5 SCHEDULE/RESULTS (0-0, 0-0 PATRIOT LEAGUE) LEHIGH Nov. 13 at Syracuse (ESPN3) 7:00 16 at Canisius (ESPN3) 7:00 19 YALE (PLN) 7:00 MEN’S BASKETBALL 22 at Columbia 4:00 25 at Virginia (ESPN3) 7:00 Junior Tim Kempton 28 at Purdue (ESPN3) 7/8:00 2015 Patriot League Player of the Year Dec. 2 at Saint Francis (Pa.) 7:00 5 ROCHESTER COLLEGE (PLN) 2:00 GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE 17 at Robert Morris 7:00 19 MOUNT ST. MARY’S (PLN) 7:00 LEHIGH MOUNTAIN HAWKS (0-0, 0-0 PATRIOT LEAGUE) 22 STONY BROOK (PLN) 7:00 30 at Army West Point* (PLN) 7:00 at SYRACUSE ORANGE (0-0, 0-0 ACC) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • 7:00 PM Jan. 2 BOSTON UNIVERSITY* (PLN) 2:00 6 at Loyola* (PLN) 7:30 CARRIER DOME (34,616) • SYRACUSE, N.Y. 9 at American* (PLN) 2:00 ESPN3/WATCHESPN 11 BUCKNELL* (CBS SN) 7:30 16 at Holy Cross* (PLN) 1:00 20 NAVY* (PLN) 7:00 SETTING THE SCENE 23 at Lafayette* (PLN) 2:00 The Lehigh men’s basketball team opens its season on Friday when the Mountain Hawks travel to 27 COLGATE* (PLN) 7:00 Syracuse to face the Orange. Opening tipoff is set for 7 p.m. and can be viewed on ESPN3/WatchES- 31 at Boston University* (CBS SN) 12:00 PN. The preseason Patriot League favorite, Lehigh is coming off a resurgent season in 2014-15, which featured a third-place finish in the league standings along with wins over power conference opponents Feb. 3 LOYOLA* (PLN) 7:00 DePaul and Arizona State. 6 AMERICAN* (PLN 7:00 10 at Bucknell* (ASN/PLN) 7:00 Hopes are high entering the 2015-16 season as the Mountain Hawks were predicted to win the Patriot 15 HOLY CROSS* (CBS SN) 7:30 League, as announced at the league’s media day last month. It marks the second time in four seasons 17 at Navy* (PLN) 7:00 Lehigh has been No. 1 in the preseason poll, also in 2012-13 following the Mountain Hawks’ historic 21 LAFAYETTE* (CBS SN/PLN) 12:00 24 at Colgate* (PLN) 7:00 27-win season which featured an NCAA Tournament upset over Duke. Lehigh went on to win 21 games 27 at Army West Point* (CBS SN/PLN) 12:00 in 2012-13, even after star C.J. McCollum suffered a season-ending injury at VCU in early January.
Mar. The Mountain Hawks feature the reigning Patriot League Player of the Year (junior Tim Kempton) 1 PL Opening Round TBA and Rookie of the Year (sophomore Kahron Ross). Kempton played some of his best basketball against 3 PL Quarterfinals TBA 6 PL Semifinals (CBS SN) 12/2:00 power conference foes last season, averaging 15.7 points and 10.7 rebounds in three games against 9 PL Championship Game (CBS SN) 7:30 Villanova, DePaul and Arizona State, recording a double-double in each contest. The Mountain Hawks lost to eventual No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed Villanova (77-66) while defeating DePaul (86-74) and All dates and times Eastern and subject to change Arizona State (84-81 in triple overtime). Lehigh’s last game against an ACC opponent came on Nov. 20, Home games in Bold CAPS 2013 at Pittsburgh. The Mountain Hawks also played Pittsburgh the season prior while their previous *Patriot League opponent ACC opponent before that was Duke in the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
Lehigh will be searching for its first season-opening victory since the 2008 season. The Mountain Hawks have faced power conference foes in their opener in each of the last five seasons: Penn State (2010), St. John’s (2011), Baylor (2012), Minnesota (2013) and Villanova (2014). Friday’s game starts a challenging nonleague slate, and especially November, for Lehigh. The Mountain Hawks’ 11 nonleague opponents MEDIA INFORMATION averaged 19.8 wins last season. In November alone, they will face three power conference foes in Syracuse, Virginia and Purdue while also playing the preseason No. 1 and 2 teams in the Ivy League Men’s Basketball Contact ...... Justin Lafleur Yale and Columbia. Lehigh’s other November game is at Canisius, who won 18 games last season. Office...... (610) 758-6631 Cell...... (610) 577-5222 Just three years removed from a Final Four appearance, Lehigh is facing Syracuse for the first time since Fax ...... (610) 758-4407 E-mail...... [email protected] the 1931-32 season. The Orange went 18-13 last season, but lost their leading scorer and rebounder Mailing Address Rakeem Christmas to graduation. Syracuse is the sixth winningest college basketball program of all- ...... 641 Taylor Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015 time, owning more than 1,800 victories. Press Row Phone...... (610) 758-4903/4933 Website...... Lehighsports.com TONIGHT’S PROJECTED LEHIGH STARTERS No. Pos. Ht. Cl. Name PPG RPG Notes Game Coverage 1 G 5-11 So. Kahron Ross 10.4 5.8 assts. Reigning Patriot League Rookie of the Year Radio/Internet: ESPN Radio 1230 and 1320 AM and Le- 4 G 6-4 Sr. Devon Carter 0.9 0.6 One of three team captains highsports.com with Tom Fallon. Pregame coverage begins 5 G 6-4 Jr. Austin Price 11.4 3.0 Second on team in scoring in 2014-15 at 6:30 p.m. 31 F 6-9 Sr. Jesse Chuku 5.6 3.5 Second on Mountain Hawks in made 3-pointers TV: ESPN3 32 F/C 6-10 Jr. Tim Kempton 15.3 8.7 Reigning Patriot League Player of the Year Son of former NBA player Tim Kempton RESERVES Patriot League Champions: 2004, 2010, 2012 10 G 6-3 Fr. Kyle Leufroy -- -- Pasadena, California native; attended Prolific Prep NCAA Tournament: 1985, 1988, 2004, 2010, 2012 11 G 6-1 So. Tyler Jenkins 2.8 0.6 One of three Mountain Hawks from Indiana 13 F 6-7 Fr. Matt Holba -- -- #36 ranked incoming small forward by ESPN Follow Lehigh Men’s Basketball 15 G 5-10 So. Jay Jay Davis -- -- Walk-on, served as team manager last season on Facebook 20 G/F 6-4 Sr. John Ross Glover 3.4 1.1 Transfer from D1 Lipscomb www .facebook .com/LehighMensBasketball 40 F 6-8 Sr. Justin Goldsborough 7.5 5.8 Four double-doubles last season and Twitter 42 G 6-5 So. Brandon Alston 4.8 1.6 Out for season with knee injury www .twitter .com/LehighMBB 55 C 6-11 Fr. Caleb Sedore -- -- Out for season with knee injury *2014-15 Statistics
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IF LEHIGH BEATS SYRACUSE SYRACUSE SERIES HISTORY TONIGHT’S GAME - Lehigh would win its season opener for the first time since Nov. 15, 2008, a 79-62 win at Saint Peter’s. Overall: Syracuse leads, 3-0 Syracuse leads the all-time series, 3-0 with the last Last Meeting: 1931-32 - The Mountain Hawks would win their ninth-ever meeting coming back during the 1931-32 season. The Last Result: Syracuse, 34-17 Orange won that game, 34-17, while also winning in game against current members of the ACC. Current Streak: Syracuse - 3 wins 1930-31 (51-23) and 1922-23 (28-16). - Lehigh would defeat Syracuse for the first time in Last 10: Syracuse, 3-0 program history. LAST MEETING - The Mountain Hawks would improve to 2-2 in Last 10 meetings: Lehigh lost to Syracuse, 34-17 during the fourth game their last four games against the ACC. 1931-32 vs. Syracuse Syracuse, 34-17 of the 1931-32 season. 1930-31 vs. Syracuse Syracuse, 51-23 SEASON OPENING NOTES 1922-23 vs. Syracuse Syracuse, 28-16 LAST TIME OUT - Lehigh has dropped six straight season openers, all BETHLEHEM, Pa. (3/3/15) - The third-seeded Le- on the road: at Richmond (2009), Penn State (2010), LAST GAME VS. SYRACUSE high men’s basketball team jumped out to a quick St. John’s (2011), Baylor (2012), Minnesota (2013) - Lehigh lost to Syracuse, 34-17 during the fourth first-half lead, but American’s offense came alive in and Villanova (2014). Last season’s game against game of the 1931-32 season. the second half as the sixth-seeded Eagles eliminated Villanova was at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pa. the Mountain Hawks from the Patriot League Tour- nament, 68-62 on Thursday evening in Stabler Arena. but was considered a home game for the Wildcats. ALL-TIME AGAINST THE ACC Sophomore Tim Kempton led Lehigh with 20 points - The Mountain Hawks’ last season-opening victory (current members) and 11 rebounds for his 14th double-double of the came on Nov. 15, 2008, a 79-62 win at Saint Peter’s. 8-27 overall season as he finished a perfect 9-for-9 from the field. Lehigh held American to just 39 percent shooting in Boston College: 0-0 the first half, but the Eagles responded by shooting 56 ALL-TIME VS. ACC Clemson: 0-0 percent over the final 20 minutes. - Lehigh is 8-27 all-time against current members Duke: 1-4 of the ACC, owning five wins against Pittsburgh Florida State: 0-0 BY THE NUMBERS (2014-15 numbers) along with wins vs. Duke, Miami (Fla.) and North Georgia Tech: 0-0 Lehigh Syracuse Carolina State. Louisville: 0-0 Points 68.1 67.6 Miami (Fla.): 1-6 Points Allowed 66.7 63.4 - The Mountain Hawks have never played six teams Scoring Margin +1.4 +4.2 who are currently in the conference: Boston College, North Carolina: 0-1 FG% .441 .430 Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville and North Carolina State: 1-2 Opp FG% .401 .405 Virginia Tech. Notre Dame: 0-3 3FG% .345 .301 Pittsburgh: 5-5 Opp 3FG% .340 .315 Syracuse: 0-3 FT% .725 .660 PLAYING IN FRONT OF A LARGE CROWD Virginia: 0-1 Rebounds 36.2 36.6 Friday’s game will be one of the largest crowds, if not Virginia Tech: 0-0 Rebound Margin +1.5 +1.5 the largest crowd, to ever attend a Lehigh Basketball Wake Forest: 0-2 Assists 14.3 15.1 Blocks 3.2 5.1 game. Five Mountain Hawk games have exceeded Steals 5.6 8.3 10,000 fans since the beginning of the 2010-11 season TOs 13.1 11.9 with Friday’s game at Syracuse primed to shatter these marks. For perspective, last season’s opener SCOUTING SYRACUSE for Syracuse had an attendance of 22,833. The sixth all-time winningest program in NCAA Men’s Basketball history, Syracuse has won more than vs. Xavier (Mar. 18, 2012): 18,722 1,800 games in its history. The Orange lost its leading scorer Rakeem Christmas from a team that finished vs. Duke (Mar. 16, 2012): 16,523 last season 18-13. Christmas averaged a team-high 17.5 at Michigan State (Dec. 22, 2011): 14,797 points and 9.5 rebounds. Syracuse is just two seasons at Iowa State (Nov. 12, 2011): 13,343 removed from a 28-6 campaign and three years re- at Minnesota (Nov. 8, 2013): 12,957 moved from a 30-10 season and run to the Final Four. Despite losing Christmas, Syracuse’s second and third leading scorers return this season in graduate students CAPTAINS ANNOUNCED Trevor Cooney (13.4 scoring average) and Michael Three Lehigh men’s basketball players have been RPI TRACKER Gbinije (12.7). Tyler Roberson is also projected to start named team captains, as announced in October by for Syracuse after averaging 8.3 points a season ago. D1 Real Time Team Record RPI SOS DaJuan Coleman returns for the first time since his head coach Brett Reed. Senior Devon Carter, junior sophomore season in 2013-14 when he suffered a knee Tim Kempton and sophomore Kahron Ross will Nonleague injury that December. Coleman averaged 4.3 points share captaincy of the Mountain Hawks. Beyond the Syracuse* 18-13 69 36 and 4.2 rebounds that season. In 2014-15, the Orange captains, Lehigh features several other leaders who Patriot League were 9-9 in the ACC, dropping their final three games look to make their impact during the 2015-16 season. of the season. Syracuse did not participate in the ACC *Last season’s final numbers Tournament or any national postseason tournaments *Please note: Real Time RPI is not the official NCAA RPI due to a self-imposed ban. The Orange were 13-5 in Carter has grown tremendously over his Lehigh the Carrier Dome last season compared to 5-8 away tenure, finding himself as a key senior on a Lehigh from home. In this preseason, Syracuse has dominated squad picked No. 1 in the Patriot League preseason poll. Coming back from an injury late in his Le Moyne and Florida Southern in exhibitions this freshman season, Carter got into 12 games as a sophomore then 17 as a junior. The defending Patriot November, winning 97-58 and 96-54, respectively. League Player of the Year, Kempton led the Mountain Hawks in scoring (15.3 points per game) and PROBABLE STARTERS rebounding (8.7) in 2014-15. He also led the league in rebounding. Kempton developed into not only one 0 Gr. F 6-7 Michael Gbinije 12.7 3.6 of the top forces in the Patriot League, but also region and even nation. He averaged a double-double 10 Gr. G 6-4 Trevor Cooney 13.4 2.8 in all three games against power conference foes last season, leading Lehigh to wins at DePaul and 21 Jr. F 6-8 Tyler Roberson 8.3 1.6 23 Fr. G 6-6 Malachi Richardson -- -- Arizona State, along with a tight loss to Villanova, an eventual No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. 32 Sr. C 6-9 DaJuan Coleman 4.3 4.2 The team’s point guard, Ross jumps into a captaincy role after a stellar freshman season, becoming *Coleman’s statistics are from the 2013-14 season Lehigh’s first sophomore captain since C.J. McCollum in 2010-11. Ross enjoyed a stellar freshman campaign, becoming Lehigh’s fifth Patriot League Rookie of the Year in eight season. He averaged 10.4 points and a league-leading 5.8 assists to pace the Mountain Hawks’ offense.
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CHALLENGING 2015-16 SCHEDULE Lehigh’s 2015-16 schedule is one of the most challenging slates and school, and perhaps even Patriot AROUND THE League, history. In total, the Mountain Hawks will face four teams coming off NCAA Tournament PATRIOT LEAGUE appearances, eight who advanced to a national postseason tournament and six who reached 20 wins, including one team that won 30 games. Lehigh’s nonleague foes went a combined 218-139 (.611 winning percentage) in 2014-15, with 10-of-11 nonleague opponents finishing at least .500. PATRIOT LEAGUE STANDINGS League Overall W L W L Here are some quick facts about the team’s schedule. American 0 0 0 0 - The Mountain Hawks’ 11 nonleague opponents won an average of 19.8 games last season. Army West Point 0 0 0 0 - Lehigh will face the preseason No. 1 and 2 teams in both the Ivy League and NEC this season. Boston University 0 0 0 0 - Two opponents, Virginia and Purdue, were ranked in the AP Preseason Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Bucknell 0 0 0 0 Poll. UVA was sixth in both polls while the Boilermakers were 23rd in the AP Poll and tied for 24th in Colgate 0 0 0 0 the Coaches Poll. Holy Cross 0 0 0 0 Lafayette 0 0 0 0 LEHIGH PICKED FIRST; KEMPTON PRESEASON PLAYER OF THE YEAR Lehigh 0 0 0 0 For the second time in four seasons, the Lehigh men’s basketball team has been predicted to win the Loyola 0 0 0 0 Patriot League, as announced at the league’s annual Media Day on Thursday, Oct. 22 The Mountain Navy 0 0 0 0 Hawks topped the preseason poll, earning 156 points and 12 first-place votes. Junior Tim Kempton was also named the Patriot League Preseason Player of the Year after garnering Player of the Year after his sophomore campaign. UPCOMING SCHEDULE
2015-16 Patriot League Men’s Basketball Preseason Poll Friday 1. LEHIGH, 156 points (12 first-place votes) Ferrum College at Army West Point 5:00 2. Bucknell, 150 (8) Colgate at George Mason 7:00 3. Boston University, 126 Holy Cross at Marist 7:00 4. Army West Point, 108 Lafayette at George Washington 7:00 5. American, 84 Lehigh at Syracuse 7:00 6. Lafayette, 82 Northeastern at Boston University 7:00 7. Loyola, 73 Shenandoah at Bucknell 7:00 8. Holy Cross, 50 American at Rhode Island 8:00 9. Colgate, 36 Florida at Navy 9:30 10. Navy, 35 Tennessee State at Loyola 7:30
Patriot League Men’s Basketball Preseason Player of the Year: Tim Kempton, Lehigh (Jr ., F/C) Sunday Wake Forest at Bucknell 1:00 Men’s Basketball Preseason All-Patriot League Team Army West Point at Binghamton 2:00 Cedric Hankerson, Boston University (Jr., G) Saint Peter’s at Lafayette 2:00 Chris Hass, Bucknell (Sr., G) Tim Kempton, Lehigh (Jr ., F/C) Nick Lindner, Lafayette (Jr., G) PATRIOT LEAGUE WEEKLY AWARDS Jesse Reed, American (Sr., G) (2015-16) Player of the Week KEMPTON NAMED LOU HENSON Junior Tim Kempton has been named a Lou Henson Preseason All-American and in turn, is on the watch Rookie of the Week list for the Lou Henson Award, which is presented annually to the top Mid-Major player in Division I College Basketball. The announcement was made late Monday by College Insider. Kempton is the only Lehigh Honorable Mentions Patriot League student-athlete and one of just 30 in the nation on the list. He becomes Lehigh’s first honoree since C.J. McCollum was named a Lou Henson Preseason All-American in November of 2011.
KRIZANSKY, ROWLAND, MCCOLLUM ON PL 25TH ANNIVERSARY TEAM Former Lehigh men’s basketball all-time greats Bob Krizansky ‘92, Austen Rowland ‘04 and C.J. McCo- llum ‘13 have been named to the Patriot League 25th Anniversary Team, as announced in August. In total, 25 members were named to the team, representing nine schools. Lehigh stands tied for the third most honorees in the league.
Krizansky enjoyed a stellar four-year career, which included his final two seasons in the Patriot League. He earned first team All-League in both of his campaigns, finishing fourth in school history with 1,841 points. Krizansky scored 1,031 of his points over his two Patriot League seasons. Rowland enjoyed one memorable season in the Brown and White, earning Patriot League Player of the Year and Tournament MVP in 2003-04 as Lehigh won its first-ever Patriot League Championship. A transfer from Delaware, Rowland scored 1,230 points over his collegiate career (which would stand 20th in school history). Rowland led the league with 15.5 points per game in his senior season at Lehigh. Rounding out Lehigh’s honorees is McCollum, who is currently starring for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. McCollum became an instant star at Lehigh, becoming the only freshman to ever win Patriot League Player and Rookie of the Year in 2009-10 honors as the Mountain Hawks won the league title. After averaging 19.1 points per game as the nation’s leading freshman scored, McCollum improved his scoring total as a sophomore by scoring 21.8 points per contest. As a junior, the Canton, Ohio native won a second Patriot League Player of the Year honor, leading Lehigh to its second league title in three years. McCollum followed by scoring 30 points against Duke as Lehigh pulled off one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history when the 15th-seeded Mountain Hawks topped the second-seeded Blue Devils, 75-70. Lehigh Athletic Media RelationsExperience • 641 Taylor Street, Lehigh Bethlehem, Football PA • Phone 2003 610-758-3174 • Fax 610-758-4407 2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 4
MOUNTAIN HAWKS’ STATISTICAL LEADERS 2015-16 HONORS & AWARDS (NUMBER OF GAMES) Game Leaders Player 10+ 20+ 30+ 10+ 15+ 20+ 5+ 10+ 5+ 5+ D.D. Pts Reb Ast PRESEASON AWARDS Preseason All-Patriot League Pts Pts Pts Rebs Rebs Rebs Ast Ast Steals Blks Tim Kempton 1-Ross 4-Carter IN-SEASON AWARDS 5-Price 10-Leufroy WEEKLY AWARDS 11-Jenkins Patriot League Player of the Week 13-Holba 15-Davis 20-Ross Glover Patriot League Rookie of the Week 31-Chuku ECAC Rookie of the Week 32-Kempton 40-Goldsborough ECAC Player of the Week 42-Alston 55-Sedore College Sports Madness PL Player of the Week POWER CONFERENCE SUCCESS DID YOU KNOW? - Lehigh enjoyed impressive success against power conference schools last season, owning a 2-1 - The Mountain Hawks led the Patriot League in field goal percentage defense last season (.401). Next up was Bucknell record with wins over DePaul (Nov. 26) and Arizona State (Dec. 20) while dropping a hard-fought and Colgate , both at .442. game to eventual NCAA Tournament No. 1 seed Villanova (Nov. 14). - Lehigh also led the league in rebounding (36.2 per game). - The Mountain Hawks defeated DePaul out of the Big East and Arizona State of the Pac-12 within - Kahron Ross led the nation in assists per game among a 24-day span. Lehigh scored more than 80 points in both victories. freshmen last season (5.8). His 175 assists this season were - Lehigh’s win over DePaul on Thanksgiving Eve was just the Big East’s third loss of the season among the best in school history (below). (compared to 39 wins). - The Mountain Hawks’ offense was on fire against the power conference schools, scoring 236 points LEHIGH SINGLE-SEASON ASSISTS (78.7 average) - 66 vs. Villanova, 86 vs. DePaul and 84 vs. Arizona State. Lehigh knocked down 1. 192 Mackey McKnight, 2013-14 (32 games, 6.0 avg.) 88-of-172 field goals (51.2 percent) and 24-of-54 three-pointers (44.4 percent) against those schools. 2. 187 Marquis Hall, 2009-10 (33 games, 5.67 avg.) - Tim Kempton posted a double-double in all three games, recording 15 points and 10 rebounds 3 . 175 Kahron Ross, 2014-15 (30 games, 5 .8 avg .) against Villanova then 16 points and 11 boards at DePaul and 16 points and 11 rebounds at Ari- 3. 160 Mike McKee, 1993-94 (27 games, 5.93 avg.) zona State. 5. 153 Mackey McKnight, 2012-13 (31 games, 4.94 avg.) 6. 151 Austen Rowland, 2003-04 (31 games, 4.87 avg.)* - Austin Price scored 24 points on 10-of-17 shooting against Villanova then 14 points on 4-of-4 7. 138 Mike Androlewicz, 1985-86 (28 games, 4.93 avg.) shooting at DePaul and 18 points on 7-of-14 shooting at Arizona State. He knocked down 60.0 8. 133 Marquis Hall, 2006-07 (31 games, 4.29 avg.) percent of his shots against the Big East (21-of-35), which includes 8-of-15 from three. 9. 132 Mike Polaha, 1987-88 (30 games, 4.40 avg.) - Kahron Ross dished 25 assists over the three games (8.3 average) compared to his season average 10. 130 Scott Layer, 1989-90 (30 games, 4.33 avg.) of 5.6. That included seven helpers in his collegiate debut against Villanova and a school-record 11. 129 Bob Krizansky, 1990-91 (29 games, 4.45 avg.) 14 at Arizona State. 12. 128 Marquis Hall, 2007-08 (29 games, 4.41 avg.) - Meanwhile, Lehigh held Villanova to just 38 percent shooting (27-of-71), DePaul to just 36.7 13. 124 Mike Polaha, 1984-85 (31 games, 3.97 avg.) 124 C.J. McCollum, 2011-12 (35 games, 3.54 avg.) percent shooting (22-of-60) and Arizona State to 42.9 percent shooting (30-of-70). The Mountain 15. 121 Mackey McKnight, 2011-12 (34 games, 3.56 avg.) Hawks forced 19 ASU turnovers, 16 in the first half. - Lehigh’s win over ASU marked the program’s first-ever over a Pac-12 school. - Arizona State won 21 games and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2013-14 and after Lehigh defeated the Sun Devils, ASU went on to an NIT appearance, including a home victory over No. 6 Arizona. - Lehigh outrebounded the Sun Devils 48-44 to become just the second time that season to outre- bound ASU. The Mountain Hawks snapped Arizona State’s 14-game home winning streak and handed ASU just its sixth loss in 46 home games under head coach Herb Sendek.
ROSS RUNNING THE POINT - Sophomore Kahron Ross looks to become Lehigh’s third straight four-year starter at point guard following Marquis Hall and Mackey McKnight. - Despite some foul trouble, Ross finished his collegiate debut against #12 Villanova by posting six points and seven assists to just one turnover. - Meanwhile, Hall tallied eight points on 3-of-7 shooting while dishing four assists in his collegiate debut at Oregon on Nov. 11, 2006. Hall ended his career with 1,514 career points (11th in school history) and 566 assists (second). - In McKnight’s debut, he had 13 points on 5-of-12 shooting while adding three assists and three rebounds in a 70-56 loss at Penn State on Nov. 12, 2010. McKnight finished his career with 1,327 career points (14th in school history) and 578 assists (first). - Ross finished his freshman season averaging 10.4 points (third on the team), 5.8 assists (most on the team, and league) and 2.8 rebounds. He was the nation’s leader in assists among freshmen. - Ross earned Patriot League Rookie of the Week five times (Nov. 24, Dec. 22, Jan. 12, Feb. 2, Feb. 9) and was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year, Lehigh’s fifth in the previous nine seasons.
