Education
Camden High School.
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Camden High School.
Wagner played high school basketball at Camden High School. A 6"5" point guard/shooting guard he led the Louisville Cardinals to the 1986 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship along with three Final Four berths (1982, 1983, 1986) as well as to the 1984 Sweet Sixteen. He helped the Cardinals to a 113-32 record, three Metro Conference regular season titles and two Metro Conference Tournament crowns during his college career.
He redshirted the 1985 season with a broken foot.
A three-time All-Metro Conference selection, Wagner ranks fifth (was fourth after finishing collegiate career) in Cardinal history with 1,836 career points, with a 12.7 career scoring average while also averaging 3.0 assists and 2.5 rebounds. He played in 144 career games, second all-time at Louisville, and started the last 111 games he played.
He ranks sixth in career assists (432) and seventh in career free throw percentage (808, 336-of-413). Wagner was drafted in the second round of the 1986 National Basketball Association Draft.
Wagner is also the father of former National Basketball Association player Dajuan Wagner.
He served as an assistant men"s basketball coach for the University of Texas at El Paso under Tony Barbee. He later moved to Auburn as part of Barbee"s staff there.