Athletics Hall of Fame
The 1974-75 men’s basketball team is one of the finest squads in the long history of basketball at Union, posting a 20-4 record to tie for fourth on the program’s single-season wins list.
Lead by Times Union Capital District Coach of the Year Bill Scanlon, the team did not lose consecutive games all season and ended the year by capturing the ECAC Upstate New York championship as the top seed with convincing wins over Hamilton and Oneonta. As a team, Union shot an incredible 50.7 percent (803-of-1582) from the field, the highest single-season percentage in program history and sixth-best in the nation that year. The team’s 79.4 points-per-game average is third-best ever for a Union side and helped the squad rank in the top five nationally by winning by an average of 14.3 points per game.
Tri-captain Charlie Gugliotta led the team in scoring and rebounding at 14.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game and was named to the NABC All-East District Team, while fellow tri-captain Bill Carmody set a then-school record with 146 assists, a mark that still ranks eighth all-time at Union. Carmody graduated with school single-game, single-season and career assist records and earned the school’s William B. Jaffe ’26 Athletic Award as a senior.
Team members:
Gary Borgese '77
Bill Carmody '75, HOF '04 (captain)
Kevin Crawford '75 (captain)
John Denio '76, HOF '11
Rick Gorman '77
Charlie Gugliotta '75 (captain)
Joel Fisher '76
Larry Hughes '77
Larry Kearney '77
Steve Kelly '76
Clete McLaughlin '77
Peter Meola '77
David Viniar '76
Alan Walker '78
Head Coach: Bill Scanlon
Assistant Coach: Earl Rogers
Manager: Lou Barash '76