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2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 5 COMMON HOMECOMINGS COLLEGEINSIDER.COM MID-MAJOR TOP 25 (11/2) Homecomings are fairly common for the Mountain Hawks as head coach Brett Reed tries to schedule games near players’ hometowns whenever pos- Record Points Previous Conference 1. Wichita State (21) 0-0 764 - Missouri Valley sible. This season, the Mountain Hawks head to Virginia, close to Brandon 2. Gonzaga (9) 0-0 751 - West Coast Alston’s hometown (Vienna, Va.). Lehigh also heads to Purdue in West 3. Valparaiso (1) 0-0 638 - Horizon 4. Stephen F. Austin 0-0 579 - Southland Lafayette, Indiana as the Mountain Hawks feature a trio of Indiana natives: 5. BYU 0-0 561 - West Coast Matt Holba, Tyler Jenkins and Austin Price. Last season, Lehigh headed 6. Iona 0-0 549 - Metro Atlantic 7. Northern Iowa 0-0 537 - Missouri Valley to DePaul in Chicago on Thanksgiving Eve for Miles Simelton’s (Oswego, 8. Belmont 0-0 504 - Ohio Valley Illinois) homecoming. Tim Kempton had a homecoming to Arizona State 9. Evansville 0-0 388 - Missouri Valley 10. Central Michigan 0-0 369 - Mid-American on Dec. 20. Kempton is from Scottsdale, Arizona as his entire high school 11 . Yale 0-0 254 - Ivy League basketball team Brophy College Prep was in attendance to support Kemp- 12. UL Lafayette 0-0 242 - Sun Belt 13. North Florida 0-0 239 - Atlantic Sun ton and the Mountain Hawks. The Loyola, Navy and American trips are 14. Oakland 0-0 238 - Horizon always a homecoming for Justin Goldsborough, who is from nearby Fort 15. Illinois State 0-0 236 - Missouri Valley 16. Akron 0-0 222 - Mid-American Washington, Md. 17. Montana 0-0 221 - Big Sky 18. UC Irvine 0-0 219 - Big West 19. Harvard 0-0 201 - Ivy League 20. Pepperdine 0-0 187 - West Coast STRONG IN THE CLASSROOM 21. Western Michigan 0-0 180 - Mid-American - The Mountain Hawks take a lot of pride in their academic performance as 22. Hofstra 0-0 160 - Colonial 23. Saint Mary’s 0-0 149 - West Coast a pair of players own cumulative GPAs over 3.0. 24. NJIT 0-0 148 - Atlantic Sun - Senior John Ross Glover leads the way with a 3.37 GPA in English and 25 . Bucknell 0-0 116 - Patriot Political Science while junior Austin Price owns a 3.03 in the Business school. OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: South Dakota State 101, Kent State 95, Chattanooga 94, Murray State 92, - Lehigh placed six individuals on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll Columbia 87, Wofford 79, Stony Brook 68, New Mexico State 65, Georgia State 57, Albany 54, Buffalo 53, Eastern Washington 40, Green Bay 39, Princeton 39, Sam Houston State 32, James Madison 31, Northeastern following last season for a spring semester GPA over 3.20. Glover led the 31, Robert Morris 29, Loyola 28, UC Davis 27, North Dakota State 25, High Point 22, LEHIGH 21, Toledo way with a 3.80, Stefan Cvrkalj had a 3.72 and Corey Schaefer tallied a 3.65. 19, North Carolina Central 18, Indiana State 17, Winthrop 17, Coastal Carolina 16, Florida Gulf Coast 16, Monmouth 15, Oral Roberts 15, UNC Wilmington 9, Milwaukee 8, William & Mary 7, Northwestern State 6, Current senior Devon Carter also posted a 3.50 GPA last spring. Vermont 6, Weber State 6, Long Beach State 5, Hawaii 4, Radford 4, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 4, UC Santa Barbara 4, Santa Clara 2, Siena 2, Northern Arizona 2, East Tennessee State 1, Texas Southern 1. NONLEAGUE SUCCESS Lehigh has posted nine or more nonleague victories in four of the last six seasons. After posting nine win in 2009-10 and 2010-11, the squad won 12 in 2011-12 and 10 in 2012-13 for a combined record of 40-20 in that span. AP TOP 25 (11/2) USA TODAY COACHES POLL (11/2) With a 6-5 nonleague slate last season, the Mountain Hawks have posted a winning nonleague record in each of the last seven years . RK TEAM RECORD PTS RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 North Carolina (35) 0-0 1,566 1 Kentucky (11) 0-0 749 2 Kentucky (10) 0-0 1,520 1 North Carolina (12) 0-0 749 3 Maryland (14) 0-0 1,487 3 Maryland (5) 0-0 723 MCCOLLUM STARRING FOR TRAIL BLAZERS 4 Kansas (5) 0-0 1,410 4 Duke (3) 0-0 686 - Former Lehigh standout C.J. McCollum is starring in his third NBA season 5 Duke 0-0 1,350 5 Kansas (1) 0-0 675 with the Portland Trail Blazers. The 10th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, 6 Virginia (1) 0-0 1,347 6 Virginia 0-0 667 7 Iowa State 0-0 1,185 7 Iowa State 0-0 541 McCollum averaged 5.3 points, 1.3 rebounds and 0.7 assists in 38 games 8 Oklahoma 0-0 1,088 8 Oklahoma 0-0 520 during his rookie season. 9 Gonzaga 0-0 1,047 9 Villanova 0-0 498 - McCollum followed by averaging 6.8 points and 1.5 rebounds during 10 Wichita St 0-0 1,032 10 Arizona 0-0 477 11 Villanova 0-0 1,013 11 Gonzaga 0-0 468 his second season. He came on strong in the Western Conference playoffs, 12 Arizona 0-0 917 12 Wichita St 0-0 461 scoring 26 points in Game 3 against Memphis then 18 in Game 4 and 33 in 13 Michigan State 0-0 838 13 Michigan State 0-0 386 Game 5. McCollum shot 12-of-20 from the field and 7-of-11 from three-point 14 California 0-0 757 14 California 0-0 350 15 Indiana 0-0 755 15 Indiana 0-0 312 range in Game 5, almost single-handedly keeping Portland in the game until 16 Utah 0-0 499 16 Utah 0-0 250 the final whistle. 17 Wisconsin 0-0 433 17 Wisconsin 0-0 181 - McCollum is the Trail Blazers’ starting shooting guard this season, while 18 Vanderbilt 0-0 393 18 Notre Dame 0-0 172 19 Notre Dame 0-0 360 19 LSU 0-0 163 acting as the backup point guard to NBA All-Star Damian Lillard. McCollum 20 Connecticut 0-0 307 20 Vanderbilt 0-0 153 began the season with a bang, scoring 37 points against New Orleans on 21 LSU 0-0 268 21 Baylor 0-0 145 14-of-22 shooting and 6-of-9 from three-point range. McCollum is currently 22 Baylor 0-0 265 22 Butler 0-0 132 23 Purdue 0-0 236 23 West Virginia 0-0 125 averaging 20.9 points, 3.1 assists and 4.1 rebounds this season (as of Nov. 24 Butler 0-0 223 24 Connecticut 0-0 110 10), reaching 20 points in three of eight games thus far . 25 Michigan 0-0 126 24 Purdue 0-0 110 - McCollum became the first player in school history to be selected in the
Others receiving votes: Oregon 116, SMU 112, Others receiving votes: Michigan 108, Louis- NBA Draft. He declared for the 2012 draft, but officially withdrew from the West Virginia 84, Texas A&M 72, Cincinnati 63, ville 93, Texas A&M 58, UCLA 48, Georgetown NBA Draft on Monday, Apr. 9, 2012 to return to Lehigh for his senior season. Miami (FL) 48, Louisville 46, Georgetown 23, 45, Cincinnati 43, NC State 36, Oregon 33, Texas McCollum went on to write a piece published on Sporting News’ website NC State 19, Texas 18, Florida State 18, Rhode 29, Florida State 25, Xavier 25, Miami (FL) 11, Island 17, Dayton 12, Xavier 12, Providence San Diego State 10, Iowa 8, Providence 5, Da- titled “Why I’m returning to Lehigh for my senior year,” siting earning his 10, Iowa 6, BYU 5, Valparaiso 5, Boise State 4, vidson 5, Boise State 5, Ohio State 2, Stephen degree as one of the primary reasons. Old Dominion 3, San Diego State 2, UCLA 2, F Austin 2, Belmont 2, Tulsa 1, Dayton 1, Oklahoma State 2, Yale 1, UC Irvine 1, Iona 1, Marquette 1, Old Dominion 1 Central Michigan 1 DOUBLE THE PRODUCTION - The Mountain Hawks tallied 21 double-doubles last season, 14 from Tim Kempton, four from Kahron Ross and three from Justin Goldsborough. - Kempton owned double-doubles against Villanova (Nov. 14), Rider (Nov. 21), Columbia (Nov. 23), DePaul (Nov. 26), Arizona State (Dec. 20), UMBC (Dec. 28), Army (Jan. 7), American (Jan. 14), Holy Cross (Jan. 17), Lafayette (Jan. 24), Holy Cross (Feb. 14), Lafayette (Feb. 22), Colgate (Feb. 28) and American (Mar. 5) last season. That included three in a row from Nov. 21 through Nov. 26. - Three players had double-doubles in the Dec. 20 triple overtime thriller at Arizona State. Kempton finished with 16 points (all in the second half) and 11 rebounds, Goldsborough tallied 10 points and a career-high 13 assists while
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Ross scored 15 points and dished a school-record 14 assists. THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE - It marked the first time that multiple Mountain Hawks recorded dou- Lehigh has continued to excel at the charity stripe, not only taking more ble-doubles since Dec. 1, 2013 against Sacred Heart. free throws than its opponents, but also converting at an impressive rate. In - The Mountain Hawks had six double-doubles all of 2012-13: Holden Greiner 2011-12, the Mountain Hawks converted at a 76.8 percent clip (590-of-768) (4), Gabe Knutson (1) and Anthony D’Orazio (1). which was good for fifth in the nation. The following season in 2012-13, Le- - Lehigh had seven during the Patriot League Championship season in 2011- high knocked down 73.7 percent from the charity stripe (455-of-617) which 12: C.J. McCollum (5), Gabe Knutson (2). was among the nation’s best. The Mountain Hawks attempted 105 more free throws than their opponents (617-512) and knocked down 100 more (455-355). TAKING CARE OF THE BASKETBALL In 2013-14, Lehigh knocked down 406-of-574 (70.7 percent) from the charity Lehigh has traditionally taken care of the basketball, averaging just 10.9 stripe. Last season, the Mountain Hawks knocked down 72.5 percent of their turnovers per game in 2012-13, which was top 25 in the nation. The Moun- free throws (430-of-593), which was second in the league and 62nd nationally. tain Hawks committed single-digit turnovers in eight of the last 17 games, including a season-low four in both meetings with Bucknell (which stands as the fewest in Brett Reed’s era as head coach). Lehigh’s assist/turnover HOME SWEET STABLER The Mountain Hawks have won 18 of their last 29, 40 of their last 55 and 53 ratio (1.34) and turnover margin (2.7) were both among the nation’s best. In of their last 73 in the friendly confines of Stabler Arena. They had an 11-game 2013-14, Lehigh averaged just 12.0 turnovers (near the top 100 in the nation), home win streak snapped vs. Bryant on Dec. 29, 2012 and an eight-game including just nine at Houston, eight at Pittsburgh, seven at South Dakota winning streak snapped on Jan. 5, 2014 against Boston University. State, eight at Saint Francis (Pa.) and seven vs. Boston University. Last sea- son, the Mountain Hawks averaged 13.1 turnovers per game. Lehigh had Here’s a look at Lehigh’s home success since the start of the 2002-03 season: single-digit turnovers six times: just seven against Columbia (Nov. 23), eight Overall Record: 133-48 (.735) vs. Penn State Mont Alto, nine at Quinnipiac (Dec. 18), seven vs. Colgate Non-League Record: 66-16 (.805) (Dec. 31), nine vs. Navy (Jan. 21) and nine at Colgate (Feb. 28). Patriot League Record (Regular and Postseason): 67-32 (.677) Longest Winning Streak: 16 games (11/25/03 - 12/6/04) LEHIGH ON NATIONAL, REGIONAL TV Lehigh men’s basketball will appear on national and local TV several times this season. More than 20 games can be seen in HD for free on the new Patriot UP NEXT... Lehigh will return to action on Monday when the Mountain Hawks travel to League Digital Network, at least four on ESPN3/WatchESPN, at least three on Canisius for a 7 p.m. tipoff. Lehigh then returns home next Thursday (Nov. CBS Sports Network and one on the American Sports Network. In addition, 19) to host Yale at 7 p.m. Tickets are available and can be purchased at Le- all home Patriot League games not picked up by CBS will air locally in the highTickets.com or by calling 610-7LU-GAME during normal business hours. Lehigh Valley on Service Electric 2 Sports.
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AMONG THE PATRIOT LEAGUE’S BEST Tim Kempton finished last season sixth in the Patriot League in scoring (15.3 ppg) while classmate Austin Price finished 16th (11.4 ppg). Kempton led the league in rebounding (8.7 rpg) while Kahron Ross led in assists per game (5.8). Ross was tied for third in the league in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.6). Justin Goldsborough was fourth in the league with 1.3 blocks per game and third in field goal percentage (.581). As a team, the Mountain Hawks were second in free throw percentage (.725) and first in field goal percentage defense (.401).
OFFENSIVE JUGGERNAUT Lehigh has led the Patriot League in scoring in four of the last six seasons. The Mountain Hawks averaged a league-leading 75.1 points per game in 2009-10, 73.6 in 2010-11, 75.7 in 2011-12 and 73.1 in 2012-13. In 2012-13, the Mountain Hawks eclipsed 70 points in 19-of-31 games, 80 ten times, 90 three times and 100 once. In 2013-14, Lehigh averaged 66.3 points per game, including a 92-point outburst vs. Rider, 88 in a double overtime win at Colgate and 82 in an overtime victory at Boston University. Last season, the Mountain Hawks averaged 68.1 points per game, which was fourth in the league. Lehigh Athletic Media RelationsExperience • 641 Taylor Street, Lehigh Bethlehem, Football PA • Phone 2003 610-758-3174 • Fax 610-758-4407 2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 7
THE LAST TIME... A LEHIGH TEAM... A LEHIGH PLAYER... Scored 100+ points Recorded a double-double in points and rebounds vs. Army (2/4/15) 20 points, 11 rebounds - Tim Kempton Lehigh won, 103-74 vs. American (3/5/15) Lehigh lost, 68-62 Scored 90+ points vs. Army (2/4/15) Recorded a double-double in points and assists Lehigh won, 103-74 17 points, 10 assists - Kahron Ross vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) Scored 80+ points Lehigh won, 84-65 vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) Lehigh won, 84-65 Scored 25+ points in a game 25 - Tim Kempton Allowed 90+ points vs. Boston University (1/31/15) at Baylor (11/9/12) Lehigh won, 89-86 Lehigh lost, 99-77 Scored 35+ points in a game Had five players in double figures 35 - C.J. McCollum Simelton - 18, Kempton - 17, Chuku - 14, Price - 14, Schaefer - 10 vs. Fairfield (11/19/12) vs. Army (2/4/15) Lehigh won, 82-67 Lehigh won, 103-74 Recorded 5 or more steals in a game Had two players score 15+ points 5 - Austin Price Kempton - 18, Price - 16 at Arizona State (12/20/14) at Colgate (2/28/15) Lehigh won, 84-81 (3OT) Lehigh lost, 61-55 Handed out 10 or more assists in a game 10 - Kahron Ross Had two players score 20+ points vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) Knutson - 28, McKnight - 25 Lehigh won, 84-65 at North Texas (12/20/12) Lehigh won, 90-75 Handed out 5 or more assists in a game 8 - Kahron Ross Shot 50% or better from the floor vs. American (3/5/15) 54.2 (26-48) - vs. American (3/5/15) Lehigh lost, 68-62 Lehigh lost, 68-62 Grabbed 10 or more rebounds in a game Shot 50% or better from three-point range 11 - Tim Kempton 50.0 (8-16) - vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) vs. American (3/5/15) Lehigh won, 84-65 Lehigh lost, 68-62
Did not hit a three-pointer Blocked 5 or more shots in a game 0-for-13 - vs. Columbia (11/23/14) 5 - Jesse Chuku Lehigh lost, 54-44 at Navy (1/22/14) Lehigh won, 68-66 (OT) Played an overtime game at Arizona State (12/20/14) Made 10+ three pointers in a game Lehigh won, 84-81 (3OT) 10 - Joe Knight vs. Colgate (3/4/05) Played a double overtime game Lehigh won, 77-60 at Arizona State (12/20/14) Lehigh won, 84-81 (3OT) Made 5+ three-pointers in a game 5 - Austin Price Recorded 10 steals vs. Rider (11/12/13) 10 - vs. Colgate (12/31/14) Lehigh won, 92-78 Lehigh lost, 68-61 Hit a game-winning shot Forced 20 turnovers Mackey McKnight - driving layup with 0.5 seconds left in OT at Boston University (2/1/14) 22 - vs. Fairleigh Dickinson (12/1/12) Lehigh won, 82-80 (OT) Lehigh won, 102-62
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No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/Previous School Major 1 Kahron Ross So. G 5-11 155 Jonesboro, Ark./Jonesboro High School Arts and Sciences 4 Devon Carter Sr. G 6-4 195 Cleveland, Ohio/John Hay High School Psychology 5 Austin Price Jr. G 6-4 175 Indianapolis, Ind./Detroit Country Day School Finance 10 Kyle Leufroy Fr. G 6-3 195 Pasadena, Calif./Prolific Prep Business 11 Tyler Jenkins So. G 6-1 175 Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern High School Finance 13 Matt Holba Fr. F 6-7 200 Noblesville, Ind./Guerin Catholic High School Business 15 Jay Jay Davis So. G 5-10 150 Allentown, Pa./William Allen High School Business 20 John Ross Glover Sr. G/F 6-4 195 Hendersonvlle, Tenn./University School of Jackson English and Political Science 31 Jesse Chuku Sr. F 6-9 225 London, England/Kimball Union Academy Psychology 32 Tim Kempton Jr. C/F 6-10 225 Scottsdale, Ariz./Brophy College Prep Finance 40 Justin Goldsborough Sr. F 6-8 210 Fort Washington, Md./St. Stephens & St. Agnes School Marketing 42 Brandon Alston So. G 6-5 195 Vienna, Va./Herndon High School Business 55 Caleb Sedore Fr. C 6-11 235 Pulaski, N.Y/Pulaski High School Business
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No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/Previous School Major 42 Brandon Alston So. G 6-5 195 Vienna, Va./Herndon High School Business 4 Devon Carter Sr. G 6-4 195 Cleveland, Ohio/John Hay High School Psychology 31 Jesse Chuku Sr. F 6-9 225 London, England/Kimball Union Academy Psychology 15 Jay Jay Davis So. G 5-10 150 Allentown, Pa./William Allen High School Business 20 John Ross Glover Sr. G/F 6-4 195 Hendersonvlle, Tenn./University School of Jackson English and Political Science 40 Justin Goldsborough Sr. F 6-8 210 Fort Washington, Md./St. Stephens & St. Agnes School Marketing 13 Matt Holba Fr. F 6-7 200 Noblesville, Ind./Guerin Catholic High School Business 11 Tyler Jenkins So. G 6-1 175 Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern High School Finance 32 Tim Kempton Jr. C/F 6-10 225 Scottsdale, Ariz. /Brophy College Prep Finance 10 Kyle Leufroy Fr. G 6-3 195 Pasadena, Calif./Prolific Prep Business 5 Austin Price Jr. G 6-4 175 Indianapolis, Ind./Detroit Country Day School Finance 1 Kahron Ross So. G 5-11 155 Jonesboro, Ark./Jonesboro High School Arts and Sciences 55 Caleb Sedore Fr. C 6-11 235 Pulaski, N.Y/Pulaski High School Business
Murray H. Goodman ’48 Head Coach: Brett Reed (Eckerd College ’95), Ninth Season Associate Head Coach: Antoni Wyche (Notre Dame ’99) Assistant Coaches: Kyle Griffin (Siena ‘11) and Harry Morra (DeSales ‘04) Director of Basketball Operations: Jabari Trotter (Dartmouth ‘12) Video Coordinator: Cooper Handelsman (Kenyon College ‘15)
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE BY POSITION BY STATE/COUNTRY Devon Carter: DEV-in Guards (8): Brandon Alston, Devon Carter, Jay Arizona (1): Tim Kempton Jesse Chuku: CHOO-koo Jay Davis, John Ross Glover, Tyler Jenkins, Kyle Arkansas (1): Kahron Ross Matt Holba: WHOLE-bah Leufroy, Austin Price, Kahron Ross California (1): Kyle Leufroy Kyle Leufroy: LUH-froy Forwards (5): Jesse Chuku, John Ross Glover, Indiana (3): Matt Holba, Tyler Jenkins, Austin Caleb Sedore: SEH-door Justin Goldsborough, Matt Holba, Tim Kempton Price Centers (2): Tim Kempton, Caleb Sedore Maryland (1): Justin Goldsborough BY CLASS New York (1): Caleb Sedore Ohio (1): Devon Carter Seniors (4): Devon Carter, Jesse Chuku, John Pennsylvania (1): Jay Jay Davis Ross Glover, Justin Goldsborough Tennessee (1): John Ross Glover Juniors (2): Tim Kempton, Austin Price Virginia (1): Brandon Alston Sophomores (4): Brandon Alston, Jay Jay Davis, Tyler Jenkins, Kahron Ross England (1): Jesse Chuku Freshmen (3): Matt Holba, Kyle Leufroy, Caleb Sedore
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Several individuals took their play to new levels in 2014-15, high- BRETT REED lighted by Tim Kempton who was named the league’s Player of the Year Head Coach as just a sophomore. He finished the season averaging 15.3 points and a Patriot League leading 8.7 rebounds per game. An honorable mention Ninth Year as Lehigh Head Coach All-American, Kempton tallied 14 double-doubles, including against each of Lehigh’s power conference opponents. Along with Kempton, freshman Kahron Ross became the Mountain Hawks’ fifth Patriot League Rookie of the Year in the last nine seasons, along with Marquis Hall
(2007), Rob Keefer (2008), McCollum (2010) and Kempton (2014). Ross The 2015-16 season is Dr. Brett Reed’s ninth as the Murray H. stepped into the point guard position and excelled, finishing the season Goodman ’48 Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Lehigh University. In with 175 assists, third in school history. He also set a single-game record eight years on the sideline, Reed has become the winningest coach in with 14 assists in Lehigh’s thrilling win at Arizona State. Ross averaged Lehigh history and has won nearly 75 percent of his games at Stabler 10.4 points and a league-leading 5.8 assists during his rookie campaign. Arena. During the 2012-13 season, Reed won his 100th career game and Several other Mountain Hawks continued to take their games to new became the fastest coach to 100 wins in the history of the Patriot League. levels, including Price who finished second on the team in scoring (11.4 During that same season, he also became the all-time winningest coach average) and junior Justin Goldsborough, who started 22 of the last 23 in school history. He enters 2015-16 with 145 career victories and is the games and became a force at both ends of the floor. With a strong core of Patriot League’s second longest-tenured coach. returning players in 2015-16 coupled with a batch of talented freshmen, Reed’s 58.0 career Division I winning percentage is tops among the future is bright for Lehigh men’s basketball. active Patriot League coaches. He has won consistently at Lehigh, eclips- Reed has posted a number of impressive years, including the 2012- ing 20 wins three times in a four-year span from 2009-13, which also 13 season in which the Mountain Hawks finished 21-10 and played in a included three national postseason appearances. The Mountain Hawks national postseason tournament for a second straight season and third twice won the Patriot League and advanced to the NCAA Tournament time in four years. Lehigh began the season 9-2, including an eight-game while advancing to the College Basketball Invitational in 2013. winning streak capped off by a 90-75 win at North Texas. McCollum During Reed’s time, Lehigh has helped develop plenty of impressive went down with a season-ending injury at VCU on Jan. 5, but the Moun- talent, led by two-time All-American and Patriot League Player of the tain Hawks wouldn’t go away quietly. The squad went on to post a 10-4 Year C.J. McCollum who was selected 10th overall by the Portland Trail record in league play to tie for second in the league standings. Blazers in the 2013 NBA Draft. Reed has also recruited at an extremely Reed picked up his 100th career win in style as the Mountain Hawks effective rate, having secured five of the last nine Rookie of the Year defeated Fairleigh Dickinson, 102-62. He went on to post his school award recipients in the Patriot League. record-breaking victory in a 72-43 win at Navy. Reed broke a tie with Reed will be remembered for the 2011-12 season, when the Moun- Tony Packer to become the all-time winningest coach in school history. tain Hawks posted a school-record 27 wins, along with the program’s Following the season, McCollum, the Patriot League’s all-time leading third Patriot League Championship (and second in the three years). scorer, became the first player in school history and second in league The highlight was a historic 75-70 NCAA Tournament win over Duke, history selected in the NBA Draft. becoming only the sixth No. 15 seed to ever beat a No. 2 seed and second Reed’s first Patriot League Title as head coach came in 2009-10 when in the same day (Norfolk State defeated Missouri just hours earlier). he led the Mountain Hawks to their second Patriot League Tournament McCollum led the way with 30 points as Lehigh never trailed by more Championship, first outright regular season league title, the most wins in than five and was leading for much of the game. Mountain Hawks’ school history (at the time) and the most-ever wins at Stabler Arena. The largest lead came in the final minute (eight) as the squad always had Mountain Hawks also led the Patriot League in scoring offense, scoring an answer for the Blue Devils’ runs. margin, three-point percentage, assist-to-turnover ratio and defensive That game helped put the Lehigh men’s basketball program rebounds. Their 220 made three-pointers established a new school re- squarely on the map as over the ensuing days, the Mountain Hawks cord, later broken just four seasons later when Lehigh knocked down were featured in an endless number of national media outlets including 235 in 2013-14. The 2009-10 team also set a mark for the most dominant SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, Sports Illustrated, USA run in the Patriot League Tournament’s history, winning every game by Today and much more. Entering the following season, the Mountain 15 points or more. They also excelled in the classroom. Lehigh’s starting Hawks were ranked among the mid-major’s best teams by numerous five of Dave Buchberger, Zahir Carrington, Hall, McCollum and Gabe outlets. Knutson achieved an average grade point average of 3.2. The 2011-12 season also featured a school record for nonleague wins Reed continued the success into 2010-11, leading the Mountain (12), the Mountain Hawks tied a record for Patriot League victories (11) Hawks to a tie for the second most nonleague wins in school history while shattering the program’s previous wins record of 22 (also set by a while compiling the most nonleague victories over a three-year span Reed-led team). Along the way, Lehigh also played tough against power in school laurels. Success continued into Patriot League play as the conference foes, including NCAA Tournament No. 1 seed Michigan Mountain Hawks led the league in scoring, rebounding and blocked State, holding a 38-35 lead at the half in a valiant effort that fell just short. shots. Most recently, the Mountain Hawks earned two more wins against During Reed’s second season at the helm in 2008-09 season, he led power conference foes during the 2014-15 season as Lehigh took a big the Mountain Hawks to some very noteworthy accomplishments and step forward in its quest to return to championship contention. The continued to build upon the solid foundation established at the begin- Mountain Hawks’ season was highlighted by two wins over power ning of his Lehigh career. The accomplishments included the Mountain conference opponents DePaul and Arizona State, and a tight loss to Hawks’ most nonleague wins ever, the best start to a season in decades, eventual No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament Villanova in a game the most overall road wins since 1991 and the school’s first-ever victory that saw Lehigh lead by five early in the second half. After a slow start over a Big East foe. Reed also mentored a pair of All-Patriot League to Patriot League play, the Mountain Hawks rebounded in a big way, selections in Hall and Carrington. Hall went onto became Lehigh’s highlighted by winning seven-of-eight games midway through the first-ever Patriot League Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, league schedule. Late in the season, Lehigh dominated eventual regular while Carrington was the school’s first All-District selection since 1988. season champion Bucknell to clinch a home game in the Patriot League In his first season as a collegiate head coach, Reed led the Mountain Quarterfinals for the fifth time in the last six years. The Mountain Hawks Hawks to the third most wins for a first-year headman in the 108-season finished in third place in the league standings. history of Lehigh Basketball. Reed’s immediate impact was especially
Lehigh Athletic Media RelationsExperience • 641 Taylor Street, Lehigh Bethlehem, Football PA • Phone 2003 610-758-3174 • Fax 610-758-4407 2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 13 significant considering the squad lost 3,375 career points from the previ- WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT COACH REED ous year’s senior class and had a very young roster that consisted of 10 “Brett Reed is an excellent basketball coach. In just a few years, he has of 14 players either in their freshman or sophomore campaigns. Despite led the resurgence of Lehigh basketball and turned it into a power from those factors, Reed guided the team to more wins than the previous the Patriot League. He’s building a program that can withstand one season and the second most victories in the 30-year history of Stabler of sport’s ultimate challenges – the test of time. It is undoubtedly an Arena. Reed also mentored the Mountain Hawks’ second consecutive impressive accomplishment.” Patriot League Rookie of the Year in Keefer as Lehigh became the first - Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University and U.S. National Team Head Coach school in the league to accomplish that feat. In addition, Reed oversaw a defensive unit that held league foe Bucknell to just 39 points on February “I’ve known Brett Reed for over 10 years, and was fortunate to have 27, 2008 - the second fewest points ever allowed by the Brown and White him on my staff and watch him develop as a coach. I strongly believe since the inception of Patriot League play in 1990. Brett is one of the best young coaches in the country. His performance Reed has also recruited and developed some excellent basketball in 2011-12 was as good as or better than anyone in our profession. He’s talent over the course of his career at Lehigh. In addition to McCollum an excellent basketball coach on the floor, has incredible demeanor on and several Rookie of the Year performers (Hall, Keefer, McCollum, the sideline and has proven that he is a top-notch recruiter.” Kempton, Ross), there have been a host of others who have enjoyed - Fran McCaffery, former Lehigh and current University of Iowa Head Coach individual accomplishments and recognition. Hall, Carrington, Knutson, Holden Greiner and Mackey McKnight join McCollum, Kempton and “I am very proud of the success Brett has enjoyed as the head men’s Ross as All-Patriot League performers. Reed has also had high-level basketball coach at Lehigh University. Brett is extremely intelligent, performers in the classroom and community as well. Hall was named hard-working and passionate about the game of basketball and is a the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year in consecutive seasons terrific role model for the young men in his program. I am excited for while Knutson was a three-time Academic All-Patriot League performer. what Brett has been able to accomplish in his short time as the head Hall was also a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award. coach at Lehigh and am confident that he will continue to be successful Reed was named Lehigh’s head coach on August 10, 2007. He for many years to come.” had been an assistant at Lehigh for the previous five years, serving as - Billy Taylor, former Lehigh and Head Coach and current University of Iowa associate head coach for the 2006-07 campaign. Director of Operations During his time at Lehigh as assistant and later associate head coach, Reed performed numerous duties, including the coordination of “Brett Reed is respected by our student-athletes, he is an excellent teacher recruitment, academic mentoring, detailed scouting of opponents and and communicator and has been an extremely productive recruiter. I overall player development. He has been very instrumental in securing admire his values, his work ethic, his energy and his devotion to our six consecutive seasons in the upper half of the Patriot League as well players, their education and their experience.” as the Mountain Hawks’ 2004 Patriot League Championship and four - Joe Sterrett, Lehigh Murray H. Goodman Dean of Athletics of the winningest seasons in school history (2003-04, 2005-06, 2009-10, 2011-12). Reed’s Coaching Resume Prior to his time at Lehigh, Reed served as the top assistant coach at High Point University in North Carolina for two seasons. Reed was an Year Record (Pct.) PL Home Notables integral part of the coaching staff that led the Panthers to the Big South 2007-08 14-15 (.483) 7-7 11-4 Championship Game in 2002. Included in that two-year period, Reed 2008-09 15-14 (.517) 5-9 8-6 recruited a Big South Rookie of the Year and a Player of the Year. 2009-10 22-11 (.667) 10-4 15-2 PL Reg Season Championship Reed spent the 1999-2000 season as the Director of Basketball Op- PL Tourn. Championship erations at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. He began NCAA Tournament 2010-11 16-15 (.516) 6-8 9-5 PL Semifinals his collegiate coaching career at Oakland (Mich.) Community College 2011-12 27-8 (.771) 11-3 12-1 PL Tourn. Championship where he was an assistant for his father’s program. NCAA win over Duke A native of Waterford, Michigan, Reed attended Eckerd College in 2012-13 21-10 (.678) 10-4 11-3 College Basketball Invitational St. Petersburg, Florida where he contributed at point guard and helped 2013-14 14-18 (.438) 7-11 9-5 lead his team to a conference championship and NCAA Tournament 2014-15 16-14 (.533) 10-8 8-5 Wins over DePaul, Arizona St. appearance. Reed graduated with honors, earning his Bachelor’s degree Total 145-105 ( .580) 66-54 ( .550) 83-31 ( .728) in 1995 before earning his Master’s at Wayne State in 1998. In 2003, Reed received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Instructional Technology with a Cognate in Sports Administration. He is one of only two Division I men’s basketball head coaches in the entire nation to have earned their doctorate degrees. Reed was also honored during his academic career with a number of awards including the prestigious Thomas C. Rumbell Fellowship. Reed and his wife Kindra reside in Bethlehem with their sons Brendan and Calvin, and daughter Makenna.
