STATISTICS & HISTORY
Tom Wukovits was a basketball star at Riley High School in South Bend, Indiana. In remained in South Bend to play basketball for Notre Dame University. During his three years of varsity basketball, the Irish posted a 62-8 record. Wukovits began playing professional basketball in 1938, with the Akron Firestones, who went on to win the National Basketball League championship, with Wukovits in a supporting role.
| TOM WUKOVITS | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 180 | College: | Notre Dame’38 | |||||
| Thomas William Wukovits | Born: Feb 4, 1916 | Died: Nov 2, 1991 | Hometown: | South Bend, In. | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1934-35 | Notre Dame (Frosh) | College | |||||||||
| 1935-36 | Notre Dame | College | |||||||||
| 1936-37 | Notre Dame | College | |||||||||
| 19373-38 | Notre Dame | College | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Did Not Play | ||||||||||
| 1939-40 | Akron Firestone | NBL | 22 | 18 | 15 | 51 | 2.3 | ||||
| 1940-41 | Akron Firestone | NBL | 24 | 54 | 45 | 69 | .652 | 153 | 6.4 | ||
| 1941-42 | Toledo | NBL | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1.3 | ||||
| 1941-42 | East Liverpool Fleetwings | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | Rochester Eber-Segrams | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | Akron Collegians | Indep | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Akron Collegians | Indep | |||||||||
| 1944-45 | Cleveland | NBL | 26 | 85 | 74 | 101 | .733 | 244 | 9.4 | ||
| 1945-46 | Cleveland | NBL | 33 | 76 | 79 | 124 | .637 | 231 | 7.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 108 | 235 | 213 | 683 | 6.3 | ||||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1939-40 | Akron Firestone | NBL | 8 | 14 | 5 | 33 | 4.1 | ||||
| 1940-41 | Akron Firestone | NBL | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4.5 | ||||
| 1944-45 | Cleveland | NBL | 2 | 5 | 12 | 22 | 11.0 | ||||
| 1944-45 | Cleveland | WBT | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .500 | 1 | 1.0 | ||
| 1945-46 | Cleveland | WBT | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 2 | 2.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 14 | 22 | 23 | 67 | 4.8 | ||||||