Carlton Carrington

Carrington was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. The third in his family with the same name, he was nicknamed "lil Bub" which was later shortened to just "Bub". He attended Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, where he played basketball, baseball and football. The youngster scored over 2,000 points in his high school career and during his senior year helped lead Saint Frances to a 29-11 record. Carrington was named first-team All-BCL and to the BCL All-Tournament team and averaged more than 26.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game. During his junior year of high school, Carrington committed to play college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers. He chose Pittsburgh over 8 other Division 1 offers. 247Sports ranked the high school senior as a four-star guard recruit and the 99the best recruit overall. Bub Carrington had an excellent freshman season for the Panthers and by season's end was on the NBA's radar. He started all 33 games for Pitt and averaged 13.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game. When the season ended, Carrington said he planned on coming back to Pitt for his sophomore season. However, a couple of weeks later Carrington entered the NBA Draft.