Scott May

Education

Sandusky High School.

Career

Born in Sandusky, Ohio, Scott May played as a 6"7" forward for Bob Knight and the Indiana University Hoosiers from 1972-1976. He began with a rocky start after being declared academically ineligible his freshman year. As a sophomore he began to feel more confident in his studies, and the future championship nucleus of May, Kent Benson, Quinn Buckner and Bob Wilkerson started to gel.

"Our group knew what we wanted.

The 1974-1975 Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game. With May"s injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the Number.

1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92-90 in the Mideast Regional. The Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters - May, Steve Green, Kent Benson and Quinn Buckner - would make the five-man All-Big Ten team

The following season, 1975-1976, the Hoosiers went the entire season and 1976 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament without a single loss, beating Michigan 86–68 in the title game.

May was the 1975-1976 team"s leading scorer, "its most dependable clutch scorer, and an outstanding defensive player and rebounder, too." He was named National Collegiate Athletic Association men"s basketball National Player of the Year in 1976. May graduated from Indiana in the standard four years with a degree in education. The Chicago Bulls chose May with the second overall pick in the 1976 National Basketball Association Draft.

He made the National Basketball Association All-Rookie team after averaging 14.2 points for the Bulls.

Injuries kept him to seven seasons in the National Basketball Association, scoring 3,690 points and pulling down 1,450 rebounds. He went on to play seven more years in Europe with Torino, Rome and Livorno in the Italian league.

Achievements

• We were going to do whatever it took to win it all." In his last two seasons with the school, 1974-1975 and 1975-1976, the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games. However, in an 83-82 win against Purdue, May broke his left arm. Indiana remains the last school to accomplish this feat. He won a gold medal as a member of the United States basketball team in the 1976 Summer Olympics. His younger son, Sean, helped North Carolina win a national championship in 2005 and played for the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings. May and Sean are one of four father-son duos to each win an National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball championship.