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Southern, a win over 20-win squad Quinnipiac and victories over reigning NCAA Tournament teams LIU Brooklyn and Bucknell. Lehigh followed in 2014-15 by taking a big step forward, finishing in third place in the league standings led by one stretch in Patriot League play when the Mountain Hawks won seven- ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH of-eight games. Griffin coached the league’s Player and Rookie of the Year, Tim Kempton and Kahron Ross - a sophomore and freshman, respectively. ANTONI WYCHE The Mountain Hawks also went 2-1 against power conference schools, beating DePaul and Arizona State while leading eventual NCAA Tournament No. 1 seed Villanova by five in the second half. Before Lehigh, Griffin served many roles at the Hoop Group. Most recently, he was Director of Team Events when he managed all five high school showcases and 10 elite AAU events. Previously, Griffin was Director of Operations and Director of Philly Hoop Group Classic, a Division I College Basketball Tour- Antoni Wyche is in his seventh season as an assistant coach at Lehigh, and nament which included Pittsburgh, Penn, La Salle, Rider, Robert Morris and fifth as associate head coach. Wyche has helped lead the Mountain Hawks’ James Madison. Griffin organized and managed all the logistics for the classic. program to new heights, which includes two Patriot League Championships Griffin was the key contact person and responsible for recruiting grassroots and NCAA Tournament appearances in a three-year span. Wyche took over basketball teams into the Hoop Group’s competitive tournaments. This allowed as associate head coach after Matt Logie departed to become the head coach him to establish very strong relationships with many coaches and organizers of at Whitworth University following the 2010-11 season. these programs. Griffin was responsible for the recruitment and organization A 1999 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Wyche brings a wealth of the largest event ever offered by the Hoop Group, the Pittsburgh Jam Fest. of professional playing experience to the Lehigh sidelines, having played in Griffin began his playing career at La Salle in Philadelphia before transferring numerous pro leagues in the United States and overseas for nearly a decade to Siena after a standout high school career at Germantown Academy. following his collegiate career. Also strong in the classroom, Griffin was named to the Atlantic 10 Commis- Wyche has made an immediate impact as the Mountain Hawks have gone sioner’s Honor Roll at La Salle while being named to the MAAC Conference 133-90 in his seven seasons in Bethlehem while winning the 2010 and 2012 All-Academic Team at Siena. He was a consistent member of the Dean’s List Patriot League Championships, and advancing to the 2013 College Basketball while earning a spot on the Siena College President’s List in the spring of 2009 Invitational. Lehigh has posted a winning record in all but one season, eclipsing and fall of 2010 for a GPA over 3.8. 20 wins on three occasions, while coming within a single possession of hosting Kyle is the son of former Lehigh 1,000 point scorer and current Associate its second straight Patriot League Title game in 2011. Director of Athletics Bill Griffin. Wyche also helped coach two-time Patriot League Player of the Year and top-10 NBA Draft pick C.J. McCollum, currently of the Portland Trail Blazers. Wyche has worked with several other top players at Lehigh, including 2014-15 Patriot League Player of the Year Tim Kempton and Rookie of the Year Kahron Ross. Ross became Lehigh’s fifth Rookie of the Year in the last nine seasons. ASSISTANT COACH A four-year member of the Notre Dame program, Wyche averaged 12 points, four assists and four rebounds per game during his time in South Bend HARRY MORRA as a point guard and shooting guard playing under head coach John McLeod. Also on staff for the Fighting Irish were former Lehigh head coaches McCaffery and Taylor, currently the head coach and director of basketball operations, respectively, at the University of Iowa. Following graduation, Wyche began his professional career by playing for the New Jersey Shorecats of the United States Basketball League during the spring of 2000. A native of New York, Wyche’s first international playing experience Harry Morra enters his first season as Lehigh assistant coach following a stint came as a member of Fersped Rabotnicki in Macedonia where he led his team with the program as video coordinator during the program’s historic 2011-12 to a 33-4 record and the Macedonian First Division championship. Wyche season. Morra has spent the last three years as assistant coach and recruiting averaged 21 points, five assists and five rebounds during the regular season coordinator at nearby DeSales University. Morra replaces Ryan Krueger, who before registering averages of 13.5 points, four rebounds, two assists and two accepted a position as assistant coach for the Grand Rapids Drive, the D-League steals during the Korac Cup. affiliate of the Detroit Pistons. Among his international playing stops, Wyche has also played for Club de All within the last 10 years, DeSales has established itself as one of the top Mayas in Mexico, Kouvot in Finland, Niigata Albirex in Japan, Al Rayyan in 20 winningest programs in NCAA Division III, playing in the Elite Eight, Sweet Qatar and Zain in Jordan. He averaged 26 points and six assists for Club de Ma- 16 twice and Round of 32 three times. In Morra’s time at DeSales, the Bulldogs yas in 2002, 17 points, four assists and five rebounds for Kouvot in 2002-03 and went 102-39. He helped lead DeSales to two Regular Season Championships, two nine points, five rebounds and a league-leading six assists for Niigata Albirex Freedom Tournament Championships, along with three NCAA Tournament in 2006-07. Wyche also played for the Adirondack Wildcats of USBL in 2003. wins. Morra helped develop three 1,000 point scorers, two All-Americans, two Freedom MVPs and a National Rookie Team member. As assistant coach, Morra designed and executed recruiting strategies for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware and Maryland. He planned and executed an annual Prospect Camp for 50 participants and Team Camp with 30 teams from all over the Mid-Atlantic region. He also prepared and presented ASSISTANT COACH scouting reports for 2014 Freedom Conference Coach of the Year Scott Coval. During graduate school at Lehigh, Morra took a year off from DeSales and KYLE GRIFFIN was Lehigh’s video coordinator during a memorable 2011-12 season, which featured a Patriot League Championship and historic NCAA Tournament win over Duke. Morra was responsible for film exchange, advanced scouting and game/practice video breakdown. Morra has worked camps at Duke, Villanova and Lehigh. After college, he was both a player and then assistant coach for Belfast Star of the Sea, which Kyle Griffin enters his third season on the Mountain Hawks’ staff and has competes in the 12-team Irish Superleague. He also has experience as Opera- immediately made an impact for the Brown and White. Griffin came to Lehigh tions Manager for PeacePlayers International in Northern Ireland and South from the Hoop Group where he has served as Director of Team Events since Africa, an ESPY Award winning basketball non-profit organization based out August of 2011. Griffin is a former collegiate player at both La Salle and Siena. of Washington, D.C. In his first season on the Lehigh sidelines in 2013-14, Griffin helped lead As a player, Morra was a four-year member and two-year captain at DeSales, a young Mountain Hawks’ squad which enjoyed a fair share of highlights, shooting 48 percent from three-point range in 2004 as a senior captain of the including an overtime win at eventual Patriot League regular season champion 24-5 MAC Champions. Boston University, a victory over eventual NCAA Tournament participant Texas Lehigh Athletic Media RelationsExperience • 641 Taylor Street, Lehigh Bethlehem, Football PA • Phone 2003 610-758-3174 • Fax 610-758-4407 2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 15 #1 Kahron ROSS Guard • Sophomore • 5-11 • 155 Jonesboro, Ark. • Jonesboro High School
Major: Arts and Sciences
WHY LEHIGH? “They recruited me from day one which showed me a lot.”
AS A FRESHMAN (2014-15): Sensational freshman season, earning Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors and garnering third team All-League honors … Played in all 30 games, making 29 starts as the team’s point guard and floor general … Finished third on the team with 10.4 points per game while leading the squad (and Patriot League) with 175 assists (5.8) … Also total was third in school history for a single sea - son and tied for tenth in league history … Also grabbed 2.8 rebounds per game … Reached double-figure points 18 times and five or more assists on 18 occasions … Had five games with double-figure assists and tallied four double-doubles … Named Patriot League Rookie of the Week five times and ECAC Rookie of the Week three GETTING TO KNOW KAHRON times … Tallied nine points and eight assists in the Patriot Nickname: Ronron What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? The view League Quarterfinals vs. American (3/5) … Scored nine points Major & Why: College of Arts and Sciences in regular season finale at Colgate (2/28) … Fourth-career Favorite Place on Campus: The gym double-double, scoring a game-high 17 points while dishing Favorite Food: French fries Favorite Color: Red 10 assists in a dominant win over first-place Bucknell (2/25) … Tied for the team lead with 13 points while Favorite Musical Artist: T.I. adding eight assists against archrival Lafayette (2/22) … Posted a team-high 14 points (all in the second Favorite Movie: Law Abiding Citizen half) during comeback win at Navy (2/18) … Scored 12 points and tied a career-high six rebounds at Holy Favorite TV Show: Friends Favorite Website: Lehigh.edu Cross (2/14). Was a perfect 5-of-5 from the free throw line … Tallied 10 points and five assists in win over Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Stephen A. Smith American (2/12). Was a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line in the final minute … Garnered Patriot Favorite Pro Team: Miami Heat League Rookie of the Week for the fifth time on Feb. 9 after performances against Army and at Loyola … Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Michael Vick Finished with 10 points, four rebounds and five assists at Loyola (2/7) … Scored seven points and dished Hobbies: Video gaming Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: Sports Illustrated 11 assists in dominant win over Army (2/4). Increased season assist total to 134 which moved him from Place I’d Like To Visit: Bahamas 14th to seventh in single-season school history … Named Patriot League Rookie of the Week for the fourth Talent I’d Most Like To Have: I wish I could fly Dream Job: NBA time on Feb. 2 after efforts at Bucknell and vs. Boston University … Third-career double-double, tallying I Wear My Jersey Number Because: I wanted number 10 18 points and ten assists vs. Boston University (1/31). In the final minute, was a perfect 8-for-8 from the because it was my dad’s number, but I have number 1. free throw line to help wrap up the victory … Strong game with 18 points at Bucknell (1/28) on 5-of-11 If I had $1 Billion, I Would: Save most of it and give some back to family. shooting, 3-of-5 from three-point range and 5-of-5 from the free throw line. Added four assists in 36 minutes … Finished with ten points, four assists and two rebounds in win at archrival Lafayette (1/24) … Tallied 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS nine points and seven assists (all in the second half) against Navy (1/21) … Second-career double-double, Points: -- Rebounds: -- finishing with 13 points and ten assists in win over Holy Cross (1/17) … Posted four points, four rebounds Assists: -- and four assists at American (1/14) … Earned Patriot League Rookie of the Week on Jan. 12 after efforts at Steals: -- Army and vs. Loyola …Strong effort with 11 points, a career-high six rebounds, five assists and three steals against Loyola (1/10). Named Patriot League Rookie of the Week for that effort, coupled with his strong CAREER HIGHS Points: 19 at LIU Brooklyn (12/6/14) game at Army … Impressed with 13 points, eight assists, four rebounds, a block and steal in win at Army Rebounds: 6, three times; last at Navy (2/18/15) (1/7). Shot 5-of-8 from the field and 3-of-3 from the free throw line … Scored a team-high 15 points while Assists: 14 at Arizona State (12/20/14) adding seven assists in Patriot League opener vs. Colgate (12/31) … Tallied eight points and six assists at Steals: 3, five times; last vs. Holy Cross (1/17/15) UMBC (12/28) … Named Patriot League Rookie of the Week on Dec. 22 after impressive effort at Arizona State … Memorable game in triple overtime win at Arizona State (12/20), posting 15 points and a school MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS record 14 assists. Had all 14 assists by the end of regulation and added a clutch jumper with less than ten 2014-15 Career seconds left in the second overtime to force a third OT … Ten points on 4-of-6 shooting while adding five Double-Figure Scoring 18 18 Last Time: vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) assists and two steals at Quinnipiac (12/18) … Strong with a career-high 19 points to go with five assists and three rebounds at LIU Brooklyn (12/6). Scored 13 points in the second half, including hitting 6-of-6 20+ points 0 0 free throws over the final 34 seconds … Posted three points, three rebounds, four assists and three steals vs. Last Time: -- Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/3) … Had seven points, four assists, five rebounds and two steals against Penn State 30+ points 0 0 Mont Alto (11/30) … Tallied five points and four assists in big win at DePaul (11/26) … Earned first-career Last Time: -- Patriot League Rookie of the Week award on Nov. 24 after efforts vs. Canisius, at Rider and vs. Columbia 10+ rebounds 0 0 … Finished with 10 points, three rebounds and four assists against Columbia (11/23) … Scored 11 points Last Time: -- on 4-of-8 shooting while adding five rebounds and eight assists at Rider (11/21) … Had four points, two rebounds, an assist and three steals in the home opener vs. Canisius (11/18) … Strong collegiate debut 5+ assists 18 18 Last Time: vs. American (3/5/15) against #12 Villanova (11/14), posting six points and seven assists while only turning the ball over once. 10+ assists 5 5 Last Time: vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) CAREER STATISTICS
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2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 16 BEFORE LEHIGH: Standout at Jonesboro High School … Led Jonesboro 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS to a state championship as a senior, being named MVP of the tournament … In the title game, Ross scored 15 of his team-high 19 points in the game’s final 8:23 as Jonesboro stunned top-ranked Little Rock Parkview 66-54 … Was named All-State as a junior, leading the team in points (14.5 per game), assists (5.7) and steals (2.7)… Two-time All-Conference performer, Ross led Jonesboro to three straight appearances in the 6A State Finals, earning All-State Tournament Team laurels as a sophomore and junior … Earned Arkansas Preps All-Arkansas first team laurels in 2012-13 … Named to the Arkansas Preps Super Sophomore Team in 2011-12 … Jonesboro Sun’s Best Under the Sun Player of the Year in 2012-13 and Best Under the Sun first team in 2012 … Took part in Pangos All-American Camp in 2012 and 2013 and Under Armour Camp in Philadelphia as well … Also enjoyed tremendous success for his AAU team, the Arkansas Hawks.
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Major: Psychology
WHY LEHIGH? “I chose Lehigh because it fit the criteria I was looking for in a school: top notch academics, basketball opportunity and a personality fit.”
ON COACH REED: “Coach Reed is a very cerebral coach. He knows the game of basketball from what I have seen. He appeared to respect me as more than just a basketball player. He made it feel like going to Lehigh was more about the student than the athlete.”
AS A JUNIOR (2014-15): Played in 17 games, averaging 0.9 points and 0.6 rebounds per game … Often called upon as a defensive presence … Played in the Patriot League Quarterfinals vs. American (3/5) … Got into the game late during Lehigh’s dominant win over Bucknell (2/25). Played three days later in the regular season finale at Colgate (2/28) … Played second-half minutes at Holy Cross (2/14) … Got into the game at Loyola (2/7) … Had an assist and rebound in big win over Army (2/4) … Knocked down a three-pointer and grabbed a rebound, while bringing great energy off the bench at Lafayette (1/24) … Played late in the win over Navy (1/21) … Finished with two points and a rebound at American (1/14) … Saw action in a third straight game vs. Loyola (1/10) … Scored two points and grabbed a rebound in key first-half minutes at Army (1/7) … Tallied two points, a rebound, assist and steal at Boston University (1/3) … Played five minutes at UMBC (12/28) and grabbed a rebound … Had a rebound and assist at Quinnipiac (12/18) … Played in a career-high 16 minutes against Penn State Mont Alto (11/30), posting career highs in points (7), rebounds (3) and steals (2) … Saw action on Thanksgiving Eve at DePaul (11/26) … Played seven minutes, tallying a rebound and assist in the season opener against #12 Villanova (11/14) … Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. GETTING TO KNOW DEVON Nickname: DC What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? My favorite AS A SOPHOMORE (2013-14): Got into 12 games, playing 30 minutes … Scored eight points and thing about Lehigh is the people and how they have added eight assists … Had a rebound in two minutes against Colgate (3/1) … Scored two points in treated me so far. Major & Why: I want to major in Marketing because I two minutes, knocking down his only field goal attempt vs. Holy Cross (2/15) … Finished with two was first introduced to it by Holden Greiner, then I did points and two rebounds in just two minutes at American (2/12) … Had two points via a pair of late my own homework on the major and it was interesting. Favorite Place on Campus: Stabler Arena free throws against Loyola (2/8) … Scored first points of the season, converting a first-half layup at Favorite Food: I’ll eat anything Army (2/5) … Grabbed a rebound in three minutes of big comeback win at Boston University (2/1) Favorite Color: Black … Played in four minutes, grabbing a rebound against Lafayette (1/25) … Got into fourth straight Favorite Musical Artist: J. Cole Favorite Movie: The Lion King game, at Navy (1/22) … Grabbed a rebound in three minutes at Holy Cross (1/18) … Played late in Favorite TV Show: The Office the first half against American (1/15) … Saw first action of the season, playing four minutes at Loyola Favorite Website: Twitter.com/DevonACarter Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Kenny The Jet Smith (1/11) while covering the Patriot League’s leading scorer Dylon Cormier. Favorite Pro Team: LA Lakers Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Tom Brady AS A FRESHMAN (2012-13): Played nine games in injury-shortened freshman year … Scored five Hobbies: Basketball, Chess and Basketball Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: Sports Illustrated points while adding three rebounds and two assists in 26 minutes … Saw action at Saint Francis (Pa.) Place I’d Like To Visit: Africa Talent I’d Most Like To Have: To be able to draw (12/8) … Scored first-career points vs. Fairleigh Dickinson (12/1), finishing with five while adding Dream Job: NBA… I repeat… NBA first-career assists (2) as well … Had two late rebounds in the NIT Season Tip-Off win vs. Robert I Wear My Jersey Number: 4…because I look good in it Morris (11/12) … Made collegiate debut in final minutes at #19/18 Baylor (11/9). If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Save it and find a way to make more money BEFORE LEHIGH: Standout at John Hay High School in Cleveland … Three-time MVP of var- 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS Points: -- sity team and four-year starter … First Team All-District, All-Conference and All-Ohio honoree … Rebounds: -- Garnered Northeast Ohio Division II Player of the Year … Named District Player of the Year as a Assists: -- Steals: -- junior, leading the team in scoring with more than 20 points per game … Also averaged six assists, four rebounds and two steals … Led the Hornets to the Division II Regional Finals, the school’s first CAREER HIGHS appearance in the regional since 1988 … Strong in the classroom as a member of the National Honor Points: 7 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) Rebounds: 3 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) Society … Finished top three in his class with a 4.0 GPA. Assists: 2 vs. Fairleigh Dickinson (12/1/12) Steals: 2 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) CAREER STATISTICS
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Major: Finance
WHY LEHIGH? “I chose Lehigh because it fit everything I was looking for in a school. I’m a huge academic guy, so of course the strong academics at Lehigh attracted me. I looked at how the players and coach get along with each other. I received a family type vibe on my official visit. Coach Reed is a great coach. It’s very hard to find a coach who believes in you and wants you to be a better person and basketball player by the time you leave Lehigh. The team has a chance to make the NCAA Tournament. We have talent and we are very competitive. I fell in love with the school. The social scene at Lehigh is top notch.”
AS A SOPHOMORE (2014-15): Impressive sophomore season, GETTING TO KNOW AUSTIN finishing second on the Mountain Hawks (and 16th in the Patriot Nickname: ShotsUp, AP League) in scoring with 11.4 points per game … Averaged 3.0 Major & Why: I chose Engineering as my major because rebounds and 2.0 assists per contest … Played in all 30 games I love to challenge myself. I love math. It has always with 28 starts … Reached double-figure points 21 times … Tallied been my favorite subject. With Engineering, I can apply my math skills to real life situations. I love technology six points and four assists in the Patriot League Quarterfinals vs. as well. Engineering seemed like a great fit for me. American (3/5) … Scored 16 points in the regular season finale at Favorite Food: Let me do a meal! Steak, potatoes, Colgate (2/28), knocking down 6-of-11 from the field and 4-of-6 broccoli, with a Kiwi Strawberry Lemonade to drink!!! from three-point range. Added four rebounds, two assists and two steals … Strong game with 16 points on 6-of-10 Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Musical Artist: Kendrick Lamar shooting, five rebounds, two assists and two steals in dominant win over Bucknell (2/25) … Scored 12 points and Favorite Movie: Friday added six rebounds (to tie a career high) and two blocks against archrival Lafayette (2/22) … Filled up the stat Favorite TV Show: Castle sheet with 11 points, four rebounds, two assists, two blocks and three steals at Navy (2/18) … Tallied 10 points Favorite Website: YouTube.com (eight in the second half) while adding five rebounds at Holy Cross (2/14) … Scored 15 points which included Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Dick Vitale Favorite Pro Team: Indiana Pacers 3-of-5 from three-point range vs. American (2/12). Added six rebounds to tie a career high, and three assists … Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Andre Johnson Finished with two points, a rebound, assist and two blocks in road win at Loyola (2/7) … Scored 14 points in Hobbies: Listen to music and make art on Adobe dominant win over Army (2/4) which included a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line … Impressed with 16 points Photoshop on 6-of-8 shooting and 3-of-4 from three-point range in win over Boston University (1/31) … Had six points, four Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: ESPN rebounds, two assists and a steal at Bucknell (1/28). … Impressed at Lafayette (1/24), scoring 16 points including Place I’d Like To Visit: Paris, France Dream Job: NBA Basketball Player 14 in the second half. Did not miss a second-half shot, hitting 4-of-4 field goals and 5-of-5 free throws … Scored I Wear My Jersey Number Because: My brother’s 11 points on 4-of-9 shooting while adding four rebounds and an assist vs. Navy (1/21) … Strong all-around game favorite number is 5 with 13 points, four rebounds and four assists vs. Holy Cross (1/17). Shot 5-of-11 from the field and 2-of-4 from If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would: Run Track If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Take care of my family, three-point range … Scored 13 points at American (1/14) … Had 10 points, three rebounds and two assists against then not sure after that. Loyola (1/10) … Scored six big second-half points while adding three assists and a steal in win at Army (1/7) … Finished with ten points, a career-high six rebounds, two assists and two steals at Boston University (1/3) … 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS Tallied seven points, four steals, three assists and two rebounds in Patriot League opener against Colgate (12/31) Points: -- Rebounds: -- … Had ten points, four rebounds and two steals in road win at UMBC (12/28) … Stellar effort in triple overtime Assists: -- win at Arizona State (12/20), finishing with a team-high 18 points on 7-of-14 shooting while tying a career-high Steals: -- five rebounds, dishing three assists and setting a career high with five steals … Finished with 11 points in road win at LIU Brooklyn (12/6) … Scored 13 points against Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/3) which included 8-of-10 from CAREER HIGHS Points: 24 vs. #12 Villanova (11/14/14) the free throw line. Had three rebounds, three assists and a career-high four steals … Led the Mountain Hawks Rebounds: 6; two times; last vs. American (2/12/15) with 15 points against Penn State Mont Alto (11/30). Shot 7-of-13 from the field while adding four assists, three Assists: 6 vs. Quinnipiac (12/21/13) rebounds and a steal … Scored 14 points in big win at DePaul (11/26), shooting 4-of-4 from the field (2-of-2 on Steals: 5 at Arizona State (12/20/14) three-pointers) and 4-of-4 from the free throw line. Scored 11 of his points in the second half … Finished with 19 MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS points on 8-of-12 shooting and 3-of-5 from three-point range at Rider (11/21) … Scored a career-high 24 points 2014-15 Career in the season opener against #12 Villanova (11/14), shooting 10-of-17 from the field and 4-of-7 from three-point Double-Figure Scoring 21 32 range. 17 points came in the second half. Last Time: at Colgate (2/28/15) 20+ points 1 3 Last Time: vs. #12 Villanova (11/14/14) 30+ points 0 0 Last Time: -- 10+ rebounds 0 0 Last Time: -- 5+ assists 0 1 Last Time: vs. Quinnipiac (12/21/13) Double-Doubles 0 0 Last Time: -- CAREER STATISTICS
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2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 20 AS A FRESHMAN (2013-14): Enjoyed a strong freshman season, earning a 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS spot on the Patriot League All-Rookie Team … Averaged 8.4 points (fourth on the team) while adding 1.9 rebounds … Had 27 assists, 14 blocks and 33 steals, playing in all 32 games (with 23 starts) … Shot 38 percent from three-point range (52-of-137), leading the team with his 52 makes … Posted five points, three rebounds, two steals and a block in the Patriot League Quarterfinals at Holy Cross (3/5) … Finished with six points and three rebounds against Colgate (3/1) … Reached double-figure points with 11 including 2-of-3 from three-point range at Bucknell (2/26) … Scored seven points on 3-of-4 shooting at Lafayette (2/23) … Scored six points, including 2-of-3 from three-point range against Holy Cross (2/15). Added four rebounds … Second-career 20-point game, scoring 20 at American (2/12) on 8-of-14 shooting and 2-of-3 from three-point range … Posted four points, two rebounds and two assists at Army (2/5) … Finished with eight points, two rebounds a block and steal in comeback win at Boston University (2/1) … Scored seven points on 2-of-5 shooting (all three- point attempts) vs. Lafayette (1/25) … Grabbed a career-high five rebounds in overtime win at Navy (1/22) … Scored 13 points (11 in the first half) at Holy Cross (1/18), which included 3-of-5 from three-point range … Knocked down a pair of threes against American (1/15) … Finished with 11 points (all in the first half) at Loyola (1/11) … Scored 11 points and grabbed four rebounds vs. Army (1/8) … Posted three points, career-high four rebounds, two assists and a block against Boston University (1/5) … Had five points, three rebounds and block in double overtime thriller at Colgate (1/2) … Finished with 11 points at Bryant (12/30) which included 3-of-6 from three-point range … Scored nine points while dishing a career-high six assists against Quinnipiac (12/21) … Third straight double-figure scoring game, posting 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting against LIU Brooklyn (12/9) … Scored 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting vs. UMBC (12/7) … Strong game with 12 points, three rebounds, two blocks and a career-high four steals at Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/4) … Finished with nine points, including 3-of-6 from three-point range, at South Dakota State (11/26) … Had five points vs. Texas Southern (11/25) including a big second-half three and two free throws down the stretch … Scored eight points and blocked two shots at Pittsburgh (11/20). Shot 3-of-7 from the field and 2-of-5 from three-point range … Scored 12 points in Legends Classic opener at Houston (11/17) … Finished with seven points at Fordham (11/15) despite foul trouble … Stellar game with 21 points in home opener vs. Rider (11/12). Finished 6-of-12 from the field and 5-of-10 from three-point range … Scored 15 points at Minnesota (11/8) on 5-of-11 shooting and 3-of-8 from three-point range. For those efforts, was named Patriot League Rookie of the Week ... Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
BEFORE LEHIGH: Standout guard at Detroit Country Day School … Two- year starter, two-time Semifinalist, two-time Regional Champion and two-time District Champion … Winner of the Chris Kingsepp Award for Unsung Hero … Senior captain for the 2012-13 season … Invited to the Nike Skills Univer- sity Academy for the top 80 players in the country … Tied for first in made three-pointers in the Nike Peach Jam Elite 24 while playing with The Family … Led his high school to the 2013 Michigan Class B State Championship, earning MVP of the Championship Game ... Also strong in the classroom, carrying a 3.65 GPA while earning the National Scholar Athlete Award by the DCDS Blue & Gold Club … Brother Jodan is on the Eastern Michigan basketball team.
