Mark Workman averaged 32.8 points per game as a senior in 1948.
16 Facts About Mark Workman
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Mark Workman scored 63 points in a sectional tournament game that season.
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Mark Workman lettered in track, specializing in shot put, javelin, and discus.
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Patton died from the effects of a car crash before Mark Workman's playing days began.
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Under Robert N "Red" Brown, Workman led the Mountaineers from 1950 to 1952, scoring 1,469 career points.
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Mark Workman's top scoring performance was 50 points against Salem College in 1951.
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Mark Workman scored 48 points against Washington and Jefferson College, and 44 points against George Washington University.
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Mark Workman still holds the WVU single-game records for field goals, free throws, and points in a half, along with four of the top 10 scoring marks.
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Mark Workman once beat future Olympic Champion Bob Mathias in the javelin.
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Mark Workman was the first overall pick in the 1952 NBA draft, selected by the Milwaukee Hawks, but went on a tour of Europe with the Harlem Globetrotters before playing two years for the NBA Philadelphia Warriors and Baltimore Bullets.
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Mark Workman averaged 5.3 points in 60 games for Philadelphia.
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Mark Workman later moved to Florida where he worked as a salesman for a mining company while enjoying his true love of fishing.
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Mark Workman died at his home on December 21,1983, after a long illness.
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Mark Workman was inducted into the West Virginia Sports Writers Hall of Fame in 1974.
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In 1994, Mark Workman was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame.
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In 2017, Mark Workman was named an inaugural member of West Virginia University's Mountaineer Legends Society.