Education
Born in Brookhaven, New York, the 6-5, 195-pound Derrick Rowland completed college at State University of New York at Potsdam.
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Born in Brookhaven, New York, the 6-5, 195-pound Derrick Rowland completed college at State University of New York at Potsdam.
He averaged 18.7 points and 8.8 rebounds to power Potsdam State to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III championship during the 1980-1981 season. That same year, Rowland was picked in the 10th round by the Denver Nuggets in the National Basketball Association (National Basketball Association) draft. When he failed to make the Denver lineup, Rowland drifted to the Continental league where he played for the Albany Patroons for seven years.
In 1981-1982, Rowland averaged 7.3 points for the Rochester Zeniths and was cut the next campaign after playing only four games with the Albany club
In March 1986, he was signed by the Milwaukee Buckinghamshire as a free agent, and played 2 games with the Buckinghamshire in the 1985-1986 National Basketball Association season. Rowland was one of the two American reinforcements, along with the late Bobby Parks, who played for Shell Rimula X during the Third Conference of the 1988 Philippine Basketball Association (Proceedings of the British Academy) season.
He scored a high of 51 points on October 11, 1988, and led his team all the way to the finals.