- Anderson Hunt
Anderson Hunt (born in
Detroit, Michigan ) is a retired Americanbasketball playerNCAA career
Hunt is best known as a member of the successful and equally controversial 1989-91 Runnin' Rebels from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) that made back-to-back
Final Four appearances including a national championship in 1989-90 where he contributed 29 points in a 103-73 rout of the Blue Devils ofDuke University and named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament by theAssociated Press [Citation
title = Division 1 Tournament MVP's
url=http://www.betting-collegebasketball.com/mvp.php
accessdate = 2008-04-09 ] .In May of 1991, theLas Vegas Review Journal published photos of Hunt with teammates David Butler and Moses Scurry in a hot tub with known sports fixer Richard Perry, igniting a monumental firestorm between coachJerry Tarkanian , UNLV president Robert Maxon, and the NCAA [Citation
last=Youmans
first=Matt
title=FROM MIGHTY TO MEDIOCRE: UNLV's Fall from Grace
newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal
year=2006
date=November 12, 2006
url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Nov-12-Sun-2006/sports/10774819.html ] . This battle would eventually lead to Tarkanian's resignation at the end of the 1991-92 season. Hunt left school as a junior after the 1991 season to enter the NBA Draft, much to the dismay of his coach, who had hoped to convert him topoint guard and make him the centerpiece of the team in the 1991-92 season.Professional career
Despite his solid college resume, Hunt was not selected in the
1991 NBA Draft . TheLa Crosse Catbirds selected him in the second round of that year'sContinental Basketball Association draft with the 25th overall pick. In later years, Hunt ended up playing professionally inTurkey ,Poland , andFrance . [Citation
last = Burvick
first = Michael
title = Where Are They Now? College Basketball Edition, Part 1
url=http://www.blickees.com/articles/16/1/Where-Are-They-Now-College-Basketball-Edition-Part-1/Page1.html
accessdate = 2007-07-12 ]Legal Troubles
In October 1993, Hunt was arrested for marijuana possession [Citation
last=Douchant
first=Mike
title=Final Four Most Outstanding Player Postgraduate Occupations
newspaper=College Sporting News
year=2002
date=March 31, 2002
url=http://collegesportingnews.com/article.asp?articleid=17047 ] in connection with a traffic stop and later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges. In 2002 he again ran into legal trouble, facing charges of attemptedembezzlement after he failed to return a rental car for an extended period of time. [http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2002/Sep-10-Tue-2002/news/19599438.html] He was ordered to pay $1,300 in restitution and placed onprobation .References
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