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Hall of Fame

Rick L. Swing

  • Class
    1979
  • Induction
    2008
  • Sport(s)
    Basketball
Led the Les Robinson-coached 1979 team to a 20-7 (10-4 SoCon) record, the only Citadel team to post a 20-win season and second-best league finish in school history … Co-captained that 1979 team that recorded the second-best turnaround from the previous season in the NCAA (8-19 in 1979; 20-7 in 1979), and finished his career as the school’s second leading scorer with 1,421 points (second to Art Mussleman’s 1,504 points) … earning first team All-Southern Conference recognition in 1979 and second team in 1977, he paced the league in field goal percentage (55.5 percent) in ’79 … leading the ’77 team (16.0 ppg) and the 1978 team (13.3 ppg) in scoring, he completed his career with 13.2 points scoring average, 48.3 field goal percentage and 76.9 free throw percentage … a member of the 1979 All-Southern Conference Tournament first team, he was a fourth-round draft pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers, one of only two Bulldogs ever drafted.
 
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