Player Bio: Jarron Collins

  Jarron Collins
Jarron Collins
Player Profile
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
North Hollywood, Ca
High School:
Harvard-Westlake
Height / Weight:
6-10 / 255
Position:
Forward
Major:
Urban Studies

Stanford: A John Wooden Pre-Season All-America candidate ... Also a Naismith Player of the Year candidate ... Has played a vital role in Stanford's success ... Has the size and inside savvy to be a top flight power forward on the college level ... Remarkable ball handling and passing skills ... Look for some great games from the senior this year.

1999-00 Season (Junior): Named Honorable Mention All Pac-10 ... Named Second Team All Pac-10 Academic team ... Named the Most Valuable Player at the Coaches vs Cancer Tournament in New York City ... Scored 28 points and grabbed 16 rebounds in wins over Duke (11/11/99) and Iowa (11/12/99) ... Stanford's #4 scorer at 11.0 ppg ... Scored in double figures in 20 of 31 games ... Garnered six double-doubles ... Scored a career-high 21 points and grabbed ten rebounds at UC Santa Barbara (11/20/99) ... Turned in 19 points and a career-high 13 rebounds at Oregon (1/15/00) ... Tallied 19 points and ten rebounds against USC (3/2/00) ... Added 17 points and ten rebounds against Oregon State (2/12/00) ... Chalked up 12 points and 12 rebounds at Washington (2/26/00) ... Averaged 6.5 rebounds per game, second-best on the Cardinal, and #11 in the Pac-10 ... Named to the all-tourney team at the Stanford Invitational with 31 points (10-of-15 from the floor), eight rebounds, six assists and three blocks.

1998-99 Season (Sophomore): Voted "Most Improved Player" by his teammates ... A badly sprained left ankle sidelined Jarron for the final three games of the season, including two NCAA Tournament games ... Suffered the injury at Oregon (3/4/99) ... Had seen valuable time off the bench, averaging 17.5 mpg ... Played double-digit minutes in 29 of 30 games played, including a season-high 26 minutes against Temple (12/29/98) ... Averaged 5.2 rebounds per game, #3 on the Cardinal, and tops amongst the Cardinal subs ... Grabbed 89 rebounds in his last 15 games, an average of 5.9 per game before suffering the left ankle injury at Oregon (3/4/99) ... Recorded double-digits in rebounds in six games, including a career-high 13 rebounds against Washington State (1/21/99), 12 rebounds against USC (1/4/99), ten rebounds against Santa Clara (12/22/98), ten rebounds against SMU (11/18/98), ten rebounds at UCLA (1/16/99), and ten boards against Washington (2/18/99) ... Grabbed five or more rebounds in 16 games ... Established season-highs in points (13) against USC (1/14/99) ... Also grabbed 12 rebounds in that game.

1997-98 Season (Freshman): Voted to the 1998 Pac-10 freshman team ... Shot .530 from the floor ... Shot 50 percent or better in 16 games ... Second on the team in blocks with 16, including three at Oregon (1/5/98) ... Sparked Stanford to a 67-59 victory over Purdue (3/20/98) at the NCAA "Sweet Sixteen" with a season-high 12 points, a season-high eleven rebounds, two assists and a steal in 23 minutes of play ... For his efforts against Purdue, he was named Chevrolet "Player of the Game" ... Played a pivotal role in Stanford's 84-81 victory at UCLA (2/12/98), scoring 12 points (4-for-4 from the floor), grabbing six rebounds and blocking two shots ... Scored in double figures in four games ... Recorded five or more rebounds in ten games ... His 17 steals was tops among the reserves.

