Players

John Michael Duis

Year Inducted: 2002

Category: Players

Schools / Organizations:
Crescent-Iroquois High School
(Streator) Woodland High School
The University of Illinois

Biography:

John Duis was a Chicago Sun-Times and Associated Press first team all-stater as a senior at Crescent-Iroquois High School. Duis was a three-year starter for coach Tom Posey and averaged 22 points a game. He scored 1,700 points, shot 59.6 percent from the field and grabbed 872 rebounds for his career. As a senior, Duis scored 510 points and grabbed 354 rebounds.

Duis played two years at Parkland Junior College and was co-MVP as a freshman. Duis was team captain as a sophomore and averaged 18 points and 7.4 rebounds a game. When Illinois coach Lou Henson was scouting other players in a game, he told Duis he had a spot for him if he walked on. Duis did his junior year, but passed on basketball as a senior to concentrate on his business-agriculture degree in preparation for leading the family farm at Woodworth.