Few outside of Los Angeles (and few from Los Angeles) are familiar with tiny Div III Occidental College, though it produced some memorable NFL players and coaches such as retired coach Jim Mora ("Playoffs?!) and qb/ex-Senator Jack Kemp, not to mention succesful Hollywood types. The school also may have produced a future US President: Barack Obama attended the school from 1978-1980 and was the school's leading scorer in basketball in 1979. Now, you did NOT know that. Obama was considered a "George Gervin type" by one ex-coach I spoke to, but I wonder why it gets no mention.

Further research is needed.  The years may be off.

The eighth or ninth man on Punahou High School's 1979 state championship team in Hawaii, Obama started for Occidental College in the early '80s, played those Harvard pickup games and on the day of his swearing-in as a U.S. Senator said he felt like a first-round NBA draft choice finally getting onto a court to play.