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Major: Business
WHY LEHIGH? “I saw what a great opportunity it would be to play for a high-level basketball program that is also a great academic school. They also showed a huge amount of interest in me which made me feel wanted and a place I’d like to call home these next four years.”
BEFORE LEHIGH: Standout guard who ended career playing for Prolific Prep … Also played for St. Francis High School and La Salle High School … Averaged 22.3 points, six rebounds and three assists at St. Francis as a junior … Was named both the San Gabriel News and Glendale News Press Player of the Year in 2014 … Garnered the St. Francis Golden Knight Award and team MVP honors for a second straight year … Also named first team All-Mission League and Academic All-League for a second consecutive season … Earned CIF All-Southern Section first team and California All-State Division III first team recognition … In 2013, was named the Providence Classic Tournament MVP and La Canada Holiday Classic Tournament MVP … Named to the San Gabriel Classic All-Tournament Team … Garnered CIF All-Southern Section second team laurels … Named the La Salle Athletic Underclassman of the Year in 2012 … Also played AAU basketball for Earl Watson Elite Gold, leading the team to the Double Pump Best of Summer Championship.
GETTING TO KNOW KYLE Nickname: K-Froy What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? Unique campus Major & Why: Business. Provides many opportunities after college, and it accommodates what I’d like to do in the future. Favorite Place on Campus: Library Favorite Food: Chipotle Favorite Color: Red Favorite Musical Artist: Drake Favorite Movie: The Wood Favorite TV Show: Fresh Prince of Bel Air Favorite Website: ESPN Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Charles Barkley Favorite Pro Team: Miami Heat Favorite Athletes In Another Sport: Matt Kemp (San Diego Padres), Russell Wilson (Seattle Seahawks) Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: GQ Place I’d Like To Visit: France or Italy Talent I’d Most Like To Have: Singing Dream Job: Professional basketball player If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Football If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Give some to charity and help others who are in need.
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Major: Finance
WHY LEHIGH? “I chose Lehigh because it was the best fit for me. I wanted a school that was as competitive off the court as it was on, because unfortunately, the ball is going to stop bouncing at some point. Another thing that drew me to the school was the family atmosphere here, not only amongst my teammates and coaches, but the athletic department as well.”
BEFORE LEHIGH: Three-year varsity player and two-year starter and captain for Hamilton Southeastern High School, the first school in Indiana to ever feature back-to-back Mr. Basketball winners in Gary Harris (Michigan State) and Zak Irvin (Michigan) … Jenkins earned first team All-Conference, honorable mention All-County and All-State as both a junior and senior … Three-year Scholar-Athlete Award winner ... Also earned first team Academic All-State as a senior ... That year, Jenkins led squad to a Sectional Championship over two-time defending state champion Carmel High School, and only the second Regional Championship Game in school history ... Led the team in two-point field goals (75), steals (41) and was second in assists (88) ... Also recognized among the state’s leaders in free throw percentage (88 percent) ... Voted Mr. Team and played in the Hoosier Reunion All-Star Classic held at the venue where the movie “Hoosiers” was made ... Played in the Indiana Class Basketball Senior Classic as well along with the Indiana All-Metro All-Star Classic ... Was also invited, but chose not to play in the Indiana Elite North-South All-Star Challenge ... Recognized by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association as a Top 60 Senior ... As a junior, Jenkins was recognized among the state leaders for assists (91) and conference leaders for three-point field goal percentage (50 percent) … Named an Indiana Basketball Coaches Association Top 100 Underclassman … Participated in the Indiana Elite North-South All-Star Basketball Challenge and the fourth annual Indiana Class Basketball Junior All-Star Classic ... Selected as MaxPreps Player of the Game vs. Lake Central High School on Nov. 24, 2012 ... As a sophomore, Jenkins tallied 11 points, four assists and GETTING TO KNOW TYLER Nickname: Ty two rebounds in first-career varsity start ... Led his high school to a 62-11 record during his career while What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? My favorite never losing a conference game, which currently stands at 44 games ... As a senior, Jenkins led his team to thing about Lehigh is probably the campus. Whenever the most wins in school history (23) while losing four game by a total of six points ... Won the prestigious I describe it to my friends and family back home, I tell them it looks like Hogwarts from Harry Potter. Hall of Fame Classic as a sophomore … Finished that season ranked No. 1 in the state and as high as No. Major & Why: Computer science and business. I’ve 14 nationally with a 22-3 record … During senior year, team reached No. 3 in the state and No. 15 in the always been fascinated with computers and I also nation after beating eventual Indiana state champion and No. 5 nationally-ranked Arsenal Tech on its home understand that the computer industry is a rapid- ly-growing field which gives me ample opportunities floor ... Played freshman year of AAU at 16U and last three years at 17U with Men of the Family ... Was a to take advantage of. member of the Student-Athlete Council as a junior and senior. Favorite Place on Campus: Campus Pizza Favorite Food: BBQ Ribs Favorite Color: Light blue Favorite Musical Artist: Drake Favorite Movie: Hurricane Season Favorite TV Show: BMS Favorite Website: YouTube.com Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Clark Kellogg Favorite Pro Team: Indiana Pacers Hobbies: Video games, watching TV and hanging out with friends Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: ESPN The Magazine Place I’d Like To Visit: Hawaii 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS Talent I’d Most Like To Have: Singing Dream Job: Playing basketball professionally It’s my lucky I Wear My Jersey Number Because: number If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Baseball/ Soccer If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Start my own computer software company 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS Points: -- Rebounds: -- Assists: -- Steals: --
CAREER HIGHS Points: 7 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) Rebounds: 2 at Boston University (1/3/15) Assists: 4 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) Steals: 1, two times; last at Boston U (1/3/15) CAREER STATISTICS
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2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 23 #13 Matt HOLBA Forward • Freshman • 6-7 • 200 Noblesville, Ind. • Guerin Catholic
Major: Business
WHY LEHIGH? “Lehigh is the perfect combination of high athletics and academics.”
BEFORE LEHIGH: Top prospect, ranked as the #9 incomer from the state of Indiana and #36 small forward in the nation by ESPN … Starred at Guerin Catholic High School … Named first team AP All- State and first team Academic All-State in 2015 … Was also an Indiana All-Star as a senior, leading Guerin Catholic to the 3A 2015 Indiana State Champion … Named a first team IndyStar High School honoree, was a BSN Student-Athlete of the Week and IBCA Player of the Week twice in 2015 … Was an Indiana Junior All-Star, finishing junior campaign averaging 15.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game … Shot 40 percent from three-point range (31-of-77) and led team to the Indiana State Tournament semifinals where he tallied 23 points and six rebounds … Named IBCA first team Underclass All-State … Was invited to the Nike Ty Lawson Vic Oladipo All-American Camp … Also played AAU basketball with Spiece Indy Heath on the Nike EYBL circuit.
GETTING TO KNOW MATT Nickname: Holbatron What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? The setup of the campus Major & Why: Business, I want to own my own com- pany someday Favorite Place on Campus: Gym Favorite Food: Lobster Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Musical Artist: Ariana Grande Favorite Movie: The Avengers Favorite TV Show: Game of Thrones Favorite Pro Team: Bulls Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Calvin Johnson Hobbies: Fishing and Gaming Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: ESPN Place I’d Like To Visit: Greek Isles Talent I’d Most Like To Have: Singing Dream Job: Run my own company If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Football If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Travel the world
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Major: Business
WHY LEHIGH? “I chose Lehigh because it offered great academics. I felt it was the right balance between academics, athletics and a social life.”
BEFORE LEHIGH: Played four seasons at William Allen High School under the direction of head coach Doug Snyder … Also played AAU basketball with the Lehigh Valley Rebels under the direction of former NBA player Horace Jenkins … Multi-sport athlete, playing one season of varsity football at William Allen … Strong in the classroom, graduating in the top five percent of high school class … Member of the National Honor Society, graduating with honors … Also a member of the Lehigh Valley Student Athlete Council.
GETTING TO KNOW JAY JAY Nickname: Jay Jay What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? The campus Major & Why: Business Favorite Place on Campus: Taylor Gym Favorite Food: Steak Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Musical Artist: Fetty Wap Favorite Movie: Wolf of Wall Street Favorite TV Show: Breaking Bad Favorite Website: ESPN Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Charles Barkley Favorite Pro Team: Philadelphia Eagles Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: DeMarco Murray Hobbies: All sports, video games, music, hanging with friends Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: ESPN the Magazine Place I’d Like To Visit: Italy Talent I’d Most Like To Have: Read people’s minds Dream Job: Head Coach of an NBA team I Wear My Jersey Number Because: Kobe Bryant If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Football If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Donate some to multiple charities, give some to my family, and travel the world
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Major: English and Political Science
WHY LEHIGH? “I chose Lehigh for the amazing combination of academic opportunity and basketball success.” AS A SOPHOMORE (2014-15): Played in seven games, averaging 3.4 points and 1.1 rebounds while dishing two assists … Played late in Lehigh’s dominant win over first-place Bucknell (2/25) … Tallied four points and a rebound late in the game vs. Army (2/4) … Got into second-career Patriot League game at American (1/14) … Completed a three-point play within seconds of entering the game at Boston University (1/5). Added a rebound and assist … Four points on 2-of-3 shooting while adding a rebound in just three minutes at UMBC (12/28) … Scored five points in five minutes at Quinnipiac (12/18) … Made Lehigh debut against Penn State Mont Alto (11/30), posting eight points, four rebounds, an assist and block … Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
IN 2013-14: Sat out the year due to transfer rules, but was able to participate in practice ... Named to Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. BEFORE LEHIGH: Transfer from Lipscomb University (out of the Atlantic Sun Conference) where he averaged 3.9 points and 1.6 rebounds per game … Led Lipscomb in scoring against USC Upstate with 16 points … Posted a 3.9 GPA in his first year at Lipscomb … Played high school basket - ball at the University School of Jackson under Coach Tommy Russell … Was a 2012 Parade All-American and McDonald’s All-American nominee … Two-time TSSAA Division II Class A Tennessee Mr. Basketball … The 2012 Jackson Sun West Tennessee Player of the Year … Three-time All-Region and All-State selection … Averaged 30.7 points and 7.2 rebounds per game as a senior … Finished career with school-record 2,478 points … Member of the National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National Science Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta … USJ Hall of Fame Inductee.
GETTING TO KNOW JOHN ROSS Nickname: JR, JRG What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? The people, no question. Major & Why: Economics. I think big picture. Favorite Place on Campus: Campus Square Favorite Food: Pizza Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Musical Artist: Hans Zimmer Favorite Movie: The Godfather Favorite TV Show: The Office Favorite Website: ESPN.com Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Skip Bayless Favorite Pro Team: San Antonio Spurs Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Derek Jeter Hobbies: Golfing, reading, being whimsy Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: Forbes Place I’d Like To Visit: Venice, Italy Talent I’d Most Like To Have: Dancing Dream Job: President of my own non-profit organi- zation 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS I Wear My Jersey Number Because: It was the first number I ever wore on the basketball court. If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would: Study way too much. If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Start my own non-profit and invest the rest. 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS Points: -- Rebounds: -- Assists: -- Steals: -- CAREER HIGHS (AT LEHIGH) Points: 8 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) Rebounds: 4 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) Assists: 1, two times; last at Boston U (1/3/15) Steals: 1 vs. Penn State Mont Alto (11/30/14) CAREER STATISTICS (AT LEHIGH)
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2015-16 LEHIGH MEN’S BASKETBALL • GAME 1: LEHIGH AT SYRACUSE • NOVEMBER 13, 2015 • PAGE 26 #31 Jesse CHUKU Forward • Senior • 6-9 • 225 London, England • Kimball Union Academy
Major: Psychology
WHY LEHIGH? “As soon as I met all the players and coaches, I felt like I belonged.”
AS A JUNIOR (2014-15): Played in all 30 games, starting seven times … Finished fifth on the Mountain Hawks in scoring, averaging 5.6 points per game … Reached double-figure points on six occasions … Added 3.5 rebounds per contest and finished second on the team with 23 blocks … Scored eight points on 4-of-7 shooting while adding three rebounds in the Patriot League Quarterfinals vs. American (3/5) … Tallied five rebounds and two steals in regular season finale at Colgate (2/28) … Strong effort in dominant win over Bucknell (2/25), scoring 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting GETTING TO KNOW JESSE and 4-of-5 from three-point range … Big game at Navy (2/18), Nickname: Chooks What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? The beau- scoring 12 points (10 in the first half) to go with seven rebounds. tiful campus Shot 5-of-7 from the field and 2-of-3 from three-point range … Major & Why: Psychology. It’s very interesting to learn Had four points, five rebounds and a block at Holy Cross (2/14) about how our minds work and it’s very applicable to … Finished with five points, seven rebounds, an assist and block day-to-day life. Favorite Food: Pasta in strong effort vs. American (2/12) … Third straight strong game, Favorite Color: Blue scoring 11 points (all in the first half) on 4-of-5 shooting (and 3-of-4 Favorite Musical Artist: Kanye West from three-point range) at Loyola (2/7). Added two blocks … Posted a season-high 14 points vs. Army (2/4) on Favorite Movies: “Get Him To The Greek” and “The 5-of-7 shooting and 3-of-4 from three-point range, while adding six rebounds, three assists, a block and steal … Truman Show” Favorite TV Show: Luther Strong effort with 12 points (all in the first half) to go with four rebounds vs. Boston University (1/31) … Finished Favorite Website: http://www.hotnewhiphop.com with three points, three rebounds, an assist and two blocks at Bucknell (1/28) … Scored five points, including Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Charles Barkley 1-of-2 from three-point range, at Lafayette (1/24) … Strong all-around game with seven points, three rebounds, Favorite Pro Team: Miami Heat two assists, a block and two steals vs. Navy (1/21) … Hit a three-pointer while adding five rebounds in win over Hobbies: DJ’ing, gaming, computer modification, and reading Holy Cross (1/17) … Had four points, two rebounds and two blocks against Loyola (1/10) … Knocked down a Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: GQ first-half three-pointer while adding three rebounds and two blocks at Army (1/7) … Tallied five points and four Places I’d Like To Visit: Egypt and Dubai rebounds at Boston University (1/3) … Scored seven points in big triple overtime victory at Arizona State (12/20) Talent I’d Most Like To Have: Be able to play an instru- … Finished with two points and five rebounds at Quinnipiac (12/18), serving as a spark off the bench, especially in ment or sing very well. Dream Job: Professional Basketball Player the first half … Had two points, three rebounds and a block coming off the bench at LIU Brooklyn (12/6) … Posted I Wear My Jersey Number Because: It was assigned three points, two rebounds and two assists vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/3) … Scored 13 points on 6-of-7 shooting to me. while adding three rebounds, an assist and steal against Penn State Mont Alto (11/30) … Solid effort with eight If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Soccer or points, three rebounds and two blocks at DePaul (11/26). Was 3-of-3 from the field … Finished with two points, be a professional DJ. If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Invest it and make more! eight rebounds, an assist, block and steal against Columbia (11/23) … Scored nine points on 3-of-6 shooting from downtown at Rider (11/21) … Had six points, seven rebounds (to tie a game high) and two blocks in the home 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS opener against Canisius (11/18) … Scored seven points on 3-of-5 shooting while adding five rebounds, an assist Points: -- and block in the season opener against #12 Villanova (11/14). Rebounds: -- Assists: -- Steals: -- AS A SOPHOMORE (2013-14): Finished third on the team in scoring (8.7 points) and second in rebounding (5.8) … Played in all 32 games, starting 31 … Reached double-figure points on 13 occasions and double-figure CAREER HIGHS Points: 26 vs. Sacred Heart (12/1/13) rebounds six times … Also had three double-doubles … Posted third-career double-double with a team-high 17 Rebounds: 15 vs. Sacred Heart (12/1/13) points along with 11 rebounds in regular season finale vs. Colgate (3/1) … Strong effort at Bucknell (2/26), posting Assists: 4 vs. Bucknell (1/29/14) 18 points on 4-of-6 from three-point range while adding eight rebounds and four blocks … Scored seven points Blocks: 5 at Navy (1/22/14) while adding two blocks, a rebound and assist at Lafayette (2/23) … Finished with 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting Steals: 2, three times; last vs. Navy (1/21/15) while adding three rebounds, two assists and a steal against Navy (2/19) … Had 10 points (all in the first half) and MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS seven rebounds vs. Holy Cross (2/15) … Scored Lehigh’s first 10 points against Loyola (2/8), finishing with 15 2014-15 Career points, three rebounds, one assist and one steal … Posted six points, seven rebounds, an assist and steal at Army Double-Figure Scoring 6 19 (2/5) … Strong game at Boston University (2/1), scoring 11 points including two clutch free throws with 15 seconds Last Time: vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) remaining to tie the score and force overtime. Shot 3-of-5 from three-point range, adding five rebounds and two 20+ points 0 1 blocks … Stellar on both ends of the court vs. Bucknell (1/29), posting nine points, 10 rebounds, career-high four Last Time: vs. Sacred Heart (12/1/13) assists and four blocks … Scored five points and added a career-high five blocks at Navy (1/22). Had a block to end regulation and overtime … Had two points, six rebounds and two blocks at Holy Cross (1/18) … Came off 10+ rebounds 0 6 the bench and tied a team-high seven rebounds at Loyola (1/11) … Finished with seven points, four rebounds and Last Time: vs. Colgate (3/1/14) 5+ assists 0 0 Last Time: -- Double-Doubles 0 3 Last Time: vs. Colgate (3/1/14) CAREER STATISTICS
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a block vs. Army (1/8) … Fifth straight double-figure scoring game, posting 11 points against Boston University (1/5) on 5-of-10 shooting, including 4-of-5 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS from two-point range … Posted 18 points and six rebounds in double overtime thriller at Colgate (1/2). Shot 4-of-9 from three-point range including a clutch trey in the first and second OTs … Finished with 13 points, eight rebounds and a career-high four blocks at Bryant (12/30) … Scored 11 points against Quinnipiac (12/21) behind 3-of-3 from three-point range, and a thunderous dunk … Posted second-career double-double with a team-high 15 points and 10 rebounds vs. LIU Brooklyn (12/9) … Had eight points and a team-high nine rebounds and two blocks against UMBC (12/7) … Broke out with a career-high 26 points and 15 rebounds for first-career double-double vs. Sacred Heart (12/1). Shot 11-of-16 from the field and added two blocks and a steal … Strong effort at South Dakota State (11/26) with eight points, four rebounds and two blocks. Was 3-of-5 from the field and 1-of-2 from three-point range … Finished with five points, five rebounds and a block against Texas Southern (11/25) … Knocked down a pair of big second-half threes at Houston (11/17) … Had six points and a career-high 12 rebounds at Fordham (11/15). Second time in the first three games he reached double-figure rebounds … Scored 18 points and added eight rebounds in home opener against Rider (11/12). Shot 6-of-9 from the field and a perfect 4-of-4 from three-point range … Had eight points and team-high 10 rebounds in collegiate debut at Minnesota (11/8). AS A FRESHMAN (2012-13): Was required to sit out the year due to NCAA regulations … Practiced with the Mountain Hawks all season. BEFORE LEHIGH: Highly-touted prospect from Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire … Represented England’s National team at the Under-16 and Under-18 championships … Helped lead Barking Abbey to third-place finish in the Euro League Nike Junior International Tournament … Garnered 2012 Northeast Prep Tournament MVP award … Was also named to the 2012 All-NEPSAC Class AA Second Team … Captain of the London Pioneers … Member of the Effort and Academic Honor Roll.
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Major: Finance
WHY LEHIGH? “As soon as I came on my visit, met everyone and was on the school grounds, I fell in love.”
AS A SOPHOMORE (2014-15): Standout sophomore season, earning Patriot League Player of the Year honors … Earned AP honorable mention All-America laurels … Also garnered NABC first team All-District and third team ECAC All-Star recognition … Named the team’s Athlete of the Year at annual end-of-year banquet … Led the team in scoring (15.3 points per game) and rebounding (8.7 per game). Those marks stood fifth and first in the Patriot League, respectively … Ninth in the league in field goal percentage (.499) … Finished the season with 14 double-doubles and 27 double-figure scoring games, including the final 21 games of the season … 14 double-doubles were tied for 23rd in the nation … Second straight double-dou- ble, third in four games and 14th of the season in Patriot League Quarterfinals vs. American (3/5). Posted 20 points on a perfect 9-of-9 shooting, and 11 rebounds … GETTING TO KNOW TIM Tallied 13th double-double of the season with 18 points and Nickname: Sweet T 10 rebounds in the regular season finale at Colgate (2/28) … Major & Why: Business Had 11 points and eight boards in win over Bucknell (2/25), Favorite Place on Campus: Library shooting 5-of-8 from the field … Finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds vs. Lafayette (2/22) for his 12th Favorite Food: Sushi Favorite Color: Blue double-double of the season … Scored 12 points while adding six rebounds at Navy (2/18). Ten of those Favorite Musical Artist: MMOTHS points came in the second half … Big game, led by a monster second half, at Holy Cross (2/14). Finished Favorite Movie: Almost Famous with 22 points (18 in the second half), shooting 6-of-13 from the field and 10-of-13 from the free throw line. Favorite TV Show: Breaking Bad Favorite Website: Tumblr Added 11 rebounds for his 11th double-double of the season (and 17th of his career) … Tallied 20 points on Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Tim Kempton 7-of-10 shooting while adding an assist, two blocks and a steal vs. American (2/12). Marked second 20-point Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Muhammad Ali effort against the Eagles of the season … Posted 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting to go with eight rebounds Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: Vogue Place I’d Like To Visit: Greece at Loyola (2/7) … Scored 17 points on 6-of-11 shooting while adding eight rebounds, two assists and a Talent I’d Most Like To Have: To be able to sing steal vs. Army (2/4) … Finished with 25 points on 9-of-14 shooting and 7-of-9 from the free throw line in Dream Job: Modeling win over Boston University (1/31). Added nine rebounds, a career-high four assists and a block … Scored I Wear My Jersey Number Because: It was my high school number! 11 points and added six rebounds (all in the first half) despite battling foul trouble at Bucknell (1/28) … If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Football Tenth double-double of the season (and 16th) of his career, tallying 11 points and 10 rebounds at Lafayette If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Start my own fashion school. (1/24). Added two assists, a block and steal … Just missed third-straight double-double, tallying ten points and nine rebounds vs. Navy (1/21) … Named Patriot League Player of the Week on Jan. 19 after strong 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS efforts at American (1/14) and Holy Cross (1/17) … Scored a career-high 26 points against Holy Cross Points: -- Rebounds: -- (1/17) to go with 13 rebounds for second straight double-double, ninth this season and 15th of his career. Assists: -- Shot 9-of-11 from the field … Monster game at American (1/14), scoring a season-high 24 points (one shy Steals: -- of a career high) to go with 13 rebounds. Marked first 20-point effort of the season. Shot 10-of-17 from the
CAREER HIGHS field and 4-of-5 from the free throw line … Finished with 14 points on 6-of-11 shooting while adding eight Points: 26 vs. Holy Cross (1/17/15) rebounds vs. Loyola (1/10) … Seventh double-double of the season (and 13th of his career) with 19 points Rebounds: 15 at Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/4/13) and 10 rebounds in big win at Army (1/7). Shot 5-of-10 from the field and 9-of-12 from the free throw line Assists: 4 vs. Boston University (1/31/15) Steals: 3 at Lafayette (2/23/14) … Scored 13 points (including Lehigh’s first seven second-half points) at Boston University (1/3). Added seven rebounds … Had 14 points (12 in the first half) along with eight rebounds, an assist and steal in the MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS Patriot League opener against Colgate (12/31) … Posted second straight double-double with 12 points and 2014-15 Career Double-Figure Scoring 27 52 11 rebounds at UMBC (12/28) … Scored 16 points (all after halftime) and added 11 rebounds in big triple Last Time: vs. American (3/5/15) overtime win at Arizona State (12/20). Was fifth double-double of the season and 11th of career. Marked a homecoming game for Kempton, who played high school at nearby Brophy College Prep … Posted seven 20+ points 5 9 Last Time: at Holy Cross (2/14/15) points, five rebounds and a season-high three assists at Quinnipiac (12/18) … Finished with six points, three minutes, an assist and steal in road win at LIU Brooklyn (12/6) … Scored 10 points while adding 30+ points 0 0 four rebounds vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/3) in limited minutes due to foul trouble … Recorded six points, Last Time: -- seven rebounds, two assists, two blocks and a steal in just 15 minutes against Penn State Mont Alto (11/30) 10+ rebounds 14 20 … Posted third-straight double-double, fourth of the season and tenth of his career, tallying 16 points and Last Time: vs. American (3/5/15) 11 rebounds as part of big Thanksgiving Eve win at DePaul (11/26) … Third double-double in the first 5+ assists 0 0 Last Time: -- Double-Doubles 14 20 Last Time: vs. American (3/5/15) CAREER STATISTICS
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four games, scoring 15 points and adding 10 rebounds against Columbia 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS (11/23) … Second double-double of the season and eighth of his career, posting 19 points and 13 rebounds at Rider (11/21) … Scored a team-high 19 points to go with seven rebounds (tied for the team lead) in the home opener against Canisius (11/18). Shot 8-of-15 from the field … Posted seventh-career double-double in the season opener against #12 Villanova (11/14), scoring 15 points while adding 10 rebounds. AS A FRESHMAN (2013-14): Monster rookie season, averaging 13.0 points (second on the team) and 7.1 rebounds (first) … Earned Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors … Named a finalist for the Kyle Macy National Freshman of the Year Award … Played in all 32 games, starting 31 …Shot an impressive 51.5 percent from the field (159-of-309) … Reached double-figure points on 25 occasions, eclipsing 20 points four times … Recorded six double-doubles … Had eight points, eight rebounds and two steals in the Patriot League Quarterfinals at Holy Cross (3/5) … Sixth-career double-double and second in the last three games with 14 points and 14 rebounds vs. Colgate (3/1) … Finished with 10 points and eight rebounds at Bucknell (2/26) … Stellar performance at Lafayette (2/23), scoring 20 points on 6-of-8 shooting and 8-of-10 from the free throw line, adding 13 rebounds and a career-high three steals … Scored 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting in only 15 minutes against Navy (2/19) due to foul trouble … Finished with a team-high 17 points vs. Holy Cross (2/15) on an efficient 6-of-8 shooting 2013 Arizona Preps Boys Player of the Year … Averaged 25 points and 16 and 5-of-6 from the free throw line … Posted six points and five rebounds rebounds as a senior, leading the Broncos to a 22-6 overall record … Also at American (2/12) … Had 14 points, eight rebounds and an assist against strong in the classroom as he carried better than a 4.0 cumulative GPA at Loyola (2/8) … Recorded 12 points (10 in the second half) at Army (2/5) one of the top academic programs in the country. along with eight rebounds … Scored a team-high 18 points at Boston Uni- versity (2/1), hitting 8-of-13 from the floor while adding five rebounds … Earned second straight Patriot League Rookie of the Week award and fourth overall for efforts against Bucknell and Boston U … Posted 12 points, six rebounds, a block and two steals despite foul trouble vs. Bucknell (1/29) … Scored 19 points on 7-of-10 shooting while adding seven rebounds against Lafayette (1/25). Was later named Rookie of the Week for efforts at Navy and vs. Lafayette … Finished with a team-high 15 points while adding six rebounds in overtime thriller at Navy (1/22). Shot 6-of-10 from the field … Posted eight points, 11 rebounds and a career-high two blocks against American (1/15) … Scored 13 points (11 in the first half) at Loyola (1/11) … Posted 12 points and six rebounds, shooting 5-of-11 from the field vs. Army (1/8) … Scored a career-high 25 points while adding 13 rebounds for a second straight game at Colgate (1/2). Shot 11-of-17 from the field to lead Lehigh to a thrilling double overtime win. Earned Patriot League Rookie of the Week for his efforts … Posted third-career double-double (and third in the last five games), finishing with 17 points and 13 rebounds at Bryant (12/30) … Had a team-leading 12 points and seven rebounds in win over Quinnipiac (12/21) to earn Patriot League Rookie of the Week laurels … Finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds against LIU Brooklyn (12/9) for second-career double-double and second in the last three games. Added a career-high three assists … Continued consistent play with 13 points and eight rebounds vs. UMBC (12/7). Marked the eighth time in nine games he reached double-figure points … Posted first-career double-double with 18 points and a career-high 15 rebounds at Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/4) … Scored 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting while adding four rebounds against Sacred Heart (12/1) … Hauled in eight rebounds for a second straight game (and day) while adding five points at South Dakota State (11/26) … Second straight 20-point game vs. Texas Southern (11/25), shooting 6-of-12 from the field and 8-of-11 from the free throw line. Added a career-high eight rebounds, seven coming in the first half … Strong effort with a career-high 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting at Pittsburgh (11/20) … Third straight double-digit scoring game, with 11 points at Houston (11/17) on 5-of-11 shooting … Scored 11 points at Fordham (11/15) on 5-of-9 shooting, adding three rebounds and an assist … Impressed with 16 points, three rebounds and two assists in home opener vs. Rider (11/12) … Scored eight points and added three rebounds in collegiate debut at Minnesota (11/8) ... Named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
