Melvin Buckley Profile

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Melvin Buckley

	Class: Senior
	Hometown: Chicago, Ill.
	High School: Thornwood

	Height / Weight: 6-7 / 200
	Position: Guard/Forward

Scouting Buckley
Athletic wing player who can go inside or outside ... slasher who can get to the basket ... has great perimeter touch ... played extremely well at the end of his freshman season.

Freshman Season (2002-03)
>Appeared in 28 games, averaging 11.1 minutes per outing.
>Averaged 4.1 points and 1.9 rebounds per game.
>Shot a team-high 42.6 percent from behind the three-point arc.
>Scored a career-high 20 points against LSU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

High School
>Lettered two years at Marion Catholic (freshman and sophomore) and Thornwood (junior and senior).
>Averaged 13.9 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 2.0 blocks and 2.0 steals per game for coach Kevin Hayhurst as a senior at Thornwood.
>Named all-conference, all-area and third team all-state his junior season.
>Named all-conference, all-area and all-state his senior season.
>Attended the ABCD Camp his senior year.
>Was a high school teammate of Chicago Bulls player Eddy Curry.
>National Honor Society member, Scholarship and Citizenship Award Winner and Silver Bowl winner for poetry.

Personal
>Majoring in communication
>Born Aug. 6, 1984
>Son of Misty and Melvin Buckley
>Has one sister, Moriah (8)