This draft list is courtesy of APBR (Association for Professional Basketball Research). Check back as each list is converted into The Draft Review's enhanced format currently displayed with the 1988-2005 drafts, featuring player profiles, draft trades and in-depth reviews. 1952 DRAFT 26Apr52 Milwaukee, WI T-Territorial Choice DRAFT NOTE: Holding their seventh annual draft session here to select players for next season, declined for the first time to reveal the order of their choices "Because it would give our opposition an idea of who we think are the best collegiate prospects."
Source: The Lima News 4/27/1952 KNOWN SELECTIONS: Third Round 27 BOS JC Maze SW Texas Fourth Round 37 BOS Herm Hedderick Canisius Fifth Round 47 BOS Don Johnson Oklahoma State Sixth Round 57 BOS Jim Buchanan Nebraska Seventh Round 67 BOS Fred Eydt Cornell Eighth Round 77 BOS Gordon Mungier Spring Hill Ninth Round 87 BOS Jim Dilling Holy Cross Tenth Round 97 BOS Gene Conley Washington State Remaining Draftees - By Team Baltimore Blaine Denning Lawrence Chuck Grisgby Dayton Frank Guisness Washington Bill Lea SW Missouri Art Press Western Maryland Bob Priddy New Mexico A&M Benny Purcell Murray State Bud Penwell Oklahoma City Mike Magula Youngstown Bud Peterson Oregon Jim Walsh Stanford Fort Wayne Bill Carlson Fordham Hal Cerra Duquesne Bob Clifton Iowa Leo Corkery St. Bonaventure Lee Terrill North Carolina State Jim Ramstead Stanford Indianapolis Jay Handlan Washington & Lee Bill Harrell Siena Jim Hoverder Central Missouri State Gene Rhodes Western Kentucky Dale Toft Denver Lucian Whitaker Kentucky Gordon Stauffer Michigan State Milwaukee Pete Brewster Purdue Roger Johnson Arizona George McLeod Texas Christian Ab Nicholas Wisconsin Dick Retherford Baldwin-Wallace John Snee Clemson Jim Tackett New Mexico Coyt Vance Mississippi State Bob Watson Kentucky Minneapolis Tom Ackerman West Liberty Jim Bishop Mississippi Southern Rod Fletcher Illinois Cliff Haag Wyoming Jim Holstein Cincinnati Bob Holt Tulane Tom Katsimpalis Eastern Illinois Dick Means Minnesota Dwight Morrison USC Carl McNulty Purdue Ed Ramiraz Centenary Don Schneider Arizona Gene Smith Xavier (OH) Gene Smith Huron Homer Spain Union (TN) John Wallesea Memphis State New York Roy Belliveau Seton Hall Dick Bunt New York University Bert Cook Utah State Ben Gibson St. Mary's (CA) Bud Julian SW Missouri State Paul Sullivan Alabama Dick Surhoff Long Island Philadelphia Tom Brennan Villanova Bob Brown Louisville Burr Carlson Connecticut Nick Kladis Loyola (IL) Newt Jones La Salle Moe Radovich Wyoming Don Scanlon Penn Glenn Smith Utah Ben Stewart Villanova Rochester Bryant Ivey Alabama Leroy Leslie Notre Dame Ronnie MacGilvray St. John's Jewell McDowell Texas A&M Jack McMahon St. John's Sam Miranda Indiana Jerry Romney Brigham Young Ray Royce Houston Arnold Smith CCNY Ray Sonnenberg St. Louis Ray Steiner St. Louis Bob Whitmer Florida State Syracuse Jim Brasco New York University Bud Donnelly La Salle Jim Kennedy Duquesne Ken McBride Maryland State Harry Moore West Virginia Bob Roche Syracuse