Carson enters Canada West Hall
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This article was published 30/10/2019 (2143 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
John Carson became the first Brandon University Bobcat inducted into the newly-minted Canada West Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
Carson, who starred for the Bobcats between 1982 and 1987, is also the first men’s basketball inductee.
The Huntsville, N.C. product made his way to the Wheat City in the early 1980s and made his mark from the start. He was a five-time Great Plains Athletic Conference all-star, five-time all-Canadian was named the country’s top player in 1986.
Carson also was the GPAC player of the year in 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986.
“He was a player that got better and better each year,” said Jerry Hemmings, Carson’s head coach at BU, on Tuesday. “What I mean by that is when I first recruited John out of North Carolina, he was an inside player. Then his last three years he basically played the big guard position. He really developed into a tremendous outside shooter.”
In 1987, the six-foot-four forward led Brandon to its first national title with a 74-66 final victory over the University ofâBritish Columbia in Halifax. Carson dropped 38 points in the final and earned most valuable player honours at nationals.
“It’s like playing five-card stud poker. You got one in the hole,” Hemmings said. “Prior to us going into that national championship game, my hole card was John Carson. You got to feel pretty good when you’re going into the national championship game and you got a five-time first-team all-Canadian on your side.
“In the big games like that, he stepped up and gave us a big-time performance.”
Carson put up 4,259 points and 1,179 rebounds over his university career, leading the country in scoring with 27.2 points per game in the 1985-86 season.
After his time with the Bobcats, Carson went on to play overseas at the professional level in Ireland and played in the World Basketball League for the Calgary 88s and Saskatoon Slam.
Carson is also a member of BU’s Dick and Verda McDonald Sports Wall of Fame (1996), the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame (2001) and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame (2007).
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