BEFORE LEHIGH: Standout forward/center from Brophy College Prep in Arizona … A skilled post player, is the son of Tim Kempton who played at Notre Dame and in the NBA from 1986-98 … Enjoyed a successful sum- mer in AAU, playing with Arizona Magic Pump N Run … Was named the
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Forward • Senior • 6-8 • 210 Fort Washington, Md. • St. Stephens & Agnes School
Major: Marketing WHY LEHIGH? “The great balance between academics and athletics at Lehigh allows for the best of both worlds. Also, the coaching staff and team were welcoming.” AS A JUNIOR (2014-15): Breakout sophomore season, finishing fourth on the team in scoring (7.5 points per game) and second in rebounding (5.8 per game) … Rebounding average was seventh in the Patriot League … Played in all 30 games, starting 22 of the last 23 games (only game he didn’t start was Senior Day) … Reached double-figure points on 12 occasions, and double-figure rebounds four times … Tallied four double-doubles … Finished third in the Patriot League in field goal percentage (.581) … Scored eight points on a perfect 4-of-4 shooting while adding eight rebounds in the Patriot League Quarterfinals vs. American (3/5) … Had GETTING TO KNOW JUSTIN What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? The people two points and six rebounds in regular season finale at Colgate are extremely welcoming (2/28) … Strong effort with nine points and 11 rebounds in Major & Why: Business dominant win over first-place Bucknell (2/25) … Just missed a Favorite Place on Campus: Cafeteria Favorite Food: Apple Pie double-double, posting 11 points and nine rebounds on 5-of-8 Favorite Color: Red shooting vs. archrival Lafayette (2/22) … Finished with four points, four rebounds, an assist, block and Favorite Musical Artist: Kendrick Lamar two-career tying two steals at Navy (2/18) … Tallied two points, eight rebounds and a block at Holy Cross Favorite Movie: Space Jam Favorite TV Show: Robot Chicken (2/14) … Scored six points on 3-of-5 shooting while adding two rebounds, an assist, steal and three blocks Favorite Website: Twitter vs. American (2/12) … Scored 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting along with eight rebounds and three blocks at Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Charles Barkley Loyola (2/7). Had a huge block in the final minute to help preserve the victory … Finished with six points Favorite Pro Team: Miami Heat Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Michael Vick and six rebounds in dominant win over Army (2/4) … Had nine points on 3-of-4 shooting while adding Hobbies: Basketball, videogames and sleeping four rebounds vs. Boston University (1/31) … Strong game with 14 points, five rebounds, a block and steal Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: Sports Illustrated at Bucknell (1/28) … Tallied 12 points and six rebounds, shooting 6-of-8 from the field at Lafayette (1/24) Place I’d Like To Visit: Australia Talent I’d Most like to Have: Singing … Scored ten points on 5-of-6 shooting while adding three rebounds and a block vs. Navy (1/21) … Had Dream Job: CEO of a Fortune 500 company four points and two rebounds against Holy Cross (1/17), hitting both of his field goal attempts … Strong I Wear My Jersey Number Because: It was given to me all-around effort with 11 points, six rebounds and a career-high six blocks vs. Loyola (1/10) … Posted 13 If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Tennis If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Put some in the bank/ points and four rebounds in big win at Army (1/7) … Tallied two points and six rebounds at Boston Uni- invest and use the rest to support family and friends versity (1/3) … Had eight points, three rebounds and two blocks in the Patriot League opener vs. Colgate (12/31) … Second straight double-double with a team-high 14 points and 11 rebounds at UMBC (12/28). 2015-16 SEASON HIGHS Points: -- Also tied a career-high three blocks … Posted second-career double-double (both in the last three games) Rebounds: -- with 10 points and a career-high 13 rebounds in big triple overtime win at Arizona State (12/20). Added Assists: -- two assists and two blocks. Had five points and six rebounds in the third overtime alone … Finished with Steals: -- eight points, four rebounds and two blocks at Quinnipiac (12/18) … Monster game at LIU Brooklyn (12/6), CAREER HIGHS posting 13 points and 10 rebounds for his first-career double-double. Tallied a career-high four assists while Points: 18 vs. Lafayette (1/25/14) tying career highs in rebounds and blocks (3). Knocked down 9-of-10 from the free throw line, playing a Rebounds: 13 at Arizona State (12/20/14) Assists: 4 at LIU Brooklyn (12/6/14) career-high 34 minutes in his first start of the season … Scored a season-high 15 points vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) Steals: 2, three times; last at Navy (2/18/15) (12/3) on 6-of-8 shooting while grabbing seven rebounds for a second straight game … Finished with two Blocks: 6 vs. Loyola (1/10/15) points, a season-high seven rebounds, two assists and two blocks against Penn State Mont Alto (11/30) …
MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS Strong game with 10 points and five rebounds in Thanksgiving Eve win at DePaul (11/26). Was a perfect 2014-15 Career 5-of-5 from the field … Posted four points, two rebounds and a block against Columbia (11/23) … Scored Double-Figure Scoring 12 19 four points on 2-of-4 shooting while adding three rebounds, a block and steal in the home opener vs. Cani - Last Time: vs. Lafayette (2/22/15) sius (11/18) … Had four rebounds, a block and assist in the season opener against #12 Villanova (11/14). 20+ points 0 0 Last Time: -- AS A SOPHOMORE (2013-14): Played in all 32 games, starting twice … Averaged 5.0 points and 2.9 30+ points 0 0 rebounds … Led the team with a stellar 62.1 field goal percentage (64-of-103) … Second on the Mountain Last Time: -- Hawks with 26 blocks … Had eight points on 4-of-5 shooting while adding four rebounds in the Patriot League Quarterfinals at Holy Cross (3/5) … Had four points behind 4-of-4 from the free throw line in the 10+ rebounds 4 5 regular season finale vs. Colgate (3/1) … Scored two points and added four rebounds, a block and steal at Last Time: vs. Bucknell (2/25/15) Double-Doubles 3 3 Last Time: at UMBC (12/28/14) CAREER STATISTICS
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Bucknell (2/26) … Finished with four points at Lafayette (2/23) … Scored 10 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS points on 5-of-7 shooting while adding four rebounds against Navy (2/19)
… Scored three points while adding four rebounds at American (2/12) … Had nine points on 2-of-5 shooting and 5-of-6 from the free throw line vs. Loyola (2/8). Added four rebounds and two blocks … Finished with two points, three rebounds and three blocks at Army (2/5) … Posted 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting along with three rebounds and three blocks in comeback win at Boston University (2/1) … Had three points, six rebounds and a block against Bucknell (1/29) … Another strong game, scoring a career-high 19 points on 8-of-9 shooting while adding eight rebounds and three blocks vs. Lafayette (1/25) … Reached double-figure points for the third time in five games, recording 13 points at Navy (1/22) on 5-of-5 shooting. Scored 11 in the first half … Had four points and four rebounds at Holy Cross (1/18) in second start of the season … Posted seven points on 3-of-4 shooting while adding two blocks against American (1/15) … Scored a career-high 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting while adding three rebounds, two blocks, a steal and assist at Loyola (1/11) … Sensational against Army (1/8), tying a career high in points (11) and assists (2) while adding a season-high seven rebounds … Strong all-around effort, posting four points, three rebounds, a block and steal against Boston University (1/5) … Had five points, a re- bound and block in just seven minutes at Bryant (12/30). Was 2-of-2 from the field … Scored two points and added a block vs. LIU Brooklyn (12/9) … Posted four points and four rebounds in only 10 minutes against UMBC BEFORE LEHIGH: Standout at St. Stephens & St. Agnes School … As a (12/7) … Had five rebounds and a block at Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/4) … senior, was named to the IAC, Sleepy Thompson and George Long Holiday Another strong effort at South Dakota State (11/26), scoring four points Hoops All-Tournament Team … Averaged 15.6 points and 13 rebounds on 2-of-2 shooting while adding a rebound and steal … Posted season per game … Garnered First Team All-IAC junior year … Also made the highs in points (6) and rebounds (6) while adding a block and steal in just All-Tournament Team at the Hawk Kreul Classic … Team captain and 15 minutes vs. Texas Southern (11/25) … Grabbed three rebounds while MVP final two years … Named Most Improved Player as a sophomore … tying a career-high two assists at Pittsburgh (11/20) … Finished with two Played AAU Basketball with DC Assault Gold. points and two rebounds in only five minutes at Houston (11/17) … Spark off the bench at Fordham (11/15) with four points on 2-of-2 shooting while adding a pair of rebounds … Scored two points and added four rebounds in the season opener at Minnesota (11/8).
AS A FRESHMAN (2012-13): Strong freshman season, especially down the stretch … Averaged 2.4 points and 2.1 rebounds in 31 games (three starts) … Had a block and two rebounds in the College Basketball Invitational at Wyoming … Scored a career-high 11 points against Army (3/2) on 4-of-6 shooting. Came in only 15 minutes … Posted four points, two rebounds, career-high two assists and two steals vs. Navy (2/27) … Finished with four points on 2-of-3 shooting, while adding three rebounds at Lafayette (2/24) … Two points and three boards at Colgate (2/16) … Had two points, four rebounds and two blocks against American (2/13) in first-career start … Scored four points while grabbing two rebounds at Army (2/3) … Posted four points and five rebounds at Navy (1/30) … Another solid performance with four points, two rebounds and two blocks vs. Lafayette (1/27) … Tied a career-high six points while adding three big rebounds at Bucknell (1/23) … Scored five points on a perfect 2-of-2 shooting against Colgate (1/19) … Had four points and three rebounds while playing strong defense at American (1/16) … Second straight stellar game, scoring six points while adding a career-high (and team high) 10 rebounds in the league opener against Holy Cross (1/12). Was later named Patriot League Rookie of the Week for his efforts … Posted a career-high six points and eight rebounds (also a team high) vs. Muhlenberg (1/8) … Made only field goal attempt while grabbing an offensive rebound at VCU (1/5) …Scored two points against Bryant (12/29) … Finished a three-point play at North Texas (12/20) while adding a block and assist as well … Dished an assist in second consecutive game in win over Fordham (12/4) … Posted two points, first-career assist and a career-high four rebounds in rout of Fairleigh Dickinson (12/1). Played a career-high 13 minutes … Sunk first-career field goal in the second half against Fairfield (11/19) … Scored first-career point via a late free throw vs. Robert Morris (11/12). Added two boards … Played 12 minutes at #19/18 Baylor (11/9) in first collegiate game, grabbing two rebounds.
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Major: Business
WHY LEHIGH? “I chose Lehigh because of the coaching staff.”
AS A FRESHMAN (2014-15): Finished sixth on the Mountain Hawks in scoring (4.9 points per game) … Also aver- aged 1.5 rebounds per game and dished 20 assists … Played in all 30 games with one start … Third on the Mountain Hawks in three-point field goal percentage (among those with at least one three-point attempt per game). Shot 14-of- 39, 35.9 percent … Scored three points in the Patriot League Quarterfinals vs. American (3/5) … Strong effort with 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting in the regular season finale at Colgate (2/28) … Two points, three rebounds and three assists in win over first-place Bucknell (2/25) … Had two points and two rebounds at Holy Cross (2/14) … Tied a career-high three assists in win over American (2/12) … Finished with two points, two rebounds, a career-high tying three assists and a steal at Loyola (2/7) … Had four points in win over Boston University (1/31) … Strong all-around game with 14 points (ten in the first half) and a career-high six rebounds vs. Navy (1/21) … Tallied four points and four rebounds in win over Holy Cross (1/17) … Posted 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting along with two rebounds at American (1/14) … Scored five points at Boston University (1/3) … Finished with 12 points (all in the second half) on 5-of-7 shooting in the Patriot League opener vs. Colgate (12/31) … Scored five points at UMBC (12/28), knocking down his only field goal attempt (a three) and both free throw attempts … Scored four points in big triple overtime win at Arizona State (12/20) … Had GETTING TO KNOW BRANDON three points and four rebounds at Quinnipiac (12/18) … Knocked down a three-pointer in road win at LIU Brooklyn Nickname: B, BA, Baby What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? Combination (12/6) … Finished with nine points and two rebounds vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (12/3) … Scored 10 points on 4-of-6 of academics and athletics shooting against Penn State Mont Alto (11/30) … Scored four points in big Thanksgiving Eve win at DePaul (11/26) … Major & Why: Business school Had two points and three rebounds against Columbia (11/23) … Scored 16 points on 4-of-8 shooting at Rider (11/21) Favorite Place on Campus: Stabler Arena … Strong effort in home opener vs. Canisius (11/18), scoring 11 points while adding five rebounds and three assists Favorite Food: Chicken Parmesan … Made collegiate debut in the season opener, playing five minutes against #12 Villanova (11/14). Favorite Color: Red Favorite Musical Artist: J. Cole Favorite Movie: Too many to decide BEFORE LEHIGH: Wrapped up high school career at Herndon High School … Scored 25 points in the Capital Favorite TV Show: Martin Classic All-Star Game, which consists of the best players from the D.C./Maryland/Virginia area. That effort earned Favorite Website: Datpiff Mixtapes him Game MVP honors … Also voted to play in the ASSISTS Tri-State All-American Game … Scored 23 points in the Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Charles Barkley Favorite Pro Team: Washington Wizards District Championship to earn Player of the Game honors … Voted onto the 6A North All-Tournament Team and Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: LeSean McCoy eclipsed 1,000 career points … Was the leading scorer for Middleburg Academy as a junior, averaging 16 points per Hobbies: Music game to lead a team of five averaging double figures … Shot 47 percent from three-point range, recording 478 points, Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: SLAM 151 rebounds and 49 steals … Led his squad to the Sleep Thompson Tournament where Middleburg beat Indiana Place I’d Like To Visit: France commit Robert Johnson in the championship … Middleburg ended up advancing to the semifinals of states … After Talent I’d Most Like To Have: To be able to sing the season, Alston was voted onto the DMV Elite Dream Job: Professional Basketball Player I Wear My Jersey Number Because: It was my last All-Northern Virginia Team, playing for Boo Wil- 2014-15 GAME-BY-GAME STATISTICS number in high school liams for a second straight summer and starting If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Football at shooting guard … As a sophomore, Alston was If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Buy a basketball team the third leading scorer for Middleburg Academy and help the hungry … Posted 372 points and advanced to the third 2014-15 SEASON/CAREER HIGHS round of the state tournament … Was the starting Points: 16 at Rider (11/21/14) small forward for Boo Williams Summer League Rebounds: 6 vs. Navy (1/21/15) out of Hampton, Virginia … As a freshman, Assists: 3, three times; last vs. American (2/12/15) Alston played junior varsity and varsity at Paul VI Steals: 1, five times; last at Loyola (2/7/15) Catholic High School in Fairfax, Virginia … Set the MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS school record for most points scored in a JV game 2014-15 Career (32) … Squad won the JV WCAC Conference. Double-Figure Scoring 8 8 Last Time: at Colgate (2/28/15) 20+ points 0 0 Last Time: -- 30+ points 0 0 Last Time: --
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Major: Business
WHY LEHIGH? “I felt that the mix of academics and athletics was a good fit for me.”
BEFORE LEHIGH: Impressed at Pulaski Academy from the post out to the three-point line … Three-year varsity starter, averaging 22 points and 14 rebounds as a senior … Eclipsed 20 points on several occasions, along with 20 rebounds … Voted as Player of the Year in the Patriot League National Division … Was a member of the All-Central New York team … As a junior, averaged 18 points and 11 rebounds, earning first team All-Conference … Also has AAU experience with the Syracuse Nets’ program … Strong in the classroom as a member of the National Honor Society … Graduated with honors.
GETTING TO KNOW CALEB Nickname: C or Big C What’s your favorite thing about Lehigh? The Campus Major & Why: Business Favorite Place on Campus: The gym Favorite Food: Chicken Tenders Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Musical Artist: J. Cole Favorite Movie: The Longest Yard Favorite TV Show: Psych Favorite Website: ESPN.com Favorite Sports Broadcaster: Stephen A. Smith Favorite Pro Team: Philadelphia Eagles Favorite Athlete In Another Sport: Derek Jeter Hobbies: Video games Magazine Cover I’d Like To Be On: Sports Illustrated Place I’d Like To Visit: Hawaii Talent I’d Most Like To Have: Any type of musical talent Dream Job: Professional Basketball Player I Wear My Jersey Number Because: It was given to me If I Didn’t Play Basketball, I Would Play: Baseball If I Had $1 Billion, I Would: Build a public access gym in my hometown
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GAME 1 - NOV. 14, 2014 GAME 2 - NOV. 18, 2014 PPL CENTER STABLER ARENA #12 VILLANOVA 77, LEHIGH 66 CANISIUS 63, LEHIGH 51
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Lehigh gave No. 12 Villanova all it could handle Friday BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team struggled from the onset and night in the season-opener for both teams at the new PPL Center, but the Wildcats took couldn’t get much going as the Mountain Hawks lost their home opener for the first time since advantage of 23 Lehigh turnovers and a 19-4 edge on the offensive glass to down the 2005, falling to Canisius by a 63-51 final on Tuesday evening in Stabler Arena. Freshman Mountain Hawks 77-66 Brandon Alston was a bright spot, posting 11 points, five rebounds and three assists while Sophomore Austin Price scored a career-high 24 points and classmate Tim sophomore Tim Kempton led the Mountain Hawks with 19 points and seven boards. Lehigh Kempton notched his seventh career double-double with 15 points and ten rebounds, will search for its first win of the season at Rider on Friday night. but Villanova took the lead for good with just under 11 minutes to play and kept the Kempton shot 8-of-15 from the field, but the rest of the Mountain Hawks struggled, Mountain Hawks at bay. combining to hit just 10-of-45 field goal attempts. Junior Jesse Chuku added six points and The Mountain Hawks shot 55 percent (28-for-51) from the field including 6-of-16 seven rebounds. Zach Lewis scored a game-high 24 points to lead Canisius, including a deep from three-point land. Lehigh’s defense limited Villanova to 38 percent, but the Wildcats three-pointer with just over a minute remaining to give the Golden Griffins a six-point lead. scored 31 points off Lehigh’s 23 turnovers. Canisius tallied the game’s first five points while holding Lehigh off the scoreboard until Lehigh started the game hot from the field as the Mountain Hawks connected on Kempton hit a short jumper with 16:40 on the first-half clock. AKahron Ross free throw pulled five of their first six shots to lead 10-4 at the first media timeout. The Mountain Hawks the Mountain Hawks within 7-3, but the Golden Griffins answered with the next five points to helped overcome four early turnovers by holding Villanova to 1-for-8 from the field in take a 12-3 lead. the first five minutes and change. Alston caught fire midway through the first half to help the Mountain Hawks get right A Josh Hart layup with 8:50 to play in the first half gave Villanova its first lead back into the game. He scored six straight Lehigh points as a fastbreak layup pulled the Mountain of the half. An offensive rebound by junior Justin Goldsborough led to a layup by Hawks within 12-10 with 9:27 left in the first half. Kempton, which gave Lehigh the lead back. A jumper by sophomore Miles Simelton The Golden Griffins extended their lead to four on several occasions, but a Kempton re-established a six point Lehigh lead with just over five minutes remaining in the jumper and Alston three-pointer gave Lehigh its first lead at 20-19 with 3:04 on the clock. opening half. Canisius regained a 24-20 advantage, but a Chuku offensive rebound and layup followed by an Dylan Ennis put Villanova back in front with a layup with 2:45 to play in the half emphatic Justin Goldsborough dunk off a nice feed from Alston, tied the score at 24, forcing and the Wildcats took a 32-30 lead into halftime. a Canisius timeout. Senior Corey Schaefer added two free throws in the final minute for the Lehigh shot 51.9 percent (14-of-27) in the opening half while limiting Villanova 26-24 halftime lead. to just 30 percent (12-of-40). Villanova was just 3-of-23 from beyond the three point Lehigh shot 28 percent in the first half (8-of-29) while Canisius shot 23 percent (8-of- arc, while Lehigh was just 1-of-7. The Mountain Hawks were hurt by ten turnovers, 35). Both teams struggled from three-point range, shooting 14 percent (1-of-7) and 11 percent which led to 12 Wildcat points. (2-of-18). The Mountain Hawks held a 26-24 edge in rebounds. Kempton led Lehigh’s first-half effort with 11 points and six rebounds, while A Kempton layup and Chuku free throw gave the Mountain Hawks a 29-24 lead early Price added seven points. in the second half. However, Canisius answered with the next five points to tie the score with Ryan Arcidiacono led the Wildcats with nine points and five boards in the first 18:15 on the clock. half and Ennis added eight. Tied at 31, Ross hit a fastbreak three from the corner off a nifty feed from sophomore The Mountain Hawks came out of the locker room on fire with a pair of Price Miles Simelton to make it 34-31. The lead reached four at 36-32 following an Alston layup, threes keying a 13-8 run. A transition three by senior captain Corey Schaefer put Lehigh but the Golden Griffins answered with a 10-0 run capped off by a three-pointer from Kevin up 43-38 and forced a Wildcat timeout. Bleeker to make it 42-36 with 11:06 remaining. Villanova pulled even on a Darrun Hilliard three-pointer with 12:30 to play and The run eventually reached 18-2 as a pair of Jamal Reynolds free throws gave the Griffs went in front on an Arcidiacono jumper less than a minute later. Price tied the game a 48-38 lead with 8:07 left in the second half. again with a layup before Daniel Ochefu put the Wildcats in front once again with a Lehigh wouldn’t go away quietly, though, as the Mountain Hawks staged a 9-2 run layup. capped off by a Schaefer three and Kempton layup to pull right back into the game, down just The Wildcats then used a 9-1 run, capped by an Ochefu jumper to take their three (52-49) with 2:30 remaining. largest lead at 59-51 with 8:44 to play. Down three with less than 90 seconds on the clock, Lewis knocked down a big three-point- Prince drained his fourth triple to bring the Mountain Hawks back within four er to all but clinch the win for Canisius. The Golden Griffins was 6-for-6 from the free throw with 4:18 to play, but an Ennis three off a missed free throw allowed the Wildcats to line down the stretch for the 63-51 final. go back up by eight. Lehigh shot 33 percent from the field (18-of-55) and 20 percent from three-point range Villanova closed the game on a 17-8 run to hand Lehigh its sixth straight opening (3-of-15). Canisius finished at 32 percent (19-of-59) and 22 percent from long distance (6-of- night loss. 27). The Mountain Hawks won the battle of the boards, 43-39.
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GAME 3 - NOV. 21, 2014 GAME 4 - NOV. 23, 2014 ALUMNI GYMNASIUM STABLER ARENA RIDER 78, LEHIGH 74 COLUMBIA 54, LEHIGH 44
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - In a back-and-forth game of runs, Rider defeated the Lehigh BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Columbia opened a 16-point first-half lead then Lehigh men’s basketball team, 78-74 on Friday evening. Four Mountain Hawks finished with double- closed the gap to as little as five, but the Mountain Hawks couldn’t pull any figure points, but Lehigh couldn’t overcome 29 points from Teddy Okereafor. Sophomore Tim Kempton recorded his second double-double of the season and eighth of his career closer, falling 54-44 on Sunday afternoon in Stabler Arena. Lehigh shot just 30 with 19 points and 13 rebounds while freshmen Brandon Alston and Kahron Ross scored percent from the floor and didn’t hit a three-pointer as the offense struggled for 16 and 11 points, respectively. Lehigh now returns home on Sunday to host Columbia at 2 a second straight home game. The Mountain Hawks took care of the basketball, p.m. in Stabler Arena. turning the ball over just seven times. Kempton’s 19 points came on 7-of-11 shooting while sophomore Austin Price also Sophomore Tim Kempton posted his third double-double in the first four scored 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting and 3-of-5 from three-point range. Alston enjoyed his games, finishing with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman Kahron Ross scored second straight strong game, scoring 16 points on 4-of-8 shooting, 2-of-4 from long distance and a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line. Junior Jesse Chuku also scored nine points on double-figure points for a second straight game, tallying 10 points to go with a trio of three-pointers as five Mountain Hawks combined to score all 74 Lehigh points. four assists, three rebounds and two steals. Junior Jesse Chuku also grabbed Okereafor led the Rider offense with his 29 points on 8-of-12 shooting and 5-of-9 from eight boards. three-point range. Jeff Coby led Columbia with 16 points and 12 rebounds as the only Lions Rider jumped out to an early lead as a Kahlil Thomas basket made it 7-2 just over player with double-figure points. two minutes into the game. The Mountain Hawks answered by scoring nine of the next 11 A Ross layup pulled the Mountain Hawks within 10-7 with 13:49 left in points, which included a pair of Price baskets with a Chuku corner three and Ross drive to the first half, but Columbia responded with a 17-4 run as a Maodo Lo layup the basket sandwiched in between. A Price layup gave Lehigh its first lead at 11-9, forcing a Rider timeout with 15:00 on the first-half clock. gave the Lions a 27-11 lead with 8:21 on the clock. The Lehigh run reached 16-2 as Alston knocked down two free throws then Price Trailing 29-15, Lehigh staged an 8-0 run which began and finished with scored the Mountain Hawks next five points. Price three off a good look from Ross gave Miles Simelton baskets, with Corey Schaefer and Justin Goldsborough layups Lehigh an 18-9 lead with 12:23 left in the first half. in between. Simelton’s layup with 2:09 left in the first half pulled Lehigh within Rider turned the momentum in its favor, responding to score 18 of the next 22 points. 29-23. Columbia answered with a three on the next possession for the 32-23 A Thomas dunk made it 25-22 with 5:12 on the first-half clock, forcing a Lehigh timeout. advantage, which proved to be the halftime score. The Broncs followed with another basket, but Chuku knocked down a three to snap more than a four-minute scoreless drought and pull Lehigh back within 27-25. Kempton scored the first four points of the second half to pull Lehigh Kempton tied the score at 27, but Okereafor responded with consecutive threes. A Ross within 32-27 with 18:29 on the clock. Columbia eventually re-extended its jumper and Alston three-pointer helped pull Lehigh within 35-32, but Okereafor answered lead to nine on several occasions and the Mountain Hawks couldn’t pull any with yet another trey as the first-half expired to give Rider a 38-32 lead after 20 minutes of closer than six the rest of the way. A Kempton jumper made it 48-42 Lions, but play. Columbia had an answer. Sophomore Austin Price answered with a layup to Price led Lehigh with nine first-half points on 4-of-5 shooting. Kempton had six points pull within 50-42, but the Lions were 4-of-4 from the free throw line over the and six rebounds while Alston scored seven points on 2-of-3 shooting. Lehigh shot 59 percent final 41 seconds for the 54-44 final. from the field and 67 percent from long range while Rider shot 57 percent and 46 percent, respectively. Lehigh shot 30 percent for the game (19-of-63) and did not hit a three-point- Trailing 43-37 early in the second half, Price knocked down a three and Kempton fol- er (0-of-13). Columbia shot 38 percent (20-of-53) and 22 percent from long lowed with a short jumper to pull Lehigh within 43-42 with 16:02 on the second-half clock, distance (6-of-27). The Lions won the battle of the boards, 47-40. forcing a Rider timeout. The Broncs responded with a 9-0 run as another Okereafor trey made it 51-42. Lehigh quickly answered the run with a 9-0 run of its own, beginning with a pair of Ross free throws and ending with a Ross three-pointer to tie the score at 53 with 9:14 on the clock. Rider went on to regain a six-point lead, but an Alston trey eventually pulled the Mountain Hawks within 67-64 with 2:54 remaining. The Broncs scored the next four to make it 71-64, but a short Kempton jumper got Lehigh back within five. However, the Rider lead swelled to seven. Lehigh cut the deficit to four, but the Mountain Hawks ran out of time. Lehigh shot 49 percent for the game (26-of-53) and 43 percent from three-point range (9-of-21). Rider shot 50 percent (26-of-52) and 36 percent from long distance (8-of-22). The Mountain Hawks dominated the boards, 34-22.
