Pat Spencer (basketball)

Patrick Andrew Spencer is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA G League.

He played college basketball for the Northwestern Wildcats and is also a former college lacrosse player for the Loyola Greyhounds.

Spencer attended Boys' Latin School of Maryland, where he lettered in both lacrosse and basketball.

As a senior, he averaged 14.3 points, 8.1 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 2.3 steals per game.

Bob Shriver was Pat Spencer's coach at Boy's Latin.

In his sophomore year he was 5-foot-6 playing on the junior varsity lacrosse.

In his junior year, he grew to be 6-foot-2, 190 pounds and played on varsity lacrosse.

His hometown was Davidsonville, Md. In high school, he took USLacrosse Highschool All American.

He earned four varsity letters for basketball and lacrosse.

He also played for the Under Armour Underclass All-American team Baltimore in 2014.

He scored 49 goals and had 51 assists as a senior and 30 goals and 30 assists as a junior.

During Spencer's four years at Loyola, the team compiled a record of 49 wins and 19 losses, with the 2016 squad compiling a 14–4 record and reaching the NCAA Final Four.

Spencer holds the NCAA Division I record for career assists with 231 assists, as well as The Patriot League record for career points with 380.

In 2016 he took league first-team honoree for rookie-of-the-year trophy.

He graduated from Loyola with a Bachelor of Business Finance.

In an interview hosted by Paul Carcaterra, an ESPN lacrosse game analyst and sideline reporter, Carcaterra talked to Pat Spencer about college lacrosse and his background in basketball.

Paul asks, "How big of an impact has hoops had on your lacrosse career".

Pat responded, "Definitely a big impact, I think any time you play another sport a lot of it translates over".

Later in the video, when Paul and Pat were shooting hoops, Spencer added, "Basketball and lacrosse are very similar, in terms of facing and trying to draw a guy and find your open teammates".

Spencer used his college graduate year eligibility to play basketball at Northwestern University.

He averaged 10.4 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game.

Spencer received the Lt. Raymond Enners Award as the USILA national player of the year and the Jack Turnbull Award as the nation's top attackman in 2019.

Spencer also received the Tewaaraton Award, regarded as the Heisman Trophy for NCAA DI lacrosse, as a junior.

As a senior on attack he also ranked No.2 on all-time points list behind Lyle Thompson.

He was a four-time All-American and the first Patriot League men's lacrosse player to receive the Tewaaraton award.

At Loyola, his head coach was Charley Toomey.

In his first two collegiate games he scored eight combined points in wins over Virginia and Johns Hopkins University.

Spencer was elected first overall in the Premier Lacrosse League's Inaugural 2019 Collegiate Draft by Archers LC (Now known as the Utah Archers of the PLL), but he did not dress nor practice with the team, opting instead to pursue a collegiate career in basketball upon graduating from Loyola.

When the remainder of his grad season at Northwestern was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Spencer joined the Hamburg Towers in Germany, and averaged 9.2 points and 3.6 rebounds in five games.

On October 25, 2021, Spencer signed with the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League.

On July 25, 2022, Spencer signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Golden State Warriors.

On October 24, 2022, Spencer joined the Santa Cruz Warriors training camp roster.

On November 29, 2023, Spencer rejoined Santa Cruz and on February 22, 2024, he signed a two-way contract with Golden State.

On February 25, Spencer made his NBA debut against the Denver Nuggets.