Tico Brown

Tico Brown enjoyed outstanding success in football, track and basketball at Kokomo High School, but it wasn’t until after his graduation in 1975, that he really hit his stride.

After playing junior college basketball as a freshman, Brown moved on to Georgia Tech University where over three seasons, he averaged 16 points a game in leading the Yellow Jackets to a 50-31 record. Upon leaving Tech in 1979, he was the school’s No. 5 all-time leading scorer with 1,308 points. Twice he was named all-Metro Conference.

Brown was the No. 23 overall pick in the 1979 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz, but eventually settled on a career in the Continental Basketball Association.

The 6-foot-5, 180-pounder played eight seasons in the CBA and stands as the league’s all-time leading scorer with 8,538 points, a career average of 23.5 ppg. Brown set a CBA playoff game record of 60 points in 1983 and starred on Anchorage (1980) and Detroit (1983) teams that won CBA championships.