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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1954)}}
{{For|the baseball player|Scott May (baseball)}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Scott May
| image           = Scott_May_IU.jpg
| width           = 
| caption         = May in the 1975–76 season at Indiana.
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 7
| weight_lb       = 215
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1954|03|19}}
| birth_place     = [[Sandusky, Ohio]], U.S.
| high_school     = [[Sandusky High School|Sandusky]] (Sandusky, Ohio)
| college         = [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana]] (1973–1976)
| draft_year      = 1976
| draft_round     = 1
| draft_pick      = 2
| draft_team      = [[Chicago Bulls]]
| career_start    = 1976
| career_end      = 1988
| career_number   = 17, 42, 7, 24
| career_position = [[Small forward]]
| years1          = {{nbay|1976|start}}–{{nbay|1980|end}}
| team1           = [[Chicago Bulls]]
| years2          = {{nbay|1981|full=y}}
| team2           = [[Milwaukee Bucks]]
| years3          = {{nbay|1982|start}}
| team3           = [[Detroit Pistons]]
| years4          = 1983
| team4           = [[Basket Brescia|Cidneo Brescia]]
| years5          = 1983–1986
| team5           = [[Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino|Berloni Torino]]
| years6          = 1986
| team6           = [[Virtus Banco di Roma]]
| years7          = 1986–1988
| team7           = [[Libertas Livorno|Enichem Livorno]]
| highlights      = 
* [[NBA All-Rookie First Team]] ({{nbay|1976|end}})
* [[List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball champions|NCAA champion]] ([[1976 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1976]])
* [[Naismith College Player of the Year]] (1976)
* [[Adolph Rupp Trophy]] (1976)
* [[Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year|Helms Foundation Player of the Year]] (1976)
* [[Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year|AP College Player of the Year]] (1976)
* [[NABC Player of the Year]] (1976)
* [[UPI College Basketball Player of the Year|UPI College Player of the Year]] (1976)
* [[Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year|''Sporting News'' College Player of the Year]] (1976)
* 2× Consensus first-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1975 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1975]], [[1976 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1976]])
| stats_league    = NBA 
| stat1label      = [[Point (basketball)|Points]]
| stat1value      = 3,690 (10.4 ppg)
| stat2label      = [[Rebound (basketball)|Rebounds]]
| stat2value      = 1,450 (4.1 rpg)
| stat3label      = [[Assist (basketball)|Assists]]
| stat3value      = 610 (1.7 apg)
| CBBASKHOF_year  = 2017
| medal_templates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{flagu|United States}} }}
{{MedalOlympics}}
{{MedalGold | [[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montreal]]| [[Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics|Team competition]]}}
}}
'''Scott Glenn May''' (born March 19, 1954) is an American former professional [[basketball]] player. As a college player at [[Indiana University]], May led the Hoosiers to an undefeated record and national championship in the [[1975–76 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1975–76 season]]. He was a two-time first-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] and was named the [[List of U.S. men's college basketball national player of the year awards|national player of the year]] in his senior season. May also won a gold medal at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]].

== College career ==
Born in [[Sandusky, Ohio]], Scott May played as a 6'7" forward for [[Bob Knight]] and the [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana University Hoosiers]] from 1973 to 1976. "Our group knew what we wanted. We were going to do whatever it took to win it all."<ref name="SI">{{cite news|last=O'Keefe|first=John|title=Scott May, Indiana All-America|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018433/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219020740/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018433/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 19, 2013|access-date=25 April 2012|newspaper=Sports Illustrated|date=5 April 1976}}</ref>

In his last two seasons with the school, [[1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1974–75]] and [[1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1975–76]], the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games. The [[1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1974–75]] Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game. However, in an 83–82 win against [[Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball|Purdue]], May broke his left arm. With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to [[1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team|Kentucky]] 92–90 in the [[1975 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|Mideast Regional]]. The Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters – May, [[Steve Green (basketball)|Steve Green]], [[Kent Benson]] and [[Quinn Buckner]] – would make the five-man All-Big Ten team. The following season, [[1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1975–76]], the Hoosiers went the entire season and [[1976 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1976 NCAA tournament]] without a single loss, beating [[1975–76 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team|Michigan]] 86–68 in the title game. Indiana remains the last school to accomplish this feat.<ref>{{cite news | first=Dave | last=Dorr | url=http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/trends/150673.html | title=A perfect season | work=sportingnews.com | date=1976-04-10 | access-date=2008-03-28 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000229072546/http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/sports2000/trends/150673.html | archive-date=2000-02-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/sports/hh/1976/| title=Hoosier Historia | work=heraldtimesonline.com | access-date=28 March 2008 }}</ref>

May was the [[1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|1975–76]] team's leading scorer, "its most dependable clutch scorer, and an outstanding defensive player and rebounder, too."<ref name="Glory of Old IU 220">{{cite book|last1=Hammel|first1=Bob|last2=Klingelhoffer|first2=Kit|title=The Glory of Old Iu: 100 Years of Indiana Athletics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uobLCQZlhAC|access-date=2012-04-24|year=1999|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=1-58261-068-1|page=156}}</ref> He was named NCAA men's basketball National Player of the Year in 1976. He won a [[gold medal]] as a member of the [[United States men's national basketball team|United States basketball team]] in the [[1976 Summer Olympics]]. May graduated from Indiana in the standard four years with a degree in education.

== Professional career ==
The [[Chicago Bulls]] chose May with the second overall pick in the [[1976 NBA draft]]. He made the NBA All-Rookie team after averaging 14.2 points for the Bulls. Injuries kept him to seven seasons in the NBA, scoring 3,690 points and pulling down 1,450 rebounds. He went on to play seven more years in Europe with Brescia, Torino, Rome and Livorno in the Italian league.

