Mode: | Basketball |
Year: | 1938–39 |
Team: | Illinois Fighting Illini |
Conference: | Big Ten Conference |
Short Conf: | Big Ten |
Record: | 14–5 |
Conf Record: | 8-4 |
Asst Coach2: | Wally Roettger |
Hc Year: | 3rd |
Ac1 Year: | 2nd |
Ac2 Year: | 4th |
The 1938–39 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.
The 1938-39 season was year number three for head coach Doug Mills. Overall the team regrouped from a miserable eighth-place finish in the Big Ten a year earlier by winning 9 of their 10 home games only losing to conference rival Indiana. Unfortunately for the Fighting Illini they finished with a 5-5 record on the road to finish in third place overall in conference action. Mills' Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team featured only 5 returning letterman. Along with team captain Tom Nisbit, the Illini also featured a starting lineup of Lewis Dehner at the center position, John Drish, Joe Frank and William Hapac at forward and George Wardley, and Colin Handlon at guard.[1]
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