schintzius only player to amass more than 1,000 points, 800 rebounds, 250 assists and 250 blocks,Schintzius received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Norm Sloan's Florida Gators men's basketball team from 1987 to 1990. Schintzius started at center for the Gators beginning early in his freshman season.By the end of his junior season (1988–89), he had led the Gators in scoring, rebounding, and free-throw percentage over at least one full season. He also owned the school record for career blocked shots, with his season totals ranked 1-2-3 in school history at the time. He was also recognized for his distinct mullet-style haircut, known as the "lobster."
The Gators had never been invited to the NCAA basketball tournament, but they made the field during each of Schintztius's three full seasons with the team, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in 1987.During his junior year, the Gators won their first-ever regular season Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship. Schintzius was recognized as a first-team All-SEC player after that season and was included on multiple All-American lists.

However, Schintzius's college career was marred by disciplinary problems. He occasionally clashed with coach Norm Sloan, including one instance in which he refused to re-enter a contest late in a Gators loss during his sophomore season.He also had minor incidents with opposing players, fans and mascots, and with others off the court. During his junior season, he got out of a car outside a Gainesville nightclub wielding a tennis racket and hit a Florida student. Schintzius later apologized and was not formally charged with a crime, but the university's office of student affairs found Schintzius guilty of violating the student code of conduct and suspended him for the first four games of the season.
In the first game after he returned from that suspension, Florida traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to face the Vanderbilt Commodores in a crucial SEC matchup.With two seconds left and down by two points, Florida turned the ball over, seemingly sealing a loss.At that point, someone in the Memorial Gymnasium home crowd threw a tennis ball onto the court resulting in a technical foul on the Commodores.Schintzius, who led the Gators in free throw percentage that season, hit both free throws to send the game into overtime.Florida won the game 81–78 in overtime, and eventually captured their first SEC regular season championship by a single game over Vanderbilt.
Sloan was fired just before Schintzius's senior season of 1989–90 and was replaced on an interim basis by Don DeVoe. Schintzius was not happy with this turn of events and skipped DeVoe's first practice with the team along with fellow star Livingston Chatman. Soon after, he was suspended for alleged involvement in a fraternity house fight.He would never play for the Gators again.Without Livingston Chapman and Schintzius, the Gators would lose sixteen of their remaining seventeen games.
DeVoe told Schintzius that in order to rejoin the basketball team, he would have to maintain his playing weight, go to class consistently, and get a haircut.In a statement released January 25, 1990, Schintzius claimed that he had done all these things, but was nonetheless quitting the team due to conflicts with his new coach. The statement read, in part:
No one can argue that Coach Sloan and Coach Towe (Monte Towe, Sloan's assistant) were easy to play for, and to them you had to accept the coach as the absolute authority and their word as final; but that does not mean I must sail under the authority of Captain Ahab. If you can play for Coach Sloan, you can play for almost anyone, almost anyone.
Schintzius remains the the only player in SEC history to amass more than 1,000 points, 800 rebounds, 250 assists and 250 blocks.He holds the Gators career record for blocks (272), and is currently sixth on the Gators' list for career scoring with 1,624 points.
Despite his personal issues, Schintzius was regarded as a good NBA prospect due to his performance on the court. The San Antonio Spurs selected him in the first round (twenty-fourth pick overall) of the 1990 NBA Draft.He injured his back during his rookie season and was traded to the Sacramento Kings for Antoine Carr on September 23, 1991. He later revealed Spurs general manager Bob Bass disliked his mullet haircut and told him to shave it, which he did.Schintzius then sent Bass the shavings in an envelope.The Kings waived Schintzius during the 1991–92 season, and the New Jersey Nets signed him on October 1, 1992.
Schintzius had several injuries and several surgeries for a spinal disc herniation over the next several years as he moved from team to team in the NBA. He spent three seasons with the New Jersey Nets, a year with the Indiana Pacers, and then a year with the Los Angeles Clippers.After missing the entire 1997–98 season due to injury, he played sixteen games with the Celtics in 1998–99 before retiring from the NBA.In eight NBA seasons, he appeared in 217 regular season games and started thirty-three of them.
He later came out of retirement to play in the minor leagues, and appeared in thirty-five games for the Mobile Revelers of the NBA's Development League in 2001–02.[1] He last played for the Brevard Blue Ducks of the United States Basketball League (USBL) in 2003.

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