You would be hard pressed to find a better story of perseverance than that of Royce O’Neale. O’Neale went largely unrecruited coming out of high school and was an unranked prospect. He started his basketball career at the unheralded University of Denver, but was able to transfer to a larger basketball school in Baylor University.
He would start all 38 games his senior year at Baylor, averaging 10 points, six rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, and helped lead Baylor to a 24-10 record during the regular season. Despite that solid play, he would go undrafted, and later spent his first two seasons overseas, playing his first season in Germany and then his second in Spain.