After suffering through an freshman season when he was named Freshman All-America, Dawkins led Duke to an record over his last three seasons. A native of Washington, D. During his senior year as team captain, the Blue Devils played an NCAA record 40 games, won an NCAA record 37 contests and recorded a single season school record game winning streak that streak has since been broken. Dawkins set school records for most field goals in a season with in and most field goals in a career with 1, He scored in double figures in a school-record career games, all but four of the contests he played in at Duke.
Dawkins led the Blue Devils in scoring all four years of his career, recording the fourth-highest season point figure in school history with in In addition, he held Duke career standards for points in ACC regular season action 1, and points scored in Cameron Indoor Stadium 1, , until the season when Redick surpassed both marks. The team leader in assists as a freshman, he ranks sixth in career assists with Despite placing seventh in regular-season conference play, Stanford wrapped up the year as the Pac's winningest program and tallied a league-best four victories against the RPI's top Randle produced one of the best rookie seasons in school history, leading the club with The Cardinal closed out the season at Fielding a team without a senior for the first time in school history, Dawkins put his rookies in a position to excel.
In addition to making more starts 47 than any other Pac team, Stanford's freshmen logged the highest percentage of minutes played Additionally, Stanford was represented with four all-league picks overall, the most since four members of the Cardinal's Sweet 16 squad were recognized. Stanford finished overall during the campaign in Dawkins' second season at the helm.
Despite multiple injuries, lack of depth and a projected last-place conference finish in the preseason media poll, the Cardinal reached the Pac Tournament semifinals. An impressive feat considering Stanford's roster featured only seven true scholarship players, two returning starters and six walk-ons. Under Dawkins' guidance, Fields produced one of the most memorable seasons in school history, earning All-Pac First Team honors after leading the conference in scoring, minutes played, point games and double-doubles while finishing second in rebounding.
During his rookie season in , Dawkins directed Stanford to a record and reached the CBI semifinals, extending the program's lengthy streaks of consecutive winning seasons 16 and postseason appearances In addition to surpassing Robert Burnett as the winningest first-year head coach in school history, Dawkins ranked third in victories among the 21 first-year head coaches in Division I with no prior college head coaching experience.
The Cardinal joined national champion North Carolina and Final Four participant Pittsburgh as the only schools in Division I with an undefeated non-conference record. It marked just the second time that the Knights have put multiple student-athletes on The American's all-conference teams and the ninth time in the program's Division I history that multiple Knights have earned all-conference honors in the same season, dating back to the season.
With two players on the three all-conference teams, only Houston had more players earn all-conference honors. It marked the first time UCF had earned multiple victories over ranked opponents in the same season, and the Knights did it in back-to-back games. UCF finished the year , tied for the fourth most wins in a single season in program history.
Known for their defense under Dawkins, the Knights ranked 11th in the nation in defensive field goal percentage, holding opponents to just UCF was also 27th in scoring defense, allowing UCF cracked the Associated Press Top 25 Poll for the first time since , earning a ranking of 25th late in the regular season.
It was the latest into a season that the Knights have ever been ranked. The home finale against Cincinnati marked the first matchup of ranked teams at Addition Financial Arena. He helped three individuals earn all-conference accolades from The American in , as UCF led the league with three honorees. Dawkins almost never fielded bad teams at Stanford, but it was rare that his teams were all that good — in eight years, he went in Pac games.
His record at UCF has been considerably better — in three years — but that could just be a reflection of the AAC being a relatively easier league in most years than the Pac, and UCF also generally being closer to the top of the league in terms of resources.
Oh yeah, and not having to deal with admissions very often. Now, on the rare occasions when he does make it to the tournament, his teams do well. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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