Watching Donovan Little play basketball was a thing of beauty. He performed with style and grace, like poetry in motion, each creative move and subsequent basket bringing audiences to its feet. He was a star and the court was his stage.

Little ended his brilliant four-year career as Suffolk men’s basketball all-time leading scorer with 2,033 points. No other Ram player has ever reached the 2,000-point plateau. What makes Little’s achievement so spectacular is that he accomplished it at a time when the game had no three-point line or shot clock.

A native of Jamaica, Little moved to Dorchester with his family when he was 13. He never played basketball until he came to this country; soccer was his game. However, by his senior year at Boston Tech, he was a good enough roundball player to earn several all-city and all-state honors.

Little, a 6-4 forward, came to Suffolk relatively unnoticed, but it didn’t take him long to catch everyone’s eye. He broke into the starting lineup as a freshman on a talent-laden 1976 team when a senior was sidelined with a virus.

As a senior in 1979, Little averaged 24.6 points, ranked eighth in the country in Division III), and 10.4 rebounds per game, both team highs. He also led his squad in steals, 83, and blocked shots, 61. In the end, he had a career scoring average of 21.4 points per game. His all-around play helped Suffolk qualify for the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament in each of his first three seasons.

There were many accolades that Little received throughout his illustrious career, including: All American – Basketball Weekly Magazine; All New England – United Press International, National Association of Basketball Coaches, and the Eastern College Athletic Conference; New England All Star – Boston Herald; and All Star – New England Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

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