Wartburg College's head men's basketball coach Dick Peth, announced Tuesday that he will retire from his coaching position. He is the second longest tenured coach in program history and longest serving current head coach in the Wartburg Athletics Department with 27 seasons. Peth owns a .
The University of Denver Pioneers have ascended to NCAA tournaments 199 times in 15 men’s and women’s sports.
The athletic department of the prestigious private school, with an enrollment of only 11,600 students, has won a remarkable 33 national championships.
But DU men’s basketball never has qualified for March Madness. Most seasons, particularly recently, the Pioneers do a February Flop.
When Joe Scott, who compiled a decent 146-132 record, was fired in 2016, one of the plethora of associate vice chancellors declared: “We want to go to the NCAA Tournament.’’
Three days later former DU player Rodney Billups was hired. Over five seasons he was 48-94, with a 2-19 mark this season.