Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

When coach Herm Sledzik and his charges brought Kenyon College of Ohio into Memorial Field House in 1969, the headline attraction was Kenyon sharpshooter John Rinka, heralded by Sports Illustrated as possibly that season's top small college star. Averaging 38 points, he had scored more than 50 in a game at Edinboro the night before.
Assistant coach Tony Bernardi, master mentor of a defense that had a lot to do with IUP posting a 22-2 record that season and winning 66 of 78 contests in the three years, started Mont Mattocks, and asigned him the task of guarding Rinka. He scored only II points, among them only four of 17 field goals tried.
One game of course does not a Hall of Fame inductee make. But his performance that night remains a hallmark event in IUP basketball annals and exemplifies why many longtime Indian court observers point to Mattocks as their team's most accomplished defensive player ever.
Further, it isn't just defense that merits Mattocks' induction today, IUP's all-time leader in career assists with 450 charted in 1966-70, he also holds the Crimson and Gray's single- game assist record of 14 against Bloomsburg.
Mattocks had come to IUP in 1966 after leading Mercer High School as its point guard to a 28-0 record and a PIAA state championship. Standing 5-11, he was fast, as attested by his having come in ninth at the PIAA state cross country championships and setting Mercer's record for the mile run.
After graduating from IUP as an accounting major, he returned a year later to complete a second bachelor's in business education and coach (working with Carl Davis) the Indians' frosh team to a 16-4 record. For 15 years, he played roundball for Dick Fulton's storied Indiana AC teams.
From 1972 until ‘87, he taught and coached at Grove City High School, where was head boys' coach seven years, posting a 111-69 record, winning Mercer County crowns twice and the PIAA District 10 championship in 1980. In this span he completed a master's degree in guidance and counseling at Westminster.
Since 1988 he has taught at Neshannock High, north of New Castle, but in '9 1-92 returned to coaching, the Grove City girls' jayvee team, who posted a 33-3 record.
Married to ‘71 IUP grad Stephanie "Stevie" Cain since 1973. Mattocks has two sons. Greg, now beginning his freshman year at Grove City College, and Jeff, a sophomore at Grove City High.