From which schools have the Boston Celtics drafted the most over the years?

Justin Quinn

April 30, 2021 at 3:47 PM·4 min read

With the 2021 NBA draft inching closer every day that passes in the 2020-21 NBA season — itself drawing to a close — attention turns to the annual event that has seen the Celtics draft hundreds of players across the course of its seven-decade history.

The list of players selected by the Celtics is too long to recount, but there have been a number of schools the franchise has tended to favor. Some of them have been fairly predictable, like the factory of NBA players that has been the University of Kentucky over the decades. But others may surprise even the astute historians of the Celtics.

With all that said, let’s take a look at which schools have been tapped by Boston more than three times over the years of its storied existence.

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Bradley University - players drafted: 4

Steve Kuberski (1969)

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Brigham Young University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Danny Ainge (1981)

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Greg Kite (1983)

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California State University, Long Beach - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Glenn McDonald (1974)

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Roscoe Pondexter (1974)

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Florida State University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Dave Cowens (1970)

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Ben Clyde (1974)

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Fordham University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Johnny Bach (1948)

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Northeastern University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Rick Weitzman (1967)

Reggie Lewis (1987)

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Oklahoma State University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Tony Allen (2004)

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Marcus Smart (2014)

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University of California, Los Angeles - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Jérôme Moïso (2000)

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University of Houston - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Don Chaney (1968)

Manny Rubio-USA TODAY Sports

University of Maryland - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Len Bias (1986)

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University of Oregon - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Jim Loscutoff (1955)

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Jim Barnett (1966)

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Payton Pritchard (2020)

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University of Tennessee - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Steve Hamer (1996)

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Grant Williams (2020)

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Vanderbilt University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Aaron Nesmith (2020)

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Wake Forest University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Dickie Hemric (1955)

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Ron Watts (1965)

Darius Songaila (2002)

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Western Kentucky University - players drafted: 4

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Clarence Glover (1971)

Duke University - players drafted: 5

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Jayson Tatum (2017)

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Jacksonville University - players drafted: 5

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Rex Morgan (1970)

Dee Brown (1990)

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University of San Francisco - players drafted: 5

PLAYERS OF NOTE: K.C. Jones (1956)

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Indiana University - players drafted: 6

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Steve Downing (1973)

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Romeo Langford (2019)

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University of Iowa - players drafted: 6

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Brad Lohaus (1987)

Dick Raphael-USA TODAY Sports

Acie Earl (1993)

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University of North Carolina - players drafted: 6

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Charlie Scott (1970)

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Rick Fox (1991)

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Eric Montross (1994)

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Joseph Forte (2004)

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University of Notre Dame - players drafted: 6

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Tracy Jackson (1981)

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Luke Harangody (2010)

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Demetrius Jackson (2016)

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Boston College - players drafted: 7

PLAYERS OF NOTE: None

University of Virginia - players drafted: 7

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Rick Carlisle (1984)

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Junior Burrough (1995)

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North Carolina State University - players drafted: 8

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Sam Jones (1957)

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John Richter (1959)

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University of Kansas - players drafted: 8

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Maurice King (1959)

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Jo Jo White (1969)

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Norm Cook (1976)

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Paul Pierce (1998)

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Providence College - players drafted: 9

PLAYERS OF NOTE: John Thompson (1964)

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Kevin Stacom (1974)

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Eric Williams (1995)

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Ryan Gomes (2005)

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MarShon Brooks (2011)

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University of Kentucky - players drafted: 10

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Lou Tsioropoulos (1953)

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Frank Ramsey (1953)

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Antoine Walker (1996)

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Ron Mercer (1997)

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James Young (2014)

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College of the Holy Cross - players drafted: 15

PLAYERS OF NOTE: Joe Mullaney (1949)

George Kaftan (1949)

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Togo Palazzi (1954)

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Tom Heinsohn (1956)

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Jack Foley (1962)

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