LaVerne Evans (2003) - Marshall Athletics Hall of Fame

LaVerne Evans

Induction:
2003
Class:
1984

When Marshall won its first Southern Conference basketball championship in 1984 – taking the crown with a classic 111-107 double-overtime victory over Tennessee-Chattanooga at the Asheville (N.C.) Civic Center – the MVP Award was soon after handed to LaVerne Evans. That performance – 38 points in the championship game – capped off a stellar season for the Lockport, N.Y., native, who also won first-team All-Southern Conference honors as he led the Thundering Herd in scoring with a 20.5 points-per-game average. The 6-foot-4 forward finished his Marshall career with 1,611 points, which was at the time in the top five in school history. Over Evans’ final two seasons, he helped the Thundering Herd to a combined 45-14 mark, including a 28-6 mark in league play. Evans was a sixth-round selection of the Dallas Mavericks in the 1984 NBA Draft and he went on to a 20-year professional basketball career overseas, much of it in Ireland and Portugal. Evans was inducted into the Marshall Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.