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Athletics Hall of Fame

Darlington Okerulu

Darlington Okerulu

  • Class
    2006
  • Induction
    2022
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Basketball

Darlington Okerulu, the all-time leader in rebounds for the Saint Anselm men's basketball team, graduated in 2006. Racking up 953 career rebounds across 119 career games for Saint Anselm, Okerulu was also a proficient scorer, finishing with 1,343 career points in a four-year career on the Hilltop. He presently ranks fourth all time in games played (119) and 10th in rebounds per game (8.0).

He put together an impressive campaign as a freshman, averaging 13.7 points per game while hauling in 8.6 caroms per contest. The first freshman to lead the team in rebounding since the 1977-78 campaign, Okerulu also posted 12 double-doubles and was his team's top rebounder on 17 occasions – he scored in double figures in 20 of his last 22 games on the season.

His strong play helped the Hawks to back-to-back NE10 Championships in 2005 and 2006, the first time that Saint Anselm had accomplished that feat in consecutive seasons in a decade (1995, 1996). Okerulu finished his career with 31 career double-doubles and 71 games with at least 10 points for Saint Anselm, logging a .481 career field goal percentage for Saint Anselm.

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