ERIE, PA.---A member of the 2023-24 Gannon University Golden Knights men’s basketball team is junior Derrick Anderson, a 6-2, 180-lb. guard.
      To open the season Gannon is off to a 5-0 start, averaging 116 points a game, including a 140-108 victory in their opener over Glenville State.
      As a senior at Boardman High School in 2019-20 under Head Coach Pat Birch, Anderson was an OHSAA Division I All-State second team selection who averaged 22.7 ppg., 4.8 rpg., and 4.0 apg. He was named the All-American Conference’s Red Tier Player of the Year while scoring 545 points as a senior. During his prep career at Boardman he scored 1,045 points.
      After graduating from Boardman High School, Anderson took his talents to Snow College in Utah where he saw action in 34 games playing for the junior college.
      Last season, Anderson played at Butler County Community College in Pennsylvania with a Pioneers team that went 21-5. Anderson scored in double figures in every game and ended the year ranked third in the country among Div. III players with a 22.4 ppg average. His 5.5 assist per game ranked him 14th in the county in that category. His career high at Butler was 37 points in a victory over Pennsylvania Highlands.
      Anderson is a criminal justice major at Gannon.