height_ft nationality birth_date career_start draft_year team number college name former_teams weight_lb birth_place awards draft career_end position highschool league height_in article_title
5 united states american 18 november 1949 1972/73 1972 retired 21 , 20 , 6 butler billy shepherd virginia memphis sounds , 1974/75 squires , 1972/73 san diego conquistadors , 1973/74 160 bedford , indiana 1968 '' : '' indiana `` mr. basketball '' award aba , virginia squires 1974/75 guard carmel high school , carmel , indiana aba 10 billy shepherd

billy shepherd

bill `` billy '' l. shepherd , jr. -lrb- born november 18 , 1949 in bedford , indiana -rrb- is a former american basketball player .
a guard , shepherd played at carmel high school in indiana , where he was coached by his father , bill shepherd , sr. .
he scored 2,465 points in four years and was selected as indiana 's mr. basketball in 1968 .
he then played at butler university , also his father 's alma mater , from 1969 to 1972 , and set school records for highest career scoring average -lrb- 24.1 points per game -rrb- and highest scoring average in a season -lrb- 27.8 points per game -rrb- .
from 1972 to 1975 , shepherd played in the american basketball association as a member of the virginia squires , san diego conquistadors , and memphis sounds .
he averaged 5.7 points per game in his professional career , and led the aba in three-point field goal percentage -lrb- .420 -rrb- during the 1974 -- 75 season .
afterward , he worked as a scout for marty blake .
shepherd was inducted into the indiana basketball hall of fame in 1997 .
