Furman

Official Name: 
Furman University
Nickname: 
Paladins
Mailing Address: 

3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC 29613

Website: 
www.furmanpaladins.com
Telephone: 
(864) 294-2061
Fax: 
(864) 294-3061
Enrollment: 
2,630
Arena: 

Timmons Arena
Capacity: 5,000
Year Opened: 1997

School Colors: 
Purple and White
Conference: 

southern (since 1937)/Southern Division

NCAA Division I Tournament Appearances: 

(6) 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, and 1980
1-7 record (.125)

NIT Appearances: 

(1) 1991
0-1 record (.000)

All-Time Winningest Coach: 

Lyles Alley (20 years from 1946-49 and 1951-66, 249-257 record, .492)

All-Time Scoring Leader: 

Frank Selvy (2,538 points from 1952-54)

All-Time Rebounding Leader: 

Jonathan Moore (1,242 from 1977-80)

Single-Game Individual Scoring Record: 

Frank Selvy (100 points as senior vs. Newberry on 2/13/54)

All-American Selections: 

(6) G-F Darrell Floyd (1955 and 1956), F Clyde Mayes (1975), F Frank Selvy (1952, 1953 and 1954)

NCAA Consensus First-Team All-Americans: 

(1) Frank Selvy (1954)

NCAA Consensus Second-Team All-Americans: 

(3) Frank Selvy (1953), Darrell Floyd (1955 and 1956)

Additional School Information on this Page:

Individual Single-Game Scoring Record Box Score
Coaching Chronolgy

Individual Single-Game Scoring Record Box Score:

Frank Selvy* (100 vs. Newberry, S.C.)
February 13, 1954 (senior/41.7 ppg)
*southern Conference record.

1

2

Total

Furman

77

72

149

Newberry

44

51

95

Furman

Name

FG

FT

PTS

Bennett

0

1-1

1

Floyd

12

1-1

25

Fraley

3

0-2

6

Poole

0

0-0

0

Thomas

5

1-1

11

Kyber

0

0-2

0

Roth

0

0-0

0

Gordon

0

0-0

0

Selvy

41

18-22

100

Deardorff

1

1-1

3

Wright

0

0-0

0

Jones

0

1-1

1

Gilreath 1 0-0

2

Totals

63

23-31

149

Percentages

.742

Newberry

Name

FG

FT

PTS

Boland

0

0-0

0

Warner

2

0-4

4

Leitner

6

4-7

16

Bailey

0

1-2

1

Blanko

14

7-10

35

Cone

1

0-0

2

Roth

0

3-4

3

McKlven

1

0-0

2

Davis

13

6-7

32

Totals

37

21-34

95

Percentages

.618
Coaching Chronology:

Coach

Seasons

Years

Record

W-L %

Best Season(s)

Record

W.L. "Billy" Laval

8

1920-27

64-63

.503

1927

16-4

A.W. "Rock" Norman

1

1928

15-3

.833

1928

15-3

A.P. "Dizzy" McLeod

5

1929-33

69-17

.802

1930

16-1

A.L. "Flucie" Stewart

2

1934-35

12-20

.375

1935

9-8

Robert W. Smith

7

1936-42

55-75

.423

1936

10-6

Selwyn Edwards

1

1945

2-15

.117

1945

2-15

J. Lyles Alley

20

1946-49, 1951-66

249-257

.492

1946

16-3

Melvin Bell

1

1950

9-12

.429

1950

9-12

Frank Selvy

4

1967-70

44-59

.427

1970

13-13

Joe Williams

8

1971-78

142-87

.620

1975

22-7

Eddie Holbrook

4

1979-82

65-48

.576

1980

23-7

Jene Davis

3

1983-85

28-58

.368

1984

12-17

George "Butch" Estes

9

1986-94

135-122

.523

1991

20-9

Joe Cantafio

3

1995-97

30-51

.370

each year

10-17

Larry Davis

9

1998-2006

124-139

.471

2004

17-12

Jeff Jackson

5

2007-11

63-91

.409

2011

22-11
  • All-Time W-L Record: 1,125-1,146 (.495) from 1909 through 2011.
  • NOTES: Furman (SC) did not have an official coach for eight teams from 1908-09 through 1915-16
  • Furman did not field a formal team in 1942-43 and 1943-44 during World War II
  • Alley missed the 1949-50 season while taking a one-year sabbatical to work on his master's degree at Columbia.