Ray Ragelis (2017) - Hall of Fame - Northwestern Athletics

Ray Ragelis

Induction:
2017
Class:
1951

Ray Ragelis earned All-America honors in 1951 after leading the Big Ten in scoring with an average of 19.1 points per game. He was the most recent Northwestern player to pace the conference in scoring until John Shurna did so in 2012.

Ragelis earned a first-team All-Big Ten selection his senior year after being named a second-team choice as a junior. He was a team captain as a senior and was honored as Northwestern’s MVP after each of his last two seasons. In his three years on the varsity squad, he posted a scoring average of 15.7 points per game which today still ranks tied for eighth in program history.

Ragelis scored a career-high and a then-Northwestern record 36 points in a 97-79 victory over Purdue on Jan. 27, 1951 in what was the highest-scoring Big Ten game to that point.

Following his Northwestern career, he was drafted in the second round as the 17th pick overall of the 1951 NBA Draft by the Rochester Royals. He played one season in the NBA for Rochester.