Louisville basketball legend Phil Rollins, who led U of L to 1956 NIT championship, dies
David Harten
Phil Rollins, a Louisville basketball legend who helped lead the Cardinals to the 1956 NIT championship, died Monday at the age of 87.
The Louisville men's basketball program sent out a release confirming the news.
A native of Wickliffe, Rollins score 1,060 career points and helped U of L to an 89-24 record from 1952-56. He was inducted into the Louisville Athletics Hall of Fame in 1979 and is one of 20 former Louisville players with their name hanging in the rafters at the KFC Yum Center.
After leaving Louisville, Rollins was drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors in the second round of the 1956 NBA Draft, playing a total of five professional seasons between the NBA and ABL.
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