Scott Wedman, Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame - University of Colorado Athletics

Scott Wedman, Basketball

Two-Time All-Big Eight Conference
1,251 Points, 49.3 Career FG Pct.
13-Year NBA Career
2007 Colorado Sports Hall of Fame

A three-time letterman for Sox Walseth at Colorado, he still ranks 19th all-time on CUGÇÖs 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 CUGÇÖs fourth all-time leading scorer and rebounder ... In 75 games, he converted 516 of 1,046 field goal attempts, a solid 49.3 percent ... 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); he was second as a sophomore with a 12.8 average in GÇÖ71-72 ... One of just nine players in school history to average 20 or more points in a season ... Scored his career high 32 points against Long Beach State his senior year ... He also led the team in rebounds with 9.3 per game both his junior and senior campaigns, with his 684 career boards still the 11th-most ever by a player in a CU uniform (his career-high of 19 came against Nebraska his junior year).

He also led the team in rebounds with 9.3 per game both his junior and senior campaigns, with his 684 career boards still the 11th-most ever by a player in a CU uniform (his career-high of 19 came against Nebraska his junior year) ... He was selected as a second-team member of the conferenceGÇÖs all-decade team for the 1970s ... Selected as the sixth overall pick in the 1974 NBA Draft by the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, he was just the second CU player in history at the time to be drafted in the first round, as well as the highest pick; to date, only Chauncey Billups has been a higher selection (third overall); he was the second pick in the GÇÖ74 ABA Draft by Memphis but opted for the NBA ... 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 shot 48.1 percent from floor, 79.4 percent from the free throw line and averaged 4.8 rebounds per game ... Also played in 85 playoff games (with a 10.4 scoring average) ... The first former Buffalo to play on an NBA championship team, he won two rings with the Celtics (1984, 1986) as he participated in all three of the classic Celtic-Los Angeles Laker NBA Finals battles in the mid-80s ... A two-time NBA All-Star ... He still shares the mark for field goal perfection in the postseason with two others when he hit all of 11 of shots, including four three-pointers, for 26 points in a win over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of the GÇÖ85 NBA Finals (a 148-114 win come to be known as the GÇ£Memorial Day MassacreGÇ¥) ... His jersey was officially honored by CU in the spring of 2006 ... Inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.