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Lawrence Westbrook

American basketball player

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American basketball player

Field	Value
image	File:Lawrence Westbrook.jpg
name	Lawrence Westbrook
position	Point guard
height_ft	6
height_in	0
weight_lbs	185
birth_date
birth_place	Chandler, Arizona, U.S.
highschool	Chandler
(Chandler, Arizona)
Winchendon Prep
(Winchendon, Massachusetts)
college	Minnesota (2006–2010)
draft_year	2010
career_start	2010
career_end	2014
years1	2010–2011
team1	Maine Red Claws
years2	2011
team2	Dakota Wizards
years3	2011
team3	Texas Legends
years4	2012–2013
team4	Kazrin/Galil
years5	2013
team5	Neckar Riesen Ludwigsburg
years6	2014
team6	U-Mobitelco Cluj-Napoca

(Chandler, Arizona) Winchendon Prep (Winchendon, Massachusetts)

Lawrence Westbrook (born January 17, 1988) is an American professional basketball point guard. As a senior with the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team, he averaged 12.2 points per game in the 2008–09 season, and was the Golden Gophers' leading scorer.

He is also the cousin of former NFL player Brian Westbrook.

High school career

As a junior at Chandler High School in Chandler, Arizona, he led the nation in scoring with 41.0 points per contest. He had 883 points in just 22 games that season. He then transferred to Winchendon Prep High in Winchendon, Massachusetts as a senior, where he averaged 19.0 points per game as a senior. Rivals.com named him the 75th best high school basketball player of the decade. He signed with the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the fall of 2005.

College career

Westbrook was leading scorer for the Gophers in the 2008–09 season. He has started almost every game in both his sophomore and junior seasons. In a January 15, 2009 overtime win against the Wisconsin Badgers at the Kohl Center, he had a season-high 29 points, including nine in the extra session, while going 10-for-16 from the field (including 7-of-7 from the free-throw line and 2-for-2 from beyond the arc). He also hit the game-tying 3-pointer with 2 seconds remaining in regulation.

College statistics

2008–09	Minnesota	29	23	24.1	.421	.361	.857	2.6	1.6	0.7	0.1	12.2

Notes

References

(July 2024)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20201205045606/https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=290150275 Westbrook hits tying 3-pointer, then scores nine in OT to lift Gophers]

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