With Ron Greene's name coming up recently...

[Jason Svoboda]

But it was at Butler that Tucker truly left his mark, averaging 20.9 points per game in historic Hinkle Fieldhouse and 18.9 points on the road during a 117-game Bulldog career.

And despite the phenomenal recent success of the Butler basketball program and its players, Tucker remains the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,321 career points as a Bulldog.

And.... wait for it:

As a CHS junior, his only scholarship offer was from Murray State, but the coach later rescinded it. Tucker longed to play for Indiana State, where his father had gone to school, but Murray State coach Ron Greene moved to Terre Haute at the most most inopportune time, and that door was shut.

So Greene offered him at Morehead State and then didn't go after him at State... where the kid was dying to go?

http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1917377.html

 

[4Q_iu]

And.... wait for it:



So Greene offered him at Morehead State and then didn't go after him at State... where the kid was dying to go?

http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1917377.html

Of course!! THAT is Ron Greene in a nutshell; know a lot of people dump on Dave Schellhase for not advancing the MBB program but I've always felt Greene was as destructive, maybe more.

Didn't realize Chad Tucker had passed away --- anyone know the why? He'd be what, like 47 now??

Never mind -- per the AP archive; it was an apparent suicide - at age 31.

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/C...ies-at-31/id-ad8a64d44f3857be4fd4c989c9919574

 

[BankShot]

I was @ HC when Tucker dislocated his shoulder while diving for a loose ball near midcourt on that 'friggin Tartan surface @ HC back then...ouch. We had so many lower leg & foot injuries back then, most directly tied to the HC floor surface.:beatingdeadhorse: