The Most College Basketball College Basketball Players: Luke Schenscher
Crocodile Dunkee. Aussie Bill Walton. The OG member of the Aussie Posse is recalled fondly.
Many great college basketball players go on to become good, or at least employable for an extended period of time, professional players. Many also, for myriad reasons, top out in their collegiate exertions and are short-timers in the NBA before heading off to Europe, getting into coaching or seeking their fortune elsewhere in the world of professions that have nothing to with hoops.
Obviously, I love these particular players with all my heart and they have my sword for eternity.
That’s right, we have another semi-regular re-occurring feature! Let’s examine who fits this bill, why they were so amazing in the collegiate game and why they never really found success in the pros. The criteria: a collegiate stud, at least fitting my definition, who must have appeared in at least one NBA game, but cannot have played in more than 100. No wondering why Guy X never got a look at the League; we’re going to with those who did, then didn’t, and examining their collegiate qualifieds.
Luke Schenscher, Center, Georgia Tech (2001-05)
College: 7.4 ppg and 5.3 rpg on 54.2% shooting from the floor and 63.2% at the free-throw line; added 1.3 blocks per game as well.
Named to the 2004 NCAA All-Tournament team.
NBA: 31 games across two seasons with Chicago and Portland; shot 46.9% from the floor, scored 55 points, grabbed 54 rebounds and committed 46 fouls.
I’d like to introduce you to a sentence that has lived rent-free in my head for about 20 years now.
Luke Schenscher has a posse.
This particular sentence lodged its way into my cerebral cortex early in an ESPN the Magazine article on Georgia Tech’s gangly Australian giant way back in the halcyon days of things like “ESPN” and “magazines”; I am now 91 years old apparently. Anyway, whole thing is here and I encourage a read1 for some very era-specific post-9/11, pre-Katrina nostalgia2.