Bill Zopf | |
Birth Date: | 7 June 1948 |
Nationality: | American |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 1 |
Weight Lb: | 170 |
High School: | Monaca (Monaca, Pennsylvania) |
College: | Duquesne (1967–1970) |
Draft Year: | 1970 |
Draft Round: | 2 |
Draft Pick: | 33 |
Draft Team: | Milwaukee Bucks |
Career Start: | 1970 |
Career End: | 1971 |
Career Position: | Point guard |
Career Number: | 6 |
Team1: | Milwaukee Bucks |
Highlights: | |
Bbr: | zopfbi01 |
William Charles Zopf Jr. (born June 7, 1948) is an American former professional basketball player. He was a point guard and played collegiately at Duquesne University. He played for the Milwaukee Bucks during his brief National Basketball Association (NBA) career.
Zopf attended Monaca High School. As a senior, he scored 391 points while leading his team to a 21-1 record.[1]
Zopf played four seasons at Duquesne University, scoring 999 points and scoring 13.3 points per game. He was named the Steel Bowl Tournament and as a senior was named to the American All Academic Team.[2]
Zopf was selected with the 16th pick, in the second round of the 1970 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks.[3] He played 53 games for the Bucks in 1970-71, averaging 2.2 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game, shooting 36.3% from the field and 55.6% from the free throw line. He left the Bucks in February 1971 due to a call-up to the army reserve unit.[4] After returning for the fall of 1971, the Bucks waived Zopf on October 2, 1971.[5]
After retiring from the NBA, Zopf worked as a business equipment lease broker. Zopf coached his daughter Annie's AAU basketball team. She went on to play collegiately at Fordham University.[6] Bill Zopf was named to the Beaver County (Pennsylvania) Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. [7]