Alvin Jerome Young (born November 12, 1975) is an American professional
basketball
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player.
Early life
Young was raised in
Brooklyn, New York
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, where he attended
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
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.
He learned to play basketball at the church where his mother, Edna, worked.
Young tried out for the team every year he was in high school, but in all four years he was cut and did not make the final roster.
[ He graduated high school in 1995.
]
College career
Unsurprisingly, no NCAA
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Division I colleges recruited him, so Young attended Mitchell College
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, a junior college
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located in New London, Connecticut
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.[ and played basketball on its team.
During his ]sophomore
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season, Young averaged an NJCAA
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Tournament record 43.6 points per game over five games, including a high of 54. His head coach, Rich Conover, who was in his first season at the helm, was instrumental in guiding Young to play at Niagara University
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.[ Young viewed Conover as an uncle, so he took that advice and enrolled at Niagara the following fall.][
The final two seasons of Young's NCAA eligibility were spent playing at the Division I institution. A ]shooting guard
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/ small forward
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, he surpassed all expectations, and as a senior
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* Senior (name), a surname ...
in 1998–99, Young led NCAA Division I in scoring at 25.1 points per game. It was the highest scoring average for a player at Niagara since Hall of Famer
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Calvin Murphy
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averaged approximately 29 in 1969–70.[ Young scored a career high 44 points against ]Siena
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, and that season he was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Year.[ He finished his two-year Division I career with 1,152 points, 306 rebounds, 151 blocks and 130 assists.][
]
Professional athletic career
Young was not selected in the 1999 NBA draft
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, and thus his professional career overseas began.
He played for Strasbourg IG
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in France
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.
In 2008–09 and 2009–10, Young played for the Italian club Pallacanestro Reggiana
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.
As of the 2010–11 basketball season, Young plays for Umana Reyer in Italy
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. In August 2013, he signed with Scavolini Pesaro
Victoria Libertas (also known as "VL" or in Italian ''Vuelle''), full name Unione Sportiva Victoria Libertas Pallacanestro, is a professional basketball team that is based in Pesaro, Italy. The club competes in the top level Italian professiona ...
.
See also
*List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season scoring leaders
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References
External links
College statistics
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1975 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Brooklyn
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School alumni
Bnei HaSharon players
Esperos B.C. players
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball players
Orlandina Basket players
Pallacanestro Pavia players
Pallacanestro Reggiana players
Reyer Venezia players
Shooting guards
SIG Strasbourg players
Small forwards
Trenton Shooting Stars players
Victoria Libertas Pallacanestro players
20th-century American sportsmen