| Connor Wood | |
| Position: | Guard |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 4 |
| Birth Date: | 29 May 1993 |
| Birth Place: | Guelph, Ontario |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| High School: | Bishop Macdonell (Guelph, Ontario) |
| College: | Carleton (2012–2017) |
| Draft Year: | 2017 |
| Career Start: | 2017 |
| Years1: | 2017–2018 |
| Team1: | Niagara River Lions |
| Years2: | 2018–2019 |
| Team2: | Paderborn Baskets |
| Years3: | 2019 |
| Team3: | UJAP Quimper |
| Years4: | 2019 |
| Team4: | Guelph Nighthawks |
| Years5: | 2019–2020 |
| Team5: | Rio Ourense |
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Connor John Wood[1] (born May 29, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player. Wood plays the guard position.
During his college career, he won five straight CIS championships with the Carleton Ravens.[2] Wood was the recipient of the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the CIS Outstanding Player in 2016-17[3] and also earned All-Canada First Team as well as OUA Player of the Year[4] and CIS Tournament All-Star Team honours that year.[5] As a fifth-year player, Wood averaged 19.2 points a game in 2016-17, while nailing 50.8 per cent of his shots from the floor and 50.3 percent from beyond the arc.
In November 2017, he signed his first contract as a professional basketball player, joining the Niagara River Lions of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada).[6] He made 44 appearances for the River Lions in his rookie season, averaging 9.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists per contest.[7]
On July 30, 2018, Wood signed with Paderborn Baskets of the ProA, the second-tier league in Germany.[8] He saw action in 28 ProA games during the 2018-19 campaign, averaging 12.7 points, 2.9 assists, 2.7 rebounds per contest.[9] Draining 43.3% of his shots taken from beyond the arc (71-of-164), he was Paderborn's leading three-point shooter.[10] Wood moved to UJAP Quimper of the French ProB in April 2019.[11] He finished the 2018-19 season with the French second-division club, averaging 8.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per contest (seven games played).[12] Later in 2019, he played for the Guelph Nighthawks in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), scoring a team-high 16.1 points per game, while dishing out 3.7 assists a contest.[13] He subsequently joined Rio Ourense of the Spanish second division LEB Oro for the 2019-20 season.[14] He shot 45.9% on 133 threes in 24 games during the 2019-20 season, scoring 9.0 points per contest, along with 2,7 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game.[15]
He competed for Canada at the 2017 World University Games in Taiwan.[16]
Posting 14 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists a contest, Wood helped Team Canada capture the 2017 William Jones Cup title.[17]