Monte Towe
Basketball
Towe attended Oak Hill High School in Converse, Indiana. He was the starting point guard on North Carolina State\'s 1974 NCAA championship team, and also played varsity baseball for NC State, earning All-ACC recognition in basketball and playing on conference championship teams in both sports. In 1975, the 5\'7" (1.7 m) Towe received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the year\'s best college player under 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. Monte Towe and David Thompson are credited with "inventing" the alley-oop. Because dunking was illegal at the time, Towe would throw the ball to Thompson while he was in the air and Thompson would gently drop the ball in the basket. Towe was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in the third round of the 1975 ABA Draft and by the Atlanta Hawks in the fourth round of the 1975 NBA Draft. Towe joined Thompson in signing with Denver, for whom he played in 1976 in the fi…
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