Eugene Edgerson is an American basketball

Basketball

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 player who presently performs with the Harlem Globetrotters

Harlem Globetrotters

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. As is tradition with the Globetrotters, Edgerson has a nickname: "Wildkat", presumably in honor of his alma mater, the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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Edgerson spent 1996-2001 as a member of the Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team. He played on a pair of Final Four

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 teams (1997, 2001) with the Wildcats and was a member of the UA 1997 National Championship squad. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma

Phi Beta Sigma

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 fraternity. He appeared as a Globetrotter on the ESPN2

ESPN2

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 program Cold Pizza

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 on 1 March 2007.

During his career at Arizona, Edgerson took a one-year hiatus from competitive basketball to fulfill student-teaching duties at a Tucson kindergarten

Kindergarten

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