Monday, April 7, 2003
ZALESKI NAMED TO DIII NEWS HONORABLE MENTION ALL-AMERICAN TEAM
BEAVERTON, OR --- Sophomore forward Brandon Zaleski (Hackettstown, NJ/ Hackettstown
HS) of the Moravian College men’s basketball team has been named to the
DIII News Honorable Mention All-American Team announced in the newsletter’s April
edition.
Zaleski helped the Greyhounds post a 16-11 overall record and a return
to the postseason for the first time since the 1996-97 season. Moravian lost to eventual
Commonwealth champion Elizabethtown College, 71-62, in the Commonwealth Semifinals, and
the Greyhounds fell to Franklin & Marshall College, 79-59, in the Eastern Collegiate
Athletic Conference Southern Quarterfinals. Moravian was making its first appearance in
the ECAC since winning the tournament in 1984.
Zaleski led the Greyhounds in scoring at 18.2 points per game and in
rebounding at 7.5 boards a contest. Both numbers ranked Zaleski second
in the Commonwealth Conference. Zaleski also had a team high 11 blocked
shots and he contributed 34 steals, 22 assists and ten three-pointers. Zaleski shot
48.9 percent (182 of 372) from the floor, 38.5 percent (10 of 26) behind the three-point
line and 84.3 percent (118 of 140) at the foul line. He was ninth in the Commonwealth in
field goal percentage and fourth in free throw percentage.
In 52 career games, Zaleski has moved within 31 points of becoming the
17th player in Moravian history to score 1,000 points. Zaleski has also
won numerous awards in his career including being named the Commonwealth Conference Rookie
of the Year, a Second Team All-Conference selection and a ECAC South Honorable Mention
All-Star a year ago. This season, Zaleski has been named the Commonwealth
Conference Player of the Year, First Team All-Commonwealth Conference, the National Association
of Basketball Coaches All-District Middle Atlantic Region First Team, the D3hoops.com All-Region
Second Team, the Lehigh Valley Small College Men’s Basketball Player of the Year,
an ECAC Southern First Team All-Star, the Most Valuable Player of the Emmanuel (MA) Tap-Off
Tournament and to the All-Tournament Team at the Greyhound Rock Classic.
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