On Saturday, Dana Altman and Kyle Korver will be inducted into the Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame together, and it’s only fitting: the legendary careers on the Hilltop of coach and player are forever linked.
Altman was head coach from 1994-2010, and remains the program’s all-time wins leader with a 327-176 mark. Summing up his remarkable career is hard to do, because the sum total of his accomplishments are staggering. Inheriting a program in disarray and on the verge of irrelevancy in the spring of ’94 — they had won seven and eight games, respectively, in the two years before his hire — he took just three seasons to return them to a .