Doug Hashley (2008) - Hall of Fame - Montana State University Athletics

Doug Hashley

Induction:
2008
Class:
1982

Doug Hashley Basketball, 1978-82 Years at MSU: 1978-82 Honors: 1st Team All-Big Sky 1981 Two-time 2nd Team All-Big Sky MSU second-leading rebounder Hometown: Big Sandy, Montana “For three straight years, he got about every rebound there was to get.” –Former teammate and long-time Bobcat coach Mick Durham In a day and age when slick shooters and high scoring dominated college basketball, Doug Hashley was a different kind of player. The raw-boned forward from Big Sandy was an athletic banger who ruled the paint in Worthington Arena for four seasons. Hashley still stands second in Bobcat history in rebounds and remains seventh in the history of the Big Sky Conference. His 313 boards in 1982 remains the 19th best total in conference history, and his 172 rebounds in conference games that season led the Big Sky Conference. But Hashley was much more than an accumulation of statistics. He stood as the backbone of the best Bobcat teams of the late 1970s and early ‘80s, including the 1981 squad that finished in a second- place tie in the league. “That was a really good team,” former Bobcat play-by-play man Dean Alexander said of that 1981 squad. Former Hashley teammate and long-time Bobcat basketball coach Mick Durham said Hashley was far more important to his team than the scoring and rebounding totals he recorded, Durham said. “He played with so much emotion and enthusiasm.” Hashley was also more multidimensional than he gets credit for. He remains in the 12th leading scorer in Bobcat history, and at the end of his career his .586 field goal percentage topped MSU’s career list. “He was just a great athlete,” Durham said. “He really moved well inside, and he could do a lot of things well. He swam well, he could really hit a baseball, in fact the only sport he really can’t play is golf.” Still, Hashley will always be remembered for his ability to rebound the basketball. “I was at the game when he grabbed 24 rebounds” in the Fieldhouse against Nevada in 1982, Durham said of Hashley’s second-to-last game for the Bobcats. “It was an amazing performance. To do that in a college game, it as incredible to watch. And he came back the next game and did it again,” grabbing 15 rebounds in his finale against NAU. In addition to earning All-Big Sky First Team honors as a junior in 1980-81, and second team honors as a sophomore and senior, Hashley was named to an All-Big Sky Tournament Team and The Portland Raindrop Classic All-Tournament Team During his career. Hashley remains passionate about basketball, coaching the girls varsity squad in Glacier High School in Kalispell and conduction camps for young post players around Montana each summer.