Raymond Gause
Puerto Rican national team shooting guard from 1988 to 1992.
Raymond Gause is a Puerto Rican former basketball player. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he played college basketball for the UAB Blazers under Gene Bartow alongside Jerome Mincy and Orlando "Pipo" Marrero. After moving to Puerto Rico in 1984, he debuted in the Superior League (BSN) with the Bayamon Cowboys in 1987 and helped them win the 1988 championship under Robert Corn. Gause helped qualify Puerto Rico for the 1988 Summer Olympics and contributed to gold medals at the 1989 Tournament of the Americas, the 1989 Centro Basket Tournament, the 1991 Centro Basket Tournament, and the 1991 Pan American Games—the only Pan American gold in Puerto Rico basketball history. He also played in the 1990 FIBA World Championship (fourth place) and the 1992 Tournament of the Americas, qualifying for the 1992 Olympics, his final international competition. Over his four-year career, he shot 42% from three-point range.
Quick Facts
- Position
- Shooting guard
- Born
- 4 February 1961
- Birthplace
- Memphis, Tennessee
- College
- UAB
- Nationality
- Puerto Rican
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Background
Raymond Gause's arrival on the Puerto Rican National Team in 1988 marked the start of the program's best four-year run. That year, he was recruited as a three-point shooter and specialist, immediately becoming the starting shooting guard. His first task was the 1988 Tournament of the Americas Olympic Qualifier in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he helped Puerto Rico qualify for the Seoul Olympics. In 1989, he helped the team win gold at the Tournament of the Americas in Mexico City and then led Puerto Rico to a gold medal victory over Panama at the Centro Basket Tournament in Havana, Cuba. The 1990 FIBA World Championship in Buenos Aires saw Puerto Rico arrive undefeated at 7-0 after disposing of Yugoslavia, USA, and Australia, only to lose its last two games in the medal round to the Soviet Union and Team USA, finishing fourth. In 1991, Gause led Puerto Rico to gold medals at the Centro Basket Tournament in Monterrey, Mexico, and the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. In the gold medal game against Mexico, he scored 25 points with seven three-point baskets—the only Pan American gold Puerto Rico basketball has ever won. He closed his international career at the 1992 Tournament of the Americas in Portland, Oregon, the first international event allowing NBA players, helping Puerto Rico qualify for the Barcelona Olympics.
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