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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1972)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Lou Roe
| image           = 
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| caption         = 
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 7
| weight_lb       = 220
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1972|07|14}}
| birth_place     = [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], U.S.
| high_school     = [[Atlantic City High School|Atlantic City]]<br>(Atlantic City, New Jersey)
| college         = [[UMass Minutemen basketball|UMass]] (1991–1995)
| draft_year      = 1995
| draft_round     = 2
| draft_pick      = 30
| draft_team      = [[Detroit Pistons]]
| career_start    = 1995
| career_end      = 2012
| career_position = [[Power forward]]
| career_number   = 3, 21
| years1          = {{nbay|1995|full=y}}
| team1           = [[Detroit Pistons]]
| years2          = {{nbay|1996|full=y}}
| team2           = [[Golden State Warriors]]
| years3          = 1997–1998
| team3           = [[CB Málaga|Málaga]]
| years4          = 1998
| team4           = [[Rockford Lightning]]
| years5          = 1998–1999
| team5           = [[Pallacanestro Cantù|Cantù]]
| years6          = 1999–2000
| team6           = [[Quad City Thunder]]
| years7          = 2000
| team7           = [[CB Inca|Inca]]
| years8          = 2000–2002
| team8           = [[Gijón Baloncesto|Gijón]]
| years9          = 2002–2004
| team9           = [[CB Lucentum Alicante|Lucentum Alicante]]
| years10         = 2004–2006
| team10          = [[Real Betis Baloncesto|Caja San Fernando]]
| years11         = 2006–2007
| team11          = [[Seoul SK Knights|Seoul Knights]]
| years12         = 2007
| team12          = [[CB Alcúdia|Palma]]
| years13         = 2007
| team13          = [[Saski Baskonia|Baskonia]]
| years14         = 2007–2008
| team14          = Palma
| years15         = 2008
| team15          = [[CB Murcia|Murcia]]
| years16         = 2008–2009
| team16          = [[San Sebastián Gipuzkoa BC|Gipuzkoa]]
| years17         = 2009–2010
| team17          = [[Tenerife CB|Tenerife]]
| years18         = 2010–2011
| team18          = [[Halcones UV Xalapa|Halcones Xalapa]]
| years19         = 2011–2012
| team19          = [[Regatas Corrientes]]
| highlights      = 
* 2× [[ACB statistical leaders|Spanish League Top Scorer]] (2004, 2006)
* [[ACB Most Valuable Player Award|Spanish League MVP]] ([[2000–01 ACB season|2001]])
* [[All-Liga ACB Team|All-Spanish League Team]] (2004)
* Consensus second-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1995 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1995]])
* Third-team All-American – [[National Association of Basketball Coaches|NABC]] ([[1994 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1994]])
* [[Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|Atlantic 10 Player of the Year]] (1995)
* 3× First-team All-[[Atlantic 10 Conference|Atlantic 10]] (1993–1995)
* No. 15 [[UMass Minutemen basketball#Retired numbers|retired by UMass Minutemen]]
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{USA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Goodwill Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1994 Goodwill Games|1994 St. Petersburg]] | [[United States national basketball team|National team]]}}
}}

'''Louis Marquel Roe''' (born July 14, 1972) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player who played in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA) and the Spanish [[Liga ACB]], among other leagues. He was an [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] college player at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] (UMass).

==College playing career==
Roe played [[college basketball]] for the [[UMass Minutemen basketball|UMass Minutemen]], where in 1995, he was the [[Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|Atlantic 10 Player of the Year]], and a consensus second-team All-American.

==Professional playing career==
Roe was selected by the [[Detroit Pistons]], in the second round (30th pick overall) of the [[1995 NBA draft]]. Roe played in two NBA seasons with the Pistons and [[Golden State Warriors]]. In his brief NBA career, he appeared in 66 games, and scored a total of 130 points.

After his NBA career wound up, Roe played professionally in Spain, the [[Continental Basketball Association]] (CBA), Italy, South Korea, Mexico and Argentina.

==Post playing career==
Roe was working with his alma mater's men's team in an administrative role, assisting his former UMass teammate and former [[head coach]], [[Derek Kellogg]].<ref name="UMASS">Former Minuteman Lou Roe excited to join Derek Kellogg's staff at UMass, Daily Hampshire Gazette [http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/08/22/former-minuteman-lou-roe-will-return-to-umass-to-assist-derek-kellogg]</ref> In January 2021, Roe was named head coach of the Putnam Vocational Technical Academy in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-01-20 |title=Putnam coaching job 'checked the box' for Lou Roe's career, family |url=https://www.masslive.com/highschoolsports/2021/01/former-umass-star-lou-roe-head-coach-job-at-putnam-checked-the-box-for-him-his-career-and-his-family.html |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=Masslive |language=en}}</ref>

== Education ==
Lou Roe is an undergraduate student at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] through the [[University Without Walls]] program.<ref name=UMASS/>

== Honors ==
* [[ACB Most Valuable Player Award|Spanish League MVP]]: ([[2000–01 ACB season|2001]])
* 2× [[ACB statistical leaders|Spanish League Top Scorer]]: (2004, 2006)

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Basketballstats |nba= 691 |bbr= r/roelo01 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120529223855/http://www.acb.com/jugador.php?id=A09 Spanish League Profile] {{in lang|es}}
* [http://web.legabasket.it/player/?id=ROE-LOU-72 Italian League Profile] {{in lang|it}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120223080309/http://umasshoops.com/cgi-bin/frameset.cgi?frame1=column.htm&frame2=%2Fhistory%2Falumni%2Flou_roe%2Findex.htm&title=UMassHoops.com UMass College Bio]

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