Skip navigation
Favorites
Sign up to follow your favorites on all your devices.
Sign up

Former New Mexico guard signs with Australian Football League franchise

Hugh Greenwood

New Mexico State’s Hugh Greenwood looks for an open teammate during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Nevada on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, in Reno, Nev. (AP Photo/Kevin Clifford)

AP

In recent years the Australian Football League has taken a harder look at college basketball for talent, with the height and athleticism of some players being a good fit for the sport. Former Morehead State forward Jason Holmes saw action at the AFL’s highest level earlier this season as a ruckman, and by many accounts he’s played well for the St. Kilda Football Club.

Thursday night it was announced that former New Mexico guard Hugh Greenwood has signed a two-year contract with Adelaide, thus returning to the sport he played as a teenager prior to joining the UNM program. After completing his career at New Mexico, Greenwood spent some time with the Utah Jazz’s summer league team.

Greenwood has experience playing Australian rules football, and he was good enough to earn a scholarship from the Australian Institute for Sport in both basketball and football according to Adelaide’s release. That experience, which college basketball players who have made the switch in recent years, should help with his transition to the game as a professional.

Greenwood is the second former college basketball player to sign with an AFL franchise in the last week. Former Arizona forward Matt Korcheck, who had a month-long trial with Carlton of the AFL’s second division that began in late July, signed a two-yeat contract with the club last week.