BIO: Biddings grew up in the Catskill Mountains in New York and attended Liberty High School in Liberty, New York where he scored 1,134 points playing for the school’s basketball team.
Attending the University of Oklahoma, Biddings was named Eastern Athletic Conference “Rookie of the Year” and later that year was part of a two-month tour of Australia and Tahiti in 1980 with a travelling team called the Oklahoma All Stars.
Biddings dropped out of university in 1981 citing racial problems on campus and decided to return to Australia, visiting friends he had stayed with during his time in Adelaide. Once there Biddings, who rocked a gold tooth during his playing days, was then spotted “shooting around at the local stadium” and offered a contract to play with the Forestville Eagles for the 1981 NBL season.
Biddings was one of the original stars of the NBL, turning heads throughout Adelaide in the early 1980’s, driving around in a Rolls Royce which had the personalised license plate “Sir Reg” and wearing more gold chains, rings and bracelets than most women of the time.
FAMILY: Biddings’ daughter, Carla Dziwoki, played netball in the ANZ Championship.
Reg Biddings made his NBL debut with the Forestville Eagles on 14/2/1981. He scored 24 points in his first game.
In Biddings debut NBL season, he averaged 28 points per game as the Eagles finished with a 6-16 record. This included his 63-point outing, which is still the highest scoring game in a 40 minute NBL game. That night, the fun-loving Biddings racked up 45 points for Forestville in the first half of a 98-90 win over Bankstown before finishing the night on 63.
ADELAIDE CITY EAGLES
1982
After the demise of the Forestville Eagles at the end of the 1981 NBL season had left the West Adelaide Bearcats as Adelaide’s only representative in the NBL, the Basketball Association of South Australia formed a composite team representing all the state league team’s (not the Bearcats). This team was known as the Adelaide City Eagles when they joined the NBL in 1982.
Mike Osborne was appointed coach and Chris Stirling (6.3 points, 1.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists) named team captain. Along with rival club West Adelaide, the Eagles played out of the 3,000 seat Apollo Stadium, notching up a 15-11 record but failed to make the playoffs. Import Reg Biddings (30.1 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.7 assists) led the league in both scoring and free throw shooting (88.3%).
ST KILDA PUMAS
1983
The 1983 season saw Biddings (13.8 points, 3 rebounds, and 0.9 assists) led the league in free throw shooting for a second consecutive year (86%) and helped the Saints finish in eighth place (12-10) during the regular season.
Reg Biddings played three seasons across three NBL teams. This included the Forestville Eagles, Adelaide City Eagles and St Kilda Pumas. He averaged 23.9 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 0.9 assists in 72 NBL games.
CAREER RANKINGS:
– 49th in points per game.
Dan Boyce is a die-hard Sydney Kings fan who grew up in Melbourne during the roaring 90's of Australian Basketball and spent far too much time collecting Futera NBL Basketball cards.
SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
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1983 | 0 | St Kilda | 12-10 (8) | 24 | 0.0 | 330 | 72 | 22 | 35 | 37 | 28 | 11 | 47 | 65 | 125 | 256 | 48.8% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 80 | 92 | 87.0% | 55% | 49% | 34 |
1982 | 0 | Adelaide City | 15-11 (7) | 26 | 0.0 | 782 | 193 | 45 | 66 | 127 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 90 | 300 | 635 | 47.2% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 182 | 206 | 88.3% | 53% | 47% | 46 |
1981 | 0 | Forestville | 6-16 (12) | 22 | 0.0 | 615 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 238 | 476 | 50.0% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 139 | 184 | 75.5% | 55% | 50% | 63 | Totals | 72 | 0 | 1727 | 265 | 67 | 101 | 164 | 28 | 11 | 123 | 236 | 663 | 1367 | 48.5% | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 401 | 482 | 83.2% | 55% | 49% | 63 |
SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
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1983 | 0 | St Kilda | 12-10 (8) | 24 | 0.0 | 13.8 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 5.2 | 10.7 | 49% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% | 3.3 | 3.8 | 87.0% | 55% | 49% | 34 |
1982 | 0 | Adelaide City | 15-11 (7) | 26 | 0.0 | 30.1 | 7.4 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 11.5 | 24.4 | 47% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% | 7.0 | 7.9 | 88.3% | 53% | 47% | 46 |
1981 | 0 | Forestville | 6-16 (12) | 22 | 0.0 | 28.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 10.8 | 21.6 | 50% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% | 6.3 | 8.4 | 75.5% | 54.6% | 50% | 63 | Total | 72 | 0.0 | 24.0 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 9.2 | 19.0 | 48.5% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% | 83.2% | 55% | 49% | 63 |
POINTS | REBOUNDS | ASSISTS | STEALS | BLOCKS | TURNOVERS | TRIPLE DOUBLES | 63 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
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Reggie won the Woollacott Medal in 1981 as South Australias fairest and most brilliant player.
Biddings averaged 43 points per game for the Broadmeadows Broncos in 1984 which was a new state league record.
In 1985 he set a single game record of 62-points game against Manly (only to see Bulleen Boomers Ray Shirley break it a few weeks later with a 69-point haul).
Biddings played college basketball for SUNY Oneonta during the 1976–77 season. He was selected to the NJCAA All-American Second Team while playing at SUNY Orange during the 1977–78 season. Biddings played for the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO) during the 1979–80 season.
- 1x NBL Leading Scorer
Biddings died of colon cancer on July 18, 2017, aged 59. He lived in Moranbah, Queensland, with his wife at the time of his death. Biddings' farewell service was held at the Carrara Stadium basketball courts.
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