Loras College Athletics

Twenty wins is a measuring stick for college basketball teams. It is a sense of pride and recognized by peers and colleagues as a season of indisputable success. Three times with Curtis Evans in the program the team reached that plateau, and, in fact, the team averaged 20 wins per season during his time as a Duhawk. In addition, there were 19 occasions when Evans’ teams eclipsed 100 points in a game with him on the floor.

When it was all said and done for Evans, he was one of just 21 players in the program’s history to reach the 1,000 Points Club – finishing with 1,063. He averaged 12.4 points per game over his career for Bob Mullen’s teams and caught the attention of teammates and widened the eyes of his opponents on the fast break, around the rim, and on defense.

Evans’ biggest individual honor came after his memorable 1979-80 junior season that ended in Kansas City at the NAIA National Tournament when he was named All-American. That trip was the first time the Duhawks had reached those late stages of the national tournament since 1947. They got there thanks in large part to Evans’ game high 29 points in the district title game that “punched the ticket” to Kansas City.

Today, Curtis resides in the western Chicago suburb of Bellwood with his wife Gloria and their three boys.