Byron Larkin
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 12, 1965 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Moeller (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| College | Xavier (1984–1988) |
| NBA draft | 1988 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 1988–1994 |
| Position | Shooting guard |
| Career highlights and awards | |
|
|
Byron K. Larkin (born December 12, 1965) is a retired American basketball player who had spent six seasons playing professionally abroad, although he is best known for his collegiate career at Xavier University between 1984–85 and 1987–88. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Larkin starred at Moeller High School in both football and basketball. Even though he was an All-American in football, Larkin chose to play basketball in college for his hometown's Xavier Musketeers.
In just his second collegiate game as a freshman, he scored 13 points in only 19 minutes off the bench to lead his team to a three-point win over Pittsburgh. By his seventh game, his head coach (Bob Staak) began to use him as a starter, which was the first of a since-broken school record 115 consecutive starts. Over the span of Larkin's four-year career, Xavier won three Midwestern Collegiate Conference Tournament championships (which he was the MVP of each time), two MCC regular season titles, three NCAA Tournament appearances, and Xavier's first-ever NCAA Tournament win in 1988. No other player in MCC (now called the Horizon League) history has been named the Tournament MVP three times.
Larkin graduated in 1988 as the most decorated player in Xavier University history. His 2,696 points are the school record and still rank in the top 25 all-time in NCAA Division I career scoring. He was twice named the MCC Player of the Year, first as a sophomore in 1986 and then as a senior in 1988, and he was the first Xavier player to be named to a postseason All-America team. Larkin was also a three-time First Team All-Conference performer and led the Musketeers in scoring for all four years. Different major national media sources such as Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, Basketball Weekly and Basketball Times all featured him at various times, and later he became the first player in school history to have his jersey number (#23) formally retired. Larkin was later inducted into Xavier University's Athletics Hall of Fame.
...
Wikipedia