[7] Conley is dyslexic and failed to attain the minimum SAT entrance exam score to be eligible to play college basketball right after high school.
[7] To try to help him qualify, he spent one year at a postgraduate school called Millersburg (Ky.) Military Institute, but Conley still fell short of his SAT requirement.
[7] When Conley's college basketball career finally started in 2001, two full years after his high school graduation in 1999, he burst onto the national scene.
[8] Although neither of his seasons at Missouri matched what he accomplished at Virginia Military Institute, he still finished his college basketball career with 1,567 points and 557 rebounds.
[8] The closest Conley came to making a National Basketball Association (NBA) roster was participating for the Atlanta Hawks' summer league team in 2005.