John Irving

Who is John Irving?

John Irving is a retired American college basketball player best known for his career at Hofstra, which lasted from 1974–75 to 1976–77. He also spent one season at Arizona before transferring. Irving, a 6 ft 9 in, 215-lb power forward/center, recorded 1,018 points and 1,186 rebounds during his three-year career at Hofstra. He holds career per-game averages of 13.2 points and 15.4 rebounds at the school, and is the last Hofstra player to average a double-digit number of rebounds in three consecutive seasons. He led NCAA Division I in rebounding during his sophomore year of 1974–75 with a 15.3 per-game average. Irving was a member of two NCAA Tournament teams, and after he graduated was selected in the third round by the Detroit Pistons in the 1977 NBA Draft, although he never played in the league. He is still only one of two players in Hofstra University history to accumulate both 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds during his career, and has been honored as an inductee in the school's Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 2011 class.