Long on Short List of DI Players Compiling > 2,300 Points/1,400 Rebounds

Louisiana-Lafayette's Shawn Long, the nation's second-leading rebounder overshadowed in the Bayou State by LSU freshman sensation Ben Simmons, is on the precipice of a career feat previously achieved by only a handful of the premier players in major-college history. In mid-season, Long joined the 2,100-point/1,300-rebound club, an exclusive 19-member group failing to include four-year standouts such as Joe Barry Carroll (Purdue), Pervis Ellison (Louisville), Danny Ferry (Duke), Hank Gathers (Loyola Marymount), Mike Gminski (Duke), Tyler Hansbrough (North Carolina), Christian Laettner (Duke), Danny Manning (Kansas), Doug McDermott (Creighton), Calvin Natt (Northeast Louisiana), Sam Perkins (North Carolina) and Keith Van Horn (Utah).

Mid-major competition doesn't appear to have anything to do with Long's exploits. The Mississippi State transfer (never played for Bulldogs) showed power-league opponents don't slow him down at all, assembling impressive double-doubles this season in three non-league road games at Miami (21 points - 13 rebounds), Alabama (25-14) and UCLA (26-16). After scoring a career-high 35 points in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, he ended up joining the following alphabetical list of first five DI collegians (La Salle's Lionel Simmons was only other one since 1967-68) with career totals of more than 2,300 points and 1,400 rebounds:

NOTE: Baylor collected 814 points and 492 rebounds in 26 games his freshman season for College of Idaho (now known as Albertson College). He and Hayes were three-year players.