
Arena Ratner Athletics Center
(capacity: 1,658)
Nickname Maroons
ColorsMaroon and white [1]
   
Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions
1909
Pre-tournament Helms champions
1907, 1908, 1909
NCAA tournament appearances
Division III: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008
Conference regular season champions
Big Ten: 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1920, 1924
UAA: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008

The Chicago Maroons men's basketball team is an NCAA Division III college basketball team competing in the University Athletic Association. Home games are played at the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, located on the University of Chicago's campus in Chicago. [2]

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The team's head coach is currently Mike McGrath.

Team history

The Maroons history in basketball dates to the 1893-94 season in which an organized team representing the university played a schedule of games primarily against YMCA opponents. [3] They continued this type of schedule into the following season, without a head coach. However, during the 1895-96 season the team added a head coach named Horace Butterworth. Butterworth led the Maroons through two winning seasons and finished his tenure with 10 wins and only 4 losses before leaving Chicago to take on the role of athletic director and head baseball coach at Northwestern. The most notable event during the 1895-96 season for the Maroons was being a part of the first five-on-five college basketball game played in United States history. [4] The game was played at Iowa City with the Maroons finishing victorious by a score of 15–12.

After the 1896–97 season, based on a lack of material and disinterest by participants, the university suspended its men's basketball program and promoted the women's program instead. Finally, in 1903 the program was reinstated and, with the Western Conference backing a conference champion, a varsity schedule was developed by athletic director Stagg. Wilfred Childs became the head coach of the Maroons for this newly developed team that finished the season with seven wins and zero losses, beating teams by an average score of 45–11. [5] Childs would coach the Maroons through the 1905–06 season, turning the position over to Joseph Raycroft who would guide the team to four Big Ten Conference championships (then known as the Western Conference), and 1907, 1908, and 1909 teams were all retroactively named national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation; [6] his 1909 team was also retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. [7]

Championships

National Championships

YearCoachAwarding bodyRecord
1907 Joseph Raycroft Helms Athletic Foundation 21–2
1908 Joseph Raycroft Helms Athletic Foundation 23–2
1909 Joseph Raycroft Helms Athletic Foundation, Premo-Porretta Power Poll 12–0
National Championships3

University Athletic Association Championships

YearCoachOverall recordUAA Record
1997 Pat Cunningham 23–513-1
1998 Pat Cunningham24–314–0
2000 Mike McGrath 23–415–0
2001 Mike McGrath24–414–1
2007 Mike McGrath20–611–3
2008 Mike McGrath18–811–3
UAA Regular season Championships6

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Big Ten regular season championships

YearCoachOverall recordBig Ten record
1907 § Joseph Raycroft 21–26-2
1908 §Joseph Raycroft23–27–1
1909 Joseph Raycroft12–012–0
1910 Joseph Raycroft10–39–3
1920 Pat Page 27–810–2
1924 § Nelson Norgren 10–78–4
Big Ten Regular season Championships6

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§ – Conference Co-champions

Individual honors

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

The following 4 Maroons have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame:

YearPlayerInducted as a
1959 John Schommer Player
1959 Amos Alonzo Stagg Contributor
1961 Harlan "Pat" Page Player
1965 Paul "Tony" Hinkle Contributor

Consensus All-American

PlayerYear(s)
James Ozanne 1905
John Schommer 1906, 1907, 1908, & 1909
James McKeag 1906
Albert Houghton 1907
Pat Page 1908, 1909, & 1910
Nelson Norgren 1914
Tony Hinkle 1919 & 1920
R. D. Birkhoff 1921

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Rhodes Scholars

PlayerYear(s)
Edwin Hubble 1910
John McDonough 1928
Sean Mahoney 1984
Bradley Henderson 2001

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Coaching history

CoachYearsRecordConference
Record
Conference
Titles
National
Championships
Horace Butterworth 1895–189710–40-000
Wilfred Childs 1903–190621-83-500
Joseph Raycroft 1906–191066-734-543
John Schommer 1910–191113-57-500
Harlan "Pat" Page 1911–1920161–7666-4210
Amos Alonzo Stagg 1920–192114-66-600
Nelson Norgren 1921–1942
1944-1957
120-272
65-147
52-203
0-12
00
J. Kyle Anderson 1942–19441-400-1700
Joseph Stampf 1957–1975208–118**0
John Angelus 1975–1991146–17765-11700
Pat Cunningham1991–1999115–9162-5020
Mike McGrath 1999–237–170142–8440
Totals1,166-1,128437-546113

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Maroons home courts

University of Chicago Gymnasium University of Chicago Men's Gymnasium.jpg
University of Chicago Gymnasium
Bartlett Gymnasium Bartlett Gymnasium.jpg
Bartlett Gymnasium
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Henry Crown Field House
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Ratner Athletic Center

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