| 1961-1962 Syracuse Orangemen |
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Coach: Marc Guley
Player |
Cl |
Pos |
G |
GS |
Min |
FG |
FGA |
FG% |
FT |
FTA |
FT% |
Reb |
Fls |
DQ |
Pts |
Ppg |
Rpg |
| Carl Vernick | So | G | 24 | 0 | 0 | 137 | 350 | 39.1% | 122 | 158 | 77.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 396 | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| Steve Dodge | Sr | G | 19 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 5.1 | 0.0 | ||
| Fred Machemer | Sr | F | 24 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 240 | 10.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Herb Foster | Jr | F | 24 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 5.4 | 0.0 | ||
| Mannie Klutchkowski | Jr | C | 24 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 164 | 0 | 0 | 163 | 6.8 | 6.8 | ||
| Bob Murray | So | C | 23 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 108 | 43.5% | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144 | 6.3 | 0.0 | |
| Jim Seaman | So | G | 19 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 3.6 | 0.0 | ||
| Dick Taylor | Jr | G | 16 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 3.6 | 0.0 | ||
| Dick Finley | Jr | F | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 6.1 | 0.0 | ||
| Bill Tydeman | So |
F | 19 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2.1 | 0.0 | ||
| Russ Beisswanger | Sr | G | 10 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 3.7 | 0.0 | ||
| Don King | Jr | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 5.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Jim Bennett | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2.8 | 0.0 | ||||
| Ken Wellman | So |
10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |||
| Ed Macner | Jr |
7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |||
| Mert Raner | Jr |
5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |||
| Bill Sanford | Jr |
F | |
|
0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Warshaw | |
|
0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
The season went poorly, even before it began. Three probable starters (Loren James, Ernie Lotano, and Billy Connors) were declared ineligible to play for the season having played in a YMCA league the previous spring. From there it went all down hill.
In what would go down as the worst season in Syracuse basketball history, the Orangemen went 2-22. Finishing off a losing streak that had begun the previous season, they would go on to lose 27 consecutive games, what would then be an NCAA record (since broken by Rice University).
After the team started 0-16, coach Marc Guley resigned effective the end of the season. Leading scorer Carl Vernick put up a solid effort each night, but it wasn't enough as the team was routinely out manned on the boards, a margin of 11+ rebounds per game, and was outscored on average 79 - 62.
The team did win its last two games of the season, beating Boston College and UConn on the road, to avoid going winless, and to snap the losing streak.
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