Todd Tripucka

{{short description|American basketball player}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

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| name = Todd Tripucka

| position = Shooting guard

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 2

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| nationality = American

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|9|16}}

| birth_place =

| high_school = Bloomfield (Bloomfield, New Jersey)

| college = Lafayette (1973–1976)

| draft_year = 1976

| highlights =

• ECC Player of the Year (1976)
• 2× First-team All-ECC (1975, 1976)

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Michael Todd Tripucka{{cite web| title =The Master of Disaster| work =Sports Illustrated| publisher =Time Inc. | date =January 19, 1981 | url =https://www.si.com/vault/1981/01/19/825294/the-master-of-disaster-kelly-tripucka-grew-up-scuffling-with-his-five-brothers-and-now-notre-dames-leading-scorer-is-wreaking-havoc-among-irish-opponents| accessdate = August 13, 2018}} (born September 16, 1954) is an American former basketball player best known for his college career at Lafayette College during the 1970s. A native of Bloomfield, New Jersey, Tripucka played three varsity seasons at Lafayette and led the Leopards to a 58–22 overall record and one appearance in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).{{cite web| title =Lafayette Hall of Fame / Maroon Club| work =CBS Interactive| publisher =Lafayette College| date = | url =https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/todd-tripucka-1.html| accessdate = August 13, 2018}}

He was twice selected as a first-team all-East Coast Conference (ECC) player, and at the end of his senior year of 1975–76 he was named the ECC Player of the Year.{{cite web| title =Todd Tripucka college stats| work =basketball-reference.com| publisher =Sports Reference LLC| date = | url =https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/todd-tripucka-1.html| accessdate = August 13, 2018}} That season, Tripucka averaged a school-record 26.1 points per game, which was seventh best in all of NCAA Division I men's basketball. In one game against Saint Joseph's he scored 42 points, still the fourth-best single game effort in school history. Other still-standing single season school records include points in one season (679) and field goals attempted (520).{{cite web| title =2016–17 Lafayette Leopards Men's Basketball Prospectus| work =Lafayette Leopards| publisher =Lafayette College| date = 2016| url =http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/lafa/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2016-17/prospectus/prospectus.pdf| accessdate = August 13, 2018}} Tripucka finished his career with 1,445 points, which through the 2015–16 season is the ninth-most at Lafayette. He went undrafted in the 1976 NBA draft, but was later inducted into Lafayette's Hall of Fame in 1989.