Ron Nunnelly
Men's Basketball Student-Athlete
Central Missouri (1981-85)
Nunnelly is the Mules' second-leading career scorer with 2,468 points during his four-year career for the Mules from 1981 to 1985...... That point total ranks third in MIAA history...For his career, he averaged 20.6 points per game, 4.1 rebounds per contest and had 130 steals.
The star of the Mules' 1984 national championship team, Nunnelly led the team in scoring that season with a 23 point per game average. He scored 33 points in the semi-final win over North Alabama and 38 points in the national championship game, earning the Final Four Outstanding Player Award.
He was a three-time first-team All-MIAA selection, a two-time MIAA MVP, a third-team All-America pick in 1983 and 1984 and a first-team All-America choice in 1985. The Mules were 94-26 during his career, winning an MIAA title in 1984 and sharing the title in 1985. Nunnelly is one of only two Mules' basketball players whose uniform number has been retired, as no Mule will ever wear the number 14 again. Nunnelly was inducted into the UCM Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997.