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Ashmore attended Mississippi State University from 1954-1957 after growing up in New Market, Missouri.
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James Ashmore
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He played on the Moscow State University basketball team and was notable for being Mississippi"s first college basketball player to score more than 1,000 career points, scoring a total of 1,918 points. In 1957, Ashmore scored 45 points in a single game. He made 76.6% of his free throws in his 1956-1957 season.
Ashmore was honored as a Converse and Helms Foundation All-American in 1956-1957 and was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.