High School: During his junior and senior seasons, helped lead Harvard-Westlake to a 66-4 record, including a pair of state titles (Division III) ... During his senior season, Harvard-Westlake chalked up a 66-1 record, earned a #1 ranking among all teams in the state of California, with the Wolverines beating traditional powerhouses Mater Dei, Artesia and Westchester in tournament play during the regular season ... Several national polls ranked Harvard-Westlake among the Top 10 teams in the country ... Harvard-Westlake chalked up its second straight title in Jarron's senior season with an 80-50 victory over Hillsdale of Anaheim ... Cal-Hi Sports magazine ranked Harvard-Westlake the top team in the state of California, and USA Today pegged the Wolverines #4 in the nation at season's end ... Averaged 13.8 points and 9.2 rebounds per game during his senior season ... Shot 62 percent from the floor ... Along with his brother, Jason, were Parade Magazine All-Americans ... Jarron and his brother played in the prestigious McDonald's All-Star game ... Also played at the prestigious Nike All-American Summer Camp, featuring the top 150 high school players in the country ... Earned all-state honors from Cal-Hi Sports Magazine ... During his junior season, averaged 14.2 points, 10.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and two blocks per game as Harvard-Westlake won the state title with a 30-3 record ... Shot 61 percent from the field ... A state, division and league co-Player of the Year along with his brother, Jason ... Voted to the Long Beach Press-Telegram's "Best of the West" team ... Finished his high school career with 1,677 points, #2 in Harvard-Westlake history behind his brother, Jason, who tallied 2,379 points.

Cardinal Chronicle: An Honors student at Harvard-Westlake who was active in weekend community service projects ... Jarron's favorite subject is astronomy, while Jason's favorite is history ... Jarron and his brother's jerseys were retired at an awards ceremony in the Harvard-Westlake gymnasium after their senior season, generating a standing ovation from the audience of more than 1,000 ... Jarron and Jason were born eight minutes apart ... Jason is the older of the two ... While in high school, he was a counselor at Michael Jordan's summer camp in Santa Barbara and played in pickup games with Jordan at day's end ... Jarron says at Stanford, you're either a Fuzzy or a Techie ... Fuzzies are the people in the humanities ... Techies are the people with calculators ... Jarron says he's a Fuzzy ... Jarron and Jason are one of eleven sets of brothers playing Division I basketball ... The others, according to Mike Lageschulte at the University of Utah, are Donald & Marcus Fleming at Alcorn State, Chris & J.P. Spatola at Army, Gabriel & Solomon Hughes at California, Brett & Tom Starkey at Denver, Jarvis & Jonas Hayes at Georgia, Dan & Jon Champagne at Oakland, Joe & Jon Crispin at Penn State, Ivan & Rolando Howell at South Carolina, Britton & Jeff Johnsen at Utah, and Del Baker & Vincent Yarbrough (half-brothers) at Tennessee.

Record Book

Career Blocked Shots
1. Tim Young, 1994-99, 167
9. Jarron Collins, 1997-, 49
9. Deshon Wingate, 1987-91, 49

Career Catalogue
Stanford is 28-2 when Jarron scores in double figures.
Stanford is 42-5 when Jarron grabs five or more rebounds in a game.

Career Bests

Points
21, UC Santa Barbara 11/20/99
19, New Hampshire 12/29/99
19, Oregon 1/15/00
19, USC 3/2/00
16, Mississippi State 12/21/99

Rebounds
13, Washington State 1/21/99
13, Oregon 1/15/00
12, USC 1/14/99
12, UC Santa Barbara 11/20/99
12, Washington 2/26/00

Assists
5, Washington State 1/29/00
4, Nevada 12/16/99
4, New Hampshire 12/29/99
3, Hawai'i Hilo 11/28/97
3, Washington 2/18/99
3, Sacramento State 12/18/99
3, Mississippi State 12/21/99
3, Washington 1/27/00
3, Oregon State 2/12/00
3, Washington State 2/24/00

Steals
2, San Diego 11/18/97
2, Washington State 2/21/98
2, Rhode Island 3/22/98
2, Santa Clara 12/22/98
2, Oregon State 1/22/99
2, Connecticut 2/6/99
2, Duke 11/11/99
2, UC Santa Barbara 11/20/99
2, Arizona 1/8/00
2, Washington 1/27/00

