Colorado University Athletics
Scott Wedman To Join Pac-12 Men's Basketball Hall Of Honor
January 20, 2016 | Men's Basketball
SAN FRANCISCO - Former University of Colorado standout Scott Wedman has been selected to join the Pac-12 Men's Basketball Hall of Honor.
Wedman will join 11 other Pac-12 student-athletes to be inducted on Saturday, March 12, during a ceremony prior to the championship game at the 2016 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. The inductees will also be recognized at halftime of the championship game.
Joining Wedman will be: Salim Stoudamire (Arizona), Art Becker (Arizona State), Brian Hendrick (California), Luke Ridnour (Oregon), Jim Anderson (Oregon State), Kim Belton (Stanford), Keith Erickson (UCLA), Sam Clancy (USC), Vern Gardner (Utah), Isaiah Thomas (Washington) and Keith Morrison (Washington State).
A three-time letterman for Sox Walseth, Scott Wedman still ranks 20th all-time on CU's scoring charts with 1,251 career points. 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). Wedman is one of just nine players in school history to average 20 or more points in a season.
Wedman was selected as a second-team member of the conference's all-decade team for the 1970s. He was selected as the sixth overall pick in the 1974 NBA Draft by the Kansas City-Omaha Kings. A 13-year NBA veteran with Kansas City, Cleveland and Boston, he played in 906 games with a 13.2 career scoring average, pouring in 11,916 points. He is the first former Buffalo to play on an NBA championship team, he won two rings with the Celtics (1984, 1986) and was a two-time NBA All-Star.
His jersey was officially honored by CU in the spring of 2006. He was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 2007 and the CU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015.
