After an outstanding two-year career for the Cardinal basketball team in the late 1980s, Van Exel went on to star at the University of Cincinnati and play professionally for six teams in a 13-year NBA career, including the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers.
  While playing for the Cardinals, he was considered one of the top scoring threats in the Texas Eastern Conference and consistently scored more than 20 points in games.  His career-high scoring game at the college was 25 points.
  In his junior season at Cincinnati, he helped the Bearcats to the Final Four in the NCAA tournament.
  He currently ranks sixth all-time in NBA career three-pointers with 1,528. He finished in the top 15 in assists in eight of 13 seasons. Van Exel was an NBA all-star in 1998.