Andy Wolfe was an American

United States

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 basketball player for the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 from 1945–46 to 1947–48. As a sophomore

Sophomore

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 in 1945–46, Wolfe led the Golden Bears in scoring at 13.4 points per game en route to the school's first-ever appearance at the NCAA Tournament Final Four

1946 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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. Cal lost to the eventual national champion, Oklahoma A&M

1945–46 Oklahoma A&M Aggies men's basketball team

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, 52–35, however. During Wolfe's three-year California career he was named All-Pacific Coast Conference

Pacific Coast Conference

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 (PCC) every season as well as a consensus Second Team All-American

1948 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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 as a senior

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. Wolfe became the first Cal player to break the 1,000-point threshold, finishing his career with 1,112 points while breaking the former school career record of 725 by nearly 400 points. His teams never finished lower than second place in the PCC South Division, winning it in 1946, and the school went 75–26 overall during that time. Cal's home crowd fans were so notoriously rowdy during Wolfe's era that he was once asked by the game's officials

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 to get on the public-address microphone and calm them down, otherwise Cal would have to forfeit. Wolfe later said about the incident, "I didn't know if they'd listen to me or storm the court. Fortunately, they listened."

Wolfe was selected in the 1948 BAA Draft

1948 BAA Draft

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 by the Philadelphia Warriors but never played professionally. He instead played AAU

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 basketball for Stewart Chevrolet in San Francisco, California

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. Wolfe later earned his J.D.

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 from the University of San Francisco School of Law, and practiced in Oakland

Oakland, California

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for the rest of his life up until his retirement in the mid-2000s.