Carl Smith
Player
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Number: 5 (Wore 10 in his Freshman season)
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Position: G
Height: 5' 11“
Weight: 162 lbs.
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High School: ?
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Transfer From: none
Birthdate: ?
At UMass
Career
Two-time team captain.
UM played 112 games in his four seasons, and he started in every one. The 112 consecutive mark still stands as UM's longest.
3) The 112 starts was, at the time, most-ever in program history, but has since slipped to sixth.
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Played a total of 3,952 minutes, third-most in program history.
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Led the team in assists in each of his four years.
His 633 assists were, at the time, most in
Atlantic 10 history. Since then, that has fallen to tenth place in A-10 history.
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Smith dished 405 assists in A-10 conference games, which is still best for a UMass player. (Chaz Williams 345).
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Career average of 5.7 assists per game stands as third-most in UM history,
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Tied UM's program record for assists in a game, with 15, on 1/23/1986.
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Tallied 15 games with 10+ assists, a mark that stood as UM's best through the end of the 2007-08 season.
Chaz Williams later tallied 16.
Recorded at least one assist in all of his 112 games. The 112 consecutive mark stood as UM's longest, through the end of the 2007-08 season.
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Great three-point shooter. His percentages of .443 in all games, and .455 in A-10 games, stood as UM's career bests, through the end of the 2020-21 season.
Shot .770 from the free throw line, which was seventh-best in UM program history, but has since been pushed out of the top ten.
Tallied 139 steals (1.2 per game), which was second-best in UM program history, but has since been pushed out of the top ten.
Team's best free throw shooter in his Freshman thru Junior seasons.
1986-87 Senior year
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Shot .476 from three in Atlantic 10 conference games. Through the end of the 2019-20 season, this stood as UM's best percentage in a single season.
Shot .447 from three across the full season. Through the end of the 2019-20 season, this was seventh-best in program history.
Shot .473 overall from the floor, which led the team.
Shot .725 from the free throw line, falling out of team lead position (.833 from Lorenzo Sutton).
1985-86 Junior year
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Tied UM's program record with 15 assists versus Duquesne (1/23).
Dished 191 assists in the season, which stands as ninth-best in UM program history.
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Led the Atlantic 10 in assists, in both total (191) and average (6.8).
His .781 free throw percentage led the team.
Led team in steals with 40.
1984-85 Sophomore year
His .757 free throw percentage led the team.
Lead team in minutes played: 1055 total / 37.7 average. The 37.7 average stands as eighth-most in UM program history.
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Fourth in the Atlantic 10 in assists with a 4.5 average.
Scored 19 points, sharing the team lead with Horace Neysmith, in the A-10 Tournament game versus Rutgers (3/7).
1983-84 Freshman year
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Led the team in assists (212 total, 7.3 average), setting a new best for a UM freshman, a mark that stood as UM's best as of mid-2008.
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The 212 assists stands as seventh-best in UM program history.
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Led the A-10 in assists, in both total (212) and average (7.3), the latter was a full two better than the next highest player.
The average of 7.3 assists per game ranks seventh in A-10 history.
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Dished 13 assists, his personal best at the time, in consecutive games, versus Rutgers (3/1) and Duquesne (3/3).
His .811 free throw percentage led the team.
Led team in steals with 47.
| Carl in an apparent Minuteman costume, but if not for the jersey he'd easily be mistaken for a George Washington Colonial. |
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Statistics
Season | G | GS | MP | MPG | FG | FGA | FG% | 2P | 2PA | 2P% | 3P | 3PA | 3P% | FT | FTA | FT% | PTS | PPG | TRB | RPG | AST | APG | TOV | A:TO | STL | BLK | PF |
1983-84 | 29 | 29 | 1004 | 34.6 | 66 | 136 | .485 | 66 | 136 | .485 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 77 | 95 | .811 | 209 | 7.2 | 70 | 2.4 | 212 | 7.3 | 96 | 2.2 | 47 | 3 | 64 |
1984-85 | 28 | 28 | 1055 | 37.7 | 81 | 213 | .380 | 69 | 185 | .373 | 12 | 28 | .429 | 84 | 111 | .757 | 246 | 8.8 | 79 | 2.8 | 125 | 4.5 | 81 | 1.5 | 31 | 2 | 74 |
1985-86 | 28 | 28 | 982 | 35.1 | 71 | 160 | .444 | 71 | 160 | .444 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 57 | 73 | .781 | 199 | 7.1 | 48 | 1.7 | 191 | 6.8 | 92 | 2.1 | 48 | 3 | 64 |
1986-87 | 27 | 27 | 911 | 33.7 | 96 | 203 | .473 | 54 | 109 | .495 | 42 | 94 | .447 | 50 | 69 | .725 | 284 | 10.5 | 68 | 2.5 | 105 | 3.9 | 63 | 1.7 | 21 | 0 | 72 |
Career | 112 | 112 | 3952 | 35.3 | 314 | 712 | .441 | 260 | 590 | .441 | 54 | 122 | .443 | 268 | 348 | .770 | 938 | 8.4 | 265 | 2.4 | 633 | 5.7 | 332 | 1.9 | 147 | 8 | 274 |
The Atlantic 10 did not use the three-point shot in the 1983-84 or 1985-86 seasons.