Scott Glenn May (born March 19, 1954) is an American former professional

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player. As a college player at

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, 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

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in his senior season. May also won a gold medal at the

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College career

Born in

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, Scott May played as a 6'7" forward for

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and the Indiana University Hoosiers from 1972–1976. 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,

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and

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started to gel. "Our group knew what we wanted. We were going to do whatever it took to win it all." 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

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, May broke his left arm. With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to

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92-90 in the Mideast Regional. The Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters – May, Steve Green,

and

– 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

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86–68 in the title game. Indiana remains the last school to accomplish this feat. May was the 1975–76 team's leading scorer, "its most dependable clutch scorer, and an outstanding defensive player and rebounder, too." He was named NCAA men's basketball National Player of the Year in 1976. He won a

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as a member of the United States basketball team in the

. May graduated from Indiana in the standard four years with a degree in education.

Professional career

The

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chose May with the second overall pick in the

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. 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

In the late 1970s, May's attorney Steve Ferguson, who had been recommended by Knight, suggested that May buy apartment units around the

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. May had two sons – Scott May, Jr. and

Sean May Sean Gregory May (born April 4, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant basketball coach at the University of North Carolina. May was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He was a ...

– 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,

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, helped

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win a national championship in 2005 and played for the NBA

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and

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. May and Sean are one of four father-son duos to each win an NCAA basketball championship.The others are Marques and Kris Johnson,

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and

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, and

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and

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Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

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, 72 , , - , , 32.9 , , .451 , , - , , .828 , , 6.1 , , 2.0 , , 1.1 , , 0.2 , , 14.6 , - , align="left" , 1977–78 , align="left" ,

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, 55 , , - , , 32.8 , , .454 , , - , , .810 , , 6.0 , , 2.1 , , 0.9 , , 0.1 , , 13.4 , - , align="left" , 1978–79 , align="left" ,

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, 37 , , - , , 10.9 , , .434 , , - , , .750 , , 1.7 , , 1.1 , , 0.6 , , 0.0 , , 4.0 , - , align="left" , 1979–80 , align="left" ,

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, 54 , , - , , 24.0 , , .450 , , .000 , , .837 , , 4.0 , , 1.9 , , 0.8 , , 0.1 , , 12.4 , - , align="left" , 1980–81 , align="left" ,

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, 63 , , - , , 12.9 , , .488 , , .000 , , .758 , , 2.5 , , 1.0 , , 0.6 , , 0.1 , , 7.0 , - , align="left" , 1981–82 , align="left" ,

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, 65 , , 7 , , 18.3 , , .508 , , .000 , , .824 , , 3.4 , , 2.0 , , 0.8 , , 0.1 , , 9.0 , - , align="left" , 1982–83 , align="left" ,

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, 9 , , 1 , , 17.2 , , .420 , , .000 , , .810 , , 2.9 , , 1.3 , , 0.6 , , 0.2 , , 6.6 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 355 , , 8 , , 22.6 , , .462 , , .000 , , .811 , , 4.1 , , 1.7 , , 0.8 , , 0.1 , , 10.4

Playoffs

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, 3 , , - , , 32.3 , , .385 , , - , , .800 , , 4.7 , , 1.0 , , 2.7 , , 0.7 , , 10.7 , - , align="left" , 1981–82 , align="left" ,

, 4 , , - , , 12.5 , , .200 , , .000 , , .643 , , 2.8 , , 2.5 , , 0.5 , , 0.0 , , 4.3 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 7 , , - , , 21.0 , , .304 , , .000 , , .724 , , 3.6 , , 1.9 , , 1.4 , , 0.3 , , 7.0

College

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, 30 , , - , , - , , .510 , , - , , .766 , , 6.6 , , 1.9 , , - , , - , , 16.3 , - , align="left" , 1975–76 , align="left" ,

, 32 , , - , , - , , .527 , , - , , .782 , , 7.7 , , 2.1 , , - , , - , , 23.5 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 90 , , - , , - , , .513 , , - , , .774 , , 6.6 , , 1.8 , , - , , - , , 17.7

Notes

References

NCAA, NCAA March Madness: Cinderellas, Superstars, and Champions from the NCAA men's Final Four : Chicago: Triumph Books, 2004.

External links and sources

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