NEW CASTLE, Ind. – Eighteen men have been named to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame's 2018 Silver Anniversary Team, based on outstanding accomplishments as a basketball player 25 years ago. Making that list of eighteen basketball players is Davenport's own Men's Basketball Head Coach Burt Paddock!
 
BURT PADDOCK, ALEXANDRIA
Averaged 27.3 points as a senior for 18-3 Central Indiana Conference champions, graduating with 1,258 points in three seasons (career 21.7 ppg average).  Was part of teams that went 46-17 over three seasons, winning three CIC championships.  Four-year starter at Manchester University, he is 2^nd in program history with 1,917 career points in 109 career games.  Averaged 18.9 ppg as sophomore for 31-1 1995 NCAA Division III National Runners-Up, averaged 21.5 ppg as junior and 18.0 ppg as senior.  1994 ICAC Freshman of the Year, 4x 1^st team ICAC all-conference, 2x NCAA All-Region honors and 2^nd highest single-game scoring in school history (51) for teams that were 93-23.  Volunteer assistant at Alexandria H.S., two years assistant at St. Joseph College, four years assistant at Grand Valley State University and just finished his 10th season as head coach at Davenport University.  259-82 record (.760) at Davenport with four conference titles and seven appearances in NAIA National Tournament Elite Eight in the past eight seasons.  Married with two children, he resides in Hudsonville, Michigan.
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Paddock had the following to say when finding out he earned this honor.
"I have been incredibly blessed by the sport of basketball! From meeting my wife Carrie on my college visit, to being fortunate enough to provide for my family through coaching, and working with the hundreds of incredible student athletes and their families. I am incredibly humbled for being chosen as a member of the 2018 Silver Anniversary Team by the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. As one of the inductees said at the banquet "The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame is sort of the pinnacle of basketball when growing up in the state". For me to be able to celebrate this with my wife, daughters, and extended family is incredibly surprising and humbling. It is an honor that I will not soon forget.
 
It's funny, as I went through this process and sat back to think about it, I realized how many people played such vital roles in allowing this to happen 25 years after playing my final high school game. My elementary school custodian (Mr. Jones), who would the leave the backdoor to the gym open for me long after he'd gone home for me to shoot for hours on end, my parents who spent countless days and amounts of money for me to play AAU or go to camps, my older brother and brother in-law who allowed me to tag along EVERYWHERE with them when they were playing, my high school coach (Garth Cone) who held me accountable. Coach Cone I learned a great deal from, including all the lessons that I may not have liked at the time, but looking back I am grateful for how and what he did for me. All of these people helped shaped me throughout my journey. I never say it enough, but to all those who helped me along the way – THANK YOU!"
 
Paddock was honored at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame's 57^th Annual Men's Awards Banquet on Wednesday, March 21.
 
Story by: Devin Steiner
 
Picture credit: Paddock Family