Connor Wood (basketball)

Connor Wood
Paderborn Baskets
Position Guard
League ProA
Personal information
Born (1993-05-29) May 29, 1993
Nationality Canadian
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Career information
High school Bishop Macdonell
(Guelph, Ontario)
College Carleton (2012–2017)
NBA draft 2017 / Undrafted
Playing career 2017–present
Career history
2017–2018 Niagara River Lions
2018–present Paderborn Baskets
Career highlights and awards
  • 5× CIS champion (2013–2017)
  • CIS Player of the Year (2017)
  • CIS Tournament MVP (2016)
  • CIS All-Canada First Team (2017)
  • OUA Player of the Year (2017)
  • All-OUA First Team (2017)

Connor Wood (born May 29, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Paderborn Baskets of the ProA in Germany. Wood plays the guard position.

College career

During his college career, he won five straight CIS championships with the Carleton Ravens.[1] Wood was the recipient of the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the CIS Outstanding Player in 2016-17[2] and also earned All-Canada First Team as well as OUA Player of the Year[3] and CIS Tournament All-Star Team honours that year.[4] As a fifth-year player, Wood averaged 19.2 points a game in 2016-17, while nailing 50.8 per cent of his shots from the floor and 50.3 percent from beyond the arc.[1]

Professional career

In November 2017, he signed his first contract as a professional basketball player, joining the Niagara River Lions of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada).[5] He made 44 appearances for the River Lions in his rookie season, averaging 9.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists per contest.[6]

On July 30, 2018, Wood signed with Paderborn Baskets of the ProA, the second-tier league in Germany.[7]

National team career

He competed for Canada at the 2017 World University Games in Taiwan.[8]

Posting 14 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists a contest, Wood helped Team Canada capture the 2017 William Jones Cup title.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "U SPORTS Men's Basketball: Connor Wood Takes Home Player of the Year | Canadian University Sports Network". Canadian University Sports Network. 2017-03-09. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  2. ↑ "Carleton's Connor Wood named U SPORTS Player of the Year - Ontario University Athletics (OUA)". oua.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  3. ↑ "Carleton's Connor Wood named Ontario university men's basketball player of the year". Ottawa Sun. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  4. ↑ "U Sports Hoops - University Basketball in Canada". usportshoops.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  5. ↑ "Niagara River Lions". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  6. ↑ "National Basketball League of Canada". National Basketball League of Canada. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  7. ↑ "Uni Baskets add Wood to their roster, ex Niagara RL". USBasket. July 30, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Canada Basketball". www.basketball.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  9. ↑ "MBB: Connor Wood, Canada capture 2017 William Jones Cup title". goravens.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
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