School Name-Change/Abbreviation Key The following players changed their names after their collegiate careers ended. They are listed throughout the book by the names under which they played in college (those listed at the left). Their current names are listed below. In addition, various schools have changed their name. The current school name is listed along with other names by which the schools have been referred. Player name changes Name as a collegian: Changed to: Lew Alcindor (UCLA)..................................................................................................... Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Walt Hazzard (UCLA).................................................................................................... Mahdi Abdul-Rahmad Chris Jackson (LSU)......................................................................................................Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Akeem Olajuwon (Houston)............................................................................................Hakeem Olajuwon Don Smith (Iowa St.)..................................................................................................................Zaid Abdul-Aziz Keith Wilkes (UCLA)........................................................................................................................Jamaal Wilkes Jason Williams (Duke).......................................................................................................................Jay Williams School name changes Current school name: Changed from: Akron.................................................................................................................................................................Buchtel Alcorn St. ...............................................................................................................................................Alcorn A&M Alliant Int'l........................................................................................................................... U.S. Int'l; Cal Western Arcadia................................................................................................................................................................Beaver Arizona St................................................................................................................................................... Tempe St. Ark.-Pine Bluff.............................................................................................................................. Arkansas AM&N Armstrong Atlantic.........................................................................................................................Armstrong St. Auburn.................................................................................................................................................Alabama Poly Augusta St. . ................................................................................................................................................. Augusta Benedictine (Ill.).............................................................................................................................Ill. Benedictine Bradley................................................................................................................................................... Bradley Tech UC Davis........................................................................................................................................California Aggies Cal St. East Bay..............................................................................................................................Cal St. Hayward Cal St. Fullerton........................................................................Orange County State College; Orange St. Cal St. L.A. ....................................................................................................................................... Los Angeles St. Cal St. Northridge....................................................................................................... San Fernando Valley St. Carnegie Mellon............................................................................................................................. Carnegie Tech Case Reserve.......................................................................................................Case Institute of Technology Central Ark...............................................................................................................................................Conway St. Central Conn. St............................................................................................................................. New Haven St. Central Mich......................................................................................................................................... Mt. Pleasant Central Mo.........................................................................................................................................Central Mo. St. Central Okla. . ............................................................................................................................Central St. (Okla.) Charleston So. ....................................................................................................................................Baptist (S.C.) Charleston (W.V.).............................................................................................................................Morris Harvey Cleveland St. ...................................................................................................................................................... Fenn Colorado St. ....................................................................................................................................Colorado A&M Colorado St.-Pueblo.....................................................................................................................Southern Colo. Columbus St. . ......................................................................................................................................... Columbus Concordia (Cal.)..................................................................................................................Christ College-Irvine Concordia Chicago........................................................................................................................Concordia (Ill.) Concordia (Tex.)....................................................................................................................... Concordia-Austin Connecticut...........................................................................................................................Connecticut Aggies Crown (Minn.).....................................................................................................................................St. Paul Bible Dayton....................................................................................................................................... St. Mary's Institute Delaware Valley............................................................................................................................National Aggies DeSales.......................................................................................................................................................Allentown Detroit...................................................................................................................... Detroit Mercy; Detroit Tech Dist. Columbia......................................................................................................................................Federal City Dominican (Ill.)................................................................................................................................................Rosary Drexel........................................................................................................................................................Drexel Tech Dubuque.............................................................................................................................................Columbia Col. Duke......................................................................................................................................................... Trinity (N.C.) Eastern Conn. St.............................................................................................................................. Willimantic St. Eastern Mich. ........................................................................................................................... Michigan Normal Eckerd..............................................................................................................................................Fla. Presbyterian Emporia St. .............................................................................................................................. Kansas St. Normal FDU-Florham.....................................................................................................................................FDU-Madison Fort Hays St.............................................................................................................Kansas St. Normal-Western Fresno St. ........................................................................................................................................... Fresno Pacific Col. of Idaho..............................................................................................................................................Albertson Idaho St...............................................................Academy of Idaho; Idaho Tech. Inst.; Idaho-Southern Ill.-Chicago..................................................................................................................................Ill.-Chicago Circle Illinois St. . ..................................................................................................Illinois St. Normal; Illinois Normal Indiana (Pa.)....................................................................................................................................Indiana St. (Pa.) Indianapolis....................................................................................................................................Indiana Central Iowa.................................................................................................................................. State University of Iowa Iowa St. ................................................................................................................................................................Ames James Madison...........................................................................................................................................Madison Johnson C. Smith......................................................................................................................... Johnson Smith Kansas St. . ........................................................................................................................................Kansas Aggies Kean.............................................................................................................................................................Newark St. Kent St. ..................................................................................................................................................................Kent La Sierra................................................................................................................................................... Loma Linda Lamar.........................................................................................................................................................Lamar Tech Liberty........................................................................................................Lynchburg Baptist; Liberty Baptist La.