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Purdue star Terry Dischinger ‘incredibly underrated among our state’s all-time greats.’
Purdue men’s basketball legend Terry Dischinger still stands as the only Boilermaker alum to win NBA Rookie of the Year. But what’s even more impressive is how he did it. Dischinger only played 57 games of the 80-game season in his first year of professional basketball in 1962. Playing for the Chicago Zephyrs, who would end the season having Slick Leonard as a player-coach, Dischinger missed those 23 games because of a simple reason: He needed to finish his degree at Purdue. Although he left school to join the NBA, the chemical engineering major had one more semester of classes in West Lafayette to officially obtain his degree. So, he frequented the two-hour drive between Chicago and West

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