Honor Roll

Jim Lacy (LOY)

Jim Lacy

  • Class
    1949
  • Induction
    2012
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Basketball
Jim Lacy will forever be known as the first player in NCAA history to score 2,000 career points, and he remains Loyola's all-time leading scorer with 2,199. His 796 career field goals are also a school record. In 1947, Lacy scored 676 points in a single season, including 44 points in a single game, a feat he managed to accomplish four decades before the introduction of the three-point line. He finished second in the country in scoring in 1947. From 1946 to 1949, the Greyhounds won a combined 69 games and three league titles with Lacy on the roster. He also played for the legendary Lefty Reitz, who won 349 games and 11 Mason Dixon Conference titles during his 23 seasons with the Greyhounds. Lacy served in the Navy during World War II from 1944-1946. He was drafted in the now-defunct Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1949, but decided not to play. Lacy was also a former Fire Commissioner of Baltimore City.