Andre Woolridge

[BirdistheWord]

One of my favorite Hawkeye players of all time. He was (believe this still stands) the only player to lead the B1G in BOTH scoring and assists in same season. Bobby Jackson beat him out for POTY.
A-W was AP 3rd Team All American in 1997.

Just watch the first 3-4 minutes of this game to get a feel for his BBIQ, Passing, Strength and Shooting. It starts at about the 5:20 mark...



He played professionally overseas for 12 years and now runs a Basketball and Life Skills Facility in Sacramento.

 

[squeezebox]

He was almost a 1 man team carrying them. Great guy as well, he traveled the state going to small schools for basketball camps.

 

[SDHawkDoc]

He was almost a 1 man team carrying them. Great guy as well, he traveled the state going to small schools for basketball camps.

He nearly willed them to an NCAA tourney upset of kentucky.
I'm still irritated that he wasn't given B1G POY. No single player was more valuable to his team in getting them to where they ended up that season in the league than him. Combine that with leading the league in scoring AND assists and the snub looks even worse. Without Woolridge, that was a middle of the pack B1G team at best.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

He was almost a 1 man team carrying them. Great guy as well, he traveled the state going to small schools for basketball camps.

There were two NBA draft picks on that team, neither of whom were named Dre.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

He nearly willed them to an NCAA tourney upset of kentucky.
I'm still irritated that he wasn't given B1G POY. No single player was more valuable to his team in getting them to where they ended up that season in the league than him. Combine that with leading the league in scoring AND assists and the snub looks even worse. Without Woolridge, that was a middle of the pack B1G team at best.

They got screwed on the seeding.

 

[Old_wrestling_fan]

Woolridge was fun to watch, a great player!

 

[87alum87]

And Jackson and Minnesota were cheaters. AW should be the default MVP.

 

[archmage2002]

I remember that year, it was a good team. The next year that 95/96 was one of my favorites of all time.. that team was good. Too bad the 96/97 team didn't have Settles(due to his back injury) and Kingsbury. That team would have been a Final Four team that year with those players.. Just imagining that lineup:

PG - Woolridge/Luehrsmann
SG - Kingsbury/McCausland
SF - Settles/Moore
PF - Bowen/Koch
C - Rucker/Koch

That lineup would have been scary.. too bad everything had to happen that way.

 

[RoundRock620]

He was almost a 1 man team carrying them. Great guy as well, he traveled the state going to small schools for basketball camps.

A great guy indeed. I played a lot of pick up games with him whole summer after he transfered from Nebraska. Very quiet guy those first few months Always enjoyed meeting and greeting him. With Acie Earl, one of my favorite Hawkeye of all time.

 

[Fan In Black]

my fav Hawkeye basketball player

 

[BlackNGoldBleeder]

One of my favorite Hawkeye players of all time. He was (believe this still stands) the only player to lead the B1G in BOTH scoring and assists in same season. Bobby Jackson beat him out for POTY.
A-W was AP 3rd Team All American in 1997.

Just watch the first 3-4 minutes of this game to get a feel for his BBIQ, Passing, Strength and Shooting. It starts at about the 5:20 mark...

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He played professionally overseas for 12 years and now runs a Basketball and Life Skills Facility in Sacramento.

Definitely one of my faves too.

 

[BlackNGoldBleeder]

I remember that year, it was a good team. The next year that 95/96 was one of my favorites of all time.. that team was good. Too bad the 96/97 team didn't have Settles(due to his back injury) and Kingsbury. That team would have been a Final Four team that year with those players.. Just imagining that lineup:

PG - Woolridge/Luehrsmann
SG - Kingsbury/McCausland
SF - Settles/Moore
PF - Bowen/Koch
C - Rucker/Koch

That lineup would have been scary.. too bad everything had to happen that way.

That's how I think of the 92-93 Hawkeyes.

 

[nu2u]

It is criminal that Woolridge was robbed of the POY award. Speaking of criminals …. whatever happened to Clem Haskins? The strings Clem pulled to make Bobby Jackson appear academically eligible just makes it that much more of a sham and an affront to Woolridge who should have won it outright.

 

[mthawkeyes]

In pickup games at the fieldhouse courts, he rarely took a shot outside of an occasional layup. Still dominated.

 

[The Deplorable Sleeping Dog]

Yeah, the first guy to lead the league in scoring and assists, for the second place team (I think) so a lot of winning as well isn't PoY? Crooked then, crooked now.

 

[The Deplorable Sleeping Dog]

I remember that year, it was a good team. The next year that 95/96 was one of my favorites of all time.. that team was good. Too bad the 96/97 team didn't have Settles(due to his back injury) and Kingsbury. That team would have been a Final Four team that year with those players.. Just imagining that lineup:

PG - Woolridge/Luehrsmann
SG - Kingsbury/McCausland
SF - Settles/Moore
PF - Bowen/Koch
C - Rucker/Koch

That lineup would have been scary.. too bad everything had to happen that way.

Its the curse buddy. The BBall program never catches a lucky break. Weird injuries, crooked officiating in so many critical games, strange academic casualties.