Kentucky Wesleyan College head men's basketball coach Ray Harper won his 100th career collegiate game on Thursday night (Jan. 27) against visiting Wisconsin Parkside, 89-61, to become the fastest to reach 100 career wins in NCAA history (modern era) by reaching the milestone in 114 games. He broke Jim Boeheim’s (Syracuse 1977-80) record of 100 wins in 118 games.

Harper’s four-year career collegiate record is 100-14 (87.7%) all at Kentucky Wesleyan where he won the college’s record breaking seventh NCAA Division II National Championships last season with a 35-2 record and was unanimously voted Division II National Coach of the Year.

The Panthers also extended the NCAA’s (Div. I, II or III) longest home court winning streak to 54 with their Great Lakes Valley Conference victory over Wisconsin Parkside at the Owensboro Sportscenter.

No. 6 ranked Kentucky Wesleyan, 14-1 overall and 8-1 in the GLVC, will play host to No. 21 Lewis (Ill.) University (14-2, 8-2) on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 CT.

PULLIAM NAMED SOCCER COACH (December 16, 1999) 

Scott Pulliam, assistant women's soccer coach at Kentucky Wesleyan for the past season, has been named head men's soccer coach at the college as announced by Director of Athletics Larry Moore. He succeeds Harris Agisilaou who resigned.

"Kentucky Wesleyan College is indeed fortunate to have someone of Scott Pulliam's ability and talent at the helm of it’s men’s soccer program," said Moore. "Scott has been very successful coaching area "select" soccer teams and this should serve him well as he recruits local soccer talent. We look forward to working with Coach Pulliam as he takes the soccer program to a new level."

Prior to joining the Kentucky Wesleyan staff, the Owensboro, Ky., native coached boys and girls soccer select teams for 10 years. For the past eight seasons Pulliam has been the director and head coach of the United Soccer Club of Owensboro. He led the under-17 boys to the Kentucky state cup finals this spring. Pulliam holds a United States Soccer Federation class "D" coaching license.

"My dream has finally come true," said Pulliam. "I have been preparing to become a college head coach for the past six years. Obviously my immediate goals are recruiting and recruiting locally first. My next goal is to build Kentucky Wesleyan into a winner based solely on a team concept."

Pulliam, 28, was a two-time all-state performer at Owensboro High School and led the Red Devils to the state championship game as a senior in 1988 for head coach Dale Poole. He also twice earned all-Big Eight conference and city Player of the Year honors. His high school records include most goals in a career (70); most goals in a season (36 in 1988); and most goals in a game (5).

He then signed a national letter-of-intent with Western Kentucky University, where he played forward for the Hilltoppers.

Kentucky Wesleyan returns 15 letterwinners including eight starters from last season's 5-15 squad that finished 11th in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.