Monmouth College Athletics

Hindsight is 20-20, and that certainly applies to Juan Mitchell’s basketball career at Monmouth. With each passing year, his accomplishments look better and better. Only two basketball teams in Fighting Scot history have ever won 20 games – the squads Mitchell starred on back-to-back as a junior and senior.

In the latter year, Monmouth reeled off 20 consecutive victories before being stopped in the NCAA tournament by national runner-up DePauw. Mitchell’s 530 points that year were the second-most in school history and helped him finish with 1,277 points, good for No. 5 on MC’s scoring list the year of his induction.

He was an All-MWC first teamer in both 20-win seasons and made the second team in 1988, when the Scots won the first of two league titles with Mitchell on the floor. Mitchell also excelled in the classroom, being named a first team Academic All-American in 1990. Looking back, we can clearly see that he was one of Monmouth’s most gifted student-athletes.