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Peter Press Maravich ( / ˈmɛərəˌvɪtʃ / MAIR-ə-vitch; June 22, 1947 – January 5, 1988), known by his nickname Pistol Pete, was an American professional basketball player of Serbian descent. He starred in college at Louisiana State University 's Tigers basketball team; his father, Press Maravich, was the team's head coach.
Jun 22, 2011 · Checkout the latest stats of Pete Maravich. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, shoots, school and more on Basketball-Reference.com.
Mar 4, 2024 · Pete Maravich's name is bubbling up lately with Iowa star Caitlin Clark knocking on the door of his NCAA Division I basketball career scoring record. While Clark's accomplishments are...
Jan 5, 2021 · Pete Maravich and Kobe Bryant, both game-changers, were very special while very young, groomed by demanding fathers, performed at breathless levels and earned a space on the wall inside the...
Sep 13, 2021 · In his final season — with his skills rusty, his knees creaky, and his minutes limited — Pistol Pete Maravich finally got a chance to shoot three-pointers. He went 10-for-15.
Jun 18, 2024 · Pete Maravich was an American basketball player who was the most prolific scorer in the history of Division I men’s college basketball and who helped transform the game in the 1960s and ’70s with his ballhandling and passing wizardry. A spectacular shooting star, Maravich rocketed through college.
In only three years playing for his father Press Maravich at LSU, Pete scored 3,667 points, while averaging an incredible 44.2 points per game - both NCAA records. Noted for his floppy gray socks and mop of brown hair, Maravich set numerous other NCAA, SEC, and school records, and led the NCAA in scoring three times.
Nov 3, 2021 · For Pete Maravich, an empty gymnasium meant freedom. If you gave him a basketball, he could see the future. “When you’re in the gym alone …” he once wrote, in a first-person column for Sports...
COVINGTON, La. (AP) — Former LSU basketball player Josh Maravich, son of late Hall of Fame basketball player Pete Maravich, has died at age 42, the university announced Saturday night. He died at home on Friday, the LSU statement said. No cause of death has been released.
Feb 29, 2024 · BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU’s dome-roofed basketball stadium, the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, is named for a supremely crafty, skilled and mesmerizing player who has been known since 1970 for scoring more career points than any man or woman in NCAA history. That could change within days.
