Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2001
Bogues came to Wake Forest in 1983 from a powerful Baltimore Dunbar High team that included national high school player of the year Reggie Williams, who would go on to star at Georgetown. And despite the presence of teammates Reggie Lewis (Northeastern/Boston Celtics) and David Wingate (Georgetown), Bogues was Dunbar's MVP as a senior. He led Dunbar to a 31-0 record and a No. 1 national ranking from USA Today in his senior season. Bogues averaged eight points, eight assists and eight steals per game as a senior.
At Wake Forest, Bogues led the ACC in assists and steals in 1984-85 and 1985-86. A tenacious defender, he guarded Johnny Dawkins of Duke in a 1985 game, holding the All-American to eight points and snapping Dawkins' streak of 51 straight games of scoring in double figures. On offense, Bogues set a record for assists in an ACC game with 17 against North Carolina on Feb. 8, 1986. He finished his career with school records of 781 assists and 275 steals while tallying 986 career points.
In 1984, Bogues played a key role on a Deacon team that advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, defeating DePaul in the round of 16 before losing to Houston. He earned first-team All-ACC honors as a senior in 1987.
Bogues handed out 200 or more assists in three seasons. Chris Paul has the only other 200-assist season in Wake history.
Bogues was never troubled by his small frame.
"I don't think being short is a problem," Bogues once said. "In fact, I look at it as an advantage I have on those big guys. I'm low to the ground, and when they put the ball on the floor, I'm already there. They have to worry about me."
Bogues was a member of the 1986 USA team that won the World Basketball Championship in Spain.
The No. 12 overall draft pick by the Washington Bullets in the 1987 NBA Draft, he was left unprotected following his rookie season and became an original member of the Charlotte Hornets. He spent nine seasons in Charlotte before finishing his career with short stints with Golden State and Toronto.
He was inducted into Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.
