Senior Dan Wheeler cuts the net on the way to the NCAA Division III Championship(Photo by Charlie Quigg, Amherst '09)
Amherst College captured its first-ever Division III men's basketball title with an 80-67 win Saturday night over defending national champion Virginia Wesleyan. In 2006, the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, administered by Institute for International Sport, named Amherst as its first-ever men's basketball Program of Distinction on the basis of the program's lengthy history of academic and athletic achievement. Amherst College coach Dave Hixon accepted the Program of Distinction award.
Dan Doyle congratulates Dave Hixon
