Season in Sports
| SPRING 2022
“It’s been a grind for four years. We had to lose before we learned to win. I remember going places, just getting my butt kicked. You had to get better, you had to take note of it, you had to learn from your mistakes, you had to get yelled at, you had to be coached. And man, it feels good. I love these guys because they taught me how to work. They pushed me. They said I wasn’t ready coming in; I didn’t believe it. I’m proud of these guys. And I’m proud of the team.” —Tyler Watson ’22
photo by Tom Runge ’71
—Head Coach Kyle Brumett
26 W A B A S H M A G A Z I N E
photo by Tom Runge ’71
photo by Jacob Paige ’23
• 28–4 record: the most wins in school history. • 24-game winning streak: the longest in modern school history, surpassing the 19-game streak in 1982. • North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season championship (16–1). • NCAC Tournament Champions. • Three 1,000-point scorers (Davidson/Watson/ Schreiber): 5,111 combined career points from the senior class. • First Wabash team to make the NCAA Division III Tournament since 1998. • First Wabash team to make the NCAA Division III Final Four since 1982. • Wabash defeated more nationally ranked teams in this year’s NCAA Division III tournament than any other team (No. 21 Berry, No. 12 Emory, No. 22 Williams, and No. 7 Illinois Wesleyan). Two of those wins came in true road games.
photo by Jacob Paige ’23
“I’ve never been around guys that work as hard as this. It was hard figuring out how to fit all the pieces of the puzzle together, but we have a really beautiful puzzle. You get to the Final Four with guys that want to work like these guys did. And it’s not a guarantee. But they have laid it on the line and they deserve it. It’s an awesome feeling.”
photos by Anna Tiplick
Wabash Basketball has Record-Setting Year
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