Kevin Bettencourt

Class:
Redshirt

Sport: Basketball

Kevin Bettencourt '06 was a two-year captain on some of Bucknell's best-ever men's basketball teams. A deadly outside shooter and terrific team leader, Bettencourt helped lead the Bison to Patriot League championships and NCAA Tournament first-round victories in 2005 and 2006. The 2005 team upset Kansas, marking the first NCAA Tournament win in school and Patriot League history. A year later, the Bison won a school-record 27 games, the last of which was an NCAA win over Arkansas, and earned a national top-25 ranking for the first time in school history.

After earning Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors in 2003, Bettencourt was a Second Team All-Patriot League selection in each of his next three seasons. He earned the team's Benton A. Kribbs Award as Team MVP in 2004 and 2006 and the Malcolm Musser Award for Leadership in 2005 and 2006.

Bettencourt started all 123 games in his four-year career and scored 1,577 career points, which ranked fourth in team history at the time of his graduation and now ranks fifth. He broke school records for made 3-pointers in a season and career, and his .832 free-throw percentage is third-best all-time. His 42-point game at Saint Francis early in the 2003-04 season is the second-highest single-game performance of the modern era and highest ever in a road game. Bettencourt hit five 3-pointers in each of Bucknell's two NCAA Tournament wins over Kansas and Arkansas.

(Hall of Fame Class of 2017)