Anthony Stacey (2011) - Hall of Fame - Bowling Green State University Athletics

Anthony Stacey

Induction:
2011
Class:
1999

ANTHONY STACEY (men’s basketball, 1995-2000)
Stacey, a native of Elyria, Ohio (Grafton Midview H.S.), is the most prolific scorer in BGSU men’s basketball history. He ended his career with a total of 1,938 career points, and also set the school record for career steals, with 226.

Stacey began his career with a bang, posting the best freshman season of any BGSU player in the modern era. He scored 433 points to set a BG freshman scoring record, and was named MAC Freshman of the Year, also earning all-league honorable mention. The first freshman to lead the team in scoring since frosh became eligible to play with the varsity in the early 1970s, Stacey averaged 16.0 points and 7.6 rebounds per game that year. He
ranked fifth in the league in scoring and seventh in field-goal percentage.

As a sophomore in 1996-97, Stacey again earned honorable-mention All-MAC honors as the team captured the league’s regular-season title. He was second on the team in scoring that year, with 14.3 ppg, and had a total of 72 steals, the third most in program history. In 1997-98, Stacey missed the season after tearing plantar fascia on the bottom of his right foot, and was granted a medical hardship from the NCAA.

Stacey showed no ill effects the following year. He was named to the All-MAC First Team, and also earned NABC Second-Team honors in 1998-99, finishing fourth in the MAC in scoring (18.5 ppg) and second in steals that year. Stacey also was in the league’s top 15 in field-goal pct., free-throw pct. and rebounding. He scored in double digits in 25 of the 27 games, with 13 efforts of 20 or more points, that season.

As a senior in 1999-2000, Stacey was named MAC Player of the Year, averaging 16.8 points and 6.0 rebounds per game despite being bothered by a dislocated finger on his shooting hand and a sprained ankle from December on. Stacey hit the game-winning shot with just 1.1 seconds left in a February win at Akron, and became the BGSU career scoring leader with a field goal early in the second half of a win over Kent State that same month (Feb. 16, 2000). Stacey was a repeat selection to the NABC Second Team that year.

In addition to his point and steal totals, Stacey ended his career with a total of 760 rebounds, ranking seventh on the BGSU list at the time. He scored in double digits in 105 of his 119 career games, with 16 double-doubles. In the 2010-11 season, Stacey was named to the All-Anderson Team.

Stacey played professionally in Spain for over nine seasons. After assistant-coaching stints with the Lorain Admiral King boys basketball team and the Lorain girls program, he was named the head boys basketball coach at Medina High School in May of 2011. Additionally, he is a financial professional associate for Prudential.