Hall of Fame
Bryant played four seasons for coach Guy Strong’s EKU basketball teams from 1968-72. He began his collegiate career in fine fashion as he finished his freshman campaign averaging 24.4 points per game, 19th best among all freshmen as the Colonels averaged more than 90 points per contest. He averaged 11.1 points per game as a starter his sophomore season and followed that up with a tremendous junior season where he won first team All-Ohio Valley Conference honors. Bryant closed as the 21st leading scorer in the nation that year, scoring 24.7 points per game. He was the nation’s ninth best free throw percentage shooter with his 85.3 mark. Bryant was also runner-up in scoring in the final conference stats and voting for MVP honors, scoring 592 points. As a senior, he scored 21.1 points per game and led Eastern to an OVC Championship as the Colonels compiled a 15-11 record, losing 83-81 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Florida State, who finished that year as runner-up to eventual national champion UCLA. A member of EKU’s All-Century Team, at the time of induction he was still listed in the EKU record books as the 15th all-time leading scorer with 1,345 points. He also has the fifth best career scoring average at EKU with his 19.5 points per game average and the seventh best career free throw percentage at 82.0. He also set school records for most field goals in a single game, 18 against Virginia Tech as a junior, and the most field goals attempted in a single season with 504 in that same year. Following graduation, he was drafted by Buffalo in the NBA, Utah in the ABA and was offered an overseas contract with a pro team in France.
