The Citadel Athletics

A three-year starting point guard on Les Robinson-coached basketball teams, Nesbit was a key member of The Citadel’s 1979 team that won 20 games, a first for the college … the captain of the ’80 team, Nesbit was selected to the 1979 and ’80 All-Southern Conference second team and paced the ’78 team with a 54.0 field goal percentage and a 92.5 free throw percentage in 1980, which was the second-best in the NCAA … tied a school mark with 13 assists in a 1979 game against Marshall, and established the school’s season record of 120 dishes that season … holding the school’s record for most career assists (324), Nesbit played only three years having transferred from Gulf Coast Community College … he later served as an assistant to Robinson, and coached the Bulldogs from 1986-92.