Simpson "Skip" Brown Jr. (born January 21, 1955) is an American former college

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player and an assistant

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Wake Forest University Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The R ...

. Brown was also an

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player at Wake Forest. Brown, a 6'0"

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from

Dobyns-Bennett High School Dobyns-Bennett High School is a high school (grades 9–12) in Kingsport, Tennessee, United States. It typically educates around 2,400 students, although enrollment for the 2022–23 academic year exceeded 2,500 students. As a part of Kingsport ...

Kingsport, Tennessee Kingsport is a city in Sullivan and Hawkins counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It lies along the Holston River and had a population of 55,442 at the 2020 census. It is the largest city in the Kingsport–Bristol metropolitan area, ...

, played college basketball at Wake Forest. While there, he became one of the school's best all-time players. As a sophomore, Brown averaged 22.7 points and 6.8 assists per game and was named first team All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). As a senior, Brown again made first team All-ACC as he averaged 18.6 points and 6.2 assists per game and led the Demon Deacons to the Midwest Regional final of the

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, where they lost to eventual champion Marquette. In his career, Brown scored 2,034 points and in 1998 his number was retired by Wake Forest. After graduation, Brown was drafted in the third round (56th pick overall) of the

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by the

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. When he did not make the team's final roster, he focused his attention on a career in banking, although in 1978 he did play a few games for the Winston-Salem franchise of the now defunct All-American Basketball Alliance professional league before they folded. After a long career at

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, he co-founded and served as president of TriStone Community Bank and later First Community Bank. In September, 2013, Brown was hired as assistant athletic director for student-athlete development and operations finance at his alma mater, Wake Forest.

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