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In Sports Illustrated's 2007-08 NBA
preview, former men’s basketball star at The College of New Jersey, Greg
Grant is featured. The magazine includes a center spread insert with the
greatest players all-time by height. Grant is listed as the No. 2 all-time
player at five-foot-seven inches behind former NBA star Spud Webb of the
Atlanta Hawks.
During
his career with the Lions, Greg Grant (1986-1989) scored 2,611 points to
top TCNJ’s all-time scoring list. Grant also holds school records that
still stand today having scored 52 points in a single game in 1987-1988,
bettering his old mark of 51 points set the previous year in 1986-1987.
As a senior, Grant helped lead the Lions’ 1988-89 men’s basketball team to
the 1989 NCAA Division III Runner-up title, after winning the NJAC
Championship. For the year, the Lions went 30-2.
At the Final Four in
Springfield, Ohio on the campus of Wittenberg University, the Lions faced
the University of Southern Maine in the semifinals and 40-28 halftime
lead. The Lions would cruise to an 84-62 win as Grant added 36 points in
the victory.
After winning 25 consecutive games on the year, the Lions finally met
their match in the title game. They fell 94-86 to the University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater and finished the season with a 30-2 record. Grant
would earn the MVP award at the Final Four as well as numerous additional
honors such as the NABA Player of the Year for Division III, the ECAC
Metro Division III Player of the Year, and the NJAC Player of the Year.
The nation’s leading scorer in Division III that year, Grant finished with
a 32.0 ppg average and set an NCAA Division III scoring record in the
process for a 30.7 ppg average on 2,611 points in 85 games played. Grant
would later be drafted in the second round by the Phoenix Suns. |