Tom Boerwinkle

Thomas F. Boerwinkle (August 23, 1945 – March 26, 2013) was an American center in the National Basketball Association who spent his entire professional career with the Chicago Bulls. Born in Independence, Ohio, he was one of three children of John and Katherine Boerwinkle. His father, a native of Cleveland and the son of Dutch immigrants who had come to the United States in 1890, worked as an engineer for an oil refinery. Boerwinkle attended high school at Millersburg Military Institute in Millersburg, Kentucky, a prep school later known as Forest Hill Military Academy and since closed.

He played college basketball at the University of Tennessee, where he helped the team win the 1967 Southeastern Conference championship and was named a Helms Foundation first-team All-American the following year. As a junior he averaged 10.2 points and 12.2 rebounds per game, improving to 11.3 points and 15.2 rebounds as a senior.

Boerwinkle was selected fourth overall in the 1968 NBA draft and played for the Bulls through 1978.