Tony Crocker

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Tony Crocker
College	University of Oklahoma
Sport	Basketball
Position	Small forward
Class	Freshman
Career	2006 – present
Height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight	195 lb (88 kg)
Nationality	USA
Born	January 17, 1987 (1987-01-17) (age 21) Lawton, Oklahoma
High school	Earl Warren High School, San Antonio, TX

"Tony Crocker" was born on 1987-01-17 in Lawton, Oklahoma to his mother, Kaye. He excelled at basketball while attending Earl Warren High School in San Antonio, Texas before attending prep school at The Patterson School. Signed to play basketball at the University of Oklahoma under Kelvin Sampson, and stuck to his commitment when coach Sampson left to Indiana University and coach Jeff Capel III became the new coach of the Sooners. Crocker started 25 out of 31 games as a true freshman at Oklahoma and established himself as one of the top freshmen in the country.

[edit] High School

Crocker attended Earl Warren High School in San Antonio, Texas his final three years after attending William Howard Taft High School as a freshman. While attending Warren High he was a 2005 Texas Association of Basketball Coaches First-Team 5A All-State selection and named the 2005 San Antonio Player of the Year by the San Antonio Express-News in his senior season. He averaged 22.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game as a senior and scored a career-high 44 points against Bowie High School his senior season. He earned all-city and all-district honors as a junior and recorded a triple-double as a junior against James Madison High School (21 points, 14 rebounds, 11 assists). He was coached by Jay Keller at Warren HS and by Mike Carillo at Taft HS.

[edit] Prep School

Played prep school basketball after his senior year at Warren High. He spent the majority of his prep school career battling an ankle injury, but finished the season averaging 15.2 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game for The Patterson School in Lenoir, North Carolina. Coming out of prep school he was rated as the No. 80 overall player in the class of 2006 by Rivals.com and ranked as the country’s 18th-best shooting guard by Rivals and Scout.com. He was also rated as the 25th-best post-graduate prep school player in the country by HoopScoopOnline.com. At Patterson School he helped his team to a 34-3 record and a No. 3 national prep school ranking despite being limited to 10 games due to injury. At The Patterson School he was coached by Chris Chaney.

[edit] College

Crocker burst onto the scene at the University of Oklahoma where he was named to the starting lineup in his first collegiate game under new Oklahoma head coach Jeff Capel III. He scored 15 points in his first game and took off from there for the Sooners with several sparkling dunks over his freshman season. He ended his debut season at Oklahoma averaging 8.6 points and 3.7 rebounds per game. Near the end of the season he began to become comfortable at the collegiate level and the Sooners will rely upon him heavily in 2007-08 to take the team to the next level.