Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame
Eddie Jordan was the point guard and catalyst of the great Rutgers teams of the mid-1970's. "Fast Eddie" was the on-court general for the 1975-76 Scarlet Knights, who fashioned a perfect 26-0 regular season mark, reached the Final Four, and wound up with a record of 31-2. Jordan's name remains prominent in the RU record books. He is the all-time assist leader with 585 and steals leader with 220. Jordan is also the seventh-all-time leading scorer with 1,632 points. Drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the third round of the 1977 NBA draft, Jordan was later a member of the 1982 Los Angeles Lakers' NBA Championship team. In a career which also included stints with the New Jersey Nets and Portland Trailblazers, Jordan played in 420 NBA games, scored 3,414 career points and had a per-game average of 8.1. Jordan served five seasons as an assistant coach at Rutgers before later serving as head coach of the NBA's Sacramento Kings, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers. On April 23, 2013, he was named the 18th head coach in the history of the Rutgers men's basketball program.
