Background
Truesdale was born in Heath Springs, South Carolina, and lives there again now that his basketball career is over.
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Regan Truesdale
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His teams finished 58–55 for a.513 winning percentage. The Bulldogs finished 26–1 at home over Truesdale"s junior and senior seasons.
Career
Truesdale, who is the second leading scorer in Bulldog history as of 2011-2012, amassed 1,661 points and 688 rebounds in 109 games. An especially notable statistic is that 313 of his 688 rebounds were on the offensive education His freshman year he came off of the bench, averaging 2.3 points per game behind leading scorers Felipe de las Pozas and Louie Gilbert.
His sophomore year began the prolific scoring for which he became known.
Installed as a starter for 19 of the 28 games, Truesdale averaged 13.1 points per game, second on the team behind de las Pozas. Truesdale posted his highest field goal percentage in his sophomore campaign at 53.2%.
In his junior season, Truesdale became the focal point of the Bulldog offense, averaging a career high 22.0 points per game, good enough for fourth all-time on The Citadel"s list. Truesdale scored 617 points in the 1983-1984 campaign, trailing only his effort in his senior season in Bulldog record books
This season resulted in his first Southern Conference Men"s Basketball Player of the Year Award.
Notable games in his junior season included a January 9, 1984 meeting with Marshall in which he scored a careerand game-high 41 points. He finished 22 of 28 from the free throw line, including 13 of 15 in the first half as the Thundering Herd attempted to contain him with fouls. In front of an especially rowdy Corps of Cadets at McAlister Field House, the Bulldogs upended Marshall 84–76.
Also during his junior season, Truesdale scored a game-high 26 points in a February 4, 1984 match-up with top ranked North Carolina as part of the North–South Doubleheader, which featured college teams from North and South Carolina.
Truesdale"s senior season saw him average 21.5 points per game, with a career and all-time Bulldog high of 624 points. Regan earned his second Southern Conference Men"s Basketball Player of the Year Award, one of only ten players with this honor in the sixty-year history of the award.
This season was also the last for legendary Bulldog coach Les Robinson before he took the job at North Carolina State.
Achievements
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He was twice named Southern Conference Player of the Year, is the second-leading scorer in The Citadel Bulldogs basketball history, and continues to hold several records at the school. In a February 5, 1983 game with eventual national champion North Carolina State, Truesdale scored a game-high 21 points. This game kicked off a 22–game home win streak for the Bulldogs that extended through Truesdale"s senior season. He was also named an Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press.
