DARYEL GARRISON
Basketball, 1971-75
Inducted March 1, 1986

The all-time leading scorer in SMSU basketball history, Daryel Garrison played for Coach Bill Thomas and the Bears between 1971 and 1975.  He led SMSU in scoring each of his last three seasons, scoring 16.5 points a game as a sophomore, 20.6 as a junior and 22.2 as a senior.  The Kansas City, KS native also led the team in free throw shooting as a junior and received MIAA all-conference first team recognition each of his last three years.  Bruin co-captain as a senior, he earned a spot on the NCAA regional all-tournament team in both 1973 and 1974 and on the MIAA all-tournament team his last three years.  Garrison played for MIAA championship team as a sophomore and junior as the ’73 Bears were 20-8 and captured third place in the North Central Regional.  The following year, SMSU dumped defending national champion Kentucky Wesleyan for the regional championship and went on to beat St. Joseph’s College and the University of New Orleans before losing to Morgan State in the NCAA Division II national title game.  Garrison earned honorable mention All-American as both a junior and senior from the National Association of Basketball Coaches and he was named the Most Valuable Player in the NCAA regional and the MIAA’s Most Valuable Player in1974.  Garrison was named to the NABC Coaches All-Star Game in 1975 and received the guy Thompson Award at SMSU in 1976.  He set SMSU records for games played in a career (107), minutes played in a season (1,084 in 1973-74), field goals in a career (830), field goal attempts in a career (1,755) and in 1975 he broke the SMSU single game and career scoring records with the same basket in the 130-106 win over Central Missouri State in his senior season.  That top single game effort was 41 points and his career point total was 1,975.