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GAME 5 - NOV. 26, 2014 GAME 6 - NOV. 30, 2014 ALLSTATE ARENA STABLER ARENA LEHIGH 86, DEPAUL 74 LEHIGH 100, PENN STATE MONT ALTO 74
CHICAGO - DePaul scored the game’s first points, but the Lehigh men’s basketball BETHLEHEM, Pa. - All 14 Mountain Hawks who saw action scored at least team immediately responded and led for the game’s final 37:51 in an impressive 86-74 win two points as the Lehigh men’s basketball team defeated Penn State Mont Alto over the Blue Demons on Wednesday evening at Allstate Arena. The Mountain Hawks handed DePaul its first loss of the season while handing the Big East just its third loss of 100-74 on Sunday in Stabler Arena. Sophomore Austin Price scored 15 points the year. Senior Corey Schaefer scored a career-high 17 points to lead the offense while to lead the offense while junior Jesse Chuku tallied 13 and freshman Brandon sophomore Tim Kempton posted his fourth double-double in the first five games and Alston had 10. Junior Khalid McCaskill, sophomore John Ross Glover, soph- 10th of his career. omore Georgios Pilitsis and freshman Tyler Jenkins all saw their first action Four Mountain Hawks scored double-figure points as sophomore Austin Price of the season and combined to score 27 points and help Lehigh to its second posted 14 on a perfect 4-of-4 shooting, while junior Justin Goldsborough recorded 10 straight win. points and five rebounds. He was a perfect 5-of-5 from the floor. Playing in front of Price scored his 15 points in just 15 minutes and now has 29 points over the many friends and family as part of a homecoming to the Chicago area, sophomore Miles Simelton added nine points in his first-career start. Junior Jesse Chuku also posted eight last two games in a total of 26 minutes. He finished 7-of-13 from the floor and points, three rebounds and two blocks. was one of four Lehigh players to dish four assists. Chuku’s 13 points came on The win marked Lehigh’s first victory over a Big East team since Nov. 26, 2008 at 6-of-7 shooting as he’s knocked down 9-of-10 over the last two games. Alston Rutgers. It was Lehigh’s first win over a BCS conference foe since the 2012 NCAA Tour- was 4-of-6 from the field while adding two rebounds, a block and steal. nament victory over Duke. Wednesday’s victory came in front of a nationally-televised Transfers McCaskill and Glover scored their first points in a Lehigh audience on Fox Sports 1. uniform, tallying nine and eight, respectively. Jenkins also made his collegiate The 86 points marks Lehigh’s most since scoring 92 in the season opener against Rider last season. Schaefer took control early, scoring 11 of his 17 points in the first half. debut and tallied seven points on 2-of-4 shooting, to go with four assists. Junior DePaul scored on its first possession, but Lehigh responded with an 8-0 run, holding Devon Carter set a career high with seven points while adding three rebounds the Blue Demons scoreless for the next 3:53. A Kempton jumper got the scoring started and two steals. while Simelton and Chuku answered with threes on consecutive possessions to make it Penn State Mont Alto took an early 2-0 lead, but the Mountain Hawks 8-2 Mountain Hawks with 17:21 on the first-half clock, forcing a Blue Demons’ timeout. responded. They build their first double-digit lead at 19-8 following a pair of Leading 10-7, Lehigh staged a 9-0 run. Schaefer began the run with a pull-up jumper Kahron Ross free throws with 11:12 left in the first half. Lehigh’s advantage and was followed by two Kempton free throws, a Goldsborough post move. The run was gradually increased, reaching 20 just under six minutes later as a Price jumper capped off by a Schaefer three-pointer, forcing DePaul’s second timeout with 11:23 left in the first half. made it 36-16 Mountain Hawks with 5:23 on the first-half clock. Lehigh’s largest lead swelled to 14 just over one minute later, but the Blue Demons Lehigh eclipsed 50 first-half points behind six straight points from Glover slowly inched back. They staged a 7-0 run to cut Lehigh’s lead in half at 25-18. Still hold- to end the half. A Glover layup made it 49-23 with 1:12 remaining then he added ing a seven-point lead late in the half, the Mountain Hawks’ defense got a big stop and two free throws and a short jumper as the first half expired to make it 53-29 senior Stefan Cvrkalj knocked down a three-pointer on the other end to give Lehigh a after 20 minutes of play. double-digit, 36-26 lead with 2:46 on the first-half clock. An up-tempo second half saw both teams pushing the pace. The Mountain Through the early stages of the second half, Lehigh’s lead hovered between nine and 13. Leading by its halftime margin of 11, Lehigh scored four straight points behind Hawks scored 24 of the first 35 second-half points as a Chuku jumper gave Le- a Simelton jumper and Goldsborough layup, which made it 58-43. DePaul responded high a 77-40 lead with 12:47 on the clock. The lead remained in the 30s over the with an 8-2 run to pull within 60-51 with 11:09 on the second-half clock, forcing a Lehigh ensuing minutes, but the Nittany Lions caught fire midway through the half. timeout. They eventually pulled within 25 with four minutes remaining then 24 with The Mountain Hawks answered with nine of the next 12 points as a Simelton jumper 1:24 on the clock, but it wasn’t nearly enough. A pair of Jenkins free throws and Price three-pointer made it 65-51. Less than two minutes later, Goldsborough had a with 50 seconds remaining gave the Mountain Hawks 100 points for the first big dunk off an inbounds pass to help Lehigh regain its largest lead at 69-54 with 8:37 left time since Dec. 1 2012 when Lehigh defeated Fairleigh Dickinson, 102-62. in the second half. DePaul cut Lehigh’s lead to nine at 71-62 following a Billy Garrett Jr. three with 6:35 Lehigh shot 46 percent from the field (35-of-77) and 30 percent from three- remaining. The Blue Demons continued to increase the pace and pressure over the ensuing point range (9-of-30). Penn State Mont Alto finished at 45 percent (27-of-60) and minutes, but couldn’t pull any closer than three possessions. Several times, they pulled 35 percent from long distance (7-of-20). The Mountain Hawks held a 46-37 edge within eight on numerous occasions, but the Mountain Hawks always had an answer. A in rebounds. Myke Henry free throw pulled DePaul within 80-73 with 2:09 remaining, but the Mountain Hawks closed the game with six of the final seven points for the 86-74 victory.
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GAME 7 - DEC. 3, 2014 GAME 8 - DEC. 6, 2014 STABLER ARENA STEINBERG WELLNESS CENTER LEHIGH 61, SAINT FRANCIS (PA) 59 LEHIGH 80, LIU BROOKLYN 76
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team opened an 18-point first half BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team ended the first half on an lead and Saint Francis (Pa.) responded to take a second-half lead, but the Mountain Hawks 11-0 run and the Mountain Hawks didn’t trail the rest of the way as they won their fourth bounced back for a 61-59 victory in a game that went down until the final buzzer on Wednesday straight game, 80-76, at LIU Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon. Five Mountain Hawks evening in Stabler Arena. Junior Justin Goldsborough led the way with 15 points on 6-of-8 reached double-figure points, led by freshman Kahron Ross who scored a career-high 19 shooting while sophomores Austin Price and Tim Kempton reached double figures with 13 points, including 13 in the second half and four free throws in the final 11 seconds to ice the and 10 points, respectively. The win marks the Mountain Hawks’ third in a row heading into victory. Junior Justin Goldsborough added 13 points and ten rebounds for his first-career a Saturday afternoon showdown at LIU Brooklyn. double-double and sophomore Miles Simelton also scored a career-high ten points, eight Goldsborough’s 18 points were within three of his career high while he also added coming in the first half. seven rebounds. Price struggled from the field, but was 8-of-10 from the free throw line while Goldsborough’s impact went far beyond just points and rebounds, also finishing adding three assists and four steals. Freshman added nine points while senior Brandon Alston with four assists, three blocks and a steal. Corey Schaefer scored eight. Freshman Kahron Ross dished four assists while adding three Sophomore Austin Price added 11 points while senior Corey Schaefer had 10, seven steals. coming in the second half. Four LIU Brooklyn players also reached double-figure points. Kempton scored Lehigh’s first four points, but a Greg Brown jumper gave the Red Flash The teams traded baskets in the early going. With the score tied at four, LIU Brooklyn an early 6-4 lead. The Mountain Hawks responded by scoring 15 of the next 20 points as a created separation with a 13-3 run, which included three consecutive three-pointers. A Ross offensive rebound led to a Schaefer three-pointer. Trailing 8-7, Price and Jesse Chuku knocked down treys on consecutive possessions to make it 13-8 with 14:51 on the first-half pair of Martin Hermannsson free throws gave LIU Brooklyn a 17-7 lead with 13:48 on the clock. Four straight free throws, from Price and Goldsborough, made it 19-11 with 10:42 on first-half clock, forcing an early Lehigh timeout. the clock. The Mountain Hawks answered with the next six points behind a pair of threes of Lehigh’s lead reached double figures for the first time as Alston grabbed a tough their own. A Simelton fastbreak trey followed by a Stefan Cvrkalj corner three quickly defensive rebound and followed with a pull-up jumper to give the Mountain Hawks a 26-15 pulled Lehigh within 17-13, forcing a Blackbirds timeout barely over one minute later. advantage with 9:06 left in the first half. An alley-oop to Landon Atterberry gave LIU Brooklyn a 21-15 lead, igniting the Lehigh’s run reached 12-0 due in large part to six straight points from Goldsborough. crowd and forcing a Mountain Hawks’ timeout. Lehigh wasn’t fazed as a Price three pulled After his second straight layup, the Red Flash called timeout then Goldsborough came out Lehigh within 23-21. The Blackbirds responded by scoring eight of the next 10 points to of the timeout with another basket to make it 33-15 with 6:26 remaining in the half. take a 31-23 advantage with 3:32 left in the first half. Saint Francis began to chip away as an 8-0 run helped the Red Flash pull within 35-26 The Mountain Hawks answered in a big way, ending the half on an 11-0 run which following a Georgios Angelou corner three with 1:04 on the clock. A Ross jumper and Alston began with layups from Price and Goldsborough and concluded with a Schaefer three and free throw in the final minute gave the Mountain Hawks a 38-28 lead after 20 minutes of Ross layup to make it 34-31 after 20 minutes of play. play. The Mountain Hawks shot 45 percent from the field in the first half (14-of-31) while Lehigh shot 44 percent in the first half (11-of-25) and 40 percent from three-point range knocking down 46 percent of their threes (6-of-13). LIU Brooklyn shot 40 percent (12-of-30) (4-of-10). Saint Francis shot 46 percent (11-of-24) and 31 percent from long distance (4-of-13). and 25 percent from long range (4-of-16). The Blackbirds held a 21-14 edge in rebounds. The Mountain Hawks held an 18-13 edge in rebounds. Goldsborough led the way with 10 Simelton led the Mountain Hawks with eight first-half points on 3-of-5 shooting. points and four rebounds in the first half. The teams went back and forth early in the second half with Lehigh’s lead hovering Saint Francis scored five of the first eight second-half points to pull within eight (41-33) between three and five. Midway through the half, the Mountain Hawks scored five straight following a Earl Brown free throw. Lehigh answered with the next four points to take a 45-33 points behind a Schaefer fastbreak jumper and Cvrkalj corner three to take a 54-46 lead lead, but the Red Flash used a 10-0 run to pull right back into the game. Consecutive threes with 10:09 left in the second half. from Dominique Major and Brown pulled the Red Flash within 45-39 while Saint Francis A pair of Simelton free throws and a Schaefer jumper extended Lehigh’s run to 9-0, answered with four straight points out of the media timeout as a Brown jumper made it 45-43, giving the Mountain Hawks a 58-46 lead with 8:58 remaining. forcing a Lehigh timeout with 13:39 on the clock. LIU Brooklyn clawed back, scoring 10 of the next 14 points as a Hermannson trey The Mountain Hawks scored the next three points to take a five-point advantage, but pulled the Blackbirds within 62-58 with 5:19 on the clock, forcing a Mountain Hawk timeout. Saint Francis responded with six straight as a Ben Millaud-Meunier trey, the team’s fourth Lehigh responded with the next six points, all from the free throw line, to take a 68-58 made three in its first six second-half attempts, gave the Red Flash a 49-48 lead with 9:43 lead with 4:19 remaining. The Blackbirds pulled back within five at 68-63 then 70-65 with remaining, forcing another Lehigh timeout. 2:37 to go, but the Mountain Hawks continued to knock down their free throws. Lehigh The teams went back-and-forth with three ties over the ensuing minutes. A Goldsbor- was 10-for-10 from the charity stripe over the final 1:34, six coming from Ross, two from ough fastbreak layup off a feed from Schaefer gave Lehigh a 58-55 lead with 3:49 on the clock Goldsborough and two from Price. Goldsborough had a big point-blank block at the rim then a Price fallaway jumper made it 60-57 with 43 seconds remaining. with 1:26 remaining then grabbed a tough rebound in the final minute to help Lehigh wrap Kempton hit a free throw with 21 seconds on the clock to make it 61-59, then Saint up the 80-76 victory. Francis had two chances to tie the score, or take a lead, but a Millaud-Meunier three-pointer as time expired was off the mark, clinching Lehigh’s two-point victory. 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GAME 9 - DEC. 18, 2014 GAME 10 - DEC. 20, 2014 TD BANK SPORTS CENTER WELLS FARGO CENTER QUINNIPIAC 80, LEHIGH 65 LEHIGH 84, ARIZONA STATE 81 (3OT)
HAMDEN, Conn. - Quinnipiac began to pull away from Lehigh late in the first TEMPE, Ariz. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team led for most of the game and found a way to half and continued that momentum in the second half, downing the Mountain Hawks fend off the Sun Devils’ comeback attempts as the Mountain Hawks shocked Arizona State 84-81 in triple 80-65 on Thursday evening. The Bobcats won the battle of the boards, 53-30 which led overtime to snap their 14-game home winning streak on Saturday evening. Freshman Kahron Ross had a monster game with 15 points and a school-record 14 assists, including a clutch jumper in the final seconds to 18 more field goal attempts than Lehigh. Senior Corey Schaefer led Lehigh with 11 of double overtime to force a third overtime period. Sophomore Tim Kempton scored 16 points (all in points while freshman Kahron Ross added ten to go with five assists. The loss snaps the second half) and added 11 rebounds for his 11th-career double-double in a homecoming to Arizona. the Mountain Hawks’ four-game winning streak as they fall to 4-5 on the season. With the win, the Mountain Hawks improve to 5-5 on the season and 2-1 against BCS Conference teams. Junior Justin Goldsborough chipped in with eight points, four rebounds and two They have defeated a member of the Big East (DePaul) and Pac-12 within a one-month span. blocks while senior Stefan Cvrkalj scored a season-high eight points, all in the second Ross was one of four Mountain Hawks to reach double-figure points. He was the facilitator of an offense that came up with the big shot when they needed it most. half. Sophomore Tim Kempton scored seven, all in the first half. Junior Jesse Chuku Sophomore Austin Price led the Mountain Hawks with 18 points, five rebounds, three assists and struggled from the field, but gave the Mountain Hawks a spark off the bench, especially a career-high five steals. Junior Justin Goldsborough also posted 10 points and 13 rebounds, including in the first half. many key boards in the overtime periods, for his second-career double-double. Ousmane Drame and Justin Harris each recorded double-doubles to lead the The Lehigh defense was the story, especially early, as the Mountain Hawks held the Sun Devils charge for the Bobcats. to a season-low 24 first-half points. Arizona State is coming off a 20-win season and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2013-14. ASU big man Eric Jacobsen who entered averaging 11.3 points and 8.2 rebounds Quinnipiac scored the game’s first four points, but Lehigh answered with seven coming in was held to just five points and five rebounds. of the next eight as Goldsborough got Lehigh on the board, followed by a Schaefer three Saturday marked Lehigh’s longest game since February 14, 2009, an 82-75 loss at Army. and a Kempton jumper to pull the Mountain Hawks within 8-7 with 16:39 left in the first Goldsborough got Lehigh on the board on the Mountain Hawks’ first possession of the game. After half. Arizona State knocked down a three just over a minute into the game, Lehigh held the Sun Devils scoreless Leading by two a few minutes, Quinnipiac staged a 6-0 run to take a 17-9 lead until another Shaquielle McKissic Trey with 15:36 remaining to make it 6-5 ASU. The defenses continued to dominate until Price caught fire, knocking down a three then turning a following an Drame layup with 12:16 on the clock. Goldsborough followed with a layup, steal into a fastbreak dunk to give Lehigh a 12-8 lead, forcing a Sun Devils timeout with 11:46 on the clock. then block to set up a Ross driving layup. That quickly cut Quinnipiac’s lead in half, Arizona State scored ten of the next 16 points to tie the score at 18 with just over five minutes making it 17-13. remaining, but the Mountain Hawks answered in a big way, ending the half on a 14-6 run to take a 32-24 The Bobcats responded with the next three points, but a pair of Brandon Alston lead into the locker room. Junior Jesse Chuku had four straight points during that stretch while sophomore Miles Simelton hit a three-pointer and Price wrapped up the first-half scoring with a driving layup. free throws followed by a Kempton basket pulled Lehigh within 20-17 with 8:56 remain- Lehigh extended its lead to double figures at 37-26 following a Kempton jumper (his first points of ing in the half. the night) with 18:00 on the second-half clock. The Sun Devils scored the next five, but Lehigh scored five Leading 24-21, Quinnipiac scored six of the next seven points to regain an eight- of the next seven points as a Price three made it 42-33 with 14:44 remaining in the second half. point advantage at 30-22. The Bobcats’ lead reached double figures at 36-26 with 4:45 The Mountain Hawks responded as a Corey Schaefer three-pointer gave Lehigh a 12-point lead, remaining. The advantage eventually swelled to 13, but an Alston free throw pulled then a Kempton three-point play gave Lehigh a 50-36 lead with 12:20 on the clock. Arizona State immediately answered with an 11-0 run as a Jonathan Gilling three-pointer pulled Lehigh within 44-32 at the half. the Sun Devils within three (50-47) with 9:42 remaining. The lead fluctuated between three and seven over Kempton and Schaefer each had seven first-half points to lead the way. Golds- the ensuing minutes. With Lehigh leading 60-57 with 4:58 to go, the Sun Devils scored four of the next five borough added six points and three rebounds. Chuku was active on the glass, grabbing points to tie the score at 61. four rebounds. Quinnipiac outrebounded the Mountain Hawks 28-18 in the first half. With less than 30 seconds remaining, the Mountain Hawks had the ball tied at 64. Ross missed The Bobcats scored the first four points of the second half to take a 48-32 lead. a shot deep in the shot clock. Kempton grabbed the rebound, but missed the put back to set up the Sun Devils with 9.9 seconds remaining. Lehigh’s defense stood tall and forced a long jumper which was off A few minutes later, a Drame layup gave Quinnipiac a 17-point, 55-38 lead with 15:20 the mark, forcing overtime. remaining. Lehigh’s offense continued to struggle in overtime as the Sun Devils scored the first four points to The closest Lehigh could get from there was 15. Trailing 66-45 midway through take their first lead since the first half. However, Kempton got Lehigh on the board with two free throws the half, the Mountain Hawks used a mini 4-0 run as a Cvrkalj jumper and Ross layup with 1:57 on the clock then Price answered with a driving layup to tie the score at 68. Neither team could pulled Lehigh back within 17 with 8:28 on the clock. score the rest of the way and the Mountain Hawks made another defensive stop in the final seconds to force a second overtime. The Mountain Hawks put in their backups, who chipped away at the deficit to Arizona State again took an early lead in the second overtime, but a Ross jumper followed by a pull within 15 (80-65) at the final horn. Sophomore Georgios Pilitsis wound up with Price three-point play helped tie the score at 73 with 1:53 on the clock. A tough Sun Devils’ jumper gave five points, as did sophomore John Ross Glover. them the lead, but Ross hit a clutch jumper from just inside the three-point arc tied the score at 75 after Lehigh shot 40 percent (22-of-55) while Quinnipiac came in at 41 percent (30-of- two overtimes. 73). The Mountain Hawks finished 27 percent from three-point range (3-of-11) to the Goldsborough came up big in the third overtime as a pair of free throws gave the Mountain Hawks a 77-76 lead, then made it 81-78 Mountain Hawks less than two minutes later. The Lehigh defense continued to Bobcats’ 22 percent (4-of-18). Quinnipiac held a 53-30 edge on the glass. come up with important stops and freshman Brandon Alston hit a free throw to give the Mountain Hawks an 84-81 lead. A desperation attempt was no good as Lehigh escaped with the victory.three-point range (9- of-21). 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GAME 11 - DEC. 28, 2014 GAME 12 - DEC. 31, 2014 RETRIEVER ACTIVITIES CENTER STABLER ARENA LEHIGH 58, UMBC 55 COLGATE 68, LEHIGH 61 BALTIMORE, Md. - It wasn’t always pretty, but the Lehigh men’s basketball team came up BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team got off to a fast start, but with the defensive stops when it needed them, escaping Baltimore with a 58-55 win over UMBC in Colgate responded to take as much as a 23-point second-half lead, which proved too a game that came down to the final seconds on Sunday evening. The Mountain Hawks forced three much to overcome as the Mountain Hawks dropped their Patriot League opener 68-61 turnovers in the final eight seconds to preserve the victory along with holding UMBC scoreless for eight minutes after the Retrievers took their largest lead at 52-46. The win is Lehigh’s sixth in the last on Wednesday. Trailing by 23 with 5:18 on the clock, Lehigh staged a 19-1 run to pull seven games heading into Patriot League play which opens on Wednesday against Colgate. within five (66-61) with 25 seconds still remaining, but the Mountain Hawks couldn’t For a second straight game, both junior Justin Goldsborough and sophomore Tim Kempton complete the comeback. For the game, Colgate shot 58 percent from the field (26-of-45) posted double-doubles. Goldsborough had 14 points and 11 rebounds for his third double-double in and 50 percent from three-point range (10-of-20). the last four games (since entering the starting lineup) while Kempton scored 12 points and grabbed Freshman Kahron Ross scored 15 points and added seven assists and three steals 11 rebounds. Goldsborough added three blocks and two steals. Sophomore Austin Price also added to lead the Mountain Hawks. Sophomore Tim Kempton had 14 points (12 in the second 10 points in the victory. Freshman scored eight points, along with two clutch free throws in the final half) and eight rebounds while freshman Brandon Alston scored all 12 of his points in seconds, while dishing six assists. The defense was the story, however, as Lehigh forced UMBC to shoot just 29 percent from the the second half. field (16-of-56), although the Retrievers knocked down 50 percent of their three-pointers (10-of-20). Ethan Jacobs led Colgate with 24 points on a perfect 9-of-9 shooting and 4-of-4 Wayne Sparrow led UMBC with 24 points, including 4-of-6 from three-point range. from three-point range. He added eight rebounds. UMBC scored the first four points, including a basket just seconds into the game off the open- After Colgate scored on its first possession, Lehigh responded with a 7-0 run, ing tip. Lehigh responded with four straight points behind a Kempton post move and Price jumper beginning with a Kempton layup and following with a Ross three-pointer and another to even the score at four with 16:48 left in the first half. Kempton basket to make it 7-2 with 17:46 on the clock. UMBC responded to take the lead, but Lehigh scored four straight points as two Brandon Jacobs hit a jumper to pull Colgate within 11-9, but Lehigh answered with another Alston free throws made it 10-8 Mountain Hawks with 12:57 on the clock. A three-pointer by Sparrow helped give the Retrievers a 13-10 lead with 12:09 on the clock, 7-0 run, which included a Corey Schaefer three-pointer, Austin Price fastbreak layup but Lehigh scored the next four points behind a Ross driving layup and long transition jumper from off a nice feed from Ross, and two Kempton free throws, to make it 18-9 with 12:31 Kempton to make it 14-13 Lehigh with 10:43 on the first-half clock. remaining in the first half. After a UMBC basket tied the score at 18, sophomore Miles Simelton knocked down a three- The Raiders followed with a 14-4 run as they began to get hot. A Damon Sher- pointer to give Lehigh a 21-18 lead. The Retrievers responded with an 8-0 run as consecutive threes man-Newsome three-pointer gave Colgate its first lead since 2-0, making it 23-22 with forced a Lehigh timeout. Houston added a pair of free throws to give UMBC its largest lead of the 8:04 on the clock. first half (26-21) with 5:36 on the clock. Lehigh answered with a 7-1 run, four of the points from sophomore John Ross Glover and a A Price trey gave Lehigh 25-23 lead then after more than two minutes without three-pointer from Price, to help the Mountain Hawks retake a 28-27 lead with 3:37 left in the half. any points from either side, but the Raiders scored 11 points in the final four minutes The Mountain Hawks tallied the next four points to extend their run to 11-1 after a pair of of the half to take a 34-29 lead into the locker room. Ross free throws with 1:25 remaining to make it 32-27 Mountain Hawks. UMBC answered with the Lehigh shot 43 percent in the first half (12-of-28) and 60 percent from long range last four points of the first half to pull within 32-31 after 20 minutes. (3-of-5). Colgate shot 58 percent (14-of-24) and 46 percent from three (5-of-11). The The Retrievers scored the first five second-half points, but Kempton scored Lehigh’s first points Raiders held a 17-9 edge on the glass. with 15:59 on the clock, a 13:18 to pull Lehigh within 36-34. A corner three from Ben Grace gave UMBC a 39-37 lead, but Goldsborough responded with Jacobs was the story early in the second half, knocking down two early threes four straight points. On the second field goal, he took an alley-oop feed near the basket and finished then Matt McMullen added a jumper to make it 42-29. Ross answered with a driving the layup near the basket to make it 41-39 Mountain Hawks, forcing a UMBC timeout with 13:18 left layup, but Jacobs hit another three, this time a wild, off-balanced corner shot that went in the second half. in to make it 45-31 with 16:45 on the clock. An Alston three-pointer gave Lehigh a 44-41 lead, but the Retrievers answered with a trey The Colgate lead continued to increase, eventually reaching 23 (65-42) with 5:18 on the following possession. UMBC went on to open its largest lead of the game at 52-46 following left in the second half. Lehigh wouldn’t say die, however, and began to chip away, consecutive Sparrow treys with 8:36 on the clock. pulling within 17 with 2:49 remaining. The Mountain Hawks then shaved 12 points Lehigh answered with an 8-0 run, beginning with a Kempton spin move and basket followed by a steal and Price transition three to pull within 52-51 with just under seven minutes remaining. from Colgate’s lead in just over two minutes as a Justin Goldsborough dunk pulled Just less than two minutes later, Kempton knocked down a free throw then Ross had a big steal and Lehigh within 66-61. layup to give the Mountain Hawks a 54-52 lead with 4:26 left in the second half. The Raiders missed the front end of a one-and-one, leading to a Price three-pointer, After no scoring for either side over the next 4:02, Kempton added a big layup with 59 sec- which was no good with six seconds on the clock. Jacobs grabbed the rebound and hit onds remaining. With 23 seconds on the clock, Schaefer missed the front end of one-and-one, but a pair of free throws for the 68-61 final. Goldsborough and Schaefer helped force a held ball, giving the ball back to Lehigh. UMBC forced Lehigh shot 39 percent (24-of-62) from the field and 38 percent from three-point a turnover off the ensuing inbounds, but on the inbounds after that, the Retrievers’ player stepped range (6-of-16). Colgate shot 58 percent (26-of-45) and 50 percent from long distance out of bounds. Eventually, Ross was fouled, knocked down both free throws and Price made a steal off the ensuing inbounds and ran out the clock, preserving the 58-55 final. (10-of-20). The Raiders won the battle of the boards, 34-26.
