Brett Eppehimer (born May 28, 1976, in
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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) is an American-Italian
BRETT EPPEHIMER basketball profile Nationality: USA-Italian.
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and professional basketball
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player.
College career
Eppehimer attended Lehigh University
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(1995–1999), in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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, where he played NCAA Division I
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basketball and finished with 1,742 career points. The point guard/ shooting guard averaged over 20 points per game, in three different seasons, and led the Patriot League
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in scoring twice. In 1998, Eppehimer finished as the 4th leading scorer in college basketball, averaging 24.7 points per game
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.
Professional career
Following university, Eppehimer signed in Europe
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, with Braunschweig
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of the German Basketball Bundesliga
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. During his first professional season, he averaged 20.7 points and 6.2 assists per game, both top-10 in the league. Eppehimer (a dual citizen
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of the United States and Italy) earned All- Bosman 1st team, awarded to the best European players in Germany.
Eppehimer played another seven seasons professionally. The clubs he played for included: Tenerife CB
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History
Tenerife CB was founded in 1996 after the fusion of some teams of the islands and debuts in LEB Oro in the 1996–97 season, the ...
(Tenerife
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, Spain), London Towers (London
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, England
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) of the BBL
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and EuroLeague, Ilysiakos Athens (Athens
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, Greece
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), CB Los Barrios
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Season by season
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(Los Barrios
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, Spain), Sicilia Messina (Messina
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, Italy), Legea Scafati (Scafati
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, Italy), and the Polynorm Giants in Bergen-op-Zoom
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, Netherlands
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.
Personal
Eppehimer is the older brother of professional basketball player Nick Eppehimer.
References
External links
Euroleague.net Profile
Eurobasket.com Profile
Italian League Profile
1976 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
American expatriate basketball people in the United Kingdom
Ilysiakos B.C. players
Italian men's basketball players
Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's basketball players
People from Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Point guards
The Hill School alumni
Sportspeople from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
American men's basketball players
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