Terrance Bailey is a former American

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 basketball player who led NCAA Division I in scoring as a junior

Junior (education)

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 in 1985–86. A native of Newark, New Jersey

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, Bailey played at Wagner College

Wagner College

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 for four years and established himself as one of the Northeast Conference

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's all-time greatest players.

Bailey played in 110 career games and scored a conference record 2,591 points, nearly 300 more than the next closest player. In his NCAA-leading junior season, he averaged 29.4 points per game, was named the Northeast Conference Player of the Year

Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

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, an honorable mention All-American

NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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 and was in his second of an unmatched three consecutive first team all-conference seasons. Bailey once had back-to-back 40 point games and was named Sports Illustrated

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s Player of the Week. The New York Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association twice named him to their All-Met team, and after his collegiate career ended, he was selected in the second round (42nd overall) in the 1987 NBA Draft

1987 NBA Draft

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 by the Atlanta Hawks

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. Bailey never played in the league, however, and today serves as a pre-school teacher in Trenton

Trenton, New Jersey

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