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Famous LDS People: Athletes
Devin Durrant - Pro, Basketball
A decade after he led the Cougars on the hardwood, All-American basketball player Devin Durrant is still among the university's all-time leaders in several statistical categories. Starting every game of his BYU career, Durrant helped the Cougars to three NCAA postseason berths, three WAC championships, and an overall record of 79-38.
Honors garnered during Durrant's career were numerous and prestigious, especially during his senior season when he was selected as a GTE/CoSida Academic All-American for the second time, awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, and named All-America by the Associated Press, United Press International, the Basketball Writers Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and The Sporting News.
Durrant was selected 1984 District VII Player of the Year by the writers and made the basketball coaches' All-District Team. Twice selected to the All-Western Athletic Conference First Team, Durrant was a two-time WAC Player of the Week, a three-time All-Cougar Classic selection, and the MVP of the Kentucky Invitational.
During Durrant's senior year he scored 866 points, a BYU record. Averaging over 30 points a game, he led the nation in scoring most of the season and finished third among collegiate cagers. From the field or from the foul line, No. 35 was unstoppable; as a Cougar he tallied 2,285 points. When he left BYU, no BYU player had shot more free throws (820) or made more free throws (621) than Devin Durrant - all of this after he interrupted his basketball career to serve a mission in Spain.
Durrant was a master at making the baseline and the backboard his allies. While he played for BYU, the scene became pleasantly familiar to Cougar fans - Durrant driving, getting fouled as he scored, then smiling as he walked to the charity stripe to complete another three-point play.
Following his career at BYU, Durrant was the 23rd pick in the NBA draft; he played one season with the Indiana Pacers and briefly with the Phoenix Suns. After his time in the NBA, he played professional basketball in Europe from 1986 to 1988.
According to the BYU Cougar Club, "While Brigham Young University has produced many outstanding athletes, few have helped the university's athletic program so much or represented BYU's values and standards so well as Devin Durrant."
*Information for these biographies came from the following sources:
rulongardner.com, Sports Gallery, Latter-day Heroes by Chad Hawkins, BYU Cougar Club, Lordly & Dame, Inc.
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