Milan Melvin "Milo" Komenich (June 22, 1920 – May 25, 1977) was an American professional
basketball player. His brother was fellow professional basketball player
Bill Komenich.
Collegiate career
Born in
Gary, Indiana, he was the son of Serbian immigrants.
Komenich, a 6'7
center, played collegiately at the
University of Wyoming after a standout high school career at
Lew Wallace High School in
Gary, Indiana. He played for the Cowboys from 1941–1943 and for the 1945–46 season. Alongside guard
Ken Sailors
Kenneth Lloyd Sailors (January 14, 1921 – January 30, 2016) was an American professional basketball player active in the 1940s and early 1950s. A guard, he is notable for inventing the jump shot as an alternative to the two-handed, flat-footed ...
, Komenich led the Cowboys to the
1943 National Championship.
Komenich was named an
All-American in 1943 and 1946. He was elected to the University of Wyoming athletics Hall of Fame in 2006 and is also a member of the
Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
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.
Professional career
During the
1949–50 season, Milo Komenich played in 64 games for the
Anderson Packers, averaging 9.9 points per game. Komenich also played for the
Fort Wayne Pistons of the
National Basketball League and the
Dow Chemical
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Dow manufactures plastics ...
and
20th Century Fox
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teams of the
AAU.
Career statistics
NBA
Source
Regular season
Playoffs
References
External links
NBA statisticsIndiana Basketball Hall of Fame page
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1920 births
1977 deaths
All-American college men's basketball players
Amateur Athletic Union men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
American people of Serbian descent
Anderson Packers players
Basketball players from Indiana
Centers (basketball)
Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons players
Wyoming Cowboys basketball players