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Justin Ingram was a senior co-captain on the 2006-07 men’s basketball team that won the MAC regular-season championship. He averaged 14.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists on his way to first-team All-MAC honors that season as the Rockets went 14-2 in MAC play. Ingram was a star almost from the moment he arrived at UT, averaging 10.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.6 assists to earn MAC Freshman of the Year honors in 2003-04. As a sophomore, he averaged 9.3 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.2 assists. He moved from point guard to shooting guard as a junior, earning second-team All-MAC honors while averaging 14.6 points and guiding the Rockets to the Championship Game of the MAC Tournament. For his career, Ingram ranks 11th all-time in scoring (1,494 points), sixth in three-pointers (213), fourth in free throw percentage (81.6%) and third in steals (217). He is tied for fifth in most games played with 123, and was a starter in every game in which he appeared. The Rockets’ record in his four seasons was 75-48, 47-23 in MAC play. Along with being a star athlete, Ingram was just as good in the classroom, receiving the Roy & Gail Hummel award two years straight for having the highest GPA on the team (2005-07).
Ingram currently holds game records in steals (6), and three point field goal attempts (11) vs. Eastern Michigan (3/8/07) as well as, free throw percentage (100.00 7-of-7) vs. BGSU (3/6/06). Along with these records, Ingram is still ranked fourth in three-point field goal attempts (632), three-point field goal attempts in MAC play (357), as well as steals in MAC play (114), fifth for three-point field goals in MAC games (116), and minutes played (3,856) over his career at Toledo. Ingram was the annual leader in assists per game (3.6) during the 2003-04 season, rebounds per game (4.0) in 2004-05, points per game (14.6), steals per game (1.9), three-point field goals per game (1.8), and free throw percentage (.876, 127-of-145) in 2005-06, steals per game (2.1) and three-point field goals per game (2.2) during his senior year (2006-07).
In 2016, Ingram was inducted into the Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 2000 Waverly Warriors MHSAA Class A state championship team.
Ingram joined the Rockets’ program prior to the 2017-18 campaign as its director of operations. Before returning to the UT campus, he served as an associate head coach for one season at Olivet (Mich.) College after a nine year stretch playing professionally overseas in France, Hungary, Estonia, Greece and Switzerland. Ingram was promoted to assistant coach in November of 2018, where he currently resides.
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