NCAA Basketball: 2019-20 NBA teammates who played in college together

NCAA Basketball: Current 2019-20 NBA teammates who played in college together

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - APRIL 04: Tyus Jones #5 of the Duke Blue Devils gives instructions to his teammate Grayson Allen #3 of the Duke Blue Devils during the game against the Michigan State Spartans during the NCAA Men's Final Four Semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 4, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images) /

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KANSAS CITY, MO – MARCH 25: Jordan Bell #1 and Dillon Brooks #24 of the Oregon Ducks (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) /

The Memphis Ducks

Duo: Dillon Brooks and Jordan Bell

NBA team: Memphis Grizzlies

College team: Oregon Ducks, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17

Best NCAA Tournament finish: Final Four, 2016-17

The Memphis Grizzlies were active at the trade deadline. In addition to the trade that brought in Justise Winslow, the Grizzlies cut a deal with the Houston Rockets to acquire athletic forward Jordan Bell.

Bell’s move to Memphis reunited the former Oregon Duck, who won an NBA championship in his first season with the Golden State Warriors after going No. 38 overall in the 2017 NBA draft, with his college teammate, Dillon Brooks.

Bell has played limited minutes through two and a half seasons in the NBA. The 6’8” center is averaging roughly 3.7 points and 3.1 rebounds per game, according to Basketball-Reference.

Brooks has seen the floor more, although he sat out the bulk of the 2018-19 season due to injury. The No. 45 overall pick in the 2017 draft, Brooks started most games for the Grizzlies as a rookie, averaging 11 points per contest. This season, he’s up to over 15 points per game.

College basketball fans will remember Bell and Brooks as one of the nation’s most exciting highlight-reel duos. At Oregon, they combined with former college star Tyler Dorsey and current Toronto Raptors center Chris Boucher to take coach Dana Altman’s team to new heights.

Bell and Brooks played three seasons together. In 2015-16, when they were both sophomores, they led Oregon to a sweep of the PAC-12 regular season and tournament championships.

The Ducks earned their first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament that year. They advanced as far as the Elite Eight, where they ran into a dynamic Oklahoma squad led by former national player of the year Buddy Hield.

In 2016-17, Oregon repeated as PAC-12 regular-season champions and earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. With Boucher sidelined by a late-season injury, Bell and Brooks helped carry Oregon all the way to the Final Four. There, they fell to eventual champion North Carolina.

Both players were named to the Midwest Region’s All-Region team, and deservedly so. Bell averaged 12.6 points, 13.2 rebounds and three blocks per game during that stretch while shooting 72.4% from the field. In Oregon’s Elite Eight matchup with Kansas, Bell blocked eight shots. Brooks, meanwhile, contributed 15.2 points and 5.2 rebounds per game.

For his college career, Bell averaged 7.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 2.2 blocks per game, according to Sports Reference. Those numbers were strong enough to put him on the Pac-12 All-Defense team twice. In 2016-17, he was named the conference’s defensive player of the year.

In his own career, Brooks averaged 14.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists. He was named to the All-Pac-12 first team twice and was chosen as the Pac-12 player of the year in 2016-17. That season, Brooks also earned consensus All-America second-team honors.

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