CONNIE DIERKING

Position:
Basketball
Inducted:
1986

Three-year starter (freshmen were ineligible) at center (1956-57-58).
Co-captain as a senior.
Team leading scorer (18.5) and rebounder (18.8) as a junior in 1957.
First team All-Missouri Valley Conference in 1958.
Holds UC record for rebounds in a game (33) and has the third-highest season total (433).
Earned second team All-American honors (NEA) as a senior in 1958.
Taken in the first round of the 1958 NBA draft by Syracuse (No. 6 pick)
Played in the NBA for 13 years with Syracuse (1958-60), Philadelphia (1963-64), San Francisco (1965), Cincinnati (1965-70) and Philadelplhia (1971).
UC Athletics Hall of Fame 1986.