Lawrence Westbrook Explained

Lawrence Westbrook
Position:Point guard
Height Ft:6
Height In:0
Weight Lbs:185
Birth Date:17 January 1988
Birth Place:Chandler, Arizona, U.S.
Highschool:Chandler
(Chandler, Arizona)
Winchendon Prep
(Winchendon, Massachusetts)
College:Minnesota (2006–2010)
Draft Year:2010
Career Start:2010
Career End:2014
Years1:2010–2011
Years2:2011
Years3:2011
Years4:2012–2013
Team4:Kazrin/Galil
Years5:2013
Team5:Neckar Riesen Ludwigsburg
Years6:2014
Team6:U-Mobitelco Cluj-Napoca

Lawrence Westbrook (born January 17, 1988) is an American professional basketball point guard. As a senior with the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team, he averaged 12.2 points per game in the 2008-09 season, and was the Golden Gophers' leading scorer.

He is also the cousin of former NFL player Brian Westbrook.

High school career

As a junior at Chandler High School in Chandler, Arizona, he led the nation in scoring with 41.0 points per contest. He had 883 points in just 22 games that season. He then transferred to Winchendon Prep High in Winchendon, Massachusetts as a senior, where he averaged 19.0 points per game as a senior. Rivals.com named him the 75th best high school basketball player of the decade. He signed with the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the fall of 2005.

College career

Westbrook was leading scorer for the Gophers in the 2008-09 season. He has started almost every game in both his sophomore and junior seasons. In a January 15, 2009 overtime win against the Wisconsin Badgers at the Kohl Center, he had a season-high 29 points, including nine in the extra session, while going 10-for-16 from the field (including 7-of-7 from the free-throw line and 2-for-2 from beyond the arc).[1] He also hit the game-tying 3-pointer with 2 seconds remaining in regulation.[2]

College statistics

College Statistics
GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG -->
2006-07Minnesota21 2 10.8 .370 .303 .529 0.6 0.6 0.2 0.0 3.5
2007-08Minnesota34 34 23.5 .420 .393 .798 3.3 2.4 0.9 0.1 8.5
2008-09Minnesota29 23 24.1 .421 .361 .857 2.6 1.6 0.7 0.1 12.2

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player/gamelog?playerId=31817&year=2009 Lawrence Westbrook 2008-09 Game Log
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20201205045606/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=290150275 Westbrook hits tying 3-pointer, then scores nine in OT to lift Gophers