height_ft death_date nationality birth_date career_start years death_place draft_year team draft_pick number college name high_school weight_lb birth_place draft_team career_end position draft_round height_in article_title
6 23 october 2013 american 08 june 1945 1967 1967 -- 1968 hartford , connecticut 1967 oakland oaks -lrb- aba -rrb- 36 44 connecticut -lrb- 1964 -- 1967 -rrb- wes bialosuknia franklin -rrb- d. roosevelt -lrb- hyde park , new york 185 poughkeepsie , new york st. louis hawks 1968 guard 4 2 wes bialosuknia

wes bialosuknia

wesley john `` wes '' bialosuknia -lrb- june 8 , 1945 -- october 23 , 2013 -rrb- was an american basketball player .
he was a 6 ' 2 '' -lrb- 1.88 m -rrb- 185 lb -lrb- 84 kg -rrb- guard , and played collegiately for the university of connecticut huskies .
an accurate and prolific medium - and long-range jump shooter , bialosuknia still holds the university of connecticut season and career scoring average records : his 1966-67 average of 28.0 ppg ranked 5th in the nation .
he also holds the uconn records for career scoring average of 23.6 pts per game and consecutive foul shots made -lrb- 43 -rrb- .
in 1967 , he was the mvp of the annual north-south college all-star game .
he was selected by the st. louis hawks in the 4th round -lrb- 37th pick overall -rrb- of the 1967 nba draft and by the oakland oaks in the 1967 aba draft .
he played for the oakland oaks -lrb- 1967 -- 68 -rrb- for 70 games and was variously nicknamed `` the mad bomber '' or `` the typographical terror '' ; bialosuknia finished 2nd in the league in 3-point shooting percentage , and his 9 consecutive 3-pointers made is tied for the most in aba history .
bialosuknia died at the age of 68 on october 23 , 2013 .
