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Mike McCall Jr.

American basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ19571630
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Mike McCall Jr. (born June 16, 1991) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Deportivo Quevedo of the Liga Ecuatoriana de Baloncesto (LEB). He played college basketball for Saint Louis University (SLU) where he helped the Billikens win the Atlantic 10 Conference regular season title twice, the conference tournament, advanced to the NCAA Tournament three straight times, and set the school record for wins in a career at SLU.

College career

Freshman year

During his freshman campaign as a Billikens, McCall averaged 10.4 PPG, 2.1 RPG, and 3 APG while shooting 42.8% from the field and 36.6% from three-point range. He led the Billikens in scoring, the first freshman to do this since Larry Hughes.

Sophomore year

As a sophomore, McCall averaged 7.0 PPG, 1.8 RPG, and 2.2 APG while shooting 42.3% from the field and 34.8% from three-point range. He saw a drop in playing time with the return of Kwamain Mitchell after his year-long suspension for the previous season. The Billikens advanced to the 2012 NCAA Tournament where they defeated the Memphis Tigers in the first round. McCall recorded 2 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists in the win. In the second round, the Billikens almost upset No. 1 seeded Michigan State but lost in the dying minutes.

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“Mike McCall Jr.” enters the record as american basketball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mike, McCall and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-06-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mike, McCall and American.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19571630. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Mike McCall Jr.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.