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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – – Former Belmont University men’s basketball standout Austin Luke (’18) won the NLB ABA League 2 Championship this past week as a member of KK Bosna in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
The NLB ABA League 2 is a professional basketball league comprised of clubs from six countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Luke played a lead role in the KK Bosna championship victory, handing out 22 assists in the final two wins of the series.
The point guard just completed his seventh season of professional basketball.
The Rowlett, Texas native handed out 681 assists, second in Belmont’s NCAA Division I era and fourth in Ohio Valley Conference history. In fact, only four players in all of college basketball had more career assists than Luke upon his graduation in 2018.
Luke ranked second nationally in assists per game as a junior and fourth as a senior. He was a mainstay in 89 Belmont victories, including three Ohio Valley Conference championship teams.
Luke played in the Bruins’ 2015 NCAA Tournament near-upset of No. 2 seed Virginia, and was part of signature victories over Marquette, Georgia, Vanderbilt and nationally-ranked Murray State, among others, during his career.
In 2017-18, Luke joined the select company of Evan Bradds and Craig Bradshaw as the only Belmont players named All-OVC First Team in successive seasons (later joined by Dylan Windler, Nick Muszynski and Grayson Murphy).
A four-time OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll and three-time NABC Honors Court recipient, Luke earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Belmont University men’s basketball has been a postseason fixture for the last two decades, including nine berths to the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins have won 20 conference championships since 2006 – third-most nationally over that span (behind Gonzaga and Kansas). Belmont has won 20 or more games in 15 consecutive seasons (alongside Gonzaga, Kansas, and Oregon) and 19 or more games in 20 consecutive seasons (alongside Gonzaga, Kansas, and San Diego State). Belmont is among select programs with two or more first-round selections in the NBA Draft over the last five years (Ben Sheppard, Dylan Windler). Belmont University men’s basketball boasts an NCAA-leading 19 Academic All-America selections since 2001 and is the only NCAA Division I program to make the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) Honor Roll every year of its existence. Belmont is the only NCAA Division I institution in America whose men’s and women’s basketball programs have won 20 or more games in 10 consecutive seasons.