[2] He was Findlay's all-time leading scorer with 993 points until the record was broken by future NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
[3] The 6'9" center attended Ohio State University where he was a three-year starter including, as a sophomore in 1967–68, on the team that won the Big Ten Conference championship and made the Final Four in the 1968 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
In the Mideast Regional final, he made the winning basket as Ohio State defeated the University of Kentucky at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Kentucky, the Wildcats' home arena.
His rookie season of 1970-71 was his most productive, as the power forward posted career-high per-game averages of 24.6 minutes played, 11.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
[1] On December 19, 1970, he posted a career single-game high of 34 points against the Buffalo Braves.