Born: November 2, 1968. Culpeper, Virginia
High School: Highland School
College: East Tennessee State University
Although he played only 3 seasons in the NBA, he still deserves to be respected as a great undersized point guard. He is now retired, he was a 5'7, 160 lbs point guard out of East Tennessee State University and spent 3 seasons with the Golden State Warriors. He was also selected by the Toronto raptors in the 1995 expansion draft but he did not play for them.
In 1991 he won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award for the best collegiate senior under six feet tall. In the same year he would go on to lead the NCAA Division I in three point FG% with 59%.
In his college days he had led his team to 3 NCAA tournament berths and is noticbly the best player to play at East Tennessee State. On November 27, 2004 they proclaimed that day to be named the 'Keith Jennings Day'.
He ranks the 4th best NCAA Division assists total as of today and is in second in leading the 3FG% with 49.3%. He was known as Mister, given the nickname after football when he was 6 years old.
Jennings was known for his handles as well as his deadly shooting beyond the arc.
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