Player Bio: Anthony Grundy - NC State University Official Athletic Site

2 Anthony Grundy

	Class: Senior
	Hometown: Louisville, Ky.
	High School: Hargrave Military Academy

	Height / Weight: 6-3 / 185
	Position: Guard

Career Notes: Ranks seventh in school history with 169 career steals

Ranks 11th in Wolfpack career history in three-pointers made with 117, his 357 three-point attempts ranks 8th ... Posts two of the top 10 single season steals totals in school annals ... Has a reach of 6-6 (from fingertip to fingertip) the average person's reach is equal to their height ... Ranks 15th in ACC history with 1.94 steals per game for his career.

2000-2001: Ranked eighth in the ACC in scoring last season with 14.6 ppg. ... He also ranked 10th in the league in field goal percentage (.413), 13th in assists (3.28), 14th in assist-to-turnover raiot (1.44) and 14th in three-pointers made (1.55 per game) ... Tallied 63 assists for the season, the 10th-best mark in school history ... Dished out 11 assists versus Charleston Southern, the most for a Wolfpack player since Ishua Benjamin had 15 assists in December of 1997 ... Assigned to guard Penn State's Joe Crispin (a guard who was a first-team All-Big Ten performer and led that league in scoring this year), Grundy held him to nine points on 4-23 shooting ... Ranked 10th in the ACC in free throw percentage (76.5%) after shooting just 58.8% as a sophomore ... Went to the line a dozen times in the last 1:49 of the Penn State contest, he sank 11 of those shots, his 11 made free throws and 13 attempts were both career highs ... Ranked second in the ACC in steals with 2.17 per game ... Attempted 14 three-point shots agaomst Clemson on Jan. 13, which tied as the third-highest single game total in school history ... Hit the winning shot after rebounding a miss versus UNC Greensboro, he buzzer sounded while the ball was in the air ... Also hit a three-pointer with under a second left in the first half of that game ... Shot 50.8 percent through the first 11 games of the season, and 37.4 percent in ACC regular season play ... An honorable mention choice of the ACC All-Defensive team.

1999-00: Tallied 69 steals for the season, the sixth-highest single-season total in school history

Ranked third in the ACC in steals (2.1 per game)

Named to the league's All-Defensive team in a vote by the league's coaches

Drew 18 charges for the season and led the Pack in deflections

Led team in scoring at 12.5 ppg and posted 24 double-figure scoring efforts

Ranked among league leaders in scoring (14.0, 14th), three-point percentage (.333, 10th), and three-pointers per game (1.8, 6th) in conference play

Finished the year with three consecutive double-figure scoring games in the NIT vs. Ole Miss (March 23), Wake Forest (March 28) and Penn State (March 30)

After scoring just 10 points combined in games vs. Virginia (Feb. 12) and Wake Forest (Feb. 15), combined to score 55 points vs. Duke (Feb. 19) and Georgia Tech (Feb. 24)

Also added seven rebounds against the Blue Devils

Finished with a career-best 30 points vs. Wake Forest (March 28), going 11-of-16 from the field and 4-of-6 from three-point range

Had 18 points and five steals vs. Providence , his steal and ensuing layup with 29.7 seconds left sealed the Wolfpack's win

Finished with 18 points in the Pack's win at No. 19 Purdue, including seven points during a stretch in which NC State erased an 11-point deficit

Notched seven steals against Georgia , the fourth-highest single game total in school history.

1998-99: Finished the year with 37 steals (second on the team) despite not joining the team until midseason (after the fall semester)

The 37 steals ranks sixth all-time among NC State freshmen

Played his best at the end of the season, averaging 16 points and 7.8 rebounds in the Pack's final four games

Started the final 11 games of the season

Scored in double-figures in six of the final seven games of the year

Made the final basket in Reynolds Coliseum, draining a three-pointer with two-tenths of a second remaining

Had a career-high eight assists versus Providence

Named to the ACC All-Tournament second-team after scoring 33 points in two tourney contests vs. Wake Forest and No. 1 Duke

Had 19 points versus the Blue Devils ... Also talled 16 rebounds in the tournament and went 6-of-13 from behind the three-point arc

Played in his first game just a day after joining the team, finishing with five points and two assists in nine minutes vs. Winthrop.

High School: Prepped at Chatham (Va.) Hargrave Military, where he averaged 18 points and 11 assists for coach Scott Shepherd

Was second in scoring at the adidas Big-Time AAU Tournament in the summer of 1998, averaging 26.3 points per contest

Averaged 26.2 points per game as a senior at Bowling Green (Ky.) Warren Central High in 1997

According to Stephen Wacaser of Assists, Turnovers and Loose Balls and Clark Francis' HoopScoop, would have been ranked among the nation's top 30 players as a senior prospect

Originally signed with Bradley as a high school senior but was released from his national letter-of-intent

Signed with NC State during the 1998 fall signing period.

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