Head Coach Royce Waltman Slippery Rock '64  2nd Season at Indiana State

Taking over Indianapolis prior to the 1992-93 campaign, Waltman inherited a team that had a .327 winning percentage over the previous 14 seasons. By the time he was done, Waltman had turned around the Greyhound program, compiling an overall winning record of 90-47?a winning percentage of .657.

In his first season at the helm of the Greyhounds, Waltman posted the first winning season since the 1988 campaign, the most wins since 1972 and the most conference wins in school history. The following season his Greyhounds were nationally ranked for the first time in Division II, and he recorded back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in 23 years.

In 1995-96 Waltman's squad received the school's first-ever NCAA Division II Tournament bid after finishing 20-8 in the regular season. Indianapolis recorded a school-record 14 wins in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, and Waltman was selected as the GLVC Coach-of-the-Year. His team posted their first post-season win in 32 years?a 105-81 victory over Lake Superior State in the first round of the Division II tournament. It was the most points (105) and largest margin of victory (24) ever in school post-season history. The Greyhounds were ranked 14th nationally at one point in the season?their highest ranking ever achieved.

This past season Waltman elevated his program to one of the premier basketball teams at the Division II level. The Greyhounds were ranked number-one during the season, eventually finishing as the third-best ranked team in the nation. Indianapolis captured the GLVC title with a school-record 23-5 stanza. For the second year in a row, Waltman was selected by his peers as the GLVC Coach-of-the-Year, winning 16 games in conference and posting the school's longest winning streak with 18 consecutive victories.

Waltman's charges posted consecutive 20-win seasons and only the sixth and seventh overall in Indianapolis history. Waltman's 1996-97 Greyhounds also established school records for best NCAA II season record (23-5) and best NCAA II season winning percentage (.821), to name just a few.

In his first season in 1992-93, Waltman led Indianapolis to then-school records of eight GLVC victories and four GLVC road wins, the Greyhounds' first-ever win at Kentucky Wesleyan and the championship of the Peach Basket Classic.

Waltman's .645 winning percentage (89-49) at Indianapolis makes him the second-winningest coach in school history behind legend Harry Good (.785) and just in front of Hall of Famer Angus Nicoson (.634). Two season ago, Waltman joined Nicoson as the only Greyhound coaches to lead teams to at least 20 victories in a campaign.

Before his stint at Indianapolis, Waltman was the head coach at DePauw University in nearby Greencastle, Ind. In five seasons Waltman compiled an overall record of 100-36, capturing the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference championship and national runners-up honors during the 1989-90 campaign. His team was ranked number-one in the nation during both the 1988-89 and 1990-91 seasons.

After a pair of 18-8 seasons in 1987-88 and 1988-89, Waltman guided DePauw to three straight 20-win campaigns: 24-7 in 1989-90, 20-7 in 1990-91 and 20-7 in 1991-92. He earned Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference (ICAC) Coach of the Year honors in 1990 after leading the Tigers to the league championship.

DePauw finished second in the conference in 1989, 1991 and 1992. Waltman's 1991-92 team finished 20-7, making the school's third straight trip to the NCAA playoffs under his guidance. Waltman led the Tigers to their first-ever NCAA III number-one ranking in January of 1988, and his winning percentage of .730 is second in school's history.

Prior to DePauw, Waltman served as an assistant to Bob Knight at Indiana for five seasons. In those five years, the Hoosiers compiled a 116-41 mark, including the NCAA championship in 1987 and a pair of Big Ten titles. Indiana made four trips to the NCAA Tournament and one appearance in the NIT finals during Waltman's five years.

Waltman assisted with scouting for the 1984 USA Men's Olympic basketball team, which captured a gold medal in Los Angeles. One of Waltman's duties while at IU was the administration of the Bob Knight Basketball School, a summer camp enrolling 2,100 boys.

A native of Ellerslie, Maryland, Waltman graduated from Slippery Rock in 1964 with a degree in health and physical education. Waltman lettered in both baseball and basketball.

For 15 years he was the head coach at Bedford High School in Bedford, Pa. While at Bedford Waltman had an overall record of 276-110 en route to capturing 11 league titles and seven district championships.

Waltman and his wife, Carole, reside in Terre Haute. They have a daughter, Suzanne, a son, Kevin, and a grandson, Samuel.
 