Blocked Shots
3, Oregon 1/5/98
3, Arizona 3/9/00
2, ten times

Minutes Played
39, Georgia Tech 12/11/99
38, UCLA 3/4/00
35, UC Santa Barbara 11/20/99
33, Arizona State 1/6/00
32, Mississippi State 12/21/99
32, Oregon 2/10/00
32, Washington State 2/24/00

YearGP-GSFG-FGAPct.3P3PAPct.FT-FTAPctO-D Reb/AvgPts.Avg.HighAstBlkStlMin
1997-9834-044-83.5301-5.20039-64.60950-69/3.51283.812181617460
1998-9930-058-117.4960-1.00060-101.59459-98/5.21765.91319916516
1999-0031-31114-235.4851-4.250113-157.71663-138/6.534211.021532419850
Totals95-31216-435.4972-10.200212-322.658172-305/5.06466.8219049521,826

Jarron Collins - Year-by-Year

YearGp-GsFg-FgaPct 3p-3paPctFt-FtaPctRebPtsAstBlkStlMin
1999-00
#Duke1-13-9.3330-0.0005-7.71461120228
#Iowa1-16-13.4620-1.0005-8.625101700130
at UCSB1-15-12.4170-2.00011-13.846122111235
CS Bakersfield1-11-4.2500-0.0001-2.5003300017
+Auburn1-12-6.3330-0.0009-13.69261300030
=Georgia Tech1-13-10.3000-0.0005-10.50091112239
Nevada1-11-5.2000-0.0003-4.7505540026
Sacramento State1-14-5.8000-0.0003-4.75041131023
%Mississippi St1-17-15.4670-0.0002-4.500101632032
&New Hampshire1-16-9.6670-0.0007-71.00041941119
&Davidson1-14-6.66700-0.0004-5.80041222027
*Arizona State1-14-9.4440-0.0006-8.75051411033
*Arizona1-14-10.4000-0.0005-51.00041300222
*at Oregon State1-13-6.5000-0.0001-11.0004710127
*at Oregon1-17-14.5000-0.0005-6.833131921031
*at California1-11-5.2000-0.0006-61.0004820121
*Washington1-14-5.8000-0.0001-2.5005931221
*Washington State1-15-51.0000-0.0000-0.00071050124
*at UCLA1-14-5.8001-11.0006-61.00051500026
*at USC1-11-4.2500-0.000-0.0003220023
*Oregon1-11-9.1110-0.0000-0.0007221132
*Oregon State1-15-10.5000-0.0004-5.800101430129
*California1-14-5.8000-0.0003-31.00051121029
*at Washington St1-12-5.4000-0.0002-6.3333632032
*at Washington1-16-11.5450-0.0000-0.000121210030
*USC1-18-12.6670-0.0003-31.000101911025
*UCLA1-14-6.6670-0.0006-9.66771400038
*at Arizona1-11-11.0000-0.0000-2.0004213119
*at Arizona State1-12-3.6670-0.0004-8.5008822126
^S. Carolina St1-13-6.5000-0.0004-8.50051012025
^North Carolina1-13-10.3000-0.0002-21.0007810031
Totals31-31114-235.4851-4.250113-157.720201342532419850

#Coaches vs Cancer Tournament
+John Wooden Classic
=Delta Airlines Classic for Kids
%Pete Newell Classic
&Stanford Invitational
*Pacific-10
^NCAA Tournament
YearGp-GsFg-FgaPct 3p-3pa PctFt-FtaPctRebPtsAstBlkStlMin
1998-99
UC Davis1-01-3.3330-0.0005-10.5005710114
+SMU1-03-5.6000-0.0006-9.667101200115
+SW Missouri St1-00-4.0000-1.0000-0.0007011120
+at St. John's1-01-11.0000-0.0000-1.0001211012
+North Carolina1-03-6.5000-0.0004-41.00011001019
=Maryland1-01-2.5000-0.0000-0.0003200015
=George Washington1-03-6.5000-0.0000-0.0004602018
at Nevada1-03-4.7500-0.0002-21.0005810120
at Pacific1-03-5.6000-0.0004-6.66711000112