CU Athletic Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2014
- Class:
- 1964
- Two-time All-Big 8 Conference
- 1,110 career points
- 1962 & '63 Big 8 Champions & NCAA Tournament
- 147-89 career record (.623)
A three-year letterman under the legendary Sox Walseth, he earned first-team All-Big 8 honors from both the Associated Press and United Press international his junior (1962-63) and senior (1963-64) seasons ... CU was 53-24 in his career, winning two Big 8 titles and earning two trips to the NCAA Tournament ... He scored 1,110 career points (still 23rd on CU’s all-time list), converting 411-of-841 field goal attempts for a 48.9 percentage, considered very good for the day ... He averaged 14.4 points per game over his career, including 18.5 his senior season, when he also averaged 12.7 rebounds for a second straight season, leading the Big 8 both years ... With a 13.8 scoring norm as a junior, that makes him one of the few players in school history to average a double-double for two seasons ... He averaged 11.2 rebounds per game over his career (77 games) ... At the time of his graduation, he was CU’s all-time leading rebounder and third all-time scorer ... He was a fourth round selection by Detroit in the 1964 NBA Draft, but the 27th player overall in a 9-team league at the time... Waived by the Pistons that September, he persevered and eventually signed as a free agent with the St. Louis Hawks in 1967; he went on to play for the Hawks, both in St. Louis and when they moved to Atlanta ... He was traded to Houston for a month during the 1971 season and finished up his career after being traded to Detroit ... He played eight seasons in all, scoring 3,997 points with his best year coming in 1969-70 when he averaged 13.6 points and 9.7 rebounds for Atlanta, helping the Hawks to a 48-34 record and first place in the NBA West Division ... From Muncie, Ind., where he prepped at Central High.