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GAME 13 - JAN. 3, 2015 GAME 14 - JAN. 7, 2015 CASE GYMNASIUM CHRISTL ARENA BOSTON UNIVERSITY 75, LEHIGH 56 LEHIGH 71, ARMY 60
BOSTON - The Lehigh men’s basketball team got off to a slow start and pulled WEST POINT, N.Y. - Lehigh’s defense was on top of its game from the get-go, within seven late in the first half, but Boston University was clicking on all cylinders as holding the league’s leading offense to just 28 first-half points and just 60 for the game the Mountain Hawks fell 75-56 on Saturday at Case Gym. Sophomore Tim Kempton led in an impressive 71-60 win on Wednesday evening. The 60 points were by far a season Lehigh with 13 points and seven rebounds while classmate Austin Price had ten points low for Army as its previous low was 72. The Black Knights were averaging 79.2 points and a career-high six boards. The Mountain Hawks ended the game on a 15-0 run and per game coming in. Four Mountain Hawks finished with double-figure points, led by scored 19 of the game’s final 21 points. sophomore Tim Kempton who had 19 points and ten rebounds for his seventh dou- Freshman Tyler Jenkins had five late points to help spark the strong finish. Senior ble-double of the season (and 13th of his career). Corey Schaefer also scored six points while junior Jesse Chuku and freshman Brandon Freshman Kahron Ross had an impressive bounce back game with 13 points, eight Alston had five points apiece. assists and four rebounds. Junior Justin Goldsborough tallied 13 points while senior The Terriers were on fire from three-point range, hitting 14-of-25 from long range Corey Schaefer had ten points and a career-high seven rebounds (with ten points and (56 percent). Eric Fanning led Boston University with 21 points. five rebounds coming out of halftime). Senior Stefan Cvrkalj enjoyed a strong game as Boston University knocked down threes on their first two possessions, then Kempton well with five points, five rebounds, three assists, a block and steal. pulled Lehigh within 6-2 just less than two minutes into the game. Army was led by 17 points by Patriot League Preseason Player of the Year Kyle The Terriers responded with a 13-2 run which included three straight threes, two Wilson, but the Mountain Hawks held him to 6-of-18 shooting. The Black Knights shot just from Hankerson and another by John Papale, to give Boston University a 19-4 lead with 34 percent from the field after entering with a sizzling 47 percent field goal percentage. 11:06 on the first-half clock. Goldsborough got Lehigh on the board on its first possession, but Army responded The Mountain Hawks began to catch fire, using increased defensive energy to pull with eight straight points behind a pair of threes and a Kevin Ferguson dunk. Lehigh within eight (23-15) following a Price three-pointer with 6:57 on the clock. The run began answered by scoring six of the next eight points, beginning with a Goldsborough offensive with a Goldsborough layup and also included two Alston free throws, a Kahron Ross rebound and layup. Ross also had a driving layup then a long Goldsborough jumper jumper and two Kempton free throws. pulled the Mountain Hawks within 10-8 with exactly 14 minutes on the first-half clock. Boston U re-opened a 13-point lead at 31-18, but the Mountain Hawks scored the Army responded with eight of the next 11 points as a Tanner Plomb trey gave the next six points behind consecutive threes from Miles Simelton and Alston, to pull within Black Knights an 18-11 lead with 10:24 left in the first. Junior Jesse Chuku answered with a seven (31-24). However, the Terriers finished the half on a 6-0 run and Lehigh’s offense three on the following possession, but not long after, both teams went nearly four minutes didn’t score in the final 2:51 as the Mountain Hawks headed into halftime trailing 37-24. without any points. Another Goldsborough basket ended the drought, but eventually, The Terriers knocked down eight threes in the first half, including three each from Army’s sixth three-pointer of the half helped the Black Knights regain a seven-point, Hankerson and Cheddi Mosely. The Mountain Hawks knocked down four treys, includ- 23-16 lead. ing two from Price, who (along with Kempton) had six points to lead Lehigh’s first-half The Mountain Hawks responded with a 9-0 run, beginning with a Kempton jumper offense. and concluding with a Cvrkalj fastbreak three, to give Lehigh its first lead of the game Kempton tallied four of the first six second-half points (both layups) to pull Lehigh (25-23) with 3:28 on the clock. Down three in the final seconds, Ross converted a three- within 39-28, forcing a Boston University timeout less than two minutes into the half. A jumper from Kempton gave him Lehigh’s first six second-half points and pulled point play to even the score at 28 after 20 minutes of play. the Mountain Hawks within 42-30 less than two minutes later. The teams traded baskets early in the second half until Lehigh staged an 8-0 run Boston University responded with an 8-0 run to take a 50-32 lead. After a Kempton behind four straight points from Kempton and drives to the basket from Schaefer and free throw, a Papale trey gave the Terriers a 53-31 advantage with 13:11 left in the second sophomore Austin Price. That gave Lehigh a 38-32 lead with 17:43 left in the second half, half. forcing an Army timeout. From there, Boston University continued to click on all cylinders as the Terriers were Another Price layup extended the run to 10-0 and gave the Mountain Hawks an 4-of-4 from three-point range over the ensuing seven minutes to help them open a 73-37 eight-point lead. However, Army answered with the next four to pull within 40-36. A lead after a Mosely trey, his fifth of the game with just under seven minutes remaining. Schaefer three-pointer helped Lehigh regain a seven-point lead at 46-39 with 14:10 left in Lehigh finished the game on a 19-2 run, which included the game’s last 15 points. the second half, but Army answered with 11 of the next 13 points as a Kyle Wilson trey Jenkins scored five points in that span in just his second career game. Junior Devon Carter gave the Black Knights a 50-48 lead, forcing a Lehigh timeout with 10:26 on the clock. also added a layup while Schaefer scored all six of his points in that span. Earlier in the half, The Mountain Hawks immediately answered with a vengeance, staging an 11-0 sophomore John Ross Glover completed a three-point play within seconds of entering the run behind consecutive three-point plays from Kempton, a Goldsborough layup and game. three straight Lehigh free throws, to take a 59-50 lead with 8:11 left in the second half. The Mountain Hawks shot 35 percent from the field (19-of-55) and 36 percent from Lehigh continued to roll, eventually opening a 12-point, 68-56 lead with 3:36 three-point range (5-of-14). The Terriers finished at 41 percent (22-of-54) and 56 percent remaining. Army couldn’t pull any closer than nine the rest of the way as the Mountain from long distance (14-of-25). Boston University won the battle of the boards, 39-35. Hawks held on for their first Patriot League victory of the young season.
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GAME 15 - JAN. 10, 2015 GAME 16 - JAN. 14, 2015 STABLER ARENA BENDER ARENA LOYOLA 65, LEHIGH 60 AMERICAN 62, LEHIGH 59
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team trailed by 16 in the first half WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team got off to a hot start and then responded to take a second-half lead, but Loyola knocked down a trio of three-pointers held a slim lead for much of the game, but American’s Pee Wee Gardner knocked down in 1:04 to turn a two-point Lehigh lead into a five-point Greyhounds’ advantage as they a three-pointer with 0.8 seconds remaining to hand the Mountain Hawks a heartbreaking topped the Mountain Hawks, 65-60 on Saturday afternoon in Stabler Arena. Sophomore 62-59 defeat on Wednesday evening. Sophomore Tim Kempton had a monster game with Tim Kempton led the way with 14 points and eight rebounds while freshman Kahron Ross a season-high 24 points and 13 rebounds, scoring the game-tying layup with less than ten also had 11 points, a career-high six rebounds, five assists and three steals. seconds remaining. However, the Eagles went the other way and hit a trey that improved Junior Justin Goldsborough finished with 11 points, six rebounds and a career-high their home record to 3-0 in Patriot League play. six blocks as he was a force on both ends of the floor. Sophomore Austin Price added ten Kempton’s effort was good for his eighth double-double of the season and 14th points. Eric Laster led Loyola with 17 points while Tyler Hubbard scored 16 points, all in of his career as he finished 10-of-17 from the field against the defending Patriot League the first half. Champions and preseason favorites. Sophomore Austin Price scored 13 points while After the teams traded baskets in the first minute, Loyola scored five straight points freshman Brandon Alston scored ten on 4-of-6 shooting. as a Hubbard trey made it 7-2 Greyhounds with 18:19 left in the first half. Kempton went Jesse Reed was the story offensively for American, tallying 27 points on 10-of-14 on to score a pair of baskets in a 1:40 span to pull within 10-4, but the Greyhounds scored shooting. Only one other Eagles’ player reached double-figure points. the next four to take a 14-6 advantage. American knocked down a three-pointer on the game’s first possession, but Lehigh From there, both offenses went cold as neither team scored for the next 3:32. The answered with points on each of its following three possessions as a Price basket gave the drought was snapped by a Brandon Alston layup, but the Greyhounds scored the next Mountain Hawks a 6-3 advantage with 17:24 on the clock. The teams traded points over five points and went on to open a 25-10 lead with 7:21 left in the first half. Lehigh’s offense the ensuing minutes before Lehigh opened a five-point lead for the first time as a Kempton responded by coming alive, scoring the next five points as a Price offensive rebound and jumper made it 14-9 with 13:31 left in the first half. layup pulled his squad within 25-15 with 6:15 on the clock. Lehigh continued to click offensively, sparked by Alston who scored six points in The Greyhounds responded by going on an 8-2 run to take their largest lead of 16 just over three minutes as a jumper gave the Mountain Hawks a 19-14 lead with 12:09 on (33-17) with 3:20 on the clock. However, Lehigh didn’t allow a Loyola point the rest of the the clock. half, ending the half on a 6-0 run which included four points from Jesse Chuku, to pull Lehigh’s lead hovered between three and six over the following minutes as a Kahron within 33-23 at the half. Ross offensive rebound led to a Kempton layup, giving the Mountain Hawks a 27-22 Lehigh scored four quick second-half points to extend its run to 10-0 as a Price fast advantage with 6:55 left in the first half. American responded by going on an 8-2 run as a break layup pulled the Mountain Hawks within 33-27, forcing a Greyhounds’ timeout with pair of Charlie Jones free throws gave American its first lead since the early going, making 19:03 on the clock. it 30-29 with 4:10 left in the half. A Ross fast break corner three, Lehigh’s first three-pointer of the game, pulled the The teams traded leads over the final minutes as a pair of Price free throws tied the Mountain Hawks within 35-32 with 15:42 left in the second half. Loyola responded with score 35-35 at the half. the next six points capped off by a Cam Gregory three-point play with 13:33 remaining. Lehigh scored six of the first nine second-half points as a Kempton layup gave the The margin extended to nine, but Lehigh scored five straight points behind a Miles Mountain Hawks a 41-38 advantage with 17:19 on the clock before Gardner immediately Simelton three-pointer and Kempton layup to pull within 41-37 with 11:01 left in the answered with a three. second half. Loyola reopened a 46-39 lead after a Danzel Brito three-pointer, but it took Tied at 43, the Mountain Hawks scored five straight points including a four-point the Mountain Hawks just 1:32 to tie the score at 46. The run began with a Ross layup and possession when Price knocked down a free throw on an American technical foul then included a Goldsborough layup, Kempton layup and Kempton free throw. followed with a three-pointer following nice ball movement. That gave Lehigh a 48-43 After Loyola retook a 48-46 lead, a Simelton steal and fast break dunk followed by advantage with just over 12 minutes remaining. a Kempton offensive rebound and put back, gave the Mountain Hawks their first lead of The Eagles answered with a 7-0 run as a John Schoof three-pointer gave American the game at 50-48. Lehigh appeared in control over the ensuing minutes, but couldn’t open a 50-48 lead with 8:55 on the clock. The teams traded baskets as a short Kempton jumper more than a two-point lead. Loyola capitalized by tallying a six-point possession as an ended more than a three-minute scoreless drought to tie the score at 50 with 8:33 left in off-ball foul was called while Andre Walker made a three-pointer. The Greyhounds kept the second half. possession and knocked down another trey to take a four-point lead. American scored the next five, but Lehigh answered with four straight as an Alston Ross added two free throws, but Laster knocked down another three on the ensuing three-pointer pulled the Mountain Hawks within one (55-54) with 5:35 remaining. The possession to make it 57-52 Greyhounds with 3:53 remaining. Eagles responded to go up 59-56 after a Reed layup, but Lehigh battled back to even the Lehigh pulled as close as one (61-60) after a Stefan Cvrkalj three-pointer with 15 score at 59 after a Kempton post move and short jumper with just nine seconds remaining. seconds remaining. The Mountain Hawks had the ball down three in the final seconds, However, after a timeout, Gardner knocked down a three at the top of the key with but a backcourt violation gave the Greyhounds the ball back, and they knocked down two just 0.8 seconds remaining to give American the 62-59 victory. free throws for the 65-60 final.
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GAME 17 - JAN. 17, 2015 GAME 18 - JAN. 21, 2015 STABLER ARENA STABLER ARENA LEHIGH 69, HOLY CROSS 64 LEHIGH 61, NAVY 47
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team held firm control from BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Four different Mountain Hawks reached double-figure the beginning, opening a 20-point second-half lead on its way to a 69-64 win over Holy points and the defense allowed a season-low 47 points in a 61-47 win over Navy on Cross on Saturday in Stabler Arena. Sophomore Tim Kempton scored a career-high Wednesday evening in Stabler Arena. The win marks Lehigh’s second in a row as the 26 points and 13 rebounds for his second-straight double-double while freshman squad moves back to .500 on the season at 9-9. The Mountain Hawks also defeated Kahron Ross tallied his second-career double-double with 13 points and ten assists. Navy for a tenth straight time and improve to 3-4 in Patriot League play, just two The Mountain Hawks improve to 2-4 in Patriot League play and 8-9 overall while games out of first place with 11 league games still remaining. Holy Cross falls to 6-10 and 1-5 in league play. Freshman Brandon Alston led the way with 14 points and a career-high six Kempton scored 23 of his 26 points in the first half. He now has nine double- rebounds, shooting 5-of-8 from the field and 3-of-4 from three-point range. Ten of doubles this season and 15 in his career. He finished the day 9-for-11 from the field. his points came in the first half. Sophomore Austin Price added 13 points, four rebounds and four assists, shooting Sophomore Austin Price added 11 points and four rebounds while junior Justin 5-of-11 from the field and 2-of-4 from three-point range. Kempton, Ross and Price Goldsborough and sophomore Tim Kempton each had ten points apiece. Kempton combined for 52 of the team’s 69 points. added nine rebounds, falling just one short of his third-straight double-double. Mitchell Hahn led Holy Cross with 12 points while Malcolm Miller had 11 re- Lehigh turned the ball over just nine times as a team, including only one turnover bounds. A preseason All-Patriot League honoree, Miller was held to just eight points from freshman point guard Kahron Ross. Ross finished the game with nine points on 3-of-11 shooting. and seven assists, all seven coming in the second half. Lehigh started off hot, scoring 10 of the game’s first 13 points to take a 10-3 Tilman Dunbar led the Midshipmen with 13 points and seven of his team’s ten lead with 17:28 on the clock. A Ross steal and layup began the game while he added assists. Brandon Venturini scored ten points, but on just 3-of-16 shooting. a three-pointer. Three straight Kempton points capped off the 10-3 beginning. Wednesday was the Mountain Hawks’ Coaches vs. Cancer game as the Lehigh The Crusaders pulled within four on multiple occasions, but the Mountain coaching staff wore suits and sneakers to highlight the fact that while cancer remains a Hawks used a 9-0 run to open a double-digit advantage for the first time as a Price major health concern, everyone can take daily steps to reduce their risk of the disease. fastbreak three-pointer, Kempton jumper and Price layup made it 24-11 with 12:07 Navy got off to a hot start, taking an 8-2 lead after a Dunbar layup with 16:02 left in the first half. on the clock. Leading 10-6, the Mountain Hawks scored 15 of the next 20 points, due Holy Cross answered with four straight points, but Lehigh scored nine of the in large part to the hot shooting of Alston. Alston knocked down a three-pointer next 11 as a Stefan Cvrkalj trey made it 33-17 Mountain Hawks with 8:27 on the first- midway through the half then followed two minutes later with a long jumper then half clock. Holy Cross pulled within 11 with 3:47 remaining, but Kempton scored another trey just 33 seconds after that. A Price three-pointer (from Alston) gave Lehigh Lehigh’s last eight first-half points to help his squad to a 44-28 halftime advantage. a 21-15 lead with 6:41 left in the first half. Kempton’s 23 first-half points came on 8-of-9 shooting and 7-of-10 from the The Mids began to chip away over the ensuing minutes, pulling even at 26 free throw line. He added eight first-half rebounds as well. Lehigh shot 52 percent following a Dunbar layup with 50 seconds remaining, but a Price three-pointer on (16-of-31) and 40 percent from three-point range (4-of-10) while Holy Cross shot 31 the following possession helped Lehigh take a 29-28 lead at the half. percent (9-of-29) and 20 percent (3-of-15). Alston scored ten first-half points on 4-of-5 shooting while Kempton added The Mountain Hawks continued to roll into the second half. Holy Cross hit its seven points and Price had six. Lehigh shot 46 percent in the first 20 minutes (11-of- first three second-half shots, but Lehigh still opened a 20-point lead following a Corey 24) while the Midshipmen shot 39 percent (11-of-28). Schaefer trey, which made it 58-38 with 14:25 left. Navy took an early second-half advantage at 30-29, but that lead was short- The teams combined for only three points over the next five minutes (a Holy lived as Lehigh broke a 34-34 tie with a 10-0 run, which included points from four Cross trey) before Lehigh ended its own 5:30 scoreless drought with a Price free throw. different players. Ross knocked down a corner three to give Lehigh a 39-34 lead then The Crusaders continued to chip away, pulling to single digits after a Mitchell Hahn two minutes later, junior Jesse Chuku drained a jumper to make it 44-34, forcing a three-pointer with 3:51 remaining. However, Kempton had an impressive sequence Navy timeout with 13:32 on the clock. in which he dove to the sideline to save a loose ball from going out of bounds. He Both teams went on a long scoreless drought of over a three-minute span mid- ended that possession with a layup then took a charge on defense, keeping the score way through the half until Navy pulled within six on two occasions. Lehigh had an at 64-54 with just under three minutes remaining. answer, however, as seven straight points (all from freshmen), increased the margin to Lehigh’s offense struggled down the stretch, but the closest Holy Cross would 15 (57-42). A Chuku three-pointer gave Lehigh its largest lead of 18 (61-43) as Lehigh pull is four with only one second remaining as the Mountain Hawks wrapped up went on to the 61-47 victory. their first Patriot League win at home this season. Wednesday (8 p.m.). Like Lehigh Men’s Basket- ball on Face- book and follow o n Twit- ter for ex- clusive con- tent, team up- dates and more. Print Friend- ly Ver- sion
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GAME 19 - JAN. 24, 2015 GAME 20 - JAN. 28, 2015 KIRBY SPORTS CENTER SOJKA PAVILION LEHIGH 75, LAFAYETTE 71 BUCKNELL 68, LEHIGH 62
EASTON, Pa. - Five Mountain Hawks reached double-figure points as the Lehigh men’s LEWISBURG, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team opened a 16-point second-half lead, basketball team won its third straight game on Saturday afternoon, topping archrival Lafay- but Bucknell responded with lights-out shooting down the stretch as the Mountain Hawks lost a 68-62 ette, 75-71. Sophomore Austin Price led the way with 16 points, 14 coming in the second half. heartbreaker on Wednesday evening in Sojka Pavilion. Sophomore Tim Kempton had 11 points and Classmate Tim Kempton tallied 11 points and 10 rebounds for his tenth double-double this six rebounds, but was in foul trouble for most of the second half which limited his minutes. Freshman season and 16th of his career. Included was a big three-pointer late in the second half to give Kahron Ross led the offense with 18 points which included 3-of-5 from three-point range. Lehigh Lehigh a five-point advantage, coming on Kempton’s first three-point attempt of his career. now returns home on Saturday to host Boston University at 2 p.m. Price had a monster second half, scoring 14 points over the final 20 minutes on 4-of-4 Ross’ 18 points came on 5-of-11 shooting, 3-of-5 from three-point range and 5-of-5 from from the field and 5-of-5 from the free throw line. Junior Justin Goldsborough also scored 12 the free throw line. Kempton added six rebounds (all in the first half). JuniorJustin Goldsborough points and added six rebounds while freshmen Brandon Alston and Kahron Ross chipped in enjoyed a strong game with 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting to go with five rebounds, but he too was with ten points apiece. The Mountain Hawks’ defense also impressed, containing the Patriot in foul trouble as he fouled out in the final minute. Senior Conroy Baltimore played well off the League’s top-scoring offense. Lafayette didn’t score more than five straight points all afternoon. bench, tallying four points and two rebounds in a season-high 13 minutes. Joey Ptasinski, who entered the game knocking down more than 50 percent from three-point Zach Thomas was the story for Bucknell. He scored a game-high 19 points, 15 coming in the range, was 0-for-5 from long distance as senior Corey Schaefer never allowed him to become second half. Thomas was a perfect 3-of-3 on three-pointers, all coming in the final minutes to turn comfortable. a Bison deficit into a four-point lead. Bucknell ended the game by scoring 34 of the game’s final 46 Dan Trist, Nick Lindner and Seth Hinrichs each scored 17 or more points for the Leop- points. ards, but the rest of the team provided just 15 points of offense. Both teams’ offenses struggled in the early going. Bucknell scored first, but Lehigh answered Lafayette hit a three-pointer on the game’s first possession, but the Mountain Hawks with the next four points, an Austin Price jumper and Goldsborough layup, to make it 4-2 Mountain scored on their first two possessions, a Kempton jumper and three Ross free throws, to even Hawks. the score at five. A Schaefer three-pointer gave Lehigh its first lead (10-7) with 16:23 on the The Bison answered with six straight points behind a pair of John Azzinaro threes, but Lehigh first-half clock. came right back with five in a row as a Ross three-pointer and Kempton post move and finish gave The teams went back-and-forth over the ensuing minutes. The Mountain Hawks took a his squad a 9-8 advantage with 11:41 on the first-half clock. three-point advantage after a Jesse Chuku jumper which made it 14-11, but Lehigh’s offense A Chris Hass three-pointer, his first points of the night, gave Bucknell a 13-11 lead, but the struggled over the ensuing minutes and the Leopards scored the next five points to retake a Mountain Hawks responded in a big way, staging a 10-0 run which began with a Kempton basket lead. Trailing 22-21, the Mountain Hawks scored 11 of the next 15 points, beginning with a and included a Goldsborough layup, Corey Schaefer jumper and four straight free throws. Two Ross Goldsborough offensive rebound and layup, and ending with a Kempton jumper to make it free throws gave the Mountain Hawks a 21-13 lead with 5:43 on the clock. 32-26 with 4:04 left in the first half. From there, Lehigh struggled offensively the rest of the half, scoring just five points the rest A Bryce Scott three-pointer pulled Lafayette within 32-30 with 1:12 remaining, but of the way and none over the final three minutes. Bucknell ended the half on an 8-0 run to pull within sophomore Miles Simelton knocked down a corner three to make it 35-30 Mountain Hawks 26-23 after 20 minutes of play. at the half. Goldsborough and Ross each had seven first-half points while Kempton had six points and six Goldsborough led the way with eight first-half points and four rebounds while Kempton rebounds. Azzinaro led Bucknell with six points. Lehigh shot 35 percent in the first half (10-of-29) had six points and seven boards. The Mountain Hawks shot 47 percent from the field compared to Bucknell’s 27 percent (7-of-26). to Lafayette’s 39 percent while Lehigh held a dominant 21-12 edge on the glass, including a Lehigh quickly extended its lead in the second half, scoring six of the first eight points of the 6-2 edge in offensive rebounds. half, four coming from Goldsborough, to make it 32-25. Both offenses were clicking early in the second half as a Hinrichs three-pointer quickly Minutes later, a Bucknell three-pointer pulled the Bison within five at 35-30, but the Mountain pulled the Leopards within 37-35. Leading 43-41, the Mountain Hawks went on an 8-0 run Hawks responded with an 8-0 run capped off by a Ross three-pointer to give Lehigh a 43-30 lead, which began with consecutive threes from Alston and Ross and ended with a Kempton layup forcing a Bison timeout with 14:04 on the clock. to make it 51-41 with 15:21 on the clock. Lehigh eventually extended its lead to 16 on multiple occasions, beginning with a Kempton Lafayette answered with the next five points, but the Mountain Hawks always seemed three-point play to make it 48-32 with 11:09 left in the second half. to have an answer. Two Trist free throws pulled the Leopards within two at 57-55 with 8:29 With the Mountain Hawks leading 50-34, the Bison scored nine of the next 12 points as a J.C. remaining, but Lehigh wouldn’t allow Lafayette to pull any closer as the margin remained Show three-pointer pulled Bucknell within 53-43, forcing a Lehigh timeout with 6:58 remaining. between two and six over the remaining minutes. The Bison run continued as they scored the next five points then pulled within two following It appeared like the Leopards were gaining momentum, but Kempton hit his big three-pointer a Thomas three-point play with 3:12 on the clock. with 3:55 on the clock to give Lehigh a 71-66 advantage. Neither team scored over the next 2:38 Bucknell’s offense continued its potent shooting as Thomas hit three consecutive three-pointers, before Lafayette again pulled within two. However, Ross and Price were 2-for-2 from the free the last one being a long three which was banked in, to give the Bison a 64-60 advantage with 1:27 throw line over the final 26 seconds, both converting pressure-filled one-and-ones, as Lehigh remaining. Thomas’ three-pointer less than a minute earlier gave Bucknell its first lead since early in maintained its two-possession edge and the 75-71 victory. the first half. Lehigh pulled back within a single possession, but the Bison hit their free throws down the stretch to seal the 68-62 final.
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GAME 21 - JAN. 31, 2015 GAME 22 - FEB. 4, 2015 STABLER ARENA STABLER ARENA LEHIGH 89, BOSTON UNIVERSITY 86 LEHIGH 103, ARMY 74
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team outscored Boston University BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team exploded for 61 first-half points and 45-23 in the first half before holding off a valiant Terriers’ second-half comeback to pick up carried that momentum for the entire 40 minutes as the Mountain Hawks earned a dominant 103- an 89-86 win on Saturday afternoon in Stabler Arena. Sophomore Tim Kempton led the of- 74 win over Army on Wednesday evening in Stabler Arena. In the process, Lehigh scored its most fense with 25 points, nine rebounds and four assists while freshman Kahron Ross tallied his points since 2004 and became the first Patriot League team to eclipse 100 points in a league game third-career double-double with 18 points and ten assists, marking his second straight game since Colgate beat Navy 100-91 on Jan. 10, 2010. Sophomore Miles Simelton led the way with career with 18 points. With the win, Lehigh improves to 11-10 overall and 5-5 in Patriot League play highs in points (18) and assists (6). while the Terriers fall to 8-13 and 4-6 in the league. Fifteen of Simelton’s 18 points came in the first half as he finished the game 6-of-8 from Sophomore Austin Price enjoyed a strong game with 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting and the field and 3-of-4 from three-point range. Sophomore Tim Kempton tallied 17 points and eight 3-of-4 from three-point range. Junior Jesse Chuku scored 12 points, all in the first half, on rebounds while junior Jesse Chuku had a season-high 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting and 3-of-4 from 4-of-8 shooting and 3-of-5 from three-point range. three-point range. Sophomore Austin Price also tallied 14 points while senior Corey Schaefer had ten on a perfect 4-of-4 shooting. Five Terriers reached double-figure points, led by Eric Fanning who had 24 points. Boston The Mountain Hawks completed the season sweep of Army as both teams entered the game University’s five starters, and Fanning off the bench, combined for all 86 of its points. with identical 5-5 league marks as part of a logjam in the Patriot League standings. After Wednesday’s Lehigh’s defense allowed just 23 first-half points, a season-best for a second straight action, Lehigh remains in a three-way tie with Lafayette and American for third place in the league. game. The Mountain Hawks also allowed 23 in their previous game at Bucknell. Meanwhile, The Mountain Hawks also move two games over .500 for the first time this season, standing at 12-10 Lehigh’s 89 points marked a season high against a Division I school. overall. Lehigh got off to a hot start from the get-go and it carried through the first half. Leading The 103 points marked a season high and the first time Lehigh eclipsed 100 points against a 6-4, Kempton hit a jumper and layup on consecutive possessions to give the Mountain Hawks Division I opponent since Dec. 1, 2012, a 102-62 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. The 103 points were a 10-4 lead. Kempton scored eight of Lehigh’s first ten points on the afternoon. Lehigh’s most since Jan. 23, 2004, a 111-104 overtime loss at Lafayette and most in a win (and most A Price three-pointer gave the Mountain Hawks a 16-8 lead with 11:51 on the first-half in regulation) since a 105-89 victory over Cornell on Nov. 26, 1994. clock then just over a minute later, he completed a three-point play to give Lehigh its first Lehigh eclipsed 50 percent shooting for a second straight game and third time in the last double-digit lead at 21-11. Leading 23-13, the Mountain Hawks used a 7-0 surge which included four games; the Mountain Hawks shot 56 percent from the field. The facilitator of the offense was a Justin Goldsborough three-point play and another Kempton basket, to make it 30-13 with freshman Kahron Ross, who reached double-figure assists for a second straight game and fourth 7:39 on the clock. time this season. He had 11 helpers to zero turnovers while adding seven points. Ross now has 134 The lead continued to swell as a Brandon Alston three-point play and Chuku three- assists this season, moving him from 14th in school history for a single season (entering the game) pointer, made it 37-18 with 4:40 remaining. A minute later, Corey Schaefer followed with a to seventh. pull-up jumper to give the Mountain Hawks their first 20-point advantage at 39-18 with 3:42 A pair of Larry Toomey free throws gave Army an early 6-4 lead, but the Mountain Hawks left in the first half. A Boston University three-point play pulled the Terriers within 19 in the scored 12 of the next 17 points as a Price three-pointer gave his squad a 16-9 lead with 15:23 left in the first half. final minute, but Chuku hit a contested three as time expired to make it 45-23 after 20 minutes The teams traded baskets over the ensuing minutes until a Tanner Plomb trey pulled the Black of play. Knights within 20-17. Another Plomb trey pulled Army within 25-22, but a Simelton three-pointer The Terriers came out of the locker room on fire, scoring the first ten points to pull within helped spark a 12-0 run. Simelton scored five points in that span, then answered a Plomb trey with 45-33 and force a Mountain Hawks’ timeout with 17:34 on the clock. On the ensuing possession, another three-pointer, to make it 40-25 with 5:56 on the first-half clock. Kempton scored Lehigh’s first points of the second half via a layup, which helped spark the Leading 43-28, the Mountain Hawks staged a 10-0 run, beginning with a Ross free throw Mountain Hawks’ offense. Lehigh began to build its lead back up, reaching 17 (54-37) after a followed by an emphatic fastbreak dunk from Chuku and ending with a Simelton trey, to make it pair of Kempton free throws with 15:02 remaining. 53-28 with 2:31 left in the first half. Lehigh’s lead reached 20 after a Price three-pointer which made it 64-44 with just over Army pulled within 21 in the final two minutes, but a Price three-pointer as the first half 11 minutes to go. The lead remained between 14 and 20 over the ensuing minutes until Boston expired gave the Mountain Hawks a 61-36 advantage after 20 minutes of play. The 61 points were University made one last run. With the Mountain Hawks leading 64-44, the Terriers scored six just one shy of tying a Stabler Arena record for points in any half (by either team, home or away). straight points as a Fanning layup pulled the Terriers within 64-50 with 9:14 on the clock. Army scored five of the first seven second-half points, but the Mountain Hawks wouldn’t let Lehigh went on to open a 16-point lead with 7:02 remaining, but the Terriers wouldn’t the Black Knights pull any closer than 22 the rest of the way. The lead hovered between 25 and 29 back down. Boston University pulled to single digits after a Cheddi Mosely jumper made it through the middle stages of the second half until a layup from senior Conroy Baltimore gave the 74-65 with exactly four minutes left in the second half. Mountain Hawks their first 30-point lead, making it 79-48 with 11:04 on the clock. Baltimore enjoyed Ross responded with a big three-pointer at the top of the key to momentarily stop a strong game with seven points and three rebounds in just five minutes of action. the bleeding and give the Mountain Hawks a 12-point, 77-65 advantage. However, Boston The Black Knights pulled within 24 after a pair of Scott Mammel free throws made it 86-62, University would not go away. The Terriers continued to claw back as a Mosely layup pulled but Lehigh immediately answered with a 7-0 run as a Schaefer three-pointer made it 93-62 Mountain Hawks with 5:14 remaining. the Terriers within 81-75. Boston U continued to pressure and force turnovers, which made it Lehigh’s bench players saw significant minutes down the stretch as sophomore John Ross interesting, but the Mountain Hawks were 8-of-10 from the free throw line in the final min- Glover, freshman Tyler Jenkins, sophomore Cole Renninger and senior Khalid McCaskill all ute, including a perfect 8-of-8 for Ross. Even with the success from the charity stripe, Boston scored points to help the Mountain Hawks reach the century mark. A Glover layup off a feed from University found itself down three with eight seconds remaining. John Papale got a decent sophomore Georgios Pilitsis made it 100-67 as Lehigh wrapped up the 103-74 victory. look at a three-pointer as time expired, but it was off line as Lehigh held on for the victory.