-Lafayette...............................................................................................................................Southwestern La. La.-Monroe..........................................................................................................................................Northeast La. Loyola Marymount.............................................................................................St. Vincent; Loyola U. of L.A. Lycoming................................................................................................... Williamsport Dickinson Seminary Lynn.....................................................................................................................................College of Boca Raton Lyon........................................................................................................................................................Arkansas Col. Me.-Farmington...............................................................................................Western State Normal School Maritime (N.Y.)...................................................................................................................................N.Y. Maritime Marycrest Int'l.............................................................................................................................Teikyo Marycrest Md.-East. Shore...................................................................................................................................Maryland St. Massachusetts........................................................Massachusetts St.; Massachusetts Agriculture Col. Mass.-Dartmouth................................................................................................................Southeastern Mass. Mass.-Lowell.....................................................................................................Lowell; Lowell St.; Lowell Tech McDaniel............................................................................................................................................... Western Md. Memphis................................................................................................ Memphis St.; West Tenn. St. Normal Michigan Tech..........................................................................................................Michigan Mines and Tech Millersville........................................................................................................................................... Millersville St. Millikin................................................................................................................................................. James Millikin Minn. St. Mankato...............................................................................................................................Mankato St. Minn. St. Moorhead........................................................................................................................Moorhead St. Mississippi Col.............................................................................................................................Mississippi A&M Mississippi Val.................................................................................................................. Mississippi Vocational Missouri S&T.........................................................................................Missouri School of Mines; Mo.-Rolla Missouri St. .............................................................................................................................. Southwest Mo. St. Mont. St.-Billings.......................................................................................................................Eastern Montana Montana St.-Northern........................................................................................................ Northern Montana Neb.-Kearney......................................................................................................................................... Kearney St. Neb.-Omaha................................................................................................................................................... Omaha New England U. .......................................................................................................................... St. Francis (Me.) New Jersey City................................................................................................................................ Jersey City St. New Mexico St. ...................................................................................................................... New Mexico A&M New Orleans............................................................................................................................Louisiana St. (N.O.) North Ala. ...............................................................................................................................................Florence St. N.C. Central............................................................................................................................North Caro. College UNC Pembroke.................................................................................................................................Pembroke St. North Central Texas.......................................................................................................................Cooke County North Texas......................................................................................................................................... North Tex. St. Northeastern St. ............................................................................................................Northeastern Okla. St. Northern Ariz. ..................................................................................................................... Arizona St.-Flagstaff Northern Colo. .......................................................................................... Colorado St. Col.; State Teachers Okla. Panhandle........................................................................................... Panhandle A&M; Panhandle St. Oklahoma St. ...............................................................................................................................Oklahoma A&M Old Dominion.............................................................................................................William & Mary (Norfolk) Penn St.-Berks.........................................................................Penn St. Berks-Lehigh Val.; Berks & Lehigh Penn St.-Harrisburg................................................................................................................... Penn St.-Capitol Pepperdine............................................................................................................................George Pepperdine Phila. Sciences............................................................................................................................. Phila. Pharmacy Philadelphia U. ...................................................................................................................................Phila. Textile Pittsburgh..........................................................................................................................Western Pennsylvania Plymouth St.....................................................................................Plymouth Normal; Plymouth Teachers Polytechnic (N.Y.).............................................................................................New York Poly; Brooklyn Poly Portland St.....................................................................................................................................................Vanport Post............................................................................................................................................................. Teikyo Post Randolph.................................................................................................................Randolph-Macon Woman’s Rhodes.................................................................................................................................Southwestern (Tenn.) Rice..........................................................................................................................................................Rice Institute Richard Stockton.................................................................................................................................Stockton St. Rochester Inst. . ...................................................................................................................Mechanics Institute Rose-Hulman...........................................................................................................Rose Polytechnic Institute Rowan....................................................................................................................................................Glassboro St. Sage Colleges......................................................................................................................................Russell Sage Salem Int'l............................................................................................................................. Salem-Teikyo; Salem Samford.................................................................................................................................................. Howard Col. S.C. Upstate................................................................................................................................. S.C.-Spartanburg Southern Ark...................................................................................................................................Magnolia A&M Southern Conn. St......................................................................................................................... New Britain St. Southern Ind. ....................................................................................................................Indiana St.-Evansville Southern Me. ........................................................................Maine Portland-Gorham; Gorham St. (Me.) Southern Miss.................................................................. Mississippi Southern Col.; Mississippi Normal Southern N.H............................................................................................................................... New Hamp. Col. Southern U. .......................................................................................................................................Southern B.R. Southwest Minn. St. . .................................................................................................................... Southwest St. Stevens Institute................................................................................................................................Stevens Tech Stevenson.....................................................................................................................................................Villa Julie Taylor-Ft. Wayne.......................................................................................................................Summit Christian Tex. A&M-Commerce.......................................................................................................................East Texas St. Tex. A&M-Kingsville.................................................................................................................................Texas A&I Tex.