In basketball Ebert was a first-team All-Big Ten selection and voted team MVP every year he played for the Buckeyes, 1951–52, 1952–53, and 1953–54.
He finished his collegiate basketball career with the team record in points scored (1,436), surpassed in 1956 by Robin Freeman.
That year Ebert served as team captain and was named a third-team All-America selection by the United Press International.
Ebert was selected to the USA Baseball team that Won Silver at the Pan American Games in Mexico 1955, he went 2–0 and was the pitcher of record with 18 strikeouts.
At the end of the first summer in Marshall he returned to Columbus to be married to Louise Joyce Parks and to begin medical school at Ohio State.
Ebert received offers to sign with the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates, but under the bonus baby rules of the time he would have been required to stay with the major league club for two years and could not have attended medical school.