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Alessandro Lever

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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.

2020-21 | Senior

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.

2019-20 | Junior

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.

2018-19 | Sophomore

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.

2017-18 | Freshman

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.

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.

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.