Dick Garmaker, an consensus All-America basketball player for the Gophers who went on to play six seasons in the NBA, died Saturday.
Garmaker, who lived in Tulsa, Okla., was 87.
As a senior in the 1954-55 season, the 6-3 shooting guard/forward averaged 24.2 points — the fourth-best single-season average in Gophers history — to earn first-team All-Big Ten and All-American honors. The Gophers, coached by Ozzie Cowles, were 15-7 overall and finished second in the Big Ten with a 10-4 conference record.
As a junior, his first season with the Gophers, Garmaker averaged 21.6 points and became the first Gopher to score more than 400 points in a season.