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GAME 23 - FEB. 7, 2015 GAME 24 - FEB. 12, 2015 REITZ ARENA STABLER ARENA LEHIGH 69, LOYOLA 63 LEHIGH 65, AMERICAN 58
BALTIMORE - The Lehigh men’s basketball team led for most of the game and held BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team ended the first half on off a relentless Loyola squad, 69-63 on Saturday evening. Sophomore Tim Kempton led the a 25-3 run then held off a late American University charge as the Mountain Hawks way with 18 points and eight rebounds while junior Justin Goldsborough had 13 points, won for the seventh time in their last eight games, beating the defending Patriot eight boards and three blocks playing in front of many friends and family. Included was a League Champions 65-58 on Wednesday evening in Stabler Arena. Sophomore big block in the final seconds that helped seal the victory. The win marks Lehigh’s sixth in its Tim last seven games as the Mountain Hawks improve to 13-10 overall and 7-5 in Patriot League Kempton scored a game-high 20 points while classmate Austin Price added 15 points, play. Loyola falls to 9-14 and 5-7 in the league. a career-high tying six rebounds and three assists. Kempton scored 12 of his 18 points in the second half as he finished 7-of-11 from the The win marks Lehigh’s fifth straight home victory as the Mountain Hawks field and 4-of-5 from the free throw line. Goldsborough was an efficient 5-of-8 from the field. have opened a double-digit lead in each of those contests. After Thursday’s game, Junior Jesse Chuku added 11 points, all in the first half, while freshman Kahron Ross tallied Lehigh stands in third place with its 8-5 Patriot League record, two games ahead of 10 points and five assists, including several free throws down the stretch. Sophomore Miles four teams who are tied for fourth. The Mountain Hawks are 14-10 overall. Simelton scored seven points on 3-of-5 shooting while senior Corey Schaefer added six. Freshman Kahron Ross added 10 points and five assists, including a perfect Eric Laster led the Greyhounds with 16 points and five rebounds. Chancellor Barnard 6-of-6 from the free throw line in the final minute. John Schoof led the Eagles with added 14 points. 21 points while Kevin Panzer had 11 and Pee Wee Gardner tallied 10. Loyola scored first, but Lehigh responded with the next four points as a Kempton layup gave the Mountain Hawks a 4-2 lead. The teams went back and forth over the ensuing minutes American took early control as a Panzer three-pointer gave the Eagles a 13-9 lead as the Greyhounds retook the lead following a Franz Rassman three-pointer. That made it 9-8 with 15:57 on the first-half clock. A Gardner trey gave the Eagles a 16-8 advantage, Loyola with 15:23 on the first-half clock. but that’s when the Mountain Hawks took cover. Lehigh ended the half on a 23-3 Trailing 11-10, Lehigh staged a 7-0 run, beginning with a long Simelton jumper and run. After a Jesse Reed free throw made it 17-10, sophomores Miles Simelton and continuing with a Goldsborough layup and ending with a Chuku three-pointer which made Price knocked down consecutive three-pointers to quickly pull the Mountain Hawks it 22-15 Lehigh, forcing a Loyola timeout with 9:52 left in the first half. within one. Loyola scored six of the next eight points to pull within 24-21, but Chuku hit a three- Junior Jesse Chuku, junior Justin Goldsborough and Kempton followed with pointer a few minutes later to help Lehigh retake a seven-point, 31-24 lead with just over four layups then Kempton hit two free throws to extend the run to 14-0 run. A Panzer minutes on the first-half clock. dunk ended a 5:23 scoreless drought for American, but the Eagles wouldn’t score for A Kempton layup off a nifty feed from Ross gave Lehigh a nine-point, 36-27 advantage the final 7:36 of the half. late in the half, but the Greyhounds ended the half with the last four points, including a Cam Gregory layup as time expired to cut the Mountain Hawks’ lead to 36-31 after 20 minutes of Lehigh ended the half by scoring nine straight points as Simelton knocked down play. another three and Kempton converted a layup to make it 33-19 after 20 minutes of Chuku was the story offensively in the first half, scoring 11 points on 4-of-5 shooting play. and 3-of-4 from three-point range. Goldsborough had eight points and four rebounds while Kempton led the Mountain Hawks with 10 first-half points while Simelton had Kempton tallied six points and three boards. Lehigh shot 54 percent (14-of-26) from the field six points and Price posted five. Both Simelton and Price had four rebounds to lead while Loyola shot 41 percent (14-of-34). the way. Lehigh shot 50 percent in the first half (12-of-24) including 38 percent from Lehigh scored the first four second-half points, but Loyola answered with a 4-0 run of long range (3-of-8) while American shot 28 percent (7-of-25) and 40 percent from its own. three (4-of-10). A few minutes later, Kempton staged a mini 5-0 run of his own, completing a three-point Price began the second half with a three-pointer, but American scored seven play before finishing a spin move and layup to make it 45-35 with 14:25 left in the second half. of the next nine points to pull within 38-26 with 17:29 on the clock. The Mountain The Greyhounds answered with the next four points, eventually pulling as close as two after a pair of Barnard free throws made it 49-47 with 9:50 on the clock. Hawks maintained their double-digit lead over the ensuing minutes as a Kempton Lehigh immediately had an answer as Goldsborough and Kempton scored on the ensu- layup gave Lehigh a 45-29 advantage with 14:29 left in the second half. ing possessions to make it 53-49 with 8:39 remaining. The Eagles again answered with four in a row, but the Mountain Hawks regained Leading 55-50, the Mountain Hawks staged a 7-0 run to take their largest lead of the a 15-point, 50-45 lead following a Kempton basket with 8:54 on the clock. game. Simelton began with a three-pointer and a driving basket, then a Kempton layup gave Leading 54-41 with just over five minutes remaining, American wouldn’t go the Mountain Hawks a 62-50 lead with 5:07 on the clock. away. The Eagles pulled as close as six on multiple occasions down the stretch, but Loyola wouldn’t go away, pulling as close as four. Rassman had what appeared to be couldn’t get any closer due in large part to Lehigh’s free throw shooting. The Mountain a wide-open layup that would have pulled the score within two (64-62) with 36 seconds still Hawks hit 10-of-10 over the final minute, six from Ross and four from Price, to wrap remaining, but Goldsborough made a huge block out of nowhere and Ross grabbed the rebound. up the 65-58 victory. Lehigh knocked down five free throws down the stretch to wrap up the 69-63 victory.
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GAME 25 - FEB. 14, 2015 GAME 26 - FEB. 18, 2015 HART CENTER ALUMNI HALL HOLY CROSS 58, LEHIGH 52 LEHIGH 59, NAVY 53
WORCESTER, Mass.- The Lehigh men’s basketball team scored just 18 first-half ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Lehigh offense struggled offensively over the first 20 points then responded in the second to pull as close as four, but Holy Cross had an minutes, but the Mountain Hawks used big runs at the beginning and end of the sec- answer as the Crusaders ended the Mountain Hawks’ four-game winning streak 58-52 ond half to beat Navy, 59-53 on Wednesday evening in Alumni Hall. The win marks on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Tim Kempton scored a game-high 22 points, 18 Lehigh’s eighth in the last 10 games and 11th straight over the Midshipmen spanning coming in the second half including Lehigh’s first 13 second-half points. He added 11 the last five seasons. Junior Jesse Chuku finished with 12 points, 10 coming in the first rebounds for his 11th career double-double and 17th this season. half, while freshman Kahron Ross scored all of his team-high 14 points in the second Kempton shot 6-of-13 from the field and 10-of-13 from the free throw line. It half to lead the comeback attempt. The Mountain Hawks improve to 15-11 overall and marked his second straight 20-point effort and second 20-point effort against the Cru- 9-6 in Patriot League play as they remain one game ahead of fourth place entering this saders this season. weekend’s games. Navy falls to 10-17 and 6-9 in the league. Freshman Kahron Ross chipped in with 12 points, including a perfect 5-of-5 from Ross only shot 4-of-13 from the field, but was 2-of-5 from three-point range and the free throw line. Sophomore Austin Price scored 10 points, eight in the second half. hit some big second-half shots. Sophomore Tim Kempton added 12 points, including Junior Justin Goldsborough grabbed eight rebounds. 10 in the second half while classmate Austin Price finished with 11, nine in the second Both teams’ offenses struggled at the beginning of the first half, but a Ross three- half. point play gave the Mountain Hawks a 5-3 lead with 15:59 left in the first half. Worth Smith led Navy with 19 points on 8-of-15 shooting while Tilman Dunbar Holy Cross immediately responded with an 11-0 run. A Malcolm Miller dunk added 13 points and six assists. made it 14-5 Crusaders and forced a Lehigh timeout with 11:36 on the clock. A Justin Goldsborough offensive rebound and layup opened the scoring, but Price and freshman Brandon Alston came right back with layups to pull Lehigh Navy answered with the next 10 points as the Mountain Hawks hit just one of their within five (14-9), but Holy Cross scored the next five points to take its first double-digit first 11 field goal attempts. lead, 19-9. A Chuku offensive rebound and putback ended nearly a seven-minute scoreless Holy Cross extended its lead to 12 at 23-11, forcing the Mountain Hawks to call drought, pulling the Mountain Hawks within 10-4 with 12:16 on the first-half clock. their second timeout of the half with 4:45 remaining. Lehigh came out of the timeout Trailing 12-5, Chuku ended a long possession with a three-pointer as the shot with the next four points via Jesse Chuku and Kempton jumpers, but the Crusaders clock was expiring to pull his squad within 12-8 with 7:52 remaining in the half. opened a 30-15 lead before Lehigh scored the final three points of the half to pull within Another Chuku basket, a layup with 3:51 on the clock, pulled Lehigh within 17-13, 30-18 after 20 minutes of play. but a few minutes later, the Midshipmen scored six straight points behind consecutive Ross scored five first-half points to lead the way while a pair of Crusaders had three-pointers, to give them a 25-15 advantage. The Mountain Hawks answered with seven points to lead Holy Cross. Lehigh shot 31 percent in the first half (7-of-23) while five of the next six points as a Chuku trey as the first-half expired gave Lehigh a 26-20 the Crusaders shot 32 percent (11-of-34). Holy Cross had 12 offensive rebounds which lead after 20 minutes of play. led to 11 more field goal attempts than the Mountain Hawks. Chuku’s 10 first-half points came on 4-of-5 shooting and 2-of-2 from three-point Lehigh scored five of the first six second-half points as the Mountain Hawks came range. He also grabbed a game-high five first-half rebounds. Smith led Navy with 12 out of the locker room with a vengeance, quickly pulling within nine. Lehigh got within points. Lehigh shot just 26 percent in the first half (6-of-23) while Navy shot 33 percent eight (31-23) after a pair of Kempton free throws with 16:10 left in the second half. (9-of-27). Holy Cross answered and gradually built its lead back up, eventually reaching Lehigh came out of the locker room on fire, scoring nine of the first 11 points to 16 after a Malachi Alexander jumper made it 45-29 with 10:22 on the clock. extend its run to 12-2 dating back to the end of the first half. Kempton began the half Down 47-31 after a Justin Burrell jumper, the Mountain Hawks staged a 7-0 run, with a three-point play while treys from Ross and Price gave the Mountain Hawks their beginning with two Ross free throws and ending with a Ross three-pointer as great first lead since 2-0, making it 29-28 with 17:58 on the clock. ball movement led to Lehigh’s first made three of the game. That pulled the Mountain Leading 40-35, Navy staged a 9-2 run as a Shawn Anderson basket gave the Hawks within nine (47-38), forcing a Holy Cross timeout with 7:58 still remaining. Midshipmen a 44-42 lead with 8:12 left in the second half. Navy held onto its lead over Holy Cross answered with the next three points, but the Mountain Hawks used the ensuing minutes, but with 6:48 remaining, Price converted a layup to spark a 10-0 an 8-0 run, five of the points scored by Price, to pull within 50-46 with 2:25 on the run. The run included four points from Kempton to make it 50-46 with 3:44 on the clock. That’s as close as the Mountain Hawks would come, however, as the Crusaders clock. Ross rounded out the run with a pair of free throws to make it 52-46 with under scored four of the game’s next five points as a pair of Burrell free throws gave Holy a minute remaining. Cross a 54-47 lead with 45 seconds remaining. A Price trey in the final seconds pulled Navy hit a pair of free throws with 30 seconds remaining to snap a 7:02 scoreless the Mountain Hawks back within four, but it was too little, too late. drought and pull the Midshipmen within six, 54-48. Lehigh went on to hit five free throws down the stretch for the 59-53 final.
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GAME 27 - FEB. 22, 2015 GAME 28 - FEB. 25, 2015 STABLER ARENA STABLER ARENA LAFAYETTE 63, LEHIGH 61 LEHIGH 84, BUCKNELL 65
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - After struggling in the early going, the Lehigh men’s basketball BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh men’s basketball team never trailed, extending team began the second half by scoring 12 of the first 13 points, but Lafayette proved too its lead to as much as 28 on the way to an 84-65 win over first-place Bucknell on much in the end as the Leopards won a back-and-forth affair, 63-61 on Sunday in Stabler Wednesday evening in Stabler Arena. Six Mountain Hawks tallied eight or more Arena. Sophomore Tim Kempton posted his 12th double-double of the season with 13 points in an impressive all-around effort. Freshman Kahron Ross led the way with points and 10 rebounds while freshman Kahron Ross tallied 13 points and eight assists. 17 points and 10 assists for his fourth-career double-double while sophomore Aus- Lehigh falls to 15-12 overall and 9-7 in the Patriot League as the Mountain Hawks remain scored 16 points and junior added 14 off the bench. With the in sole possession of third place in the league standings with two games remaining. tin Price Jesse Chuku Lafayette improves to 16-11 and 8-8 in the league. win, the Mountain Hawks improved to 16-12 overall and 10-7 in league play while Trailing 63-61 with less than 30 seconds on the clock, the Mountain Hawks made a Bucknell falls to 17-13 and 12-5 in the league. In the process, Lehigh clinched a home defensive stop and called timeout with 12 seconds remaining. Coming out of the timeout, game and the #3 seed in the Patriot League Quarterfinals next Thursday. Lehigh had multiple opportunities to tie the score, but couldn’t convert. Ross finished 5-of-9 from the field and 6-of-7 from the free throw line as the Kempton finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds while junior Justin Goldsborough freshman fell just two points shy of his career high. just missed a double-double with 11 points and nine boards. Ross’ 13 points included Chuku’s 14 points included 4-of-5 from three-point range. Sophomore Miles 2-of-3 from three-point range while senior Corey Schaefer was 2-for-3 from long distance Simelton also scored eight points off the bench. Junior Justin Goldsborough also as well. He finished with seven points and three rebounds on his Senior Day. Schaefer scored nine points while adding a game-high 11 rebounds. As a team, the Mountain and classmates Conroy Baltimore, Stefan Cvrkalj, Khalid McCaskill and team manager Hawks shot 53 percent from the field while holding Bucknell to just 35 percent Raven Gaddy were all recognized prior to tipoff. Sophomore Austin Price added 12 shooting. The Bison missed their first seven shots from the field. points as four Mountain Hawks finished in double figures. Sunday’s game was televised Defense was the story in the early going as neither team scored until Goldsbor- nationally by CBS Sports Network. ough finished a post move with 16:36 left in the first half. A Price layup and Corey Seth Hinrichs led Lafayette with 16 points while Dan Trist had a double-double jumper gave Lehigh a 6-0 lead. with 14 points and 10 boards. Schaefer The Leopards jumped out to early four-point leads of 4-0 and 9-5 lead following a The Bison finally scored with 13:53 on the first-half clock behind a Nana Foulland Bryce Scott layup with 15:33 on the clock. The lead reached six at 14-8 before the Mountain jumper. Bucknell followed with a three-pointer to pull within 6-5, but Lehigh answered Hawks scored four in a row. Lafayette held onto its lead over the remainder of the half, in a big way. The Mountain Hawks staged a 19-3 run over the middle stages of the reaching 10 following a Zach Rufer layup which made it 27-17 with 3:26 on the clock. first half. The run included three treys, from Price, Chuku and Simelton as Simelton’s From there, Lehigh scored 10 of the final 15 first-half points. A Ross three-pointer trey gave Lehigh a 25-8 lead with 7:24 left in the first half. sparked a 7-0 run. After a Lindner layup, the Mountain Hawks scored three straight before Bucknell responded by scoring seven of the next nine points as a Foulland free a Hinrichs trey in the final seconds made it 32-27 Lafayette after 20 minutes of play. throw pulled the Bison within 12 at 27-15 with 4:55 on the first-half clock. Ross and Goldsborough led Lehigh with six first-half points apiece. The Mountain Lehigh responded with a 6-0 run which included a Chuku three (his second of Hawks shot just 36 percent from the field (11-of-31) to Lafayette’s 42 percent (13-of-31). the half in as many attempts) and a Goldsborough layup to make it 33-15 with 3:07 Rebounds were tied at 19. remaining. Leading by 18 with just over two minutes on the clock, the Bison made a Lehigh took the momentum from the end of the first and began the second on a run as a Ryan Frazier three-pointer pulled his squad within 12. However, a Schaefer 12-1 run. Price began the half with a three-pointer just 12 seconds in. After a Hinrichs layup and Ross jumper gave Lehigh a 42-26 lead at the half. free throw, the Mountain Hawks answered with the next nine points. A Kempton three- Price led the Mountain Hawks with nine first-half points while Ross had six point play made it 35-33 Lehigh, giving the Mountain Hawks their first lead of the game. Lehigh followed with a Ross fastbreak layup off a great pass from Price, before a Schaefer points and seven assists. Chuku added eight points on 3-of-4 shooting and 2-of-2 three-pointer made it 40-33 Mountain Hawks with 16:36 on the clock. from three-point range. Lafayette quickly answered with a 9-2 run of its own, as a Trist layup evened the Bucknell pulled within 15 after a Chris Hass three-pointer a minute into the score at 42. The teams went back and forth over the ensuing minutes until the Leopards second half, but the Mountain Hawks responded as a Kempton layup gave Lehigh created some distance with an 8-0 run that turned a 50-49 Lehigh lead into a 57-50 Leop- a 21-point, 52-31 advantage. ards’ advantage with 6:01 on the clock. The Lehigh lead remained between 16 and 21 over the ensuing minutes until a The Mountain Hawks wouldn’t quit. Trailing 59-51, it took Lehigh just over two Chuku three-pointer made it 60-36 with 13:34 remaining. Leading 64-46, the Mountain minutes to stage an 8-0 run and even the score once again. A Goldsborough offensive Hawks scored 15 of the next 19 points to open a 79-51 advantage after a Price three- layup and putback deadlocked the score at 59 with 2:54 remaining. point play with 6:41 remaining. 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GAME 29 - FEB. 28, 2015 GAME 30 - MAR. 5, 2015 COTTERELL COURT STABLER ARENA COLGATE 61, LEHIGH 55 AMERICAN 68, LEHIGH 62
HAMILTON, N.Y. - Trailing by 10 at the half, the Lehigh men’s basketball team PATRIOT LEAGUE QUARTERFINALS clawed back into the game, but couldn’t get any closer than two as Colgate won the reg- ular season finale, 61-55 on Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Tim Kempton led the way BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The third-seeded Lehigh men’s basketball team jumped with a game-high 18 points including 10 early in the first half. He added 10 rebounds for out to a quick first-half lead, but American’s offense came alive in the second half his 13th double-double of the season and 19th of his career. The Mountain Hawks will as the sixth-seeded Eagles eliminated the Mountain Hawks from the Patriot League enter the Patriot League Tournament as the #3 seed, owning a 16-13 overall record and Tournament, 68-62 on Thursday evening in Stabler Arena. Sophomore Tim Kempton 10-8 league mark, and will host sixth-seeded American on Thursday evening in Stabler led Lehigh with 20 points and 11 rebounds for his 14th double-double of the season Arena. Tickets are now available on LehighTickets.com. as he finished a perfect 9-for-9 from the field. Lehigh held American to just 39 percent Kempton’s 18 points came on 8-of-17 shooting, 12 points coming in the first half. shooting in the first half, but the Eagles responded by shooting 56 percent over the Classmate Austin Price enjoyed a strong game, tallying 16 points including 4-of-6 from final 20 minutes. three-point range. Freshman Brandon Alston also added 10 points off the bench. Junior Justin Goldsborough used a hot start to finish with eight points and Colgate featured balanced scoring with three players tied for a team-lead 11 points. eight rebounds. Freshman Kahron Ross tallied nine points and eight assists while Kempton was the story early on, scoring six of Lehigh’s first nine points as the sophomore and junior each finished with eight points. Mountain Hawks took a 9-4 lead following a Kempton layup with 16:01 on the clock. Miles Simelton Jesse Chuku That wrapped up a 7-0 run, which began with a Price three-pointer. The Mountain Hawks struggled from the free throw line, missing all five of its After breaking almost a four-minute scoreless drought, Colgate got hot from behind first-half attempts and finishing 7-of-16 for the game. Lehigh also had 14 turnovers the three-point arc. Austin Tillotson began the run with two straight treys while Ethan compared to American’s seven. Jacobs followed with two in a row from long range. The Mountain Hawks were keeping Twelve of Kempton’s points came in the final 20 minutes as he kept the Mountain up on their end, however, as Price knocked down two threes in that span while Kempton Hawks within striking distance down the stretch. continued his hot start, reaching 10 points before the game was eight minutes old. Lehigh’s offense got off to a hot start, sparked by Ross who assisted on the first A Kahron Ross jumper marked Lehigh’s first points from other than Price and three baskets then hit a three-pointer to make it 9-2 Mountain Hawks with 17:37 on Kempton, making it 21-20 with 12:20 remaining. The Mountain Hawks’ lead reached the first-half clock. Leading 11-4, American responded with a 6-0 run behind a pair four at 27-23 after an Alston jumper as he accounted for six straight Lehigh points. of three-pointers. Layups from Kempton and Simelton helped Lehigh regain a five- Lehigh’s offense sputtered from there, not scoring for almost six minutes before a point, 15-10 lead, but the Eagles pulled right back within two on several occasions. Ross three-pointer pulled his squad within 35-30 with 4:37 on the clock. A Simelton layup gave Lehigh a 25-19 lead with 4:27 remaining then after Colgate’s hot shooting continued as the Raiders answered with a 7-0 run before a American scored the next four points, a Kempton jumper with just over one minute Kempton basket pulled the Mountain Hawks within 42-32 at the half. remaining made it 27-23 Lehigh at the half. Kempton led Lehigh with 12 first-half points and five rebounds, shooting 6-of-9 from the field. Price had nine points including 3-of-4 from long range. Jacobs had 11 first- Kempton had eight points and four rebounds in the first half while Goldsborough half points to lead Colgate. Lehigh shot 50 percent from the field and 67 percent from added six points and six boards. Simelton also had six points. Lehigh shot 50 percent three-point range compared to Colgate’s 59 percent and 59 percent from long distance. from the field, but just 17 percent from three-point range. American shot 39 percent Colgate’s lead hovered between eight and 10 for the beginning stages of the second and 30 percent from long distance. half. After a Tillotson jumper made it 50-40, Lehigh answered with eight straight points. American began the second half by scoring 12 of the first 18 points as a Pee Wee The run began with a Kempton layup, included an Alston layup and ended with a Ross Gardner three-point play gave the Eagles their first lead of the game, making it 35-33 steal and fastbreak layup to pull within 50-46 with 11:50 on the clock. A Ross driving with 16:25 on the clock. layup pulled the Mountain Hawks within 50-48. American began extending its lead, reaching eight at 47-39 following a Jesse Reed Colgate’s Sean O’Brien hit a three-pointer with just under nine minutes remaining three-pointer, then eventually nine (53-44) after a Jalen Rhea trey. Lehigh’s offense to snap more than a four-minute scoreless drought, giving the Raiders a 53-48 advantage. struggled, going 4:54 without scoring until a Brandon Alston three-point play gave The Raiders’ lead reached eight at 56-48 until an Alston layup ended nearly a six-minute the offense life and made it a seven-point, 54-47 game with 5:04 on the clock. scoreless drought and pulled Lehigh within 56-50 with 4:39 on the clock. Lehigh got as close as five (57-52) after a Ross free throw with 2:02 remaining Colgate extended its lead back to double-figures at 61-50 with 2:52 remaining, but then a Chuku jumper pulled the Mountain Hawks within three (59-56) with 57 seconds the Mountain Hawks wouldn’t back down. Lehigh pressured and fouled down the stretch as Colgate missed some free throws and allowed the Mountain Hawks to hang around. remaining. That’s as close as Lehigh would get, however as American hit enough free A Price trey pulled Lehigh within six with 40 seconds remaining. Lehigh had some looks throws down the stretch for the 68-62 final. to pull within three, but they didn’t fall and the Raiders hung on for the 61-55 victory. The Mountain Hawks shot 54 percent for the game (26-of-48) and 21 percent from three-point range (3-of-14). American finished at 47 percent (24-of-51) and 36 percent from long distance (8-of-22). Lehigh won the battle of the boards, 30-25.
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