Mac McClung

Mac McClung was born on 6 January 2000(25 years old) in United States. Mac McClung is Basketball Player, Zodiac sign - Capricorn. More detail about Mac McClung given below.

Mac McClung Timeline

• 2017
  

  McClung first started dunking as a sophomore playing varsity basketball at Gate City High School. He grew in profile as an acrobatic dunker through the rest of his high school career. MaxPreps labeled him "one of nationu0027s most exciting players." As a junior, on February 24, 2017, he scored a career-high 64 points in a loss to Dan River High School at the Virginia High School League (VHSL) Region 2A West tournament. It was the best scoring performance in school history and the highest among Virginia public schools since 1984. After the season, he was averaging 29.0 points, 5.5 assists, and 3.0 steals per game for the Blue Devils and was tabbed Southwest Virginia Boysu0027 Basketball Player of the Year by the Bristol Herald Courier. In the summer, he committed to play for Rutgers in college.Prior to his final high school season, on October 6, 2017, McClung decommitted from Rutgers. Over one week later, he committed to Georgetown.

• 2018
  

  McClung grew up in Gate City, Virginia, a small town of about 2,000 in the Tri-Cities metropolitan area straddling the Tennesseeu2013Virginia border, where he initially began playing footballu2014a sport that is far more popular than basketball in Southwest Virginia. Family members recalled in a 2018 interview that McClung was extraordinarily competitive as a child. His father Marcus said of him, "Mac was just born with it. If youu2019re fixing a bowl of cereal, heu2019s going to make a competition." His older sister Anna would add, "He would just come at you every day, no matter how small he was." His parents built a basement gym in their home, initially for Anna, but Mac would regularly use it as he grew upu2014though he was so competitive that his father would frequently ban him from the gym to allow Anna to work out undisturbed.He received his first significant exposure to basketball just before entering the seventh grade, when his mother Lenoir signed him up for a local youth league. Scott Vermillion, who was McClungu0027s coach at Gate City High School, recalled in 2018, "He ducked his head inside for a minute and basically never left." McClung soon became more interested in basketball and began training for the sport regularly, with hopes of making the National Basketball Association (NBA), and his father was silently pleased when he gave up football after his freshman year of high school. According to McClung, his shooting form improved after he broke his arm while snowboarding in eighth grade, and he honed the skill with Greg Ervin, the former head coach at Gate City High.On December 12, he made his senior debut by scoring 47 points, shooting 18-of-23, in a 96u201343 win over Lee High School. Among those in attendance was Georgetown head coach Patrick Ewing. On January 11, 2018, after opposing coach James Schooler reportedly told him "youu0027re going to Georgetown to sit," McClung scored 44 points against Fern Creek High School of Louisville, Kentucky at the Arbyu0027s Classic tournament in Bristol, Tennessee. McClung broke the VHSL single-season scoring record previously held by Hall of Famer Allen Iverson during the 2018 VHSL regional playoffs on February 21, surpassing Iversonu0027s record of 948 points in 25 gamesu2014five fewer than it took Iverson to amass the previous record. He ended his high school career with Gate Cityu0027s first state championship, scoring 47 points in an 80u201365 title-game win over Stauntonu0027s Robert E. Lee High. The 47 points broke a VHSL all-classes scoring record for a championship game that had been held by current NBA player JJ Redick. McClung finished the season with 1,153 points and 2,801 for his career, also a VHSL all-classes record, and was again named Southwest Virginia Player of the Year by the Herald Courier. He won the slam dunk contest at the Ballislife All-American Game.On December 22, 2018, McClung scored a freshman season-high 38 points for Georgetown in a 102u201394 victory over Little Rock. As a freshman, he averaged 13.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and two assists per game, leading all Big East Conference freshmen in scoring. McClung was named to the Big East All-Freshman Team. In February 2020, during his sophomore season, he missed several games with a foot injury. McClung only played 21 games due to the injury, averaging 15.7 points, 2.4 assists and 1.4 steals in 27 minutes per game as a sophomore. After the season, he declared for the 2020 NBA draft and signed with an NCAA-certified agent to maintain his collegiate eligibility. On May 13, he withdrew from the draft and entered the NCAA transfer portal.

• 2020
  

  On May 27, 2020, McClung announced that he would transfer to Texas Tech. He was granted a waiver for immediate eligibility on October 30.