Education
Mount Carmel High School.
Mount Carmel High School.
A 6"8" forward/center born in Ethel, Mississippi, Dees started his basketball career at Mount Carmel High School in Mount Carmel, Illinois, where he was named an All-American his senior year. He is one of just three people (the others being Jerry Lucas and Scott May) to have received multiple Big Ten Most Valuable Player honors. When he graduated in 1958, he was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals of the National Basketball Association, and he went on to play four seasons in the league with the Royals, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Packers, and Saint Louis Hawks.
Dees was inducted into the Indiana University Hall of Fame in 1983.
In 2001, he was named to the Indiana University All-Century Team. He currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana.