Hunter played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers and was the starting center on their NCAA championship team in 1963.

He played alongside Vic Rouse at Pearl High School and the two would later attend Loyola University together.

Hunter and Rouse led Pearl to 54 consecutive victories and black national high school championships in 1958, 1959 and 1960.

[1][2] At Loyola, Hunter was the starting center, of the team that upset the University of Cincinnati in overtime to win the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.

[5] As a junior in 1962–1963, Hunter averaged 17.0 points (on 53% shooting) with 11.4 rebounds, as Loyola finished 29–2 and captured the 1963 NCAA Championship.

”[9] In his senior year, 1963–1964, Hunter led Loyola to a 22–6 record, averaging 21.4 points and 15.3 rebounds, as the Ramblers made the 1964 NCAA University Division basketball tournament.

[14] In 1965–1966 and 1966–1967, Hunter played for the Twin City Sailors of the North American Basketball League (NABL).

[20][14] Overall, Hunter played six seasons (1967–1973) in the ABA with the Minnesota Muskies (1967–1968)/Miami Floridians (1968–1969), New York Nets (1969–1971), Kentucky Colonels (1970–1972), and Memphis Tams (1972–1973).

[25] He owned a restaurant for ten years and worked as an instructor helping students who did not graduate take online classes to complete high school.

[24] In 2018, Hunter was teaching math at a community college near his Overland Park home in suburban Kansas City, wearing a Loyola cap to class during the NCAA tournament.