Wofford basketball power forward Lee Skinner is turning professional. He is headed for Austria to play for WBC Raiffeisen Wels.
They last won the Austrian national championship in 2009. Mark Hauser, voice of the Wofford Terriers, doesn’t know a thing about pro basketball in the high Alps, but he believes that WBC Raiffeisen Wels just upped their stock in terms of winning a title this year.
The numbers on Skinner during his senior were robust: 9.9 ppg and a team-best 5.7 rpg. The accolades were very good: two-time All-Southern Conference and, this past March, SoCon Tournament Most Outstanding Player.
But Lee’s success goes far beyond what you read on a page or stat sheet. He was the heart-and-soul of the Terriers. A guy who did blue collar things and played the game like, in the words of a pitcher who Hauser once knew, “the other team was trying to take groceries off his family’s table.” I use the word ‘family’ because Lee uses it all the time and in all the right ways.
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Mark Hauser, president of Hausercasting Services and the “Voice of the Wofford Terriers,” posted this report on Lee Skinner ’15 in his Open Mic Daily blog.