Cooper High School graduate Sean McNeil will continue his basketball career in Europe, playing for a professional team in Lithuania next season.
After graduating from Cooper in 2017, McNeil’s path is a well-traveled one. He originally started his college basketball career at Bellarmine University in Louisville, then went to Sinclair Community College in Ohio. After excelling at Sinclair with 29.7 points per game, the second highest point per game average in the National Junior College Athletic Association, McNeil latched on at West Virginia.
He spent three years in Morgantown before transferring to Ohio State. McNeil closed out his college career in Columbus with 9.7 points per game and shot 36% from three. In total, McNeil scored 1,239 points in his Division I career.
McNeil was the leading scorer on the Jaguars 2017 state runner-up team and finished his high school career with over 1,000 points.
He’ll play for Nevezis in the Lithuanian Basketball League, the highest level of pro basketball in the country.
McNeil is currently playing for Best Virginia in The Basketball Tournament, a single-elimination tournament with 64 teams, the last team standing winning $1 million dollars distributed out to the team. Best Virginia is a West Virginia University alumni team with players primarily that played at WVU.