For three years, Jeff Beck brought the ball up the court as the point guard for NCAA Division III Lake Forest College’s men’s basketball team.

This season, as a senior for the Foresters, he is carrying the offense in a different fashion.
Beck, a Dundee-Crown graduate, leads Lake Forest with a career-best 19.4 points a game, which ranks third in the Midwest Conference, as the Foresters’ shooting guard.

In the best offensive season of his career, Beck became only the 20th player in school history to surpass 1,000 points Jan. 19 against Illinois College.