== Personal life ==
He is now known as one of  the biggest  apartment owners in the Bloomington area  employing several hundred employees.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} May had two sons – Scott May Jr. and [[Sean May]] – who continued his tradition of basketball play. Scott Jr. played for the [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana basketball team]] that made the NCAA title game in 2002. His younger son, [[Sean May|Sean]], helped [[North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball|North Carolina]] win a national championship in 2005 and played for the NBA [[Sacramento Kings]] and [[Charlotte Bobcats]]. May and Sean are one of four father-son duos to each win an NCAA basketball championship.<ref group=note>The others are [[Marques Johnson|Marques]] and [[Kris Johnson (basketball)|Kris Johnson]], [[Henry Bibby|Henry]] and [[Mike Bibby]], and [[Derek Smith (basketball)|Derek]] and [[Nolan Smith]].</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler and a Crystal Ball Oliver Purnell Pursuing Greener Pastures Roy Halladay Deal Good for Baseball?|date=April 6, 2010|publisher=ESPN|url=https://www.espn.com/blog/sportscenter/post/_/id/42305/9a-etnolan-smith-and-kyle-singler-and-a-crystal-balloliver-purnell-pursuing-greener-pasturesroy-halladay-deal-good-for-baseball|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140123052930/http://espn.go.com/blog/sportscenter/post/_/id/42305/9a-etnolan-smith-and-kyle-singler-and-a-crystal-balloliver-purnell-pursuing-greener-pasturesroy-halladay-deal-good-for-baseball|archive-date=January 23, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Career statistics==
{{NBA player statistics legend}}

===NBA===
====Regular season====
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|-
| align="left" | [[1976–77 NBA season|1976–77]]
| align="left" | [[1976-77 Chicago Bulls season|Chicago]]
| '''72''' || - || '''32.9''' || .451 || - || .828 || '''6.1''' || 2.0 || '''1.1''' || '''0.2''' || '''14.6'''
|-
| align="left" | [[1977–78 NBA season|1977–78]]
| align="left" | [[1977-78 Chicago Bulls season|Chicago]]
| 55 || - || 32.8 || .454 || - || .810 || 6.0 || '''2.1''' || 0.9 || 0.1 || 13.4
|-
| align="left" | [[1978–79 NBA season|1978–79]]
| align="left" | [[1978-79 Chicago Bulls season|Chicago]]
| 37 || - || 10.9 || .434 || - || .750 || 1.7 || 1.1 || 0.6 || 0.0 || 4.0
|-
| align="left" | [[1979–80 NBA season|1979–80]]
| align="left" | [[1979-80 Chicago Bulls season|Chicago]]
| 54 || - || 24.0 || .450 || .000 || '''.837''' || 4.0 || 1.9 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 12.4
|-
| align="left" | [[1980–81 NBA season|1980–81]]
| align="left" | [[1980-81 Chicago Bulls season|Chicago]]
| 63 || - || 12.9 || .488 || .000 || .758 || 2.5 || 1.0 || 0.6 || 0.1 || 7.0
|-
| align="left" | [[1981–82 NBA season|1981–82]]
| align="left" | [[1981-82 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| 65 || '''7''' || 18.3 || '''.508''' || .000 || .824 || 3.4 || 2.0 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 9.0
|-
| align="left" | [[1982–83 NBA season|1982–83]]
| align="left" | [[1982-83 Detroit Pistons season|Detroit]]
| 9 || 1 || 17.2 || .420 || .000 || .810 || 2.9 || 1.3 || 0.6 || '''0.2''' || 6.6
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 355 || <u>8</u> || 22.6 || .462 || .000 || .811 || 4.1 || 1.7 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 10.4
|}

====Playoffs====
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| align="left" | [[1976–77 NBA season|1976–77]]
| align="left" | [[1976-77 Chicago Bulls season|Chicago]]
| 3 || - || '''32.3''' || '''.385''' || - || '''.800''' || '''4.7''' || 1.0 || '''2.7''' || '''0.7''' || '''10.7'''
|-
| align="left" | [[1981–82 NBA season|1981–82]]
| align="left" | [[1981-82 Milwaukee Bucks season|Milwaukee]]
| '''4''' || - || 12.5 || .200 || .000 || .643 || 2.8 || '''2.5''' || 0.5 || 0.0 || 4.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 7 || - || 21.0 || .304 || .000 || .724 || 3.6 || 1.9 || 1.4 || 0.3 || 7.0
|}

===College===
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| align="left" | [[1973–74 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1973–74]]
| align="left" | [[1973-74 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|Indiana]]
| 28 || - || - || .492 || - || .768 || 5.4 || 1.5 || - || - || 12.5
|-
| align="left" | [[1974–75 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1974–75]]
| align="left" | [[1974-75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|Indiana]]
| 30 || - || - || .510 || - || .766 || 6.6 || 1.9 || - || - || 16.3
|-
| align="left" | [[1975–76 NCAA Division I men's basketball season|1975–76]]
| align="left" | [[1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team|Indiana]]
| '''32''' || - || - || '''.527''' || - || '''.782''' || '''7.7''' || '''2.1''' || - || - || '''23.5'''
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 90 || - || - || .513 || - || .774 || 6.6 || 1.8 || - || - || 17.7
|}

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

==References==
{{reflist}}
NCAA, NCAA March Madness: Cinderellas, Superstars, and Champions from the NCAA men's Final Four : Chicago: Triumph Books, 2004. {{ISBN|1-57243-665-4}}

==External links and sources==
*[https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/maysc01.html Scott May statistics]
*[http://195.56.77.208/player/?id=MAY-SCO Scott May] [[Lega Basket Serie A|Serie A]] statistics.

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