Born in
Brooklyn, New York, Sellers played high school basketball at
Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. He also earned
Third-Team Parade All-American honors at Jefferson and received over 200 scholarship offers from colleges across the country to play basketball. At
Rutgers, Sellers was recruited by and played under then-assistant coach and future college basketball legend
Dick Vitale. His decision to become a Scarlet Knight was initially criticized as Rutgers was a small, unheralded and independent program at the time Sellers and Rutgers continued their winning ways in 1974–75, finishing with a 22–7 record and the first
NCAA Tournament appearance, losing a first-round game to
Louisville 91–78 with Sellers scoring 29 points. Rutgers took another step in 1975–76. Sellers, a senior and Consensus Second Team All-American, led the team to a 31–0 start, averaging a
double-double of 19.2 ppg and 10.2 rpg. The Scarlet Knights advanced to the
NCAA Tournament, winning games over
Princeton 54–53,
Connecticut 93–79, and
VMI 91–75 to advance to the Final Four. The team finished 31–2, with their only two losses occurring in the national semifinals, 86–70 to
Michigan and then the third-place game to
UCLA 106–92. ==Professional career==