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Adrian Oliver
The undisputed star of the San Jose State men’s basketball team, Adrian Oliver is an explosive scoring threat—the first one of those at SJSU in some time. At 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, Oliver looks boyish compared to some of the giants in college basketball, but don’t be fooled. At Modesto Christian High School, he played on the varsity team during his freshman year. By his senior year, Oliver became one of the most sought-after high school recruits for 2006, ranked No. 11 in California. The talented 22-year-old guard was selected for the All-Western Athletic Conference first team this month, after leading the WAC in scoring with a 22.5 points per game average this season. He scored a career-high 39 points in SJSU’s Jan. 21 win against Louisiana Tech. With all the buzz this young man is generating, and the fact that he’s pretty much carried the University’s lagging basketball team since he transferred to State from the University of Washington two years ago, Oliver has a crack at being the first player from San Jose to get into the NBA.
