Connor Wood (basketball)

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Connor Wood
Personal information
Born (1993-05-29) May 29, 1993 (age 28)
Guelph, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Career information
High school Bishop Macdonell
(Guelph, Ontario)
College Carleton (2012–2017)
NBA draft 2017 / Undrafted
Playing career2017–present
Position Guard
Career history
2017–2018 Niagara River Lions
2018–2019 Paderborn Baskets
2019 UJAP Quimper
2019 Guelph Nighthawks
2019–2020 Rio Ourense
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 John Wood [1] (born May 29, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player. Wood plays the guard position.

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College career

During his college career, he won five straight CIS championships with the Carleton Ravens. [2] Wood was the recipient of the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the CIS Outstanding Player in 2016-17 [3] and also earned All-Canada First Team as well as OUA Player of the Year [4] and CIS Tournament All-Star Team honours that year. [5] 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. [2]

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). [6] 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. [7]

On July 30, 2018, Wood signed with Paderborn Baskets of the ProA, the second-tier league in Germany. [8] He saw action in 28 ProA games during the 2018-19 campaign, averaging 12.7 points, 2.9 assists, 2.7 rebounds per contest. [9] Draining 43.3% of his shots taken from beyond the arc (71-of-164), he was Paderborn's leading three-point shooter. [10] Wood moved to UJAP Quimper of the French ProB in April 2019. [11] He finished the 2018-19 season with the French second-division club, averaging 8.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per contest (seven games played). [12] Later in 2019, he played for the Guelph Nighthawks in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), scoring a team-high 16.1 points per game, while dishing out 3.7 assists a contest. [13] He subsequently joined Rio Ourense of the Spanish second division LEB Oro for the 2019-20 season. [14] He shot 45.9% on 133 threes in 24 games during the 2019-20 season, scoring 9.0 points per contest, along with 2,7 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game. [15]

National team career

He competed for Canada at the 2017 World University Games in Taiwan. [16]

Posting 14 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists a contest, Wood helped Team Canada capture the 2017 William Jones Cup title. [17]

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  10. ↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/teams/kader/475/?season=2018%2F2019#tab-stats
  11. ↑ "Connor Wood arrive à l'UJAP !". UJAP Quimper 29 (in French). 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
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  13. ↑ "The Nighthawks - Guelph's Professional Basketball Team". www.thenighthawks.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
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