STATISTICS & HISTORY
Floyd “Scotty” Hamilton was an all-state player for Grafton High in West Virginia. Hamilton was the roly-poly play-making star of of West Virginia’s 1942 NIT national championship team. In the tournament, Hamilton led the last-seeded Mountaineers to a monumental 58-49 overtime win against Coach Clair Bee’s Long Island squad, which came into the game with a 42-game winning streak. After topping Toledo 51-39 in the semifinals, Hamilton helped WVU upend Western Kentucky 47-45 in the championship game. The Mountaineers finished 19-4. Hamilton averaged 8.7 points per game to become West Virginia’s first-ever basketball All-America selection. In 1943, Hamilton joined the Navy and served in World War II. While in the Navy, Hamilton played 7 games of major league professional basketball for the Wilmington Bombers of the American Basketball League. He was head basketball coach at Washington & Lee for two seasons and was the long-time athletic director at Marietta (Ohio) High School.
| SCOTTY HAMILTON | Height: | 5:11 | Weight: | 190 | College: | West Virginia’43 | |||||
| Floyd Scott Hamilton | Born: Nov 21, 1921 | Died: Apr 11, 1976 | Hometown: | Grafton, WV | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1939-40 | West Virginia (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | West Virginia | College | 19 | 62 | 28 | 57 | .491 | 152 | 8.0 | ||
| 1941-42 | West Virginia | College | 23 | 84 | 33 | 47 | .702 | 201 | 8.7 | ||
| 1942-43 | West Virginia | College | 21 | 92 | 39 | 64 | .609 | 223 | 10.6 | ||
| 1943-50 | Military Service | ||||||||||
| 1944-45 | Wilmington | ABL | 7 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 3.6 | ||||
| 1946-47 | San Diego Tecate Dons | AAU | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 3.6 | |||
| PLAYOFF RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1944-45 | Wilmington | ABL | 3 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 3.7 | ||||
| Major League Totals | 3 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 3.7 | ||||||