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Nation’s second highest scoring average in 1962-1963.
Won the Haggerty Award as the most outstanding player in the New York Metropolitan Area.
Helms, NEA, Basketball News 1st Team All-America 1962-1963.
Helms, Basketball News, Sporting News, Converse All-America 1963-1964.
Set the NYU record for points in a single game (42), and points in a season (657).
Graduated as the NYU All Time leading scorer with 1,667 points.
Member NYU Athletics Hall of Fame.
Barry Kramer was one of the greatest players in N.Y.U. history, and one of the greatest streak shooters in the history of college basketball.
When Barry was "in the zone," he was virtually unstoppable. Every shot he threw up, from every conceivable angle, found the bottom of the net as though it had eyes.
Barry played a hell-for-leather style. It was all-out, show no mercy basketball. He played it rough and tumble, with no holds barred, no Marquis of Queensbury rules. He dished it out, and he could take it too. He played with an open throttle, and always seemed to be in motion.
Although he was a forward, and could sometimes be found in the corners, or under the basket, he was an outside shooter, with a dead-on range past the top of the key. He was the very definition of a basketball bomber, and those bombs were deadly - to the opposition.
His main weapon was his jump shot, which he seemed to never shoot the same way twice. He had many different trajectories, from high and arcing, to straight line-drive delivery. Sometimes he banked it off the backboard, and sometimes it hit nothing but net.
There were times when he shot it in an orthodox style, in front of him, and times when he shot it from directly over his head. Sometimes he used both hands, and there were times when he held it in one hand.
He shot that jumper with a full-arm follow through, and he also shot it with a flick of his wrist, like a sling-shot.
He shot it in open space, and he shot it in heavy traffic with defenders surrounding him.
No matter how he put it up, it always seemed to go in. He was a virtual scoring machine for all his varsity seasons.
Barry Kramer was voted All Metropolitan for 3 consecutive years, and he won the Haggerty Award as the Most Outstanding Player in the New York Metropolitan Area.
As a junior, Barry was the nation’s second leading scorer with a 28.0 points per game average. He was named a concensus first team All-America. As a senior he was named Helms first team All America.
He finished his N.Y.U. career as the All Time leading scorer with 1,667 points, and set the school record for points in a single game with 42, and points in a season with 657.
Barry Kramer is a member of the NYU Athletics Hall of Fame.
Barry went on to play with the San Francisco Warriors and the New York Knicks in the NBA, and the New York Nets in the ABA.
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