Gary Neal Was Third Player to Score More Than 1,000 Points for Two Schools

Backup guard Gary Neal's stunning Game 3 performance with six three-pointers for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals triggered a look back at his college career when he became only the third player ever to score more than 1,000 points for two NCAA Division I schools (18.3 ppg with La Salle and 25.6 ppg with Towson). Who were the first two individuals to achieve the feat?

Living-and-breathing sports almanac Howie Schwab is probably the only sage you couldn't stump with that question. Schwab has forgotten more about sports than most folks in the business know and he hasn't forgotten very much. But after 26 years of loyalty, style-over-substance ESPN cast adrift the regal researcher in favor of resurrecting disloyal Keith "Countdown to Contamination" Olbermann and retaining the likes of Skip Baseless, Fran "Flasher" Fraschilla, Seth "One NCAA Tourney Win in 22 Years" Greenberg, Bruce "Interior Decorator" Pearl, Jailin' Rose, Screamin' A. Stiff, sideline-strutting reporterettes blunting Gregg Popovich's vocabulary, etc.

Go bloody figure! Amid ESPN's bloodletting, the network would rather foist dancin' Ray Lewis upon the public with his mumblin' and bumblin' inability to know whereabouts of bloodstained cream suit in Atlanta rather than Schwab's bloodhound expertise incisively revealing that Jon Manning (19.6 ppg with Oklahoma City and 19.8 ppg with North Texas State) and Kenny Battle (19.9 ppg with Northern Illinois and 16.1 ppg with Illinois) are on the following short list with Neal.