Frank Selvy
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 9, 1932 Corbin, Kentucky |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Listed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Corbin (Corbin, Kentucky) |
| College | Furman (1951–1954) |
| NBA draft | 1954 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall |
| Selected by the Baltimore Bullets | |
| Playing career | 1954–1964 |
| Position | Shooting guard / Small forward |
| Number | 13, 28, 19, 11, 15, 70 |
| Career history | |
| 1954 | Baltimore Bullets |
| 1954–1958 | Milwaukee / St. Louis Hawks |
| 1958 | Minneapolis Lakers |
| 1958–1959 | New York Knicks |
| 1959 | Syracuse Nationals |
| 1959–1964 | Minneapolis / Los Angeles Lakers |
| Career highlights and awards | |
|
|
| Career statistics | |
| Points | 6,120 (10.8 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 2,097 (3.7 rpg) |
| Assists | 1,569 (2.8 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Franklin Delano "Frank" Selvy (born November 9, 1932) is a former National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player who is best known for holding the record for the most points in a Division I college basketball game with 100 points. Born in Corbin, Kentucky, Selvy was an All-State basketball player at Corbin High School and was a teammate of College Football Hall of Fame inductee Roy Kidd.
Selvy is best remembered for scoring 100 points in a college game for Furman University against Newberry College on February 13, 1954, the only NCAA Division I player ever to do so. (Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College holds the NCAA all-time record for points scored at 138.) Selvy's 100-point game was played towards the end of his final collegiate season on a night that Furman coach Lyles Alley had designated the game "Frank Selvy Night." The special night was planned to garner recognition for Selvy, who was already certain to finish the season leading the nation in scoring and earn first-team All-American honors, two accomplishments he had attained the year before. The game was the first to be broadcast live on television in South Carolina (where Furman is located and where the game was being played) and a large contingent from Selvy's hometown, including his family, had made the six-hour trek just for the occasion. The instructions from Coach Alley were simply to get the ball to Selvy so he can score as much as possible. Selvy obliged, hitting 41 of 66 field goals and 18 of 22 free throws, his last two points coming on a desperate heave near midcourt at the buzzer. (The game was played well before the introduction of the three-point line; Selvy would later estimate that about a dozen of his shots that day would have been three-pointers today.)
...
Wikipedia