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William Wickis played men's basketball from 1964-68 under fellow
Hall of Famer Bill Raftery. Bill was named FDU-Madison Athlete
of the Year for the 1967-68 season and is FDU-Madison's second
all-time leading scorer with 2,052 points. He is still just one
of two 2,000 point scorers in FDU-Madison men's basketball history.
His career scoring average of 22.3 points per game is the third-highest
in school history. He also ranks eighth on the career list with
771 rebounds and is second with 882 career field goals made.
Bill stands at number six on the career free throws made list
with 288, while sinking his free-bees at 73.4 percent which is
the eighth-highest on the career free throw percentage list.
He averaged 25.6 points a game for the 1967-68 season for the
second-highest scoring average at FDU-Madison to lead the Devils
to an 18-6 mark. He also dropped in 616 points that year for
the third-highest single-season total. As a sophomore, Bill netted
538 points, which is the sixth-highest mark in the program's
history and averaged 24.5 ppg. for the third most prolific scoring
average. He ranks fourth in single-season field goals made with
253 in 1967-68, as well as sixth with 232 in 1965-66, and 10th
with 212 in 1966-67. In 1967-68 he made 100 free throws to make
him just one of 13 players in school history to attain the mark.
Bill was drafted in 1969 by the army and spent one year in Vietnam.
He was honorably discharged in November of 1970. Less than two
years later he was married and now has three children, whom he
coached basketball for. He has spent more than half of his life
in the insurance business working for Blue Cross and Blue Shield,
Metropolitan Life, and General American Life. He has been the
Chief Operating Officer of the Binghamton, NY Division of Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Western New York since 1995. |
