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Illinois had re-joined the Mid-Continent Conference, which was now a Division I athletics conference. The Leathernecks won the regular season conference championship with Dykstra leading the way. He averaged 21.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.4 steals per
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Western Illinois to finish as runners-up in the Mid-Continent Conference Tournament. He was named the tournament's most outstanding player and also repeated as an
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and classified as an independent (i.e. no conference affiliation). He averaged 21.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. On
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Westwood Financial for nearly 30 years and became their CEO in 2016. After two-plus years he left the company to become the President of Sterling Logistics Properties in
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Dykstra became a starter for the varsity basketball team. Over the next three seasons he would go on to become the
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