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Jeremy Lin - Harvard
# 11
Position: Guard
Height: 6-2
Weight: 180
Hometown: Palo Alto, Calif.
High School: Palo Alto
House Affiliation: Leverett
Kelvin Kim - UCSD
# 11
Guard - G
Height: 5-10
Weight: 170
Previous Affiliations
El Toro HS
UCLA
Lake Forest, CA
Japeth Aguilar - Western Kentucky
#31
Height / Weight: 6-9 / 210
Hometown: Pampanga, Philippines
Position: Center
Xu "Max" Zhang - UC Berkeley
#1
Hometown: Yantai City, China
Height / Weight: 7-2 / 220
Position: Center
Jeremy Lin - Harvard
# 11
Position: Guard
Height: 6-2
Weight: 180
Hometown: Palo Alto, Calif.
High School: Palo Alto
House Affiliation: Leverett
Sophomore (2007-08)
Earned the team’s Raymond P. Lavietes ’36 Most Valuable Player Award ... Named All-Ivy League Second Team ... Only player to start all 30 games ... Ranked among the Ivy League leaders in points (12.6 ppg), shooting percentage (.448), assists (107), and assist-turnover ratio (+1.30) while leading the league in steals with 58 ... He also ranked among the league leaders with 12 blocked shots during league play ... Made first career start at #21/23 Stanford 11/9 ... Had 15 points on 6-for-11 shooting (3-6 3PT) against UC Santa Barbara on 11/10 ... Had a career-high 17 points on 6-for10 shooting to go with a career-best five assists in a win over Northwestern State 11/11 ... Had career highs of 23 points, nine rebounds and nine assists (1 turnover) in 35 minutes against Mercer on 11/16 Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll 11/21 ... Had 15 points and four assists at Holy Cross 11/20 ... Had nine points, six rebounds and five assists in a win over Michigan 12/1 ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll 12/17 ... Had 17 points in 25 minutes at Long Island 12/13 ... Had 18 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals versus Vermont 12/16 ... Played 43 minutes against UC Irvine 12/30 and had 20 points (9-13 FG), 13 rebounds and five steals ... Dished out eight of his nine assists in the first half against Dartmouth on 1/5 as the Crimson built a 19-point halftime lead ... Had 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists in 30 minutes in a win over Colgate on 1/8 and was named to the Ivy Honor Roll on 1/14 ... Had 17 points and nine rebounds at Princeton on 2/02 ... Had 15 points and four steals versus Cornell on 2/15 ... Named Player of the Week on 2/25 after consecutive 20-point games ... Had 20 points (seven rebounds) including a layup with 9.1 seconds left in regulation of a 76-67 overtime win over Princeton on 2/22 ... Had 21 points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals versus Penn on 2/23 ... Named to Ivy Honor Roll on 3/11 ... Had nine points, seven boards, seven assists and three steals versus Brown on 3/08 ... Had game-high 19 points with five boards, four steals and three assists versus Yale on 3/09.
Earned the team’s Raymond P. Lavietes ’36 Most Valuable Player Award ... Named All-Ivy League Second Team ... Only player to start all 30 games ... Ranked among the Ivy League leaders in points (12.6 ppg), shooting percentage (.448), assists (107), and assist-turnover ratio (+1.30) while leading the league in steals with 58 ... He also ranked among the league leaders with 12 blocked shots during league play ... Made first career start at #21/23 Stanford 11/9 ... Had 15 points on 6-for-11 shooting (3-6 3PT) against UC Santa Barbara on 11/10 ... Had a career-high 17 points on 6-for10 shooting to go with a career-best five assists in a win over Northwestern State 11/11 ... Had career highs of 23 points, nine rebounds and nine assists (1 turnover) in 35 minutes against Mercer on 11/16 Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll 11/21 ... Had 15 points and four assists at Holy Cross 11/20 ... Had nine points, six rebounds and five assists in a win over Michigan 12/1 ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll 12/17 ... Had 17 points in 25 minutes at Long Island 12/13 ... Had 18 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals versus Vermont 12/16 ... Played 43 minutes against UC Irvine 12/30 and had 20 points (9-13 FG), 13 rebounds and five steals ... Dished out eight of his nine assists in the first half against Dartmouth on 1/5 as the Crimson built a 19-point halftime lead ... Had 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists in 30 minutes in a win over Colgate on 1/8 and was named to the Ivy Honor Roll on 1/14 ... Had 17 points and nine rebounds at Princeton on 2/02 ... Had 15 points and four steals versus Cornell on 2/15 ... Named Player of the Week on 2/25 after consecutive 20-point games ... Had 20 points (seven rebounds) including a layup with 9.1 seconds left in regulation of a 76-67 overtime win over Princeton on 2/22 ... Had 21 points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals versus Penn on 2/23 ... Named to Ivy Honor Roll on 3/11 ... Had nine points, seven boards, seven assists and three steals versus Brown on 3/08 ... Had game-high 19 points with five boards, four steals and three assists versus Yale on 3/09.
