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Peter Press Maravich ( / ˈmɛərəˌvɪtʃ / MAIR-ə-vitch; June 22, 1947 – January 5, 1988), known by his nickname Pistol Pete, was an American professional basketball player. He starred in college at Louisiana State University 's Tigers basketball team; his father, Press Maravich, was the team's head coach. Maravich is the all-time leading ...
List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career scoring leaders. Pete Maravich, who averaged 44.2 points per game over three seasons for LSU, holds the NCAA Division I scoring record with 3,667 points. In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through free throws and field goals. [1]
Antoine Davis of the Detroit Mercy Titans is just 63 points shy of equaling Pete Maravich's all-time NCAA scoring record. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) (Mitchell Layton via Getty Images)
Peter "Press" Maravich (August 29, 1915 – April 15, 1987) was an American college and professional basketball coach. He received the nickname "Press" as a boy, when one of his jobs was selling the Pittsburgh Press on the streets of his hometown of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania , an industrial city outside of Pittsburgh .
With Caitlin Clark set to eclipse his career point total, here's a look at some the wildest stats from "Pistol" Pete Maravich's record-breaking LSU career:
Maravich played at LSU in an era when freshmen weren’t yet varsity-eligible. For three years, he averaged an unfathomable, almost mythic 44.2 points per game despite not having the benefit of a ...
Lou Hudson. Louis Clyde Hudson ("Sweet Lou") (July 11, 1944 – April 11, 2014) was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player, who was an All-American at the University of Minnesota and a six-time NBA All-Star, scoring 17,940 total points in 13 NBA seasons.
Thomas called Maravich the greatest showman in the NBA and most entertaining player he'd ever seen. Jaeson Maravich, now 44, was a talented scorer at the junior college level, topping out at 55 ...