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Brandeis University

2008-09 Men's Basketball

2 Steve De Luca

  • Height 6-6
  • Weight 210
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Merrimack, NH
  • Highschool Merrimack

Biography

Received medical hardship waiver to play as a graduatestudent... 2007-08: Pre-season All-Americacandidate in his senior season thanks to stellar junior campaign...Entered senior season ranked 17th in career scoring with1,170 points... Injury suffered over the summer limited him to twogames at the Brandeis Tip-Off tournament...2006-07: First-team All-UAA, All-ECAC and NABCAll-Northeast Region... Named UAA Player of the Week twice, 12/12and 3/6... Started every game for the Judges for the third year ina row... Led the team in scoring (15.4 ppg), rebounding (6.1 rpg),steals (35), blocks (14), 3-pointers (46) and 3-point percentage(45.1%)... Ranked 6th in the UAA in scoring,8th in rebounding, 2nd in 3-point percentage,7th in free-throw percentage and 10th insteals and 3-pointers per game... Led the team in scoring 14 times,rebounding 13 times, steals 9 times and assists once... Scored indouble figures 23 out of 27 games... Scored 20 or more 7 times,with one 30-point game... Had two games with double-digit reboundsfor a pair of double-doubles, increasing his career total to 8...Scored 21 points and had a career-high 6 assists in a 99-89 winover Tufts, 11/26... Had 13 points and game-high 11 rebounds tolead Judges to a 66-51 over Clark, 12/5... Next time out scored 30points - fourth-best performance of the season in the UAA - againstsecond-ranked Amherst in an 84-74 loss... Hit 9-of-20 from thefloor, 3-of-6 from beyond the arc and 9-of-11 from the line and ledthe squad with 8 caroms against the Lord Jeffs, the eventualnational champions... Scored 19 of 26 points in the second half andgrabbed a team-high 9 boards to help the team overcome an 8-pointdeficit in a 52-48 win over NYU, 1/13... Became the 25thplayer in school history to score 1,000 career points as part ofhis 11-point, 11-rebound performance at Washington Univ, 1/26...Played a career-high 45 minutes in the Judges' triple OT win overWashU the following weekend, 2/4, with 13 points and team-high 9rebounds... Led team to 77-70 overtime victory over Trinity in thefirst round of the NCAA tournament, 3/2, by scoring 10 of hisgame-high 24 points in the extra session... Shot 10-of-19 from thefloor and 2-of-4 from 3-point range and from the line... Hit a3-pointer and lay-up to kick-start an overtime in which Brandeiswent a combined 13-for-14 from the field and charity stripe...Scored 20 points in NCAA second-round loss to Rhode Island College,70-67... 2005-06: Turned in a fantastic season, earning first-teamAll-UAA and second-team ECAC All-New England honors... Three-timeUAA Player of the Week: Jan. 23, Feb. 6 and Feb. 21... One of threeplayers to start all 25 games... Led the team in scoring,rebounding, blocked shots, field goal percentage, 3-pointers and3-point percentage... Led the UAA in 3-point percentage and minutesplayed and finished second in scoring... Led the Judges in scoring17 times and rebounding 16 times... Recorded 6 double-doubles...Scored in double figures in every game but one... Scored 20 pointsor more 10 times and 30 or more once... Had one of the best gamesof his career in overtime win at Case, 2/6... In that contest, heplayed 43 minutes, scored a career-high 35 points on 12-of-22 fromthe floor and 11-of-18 from the line and grabbed 13 rebounds...That game capped a string of three consecutive Sundays in which heset a career scoring high... The streak began with 25 points in a61-52 loss at WashU, 1/22, and continued with 28 points in a 77-70win over Emory on 1/29... Against the Eagles, Brandeis scored 14 ofthe last 18 points of the contest to rally for the victory...Career-high 14 rebounds came 11/29/05 against Babson in a 64-57Brandeis victory... 2004-05: Honorable mentionAll-UAA... One of only two players to start all 25 games ...3rd on the team in scoring, 2nd inrebounding... Tied for team lead in steals, 3rd on squadin assists... Tied for 5th in the conference infree-throw percentage... 9-for-11 shooting performance againstTufts, 1/12, was fourth-best in conference... Scored in doublefigures 13 times, reached 20 points twice... Led team in scoring 4times, rebounding 5 times... Scored 23 points twice, in 87-72 winover Tufts, 1/12, and in 76-67 loss at Rochester, 2/13... Pulleddown 11 rebounds in first collegiate game against Colby-Sawyer,11/20/04...  High School: Three-yearletter-winner and two-year starter at Merrimack High School... Ledteam to a pair of New Hampshire State titles in junior and seniorseasons... Named second team All-State as a junior and first teamas a senior... One of three 1,000 point career scorers in class of2008 with 1050 points...Averaged 17 points and 10 reboundsper  game in senior campaign.


 

DeLuca, Steve


Total 3-Point Rebounds
Year GP-GS Min/Avg FG-FGA Pct FG-FGA Pct FT-FTA Pct Off-Def Tot Avg PF-FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts/Avg
2005 25-25 726/29.0 115-223 .516 8-18 .444 56-70 .800 46-85 131 5.2 42-1 59 34 7 29 294/11.8
2006 25-25 857/34.3 177-318 .557 31-61 .508 76-104 .731 49-140 189 7.6 41-0 48 65 18 29 461/18.4
2007 27-27 833/30.9 155-331 .468 46-102 .451 59-79 .747 31-133 164 6.1 55-2 41 52 14 35 415/15.4
2008 2-1 27/13.5 2-9 .222 2-7 .286 2-4 .500 0-4 4 2.0 3-0 2 0 0 0 8/4.0
2009 27-27 869/32.2 156-328 .476 47-112 .420 58-76 .763 36-149 185 6.9 45-1 47 41 12 24 417/15.4
TOTAL 106-105 3312/31.2 605-1209 .500 134-300 .447 251-333 .754 162-511 673 6.3 186-4 197 192 51 117 1595/15.0

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