Wednesday, March 20, 2002
ZALESKI NAMED ECAC SOUTH HONORABLE MENTION ALL-STAR
CENTERVILLE, MA --- Freshman forward Brandon Zaleski (Hackettstown, NJ/Hackettstown
HS) of the Moravian College men's basketball team has been named an Eastern College
Athletic Conference Honorable Mention South All-Star Second Team announced Tuesday. The
teams were voted on the by coaches in the ECAC South region. The complete team can be
found at www.ecac.org.
Moravian finished the 2001-02 season with an overall record of 14-11 and a 6-8 slate in
the Commonwealth Conference, which put the squad in fifth place. The Greyhounds also
completed the season as the best free throw shooting team in the nation at 79.5 percent
(407 of 512).
Zaleski, who was also named to the Commonwealth Conference All-Star Second Team
and he was the Commonwealth Conference Rookie of the year, started all but one of the team's
25 games during his freshman season and he finished the year with a scoring average of
19.1 points per game, second in the Commonwealth Conference. His 477 points was the
seventh highest single season total in Moravian history. Zaleski also averaged
6.6 rebounds per contest (sixth in the conference) with a total of 164 boards.
Zaleski, one of the top 25 shooters in the nation, finished the season with a 59.9
shooting percentage (191 of 319) to lead the Commonwealth Conference and he was fourth
on the Moravian squad in free throw percentage at 82.9 percent (92 of 111). His attempts
and percentage ranked him third in the Commonwealth Conference. Zaleski led
the Greyhounds with 17 blocked shots and he added 24 assists and 32 steals in his debut
season.
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