Connor Wood (basketball)

Connor Wood
Personal information
Born (1993-05-29) May 29, 1993 (age 31)
Guelph, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Career information
High schoolBishop Macdonell
(Guelph, Ontario)
CollegeCarleton (2012–2017)
NBA draft2017: undrafted
Playing career2017–present
PositionGuard
Career history
2017–2018Niagara River Lions
2018–2019Paderborn Baskets
2019UJAP Quimper
2019Guelph Nighthawks
2019–2020Rio Ourense
Career highlights and awards
  • 5× CIS champion (2013–2017)
  • CIS Player of the Year (2017)
  • CIS Tournament MVP (2016)
  • CIS All-Canada First Team (2017)
  • OUA Player of the Year (2017)
  • All-OUA First Team (2017)

Connor John Wood[1] (born May 29, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player. Wood plays the guard position.

College career

During his college career, he won five straight CIS championships with the Carleton Ravens.[2] Wood was the recipient of the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the CIS Outstanding Player in 2016-17[3] and also earned All-Canada First Team as well as OUA Player of the Year[4] and CIS Tournament All-Star Team honours that year.[5] As a fifth-year player, Wood averaged 19.2 points a game in 2016-17, while nailing 50.8 per cent of his shots from the floor and 50.3 percent from beyond the arc.[2]

Professional career

In November 2017, he signed his first contract as a professional basketball player, joining the Niagara River Lions of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada).[6] He made 44 appearances for the River Lions in his rookie season, averaging 9.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists per contest.[7]

On July 30, 2018, Wood signed with Paderborn Baskets of the ProA, the second-tier league in Germany.[8] He saw action in 28 ProA games during the 2018-19 campaign, averaging 12.7 points, 2.9 assists, 2.7 rebounds per contest.[9] Draining 43.3% of his shots taken from beyond the arc (71-of-164), he was Paderborn's leading three-point shooter.[10] Wood moved to UJAP Quimper of the French ProB in April 2019.[11] He finished the 2018-19 season with the French second-division club, averaging 8.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per contest (seven games played).[12] Later in 2019, he played for the Guelph Nighthawks in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), scoring a team-high 16.1 points per game, while dishing out 3.7 assists a contest.[13] He subsequently joined Rio Ourense of the Spanish second division LEB Oro for the 2019-20 season.[14] He shot 45.9% on 133 threes in 24 games during the 2019-20 season, scoring 9.0 points per contest, along with 2,7 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game.[15]

National team career

He competed for Canada at the 2017 World University Games in Taiwan.[16]

Posting 14 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists a contest, Wood helped Team Canada capture the 2017 William Jones Cup title.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Spieler – BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga".
  2. ^ a b "U SPORTS Men's Basketball: Connor Wood Takes Home Player of the Year | Canadian University Sports Network". Canadian University Sports Network. 2017-03-09. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  3. ^ "Carleton's Connor Wood named U SPORTS Player of the Year - Ontario University Athletics (OUA)". oua.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  4. ^ "Carleton's Connor Wood named Ontario university men's basketball player of the year". Ottawa Sun. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  5. ^ "U Sports Hoops - University Basketball in Canada". usportshoops.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  6. ^ "Niagara River Lions". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  7. ^ "National Basketball League of Canada". National Basketball League of Canada. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  8. ^ "Uni Baskets add Wood to their roster, ex Niagara RL". USBasket. July 30, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  9. ^ "Spieler – BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga".
  10. ^ "Kader – BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga".
  11. ^ "Connor Wood arrive à l'UJAP !". UJAP Quimper 29 (in French). 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  12. ^ "Wood Connor | LNB.fr". LNB. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  13. ^ "The Nighthawks - Guelph's Professional Basketball Team". www.thenighthawks.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  14. ^ "El COB apuesta por Connor Wood". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  15. ^ "CLUB OURENSE BALONCESTO. Temporada: 19/20 WOOD, CONNOR JOHN". competiciones.feb.es. Archived from the original on 2019-12-03. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  16. ^ "Canada Basketball". www.basketball.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  17. ^ "MBB: Connor Wood, Canada capture 2017 William Jones Cup title". goravens.ca. Retrieved 2017-09-18.