EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2020-21 Honors Won By Eastern Players Players Drafted Into the NBA 1977 Ron Cox - Cleveland 6th round (121st) 2007 Rodney Stuckey - Detroit 1st round (15th) 2015 Tyler Harvey - Orlando 2nd (51st)
Selected to Play in Portsmouth Invitational Pre-NBA Draft Tournament 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk 2017 Jacob Wiley
NCAA Division I
Collegeinsider.com Freshman of the Year
NABC All-Star Game (held in conjunction with Final Four)
Fox Sports Mid-Major Freshman of the Year
Associated Press All-America
College Sports Madness Mid-Major AllAmerica
2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk
2004 Alvin Snow (honorable mention) 2006 Rodney Stuckey (honorable mention) 2007 Rodney Stuckey (honorable mention) 2015 Tyler Harvey (honorable mention) 2017 Jacob Wiley (honorable mention) 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk (honorable mention)
2006 Rodney Stuckey 2006 Rodney Stuckey
2017 Jacob Wiley (honorable mention) 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk (third team)
Collegeinsider.com Mid-Major All-America 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2007 Rodney Stuckey
Collegeinsider.com All-America 2007 Rodney Stuckey
Before Signing With the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA, Jacob Wiley Receives AP Honorable Mention All-America Honors in His Only Season as an Eagle JACOB WILEY was the best kind of a “one-and-done” college basketball player, and received a contract in the National Basketball Association to cap it. The graduate transfer concluded an incredible senior season when he was named by Associated Press as an honorable mention All-America selection in the 2016-17 season. He became just the fourth Eagle to earn that honor in 34 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I. Less than a month after the conclusion of the season, Wiley was married on April 8, then headed for Portsmouth, Va., for the 65th-Annual Portsmouth Invitational Tournament. The PIT featured 64 of the nation’s top college seniors competing in a four-day, 12-game event in front of team representatives throughout the National Basketball Association. The 2012 tournament took place April 12-15 at Churchland High School, and Wiley averaged 27.2 minutes, 17.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in three games. His performance in Portsmouth opened the door for numerous workouts with NBA teams in preparation for the NBA Draft. Although he was not chosen, he signed a two-way contract to play with the Brooklyn Nets and the team’s NBA G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. He averaged 6.6 minutes per game in his five games with Brooklyn, scoring four points and grabbing 11 rebounds. He scored all four of the points and eight of the rebounds in 21 minutes of action against Denver on Nov. 7, 2017. He made his regular season NBA debut versus Denver on Oct. 29, 2017. He then averaged 7.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists for Long Island, including a season-high 20 in his first game on Nov. 16, 2017. Wiley scored in double figures five times, and had a season-high seven rebounds on Jan. 2, 2018. Wiley also played with the Nets during the 2017 NBA Summer League, averaging 15.6 minutes, 2.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.5 blocked shots in the team’s four games in Las Vegas. A foot injury ended his 2017-18 season and subsequently he was released, but he played in the 2018 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas for the Dallas Mavericks. He played most of the 2018-19 season in Australia and is now playing in Greece. Wiley was selected as the MVP of the Big Sky Conference in his lone season as an Eagle, and went on to earn first team All-District 6 honors from the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was a MidMajor All-American as a finalist for the Lou Henson Award presented by Collegeinsider.com. Wiley made Big Sky as a senior by becoming just the second player in league history to score at least 639 points and have at least 303 rebounds in a single season in the league’s 54-year existence. He finished with totals of 694 and 309, respectively, and no other player in league history has coupled that with at least 58 blocks (Wiley finished with 94 to come one shy of the league record) or a shooting percentage of at least .621 (Wiley finished at .643). Montana’s Larry Krystkowiak (now head coach at Utah) is the other player to have at least 639/303 in the same year, and he had 709 points and 364 rebounds in the 1985-86 season. Wiley finished the season ranked sixth in NCAA Division I in field goal percentage (.643), eighth in blocked shots (2.76 per game), 29th in scoring (20.4), 48th in rebounds (9.1) and 112th in free throw percentage (.828). En route to earning league MVP honors, he led the Big Sky in field goal percentage, rebounds and scoring, and was sixth in scoring. In league-only statistics, Wiley led in scoring (24.6), rebounding (10.3), blocked shots (2.5) and field goal percentage (.659).
2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2020/2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS
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