-Pan American..........................................................................................................................Pan American Texas St. . ................................................................................................................................... Southwest Tex. St. Towson....................................................................................................................................................... Towson St. Trine..................................................................................................................................................................Tri-State Troy......................................................................................................................................................................Troy St. Truman................................................................................................................. Northeast Mo. St.; Truman St. Tulsa.....................................................................................................................................................Henry Kendall Washburn................................................................................................................................................Lincoln Col. Washington-St. Louis.............................................................................................................Washington (Mo.) Washington St. . ...............................................................................................Washington Agricultural Col. West Ala. ...................................................................................................................................................Livingston West Tex. A&M..................................................................................................................................West Texas St. Western N.M. ....................................................................................................................New Mexico Western Western Ore. ............................ Monmouth Normal; Oregon Tech; Oregon College of Education Western St. ..................................................................................................Colo. Western; Colorado Normal Westmar................................................................................................Western Union Col.; Teikyo Westmar Wichita St. ................................................................................................................................................Fairmount Widener...................................................................................................................... Pennsylvania Military Col. Wm. Paterson........................................................................................................................................ Paterson St. Wis.-Superior...............................................................................................................................Superior Normal Xavier..............................................................................................................................................................St. Xavier In the early days of colleges and universities, many schools used the designation of Teachers College. Due to the high numbers of such schools, they are not listed here. SCHOOLS also known as Current school name: Also known as: A&M-Corpus Christi.......................................................................................................Tex. A&M-Corp. Chris. Air Force...........................................................................................................................U.S. Air Force Academy Apprentice School....................................................................................................................... Newport News Army............................................................................................................U.S. Military Academy; West Point Baruch........................................................................................................................................Bernard M. Baruch BYU.................................................................................................................................................... Brigham Young Case Reserve....................................................................................................................Case Western Reserve Charlotte............................................................................................................................................UNC Charlotte Chattanooga........................................................................................................................................ Tenn.-Chatt. CCNY...............................................................................................................................City College of New York City Tech....................................................................................................... New York City Tech (was NYCCT) Coast Guard............................................................................................................ U.S. Coast Guard Academy Georgia College............................................................................................Georgia College & State, GCSU Green Bay.........................................................................................................................................Wis.-Green Bay Hawthorne.........................................................................................................................Nathaniel Hawthorne IPFW............................................................................................................................ Indiana/Purdue-Ft. Wayne IUPUI......................................................................................................................Indiana/Purdue-Indianapolis Lehman.....................................................................................................................................Herbert H. Lehman Lipscomb.......................................................................................................................................David Lipscomb Long Island..........................................................................................................................................LIU-Brooklyn LSU............................................................................................................................................................Louisiana St. Mass. Liberal Arts..........................................................Massachusetts College (was North Adams St.) Merchant Marine..............................................................King's Point; U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Milwaukee......................................................................................................................................Wis.-Milwaukee MIT......................................................................................................Massachusetts Institute of Technology Navy......................................................................................................................................... U.S. Naval Academy NJIT...........................................................................................Newark Engineering (was N.J. Inst. of Tech.) NYIT.............................................................................. New York Institute of Technology; New York Tech Rensselaer....................................................................................................................RPI, Rensselaer Poly Inst. Rochester Inst. . ..................................................................................................................................................... RIT Sewanee...........................................................................................................................University of the South SMU..........................................................................................................................................Southern Methodist Southampton..........................................................................................................................LIU-Southampton SUNYIT.....................................................................................................................................................Utica/Rome TCNJ........................................................................................The College of New Jersey (was Trenton St.) TCU....................................................................................................Texas Christian (was AddRan Christian) UAB..................................................................................................................................Alabama at Birmingham UALR.................................................................................................................................................. Ark.-Little Rock UCF....................................................................................................................... Central Fla. (was Florida Tech) UCLA....................................................................................................... University of California, Los Angeles UMBC..............................................................................................................................................Md.-Balt. County UMKC................................................................................................................................................Mo.-Kansas City UNI.........................................................................Northern Iowa (was Iowa Normal; State Col. of Iowa) UNLV..........................................................................................Nevada-Las Vegas (was Nevada Southern) UTEP.............................................................................................................Texas-El Paso (was Texas Western) UTSA...........................................................................................................................................Texas-San Antonio VCU............................................................................................................................................Va. Commonwealth VMI...............................................................................................................................................................Va. Military WPI........................................................................................................... Worcester Poly Inst.; Worcester Tech SCHOOL Mergers Current school name: Two Schools Merged & Year: Case Reserve..................................................................................Case Tech & Western Reserve; 1971-72 Martin Luther........................................................... Northwestern (Wis.) & Dr. Martin Luther, 1995-96 Mass.-Lowell..............................................................................................Lowell St. & Lowell Tech; 1975-76