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Scott May
May in the 1975–76 season at Indiana.
Personal information
Born (1954-03-19) March 19, 1954 (age 70)
Sandusky, Ohio, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
High schoolSandusky (Sandusky, Ohio)
CollegeIndiana (1973–1976)
NBA draft1976: 1st round, 2nd overall pick
Selected by the Chicago Bulls
Playing career1976–1988
PositionSmall forward
Number17, 42, 7, 24
Career history
1976–1981Chicago Bulls
1981–1982Milwaukee Bucks
1982Detroit Pistons
1983Cidneo Brescia
1983–1986Berloni Torino
1986Virtus Banco di Roma
1986–1988Enichem Livorno
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points3,690 (10.4 ppg)
Rebounds1,450 (4.1 rpg)
Assists610 (1.7 apg)
Stats at NBA.com Edit this at Wikidata
Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal Team competition

Scott Glenn May (born March 19, 1954) is an American former professional basketball player. As a college player at Indiana University, May led the Hoosiers to an undefeated record and national championship in the 1975–76 season. He was a two-time first-team All-American and was named the national player of the year in his senior season. May also won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

College career

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Born in Sandusky, Ohio, Scott May played as a 6'7" forward for Bob Knight and the Indiana University Hoosiers from 1973 to 1976. He began with a rocky start after being declared academically ineligible his freshman year. As a sophomore, he began to feel more confident in his studies, and the future championship nucleus of May, Kent Benson, Quinn Buckner and Bob Wilkerson started to gel. "Our group knew what we wanted. We were going to do whatever it took to win it all."[1]

In his last two seasons with the school, 1974–75 and 1975–76, the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games. The 1974–75 Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game. However, in an 83–82 win against Purdue, May broke his left arm. With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92–90 in the Mideast Regional. The Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters – May, Steve Green, Kent Benson and Quinn Buckner – would make the five-man All-Big Ten team. The following season, 1975–76, the Hoosiers went the entire season and 1976 NCAA tournament without a single loss, beating Michigan 86–68 in the title game. Indiana remains the last school to accomplish this feat.[2][3]

May was the 1975–76 team's leading scorer, "its most dependable clutch scorer, and an outstanding defensive player and rebounder, too."[4] He was named NCAA men's basketball National Player of the Year in 1976. He won a gold medal as a member of the United States basketball team in the 1976 Summer Olympics. May graduated from Indiana in the standard four years with a degree in education.

Professional career

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The Chicago Bulls chose May with the second overall pick in the 1976 NBA draft. He made the NBA All-Rookie team after averaging 14.2 points for the Bulls. Injuries kept him to seven seasons in the NBA, scoring 3,690 points and pulling down 1,450 rebounds. He went on to play seven more years in Europe with Brescia, Torino, Rome and Livorno in the Italian league.

Personal life

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In the late 1970s, May's attorney Steve Ferguson, who had been recommended by Knight, suggested that May buy apartment units around the Indiana University campus. May invested in a couple of projects each off-season and now owns more than two thousand apartments in Bloomington. He is now known as one of the biggest apartment owners in the Bloomington area employing several hundred employees.[1] May had two sons – Scott May Jr. and Sean May – who continued his tradition of basketball play. Scott Jr. played for the Indiana basketball team that made the NCAA title game in 2002. His younger son, Sean, helped North Carolina win a national championship in 2005 and played for the NBA Sacramento Kings and Charlotte Bobcats. May and Sean are one of four father-son duos to each win an NCAA basketball championship.[note 1][5]

Career statistics

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Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

NBA

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Regular season

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1976–77 Chicago 72 - 32.9 .451 - .828 6.1 2.0 1.1 0.2 14.6
1977–78 Chicago 55 - 32.8 .454 - .810 6.0 2.1 0.9 0.1 13.4
1978–79 Chicago 37 - 10.9 .434 - .750 1.7 1.1 0.6 0.0 4.0
1979–80 Chicago 54 - 24.0 .450 .000 .837 4.0 1.9 0.8 0.1 12.4
1980–81 Chicago 63 - 12.9 .488 .000 .758 2.5 1.0 0.6 0.1 7.0
1981–82 Milwaukee 65 7 18.3 .508 .000 .824 3.4 2.0 0.8 0.1 9.0
1982–83 Detroit 9 1 17.2 .420 .000 .810 2.9 1.3 0.6 0.2 6.6
Career 355 8 22.6 .462 .000 .811 4.1 1.7 0.8 0.1 10.4

Playoffs

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1976–77 Chicago 3 - 32.3 .385 - .800 4.7 1.0 2.7 0.7 10.7
1981–82 Milwaukee 4 - 12.5 .200 .000 .643 2.8 2.5 0.5 0.0 4.3
Career 7 - 21.0 .304 .000 .724 3.6 1.9 1.4 0.3 7.0

College

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1973–74 Indiana 28 - - .492 - .768 5.4 1.5 - - 12.5
1974–75 Indiana 30 - - .510 - .766 6.6 1.9 - - 16.3
1975–76 Indiana 32 - - .527 - .782 7.7 2.1 - - 23.5
Career 90 - - .513 - .774 6.6 1.8 - - 17.7

Notes

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  1. ^ The others are Marques and Kris Johnson, Henry and Mike Bibby, and Derek and Nolan Smith.

References

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  1. ^ a b O'Keefe, John (April 5, 1976). "Scott May, Indiana All-America". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Dorr, Dave (April 10, 1976). "A perfect season". sportingnews.com. Archived from the original on February 29, 2000. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
  3. ^ "Hoosier Historia". heraldtimesonline.com. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
  4. ^ Hammel, Bob; Klingelhoffer, Kit (1999). The Glory of Old Iu: 100 Years of Indiana Athletics. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 156. ISBN 1-58261-068-1. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  5. ^ "Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler and a Crystal Ball Oliver Purnell Pursuing Greener Pastures Roy Halladay Deal Good for Baseball?". ESPN. April 6, 2010. Archived from the original on January 23, 2014.

NCAA, NCAA March Madness: Cinderellas, Superstars, and Champions from the NCAA men's Final Four : Chicago: Triumph Books, 2004. ISBN 1-57243-665-4

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