Assistant Coach Dick Bender Western Maryland '86  2nd Year at Indiana State

Dick Bender begins his second season at Indiana State University; however, the 34-year-old Bender is no stranger to the state of Indiana and head coach Royce Waltman. Bender was Waltman's top assistant at DePauw University down the road from Terre Haute in Greencastle, Ind., and now heads up the Sycamore recruiting, as well as assisting in individual player development, scouting and game preparation.

Bender comes to Indiana State from Radford University, where he spent six seasons as an assistant for Highlander head coach Ron Bradley. In those six seasons Radford compiled not only the best non-conference record of any member of the Big South Conference, but also the top conference mark. Bender witnessed one of the biggest wins in Radford history, when the Highlanders traveled to Baton Rouge, La., and upset LSU, 73-72, during the 1993-94 season.

Radford also posted excellent marks in the classroom, as the graduation rates of Highlander student-athletes ranked ninth in the nation at one point of Bender's tenure.

Prior to Radford, Bender spent those aforementioned seasons with Waltman at DePauw. Bender helped lead the Tigers to a four-year record of 80-30. They were twice ranked number-one in the country in Division III during that span and were national runners-up in the NCAA tournament in 1989-90.

A native of Grantsville, Md., Bender graduated from Western Maryland in 1986 and received his master's degree from DePauw in 1989. Bender played two seasons of basketball at Western Maryland and was the team MVP as a senior. His 91 percent free-throw shooting ranked third nationally among Division III players in 1985-86.

Before arriving at DePauw, Bender spent one year teaching in Maryland while also serving as an assistant basketball coach at Charles County Community College. During his tenure, the team posted a 26-7 record and won the state championship.

Bender and his wife, Beth, were married August 13, 1988, in Oakland, Md. The couple has two sons, Dalton, 6, and Dillon, 4, and reside in Terre Haute.
 

Assistant Coach Greg Lansing South Dakota '90  4th Year at Indiana State

Greg Lansing begins his 4th season on the Indiana State coaching staff; his second as an assistant with new head coach Royce Waltman. He was most recently a highly successful prep coach at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa.

Lansing earned a bachelor of science degree in physical education from the University of South Dakota in 1990 and served as a graduate assistant on the basketball staff for two seasons. He played for the Coyotes and helped lead them to their first NCAA Division II playoff berth since 1954. Lansing was a two-time Defensive Player of Year for USD, and named Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior. He is currently sixth in all-time assists at South Dakota.

He moved to an assistant's position for the 1992-93 season, and also worked as a financial aid counselor in the admissions office at his alma mater. He received his master's in counseling in 1992.

In his first season as a high school coach in Des Moines, Iowa, Lansing led Roosevelt High School to a winning record for the first time in 14 years. At Roosevelt, he compiled a two-year record of 25-19, while coaching ISU sophomore Nate Green during his sophomore and junior seasons.

Lansing is also a Co-Director of Pro-Tech Basketball Camps, where he helps friend and Cleveland Cavaliers head scout, Ron Meikle, run the nation-wide youth camps.

Lansing's younger brother, Steve, is an assistant coach at South Central in Union Mills, Ind. His parents, sister and nephew reside in Des Moines, Iowa.
 

Assistant Coach Rick Ray Grand View College '94  2ndYear at Indiana State

Rick Ray begins his second season as assistant coach at Indiana State University. Ray is responsible for academics and assists with scouting, recruiting and individual player development.

Ray comes to Indiana State from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where he was a graduate assistant for two years for head coach Kevin Lehman.

Ray was an All-America scholar-athlete at Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and secondary education from Grand View in 1994. He later earned his master's degree in athletic administration from Nebraska-Omaha in 1997.

Ray's playing experience includes two years at Labette Community College in Parsons, Kan., where he was defensive player of the year in the Kansas Region, and two years at Grand View, where he was the team captain and honorable mention all-conference.

Ray was an assistant boys' basketball coach and a mathematics teacher at Des Moines Roosevelt High School from 1992-94. Ray was hired by Greg Lansing, who was the head coach at the time and now an assistant with Ray at ISU. In addition, Ray has coached at numerous basketball camps throughout the Midwest.

In college Ray was a member of the Dean's List, earned academic all-conference honors and was listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. He was also a GTE Academic All-American.

Ray has a four-year-old daughter, Katriece JoAnne Ray.
 

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