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Jersey Number 25
Alessandro Lever
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-10 / 235
- Position:
- Center
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bolzano, Italy
- High School:
- Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia
- Major:
- Business Management
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Career Summary
- Finished third in all-time program history with 1,629 career points behind only Bayard Forrest (2,195) and Josh Braun (1,714).
- Three-time All-WAC honoree with first-team selections as a freshman and a senior and a second-team selection as a junior.
- GCU's leading scorer in his freshman (12.2) and junior campaigns (15.7) while coming in second as a sophomore and a senior.
- Lopes D-I era marks: first in field goals made (593); second in field goal percentage (48.5), rebounds (603) and minutes (3,257); third in 3-pointers made (128), free throws made (315) and assists (193).
- Ended career as the No. 39 active leading scorer in NCAA D-I ranks and one of only 25 players with 1,500 points and 600 rebounds.
- Recorded 24 20-point scoring games and seven double-doubles.
- Started 114 of his final 115 games.
- A first-team All-WAC honoree for the second time in his career and first since his freshman season.
- Led the Lopes with 37.8% 3-point shooting.
- Second on the team in scoring at 13.3 points per game.
- Had a stretch of 10 consecutive double-figure scoring games to end the regular season.
- Scored 13 points in GCU's inaugural D-I NCAA tournament game against Iowa on March 20.
- Earned All-WAC second-team honors.
- Saw significant upticks in nearly all statistical categories including points (+3.2), rebounds (+1.7), minutes (+8.5), assists (+0.8), field-goal percentage (+8.8%), 3-point shooting (+2.9%) and free-throw shooting (+4.1%).
- Led GCU in scoring (15.7), rebounds (6.0), and field-goal percentage (53.5%).
- Became the third member (DeWayne Russell, Joshua Braun) of GCU's D-I 1,000-point club in the Colangelo Classic game vs. Liberty on Dec. 8.
- Moved into second in GCU's D-I scoring ranks, passing DeWayne Russell, on Feb. 22.
- Ranked third in the conference in scoring and eighth in rebounding.
- Was one of just 30 players nationally to average 15 points while shooting better than 53.0%.
- Set a career high with 14 rebounds in GCU's win over Utah Valley on Jan. 25.
- Had three double-doubles: Nov. 23 vs. Fordham (19 points, 10 rebounds); Dec. 17 at New Mexico (18 points, 11 rebounds); Jan. 25 vs. Utah Valley (20 points, 14 rebounds).
- Collected two WAC Player of the Week honors: Dec. 23 following 19-of-23 shooting against New Mexico and Eastern Illinois; Jan. 20 after averaging 19.5 points in games at Chicago State and Kansas City.
- Improved scoring average from 12.2 as a freshman to 12.5 as a sophomore.
- Made 35% of his 3-point attempts, a 3% increase from his freshman season despite attempting 42 more.
- Second on the team and 13th in the WAC for scoring at 12.5 points per game.
- Recorded successive season highs for points with 26 against Mississippi Valley State on Dec. 22 and 27 against San Diego on Dec. 29.
- Posted a double-double against LaSalle with 17 points and a career-high tying 10 rebounds on Dec. 29.
- Was picked as WAC Freshman of the Year and named first team All-WAC honors.
- Led GCU with 12.2 points per game with an uptick to 15.8 during conference play.
- Ranked second all-time among GCU freshmen with 414 points, a 12.2 scoring average and 256 rebounds. All marks were behind only Bayard Forrest's 1972-73 freshman season.
- Made 108 free throws, a program record for a freshman.
- During WAC play, ranked third in the conference in scoring and ninth in rebounds per game (5.4).
- After coming off the bench in the Lopes' first seven games, entered the starting lineup on Dec. 9 and started the final 27 games of the season.
- Set the GCU Division I scoring record for a true freshman with 28 points at Chicago State on Jan. 18, 2018, just one game after Roberts Blumbergs established a new mark.
- Scored 20 or more points in nine games, including four consecutively from Jan. 18 through Jan. 27 in 2018.
- Missed the first nine 3-point attempts of his career, but shot 36.1 percent from distance after Dec. 12, 2018.
- Helped GCU stave off an upset in its first-ever Division I conference tournament game, scoring 29 points to beat Kansas City on March 8, 2018.
- Earned All-Tournament team honors at the WAC Tournament.
International |
- Played on the Italian 18U and 20U National teams.
- Led Italy in scoring at the U20 European Championships in 2018 with 13.9 points per game. One of only two players in the 16-team Division A to average more than 13 points in fewer than 23 minutes.
- Led team to an eighth-place finish by finishing in the tournament's top 15 for points per game (12th, 13.9), free throw percentage (fifth, 81.0), field goal percentage (13th, 48.0) and 3-point percentage (14th, 44.4). He also averaged 5.1 rebounds per game and posted a 27-point game against Sweden during the tournament in Chemnitz, Germany.
Personal |
- Parents are Franco Lever and Annalisa Piccoli.
- His father coached his school basketball teams. His mother was a pro basketball player in Italy.
- Favorite player growing up was Kobe Bryant.
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