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McCowan played college basketball at Georgetown College, As a freshman he joined the Tigers for the 1988-89 season and began a four-year run in the program under head coach Happy Osborne.

He played as a guard-forward and wore No. 24 during his Georgetown career.

McCowan’s basketball years at Georgetown ran from 1988 to 1992, while he later completed his degree in 1994.

Across his four basketball seasons, he finished with 1,983 career points, which placed him 13th on Georgetown’s 1,000-point list.

He also closed his career as Georgetown’s all-time leader in steals with 253, while also remaining in the program’s top 10 in assists with 431 and blocks with 69.

Those totals show that he was not only one of the program’s leading scorers of his era, but also one of its most productive all-around perimeter players because he contributed as a scorer, playmaker, ball hawk and secondary shot blocker.

By the end of his career, McCowan had built a rare résumé at Georgetown, where he became the only three-sport All-American in school history and earned NAIA All-American and All-District honours in basketball as part of that broader college career.

His senior year in 1991-92 was his most decorated basketball season, as he earned first-team honours in Georgetown’s conference record listings and also appeared on the school’s NAIA All-American list for 1992.

McCowan’s 1991-92 campaign came on a Georgetown team that qualified for the NAIA national tournament, and Georgetown’s basketball history pages continue to count that season among the program’s long run of national tournament appearances.

He was also part of Georgetown teams from the late 1980s into the early 1990s that kept the Tigers nationally relevant in NAIA basketball and helped sustain the program’s standing as one of Kentucky’s strongest small-college teams.

A verified game line from Georgetown’s 1989-90 NAIA tournament run shows McCowan scoring 10 points in a national tournament game, which confirms that he was already part of the Tigers’ postseason rotation by his sophomore year.

Another verified note from later in his college career shows he was selected to play in the East-West Basketball Extravaganza at Freedom Hall after Georgetown, placing him among the group of former standout Kentucky college players invited to that event.

Although a full Sports Reference player page and full season-by-season NCAA-style statistical table are not available for his NAIA career, the available Georgetown basketball records make clear that McCowan’s college output was substantial because he finished just 17 points short of 2,000, led the program in career steals, and stayed among the leaders in assists and blocks.

That combination of 1,983 points, 431 assists, 253 steals and 69 blocks makes him one of the more complete backcourt-wing players in Georgetown College history.

His impact at Georgetown was later recognised formally with induction into the Georgetown College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.

McCowan’s basketball college history therefore covered four seasons at Georgetown from 1988 to 1992, included NAIA All-American recognition, All-District honours, a place on Georgetown’s all-time scoring list, the school career steals record, and lasting top-10 placements in assists and blocks.