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- | ====== Al Avant ====== | + | ====== Al Avant #32 ====== |
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===== High School Career ===== | ===== High School Career ===== | ||
- | Avant successfully led his Mt. Vernon, Illinois high school team - which had won two state championships in the past five years - through the 1954 season. | + | Avant successfully led his Mt. Vernon, Illinois high school team - which had won two state championships in the past five years - through the 1954 season |
- | Jim Brown, a player on the Du Sable team, was quoted in the book //Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe: High School Basketball in Illinois// as saying, "We didn't think Don Richards and Al Avant would dominate the game." | + | At the state tournament, Avant scored 19 points to defeat Danville in the first round. Moline, their quarterfinals opponent, could not overcome Mt. Vernon behind Avant' |
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+ | Jim Brown, a player on the Du Sable team, was quoted in the book //Sweet Charlie, Dike, Cazzie, and Bobby Joe: High School Basketball in Illinois// as saying, "We didn't think Don Richards and Al Avant would dominate the game." | ||
He was named by the Champaign News-Gazette' | He was named by the Champaign News-Gazette' | ||
When Mt. Vernon won the state title, Avant was the only black player on his team. | When Mt. Vernon won the state title, Avant was the only black player on his team. | ||
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+ | He was later nominated to the ISHA's top 100 Legends of Boys Basketball Tournament in 2005-06. | ||
===== Marquette Career ===== | ===== Marquette Career ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Professional Career ===== | ||
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+ | Before resigning from his post in 2004, Avant served |