Kelvin Kim - UCSD
# 11
Guard - G
Height: 5-10
Weight: 170
Previous Affiliations
El Toro HS
UCLA
Lake Forest, CA
Originally posted by jxuusa
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2006-07: Played in all 27 games for the Tritons, starting 24, during his first year at UCSD... started and played 26 minutes in his UCSD debut at San Diego State on November 15... scored six points and pulled down three rebounds in the loss to the Aztecs... started and played a career-high 46 minutes in the double overtime loss at Grand Canyon on November 20... scored six points and dished out four assists in the loss to GCU... scored four points, pulled down two rebounds, dished out two assists and had two steals in 35 minutes of play during the 62-52 victory over 4th-ranked Seattle Pacific on November 24... had a career-highs of 12 points and seven assists in the 61-60 victory over 2nd-ranked Montevallo on November 25... scored nine points and dished out five assists in the 76-72 win at home over Cal State Stanislaus on December 2... had six points, two boards and five assists in the 53-50 loss at home to Hawaii Pacific... scored 11 points and dished out two assists in the 59-54 win at Cal State L.A. on January 12... had five points and six assists in the 69-63 upset victory over No. 12 CSU San Bernardino on January 19... netted a career-high 15 points and six assists in the 60-54 loss at home to No. 24 Cal Poly Pomona on January 20... had 10 points and two assists in the loss at CSU Monterey Bay on January 27... set a new program and career-high with 55 minutes played, scoring 23 points with six assists and three rebounds in leading UCSD to a 116-103 quadruple-overtime win at Cal State Stanislaus... sent the game into the third overtime period on a jumper with two seconds left in the second overtime... provided even more dramatics at home on February 6 against Cal State Dominguez Hills, coming up with a steal on the Toros final possession of a tie game, driving the length of the court, drawing a foul, and hitting the game-winning free-throw of UCSD’s 45-44 victory... scored double-digit points in three straight games from February 6 through February 10 and again from February 17 through February 24... scored 15 points on 4-of-5 three-point shooting and added eight assists in the Triton’s Spirit Night win over Sonoma State... scored 19 points with six assists, three rebounds, and two steals on February 17... set a career-high with four rebounds while tying a career-high of eight assists and scoring eight points in UCSD’s 100-82 win over Cal State Monterey Bay... led the Tritons on the season with 3.8 assists per game.
Japeth Aguilar - Western Kentucky
#31
Height / Weight: 6-9 / 210
Hometown: Pampanga, Philippines
Position: Center
Looking Back: The first Filipino-born basketball player ever to be recruited by a Division I program ... As a sophomore at Ateneo de Manila University, Aguilar averaged 5.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.2 blocked shots per contest to help lead the Blue Eagles to an 11-5 finish in 2005 ... Scored in double digits on three occasions, while he just missed a double-double twice after posting nine points and a career-best 10 boards in Ateneo’s season opener as well as 10 points and eight rebounds later in the year in a win over Far Eastern University ... Shot 55.4 percent (36-of-65) on the season, and he was credited with multiple blocks in 12 of the Blue Eagles’ 16 games — that included a career high of seven as well as two other contest with five or more ... He led the Universities Athletic Association of the Philippines in rejections his sophomore season ... Saw limited action as a freshman at Ateneo due to appendicitis, but still managed to score 11 points, grab 11 rebounds and block 10 shots in only 51 minutes of action ... On the international level, Aguilar is expected to be part of the Philippine National Team as it attempts to qualify for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing ...Aguilar’s father, Peter, was a longtime player in the Philippine Basketball Association.
Xu "Max" Zhang - UC Berkeley
#1
Hometown: Yantai City, China
Height / Weight: 7-2 / 220
Position: Center
High School: Zhang was selected to China's high school all-star team after averaging 23.5 ppg, 13 rpg and 6 bpg in the CIAA Chinese League ... played in both Nike and adidas camps in China ... one of seven players chosen out of the adidas camp to travel to a camp in the United States, making his first visit to the country with a trip to Atlanta in the summer of 2005 ... graduated from high school in 2006 and returned to the U.S. in 2006 to study at the American English Academy in Monterey Park, Calif. ... played for the California Supreme AAU team, ranking third in both rebounds (43) and blocks (10) at the Cactus Classic in May 2007 ... also played briefly with the LA Impact AAU team in the summer of '07.
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