Todd Lehmann is an American former
basketball
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player. He played for
Drexel University
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for four years. In 1990, as a senior, he led the nation with 9.29 assists per game. His 260 total assists that season was a school record.
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drexeldragons.com. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
Lehmann was raised in
Riverside Township, New Jersey
Riverside Township is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 8,003, a decrease of 76 (−0.9%) from the 2010 census count of 8,079, which in turn r ...
and played high school basketball at
Holy Cross
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, where he and his sister both scored the 1,000th point of their career on the same night.
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Lehmann was later an assistant coach for ]Rowan University
Rowan University is a public research university in Glassboro, New Jersey, with a medical campus in Stratford and medical and academic campuses in Camden. Founded in 1923 as Glassboro Normal School on a site donated by 107 residents, the scho ...
for two seasons.[Narducci, Marc]
"Delran Names Lehmann Boys' Basketball Coach"
articles.philly.com. June 14, 2000. Retrieved January 22, 2013. In 2007, he was inducted into the Drexel Athletics Hall of Fame.
His father, George
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, played in the NBA and ABA for seven years.[Silary, Ted]
"It's In The Genes Like His Father, Dragons' Lehmann Is Able To Score From Long Range"
''The Philadelphia Inquirer
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'', November 21, 1989. Accessed December 2, 2013.
See also
*List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season assists leaders
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References
External links
Todd's Hall of Fame profile at Drexel University
Living people
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from New Jersey
Basketball players from Burlington County, New Jersey
Drexel Dragons men's basketball players
High school basketball coaches in New Jersey
Holy Cross Academy (New Jersey) alumni
People from Riverside Township, New Jersey
Point guards
Rowan Profs men's basketball coaches
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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