Scott Wedman (2015) - CU Athletic Hall of Fame - University of Colorado Athletics

Scott Wedman

Induction:
2015
Class:
1974

A three-time letterman for Sox Walseth, he still ranks 19th all-time on CU’s scoring charts with 1,251 career points (16.7 per game, which remains eighth-best for a player with 75-plus games in a Buff uniform). At the time of his graduation, he was CU’s fourth all-time leading scorer and rebounder. He twice earned All-Big Eight Conference honors, leading the Buffs in scoring as a junior (17.7 per game in 1972-73) and as a senior (20.0 in 1973-74, and was a second-team member of the conference’s all-decade team for the 1970s. The sixth overall pick in the 1974 NBA Draft by the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, he would go on to a 13-year NBA career with Kansas City, Cleveland and Boston, playing in 906 games with a 13.2 career scoring average. Wedman was the first former Buffalo to play on an NBA championship team, winning two rings with the Celtics (1984, 1986). He was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.