Bill Brown

Bill Brown

  • Class Year:
    1973
  • Induction Year:
    2021

From Hall of Honor press release dated Jan. 31, 2022:

Bill Brown was a member of the Tiger men’s basketball team as a student, but he made his mark as a coach two decades later. From 1993 to 2016, Brown set a new program standard for total wins as he guided the Tigers to a record of 483-167, good for an outstanding .743 winning percentage. Along the way, Wittenberg won seven NCAC regular season titles and four NCAC Tournament titles, and Brown was named NCAC Coach of the Year five times. Under Brown’s guidance, Wittenberg advanced to the NCAA Division III Tournament 12 times, reaching the Elite Eight four times and the Final Four twice, highlighted by a national runner-up finish in 2006. Including one season at Wooster and five at Kenyon, Brown’s all-time record as a head coach is 543-266, and he was inducted into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. A native of West Liberty, Ohio, Brown currently resides in Westfield, Ind.