OU "1,000-point club" trivia (2 questions)

[NMSooner'80]

1. Who are the three guys from OU who averaged at least 20 points a game for an entire career who are in the 1,000-point club?

2. Who are the three members of the 1,000-point club who averaged less than 10.0 points a game for their careers?

 

[DenverSooner]

One of the first three is easy and has to be Wayman Tisdale. I will guess Adams and Blake as the other two.

Under 10 a game is much more difficult. It has to be four year players. I will go with Cade Davis, Tony Crocker and Kevin Bookout. I suspect that is wrong but I really can't recall any older guys to guess maybe Tim Heskett. I bet some of the under 10 guys are much older than Heskett.

 

[opsooner]

1. Who are the three guys from OU who averaged at least 20 points a game for an entire career who are in the 1,000-point club?

2. Who are the three members of the 1,000-point club who averaged less than 10.0 points a game for their careers?

1. Has to include Tisdale (agree with Denver) and Adams but I am unsure about the third. I have some candidates in mind but am doubting they averaged 20 across their career.

2. I agree with Cade Davis and am thinking some of the other guys from the Bliss Big 8 championship team might be in there: Beal, Whitley, Stotts, Curry, Carrabine (guessing McCullough averaged more than 10). That was a balanced team. I also like Denver's guess of Bookout.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Excellent Trivia Question!!

OU Player / Seasons Played / Career Points / Career PPG

> Waymon Tisdale / 1983, 84, 85 / 2,661 / 25.6
> Alvin Adams / 1973, 74, 75 / 1,707 / 23.4
> Don Sidle / 1966, 67, 68 / 1,548 / 20.4

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> Cary Carrabine / 1976, 77, 78, 79 / 1,034 / 9.3
> Raymond Whitley / 1978, 79, 80, 81 / 1,019 / 9.3
> Cade Davis / 2008, 09, 10, 11 / 1,015 / 8.1

Some good guesses above. Obviously, I looked this up in the media guide.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Here is another factoid. Which members of the OU 1,000-Point Club only played two (2) years at OU? There are eight (8) on this list.

OU Player / Seasons Played / Career Points / Career PPG

> Nate Erdmann / 1996, 97 / 1,000 / 16.7
> Aaron McGhee / 2001, 02 / 1,001 / 14.5
> Brent Price / 1991, 92 / 1,173 / 18.0
> Corey Brewer / 1997, 98 / 1,211 / 19.2
> David Little / 1982, 83 / 1,229 / 18.6
> Blake Griffin / 2008, 09 / 1,278 / 18.8
> Mookie Blaylock / 1988, 89 / 1,338 / 18.1
> Harvey Grant / 1987, 88 / 1,391 / 19.1

The last three made it to an Elite-8 and/or a Final-4, as did Aaron McGhee.

The OU basketball program has had some wonderful 2-year transfers.

 

[NMSooner'80]

Here is another factoid. Which members of the OU 1,000-Point Club only played two (2) years at OU? There are seven (7) on this list.

OU Player / Seasons Played / Career Points / Career PPG

> Nate Erdmann / 1996, 97 / 1,000 / 16.7
> Aaron McGhee / 2001, 02 / 1,001 / 14.5
> Brent Price / 1991, 92 / 1,173 / 18.0
> David Little / 1982, 83 / 1,229 / 18.6
> Blake Griffin / 2008, 09 / 1,278 / 18.8
> Mookie Blaylock / 1988, 89 / 1,338 / 18.1
> Harvey Grant / 1987, 88 / 1,391 / 19.1

The last three made it to an Elite-8 and/or a Final-4, as did Aaron McGhee.

The OU basketball program has had some wonderful 2-year transfers.

Corey Brewer should be in there somewhere. I think he also came even closer than Harvey Grant did to averaging 20 for a career.

 

[SoonerTraveler]

Corey Brewer should be in there somewhere. I think he also came even closer than Harvey Grant did to averaging 20 for a career.

Thanks NMSooner! I have corrected the list above for the oversight you point out. My "research skills" are not what they used to be.

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At the start of this season, there were 38 Sooners in the 1,000-Point Club. Here is how some current players stack up prior to their stats for their senior season.

> Romero Osby / 2012 / 399 / 12.9**
> Steven Pledger / 2010, 11, 12 / 1,022 / 11.1
> Andrew Fitzgerald / 2010, 11, 12 / 903 / 10.1
> Cameron Clark / 2011, 12 / 561 / 8.9

** OU career only. Osby started the season with 700 total career points (6.9 ppg career average) if one counts his first two seasons which he played at Mississippi State.

Pledger started the season number 34 on the OU career scoring list.

 

[NMSooner'80]

IMHO, Raymond Whitley would have averaged 15-20 a game as a senior, had he not been injured. He played as a fifth-year senior on Billy's first NIT team but averaged less than 5.0 a game. He was just a shell of what he'd been on the Big 8 title team of '79.

John McCullough, going from memory, did average in double figures at least three of his four years at OU, and I think he was right around 10 points a game as a true freshman in '76.

The second game that I ever saw in person was when the smallest, youthful Sooners whipped a Final 4 caliber Missouri team at the LNC that year. I think that game really got me hooked on college basketball, and I was still in high school at the time. Our starting five was smaller than a lot of high schools are now (6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 and 5-10), and our guys ran a motion offense that made those MU studs look like they'd never seen such a thing. I was no basketball expert, but I remember being amazed at how that young freshman forward (Mac) kept getting those open baseline numbers and making them.

 

[opsooner]

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IMHO, Raymond Whitley would have averaged 15-20 a game as a senior, had he not been injured. He played as a fifth-year senior on Billy's first NIT team but averaged less than 5.0 a game. He was just a shell of what he'd been on the Big 8 title team of '79.

John McCullough, going from memory, did average in double figures at least three of his four years at OU, and I think he was right around 10 points a game as a true freshman in '76.

The second game that I ever saw in person was when the smallest, youthful Sooners whipped a Final 4 caliber Missouri team at the LNC that year. I think that game really got me hooked on college basketball, and I was still in high school at the time. Our starting five was smaller than a lot of high schools are now (6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 and 5-10), and our guys ran a motion offense that made those MU studs look like they'd never seen such a thing. I was no basketball expert, but I remember being amazed at how that young freshman forward (Mac) kept getting those open baseline numbers and making them.

NM, you are absolutely right about Whitely. That's why I was thinking he might be on that list because of his lower numbers after his injury.

I was a freshman at OU when we won the Big 8 regular reason and post-reason tournament. I had to always harass my friends to get them to the games even though we had such a good team to watch (even though student season tickets were dirt cheap). Just adding this so people don't bash current students too much because similar issues occurred 30+ years ago.

The LNC was empty during Tubbs' first year (I suddenly just recalled "Big Time Jones" :ez-laugh. The first game I remember where the arena was completely sold out and electric was the NIT game against Cal Irvine.