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- | ====== Alton Mason ====== | ||
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- | Birthdate: August 2nd, 1977\\ | ||
- | Hometown: Lincoln, NE\\ | ||
- | Highschool: Northeast High School\\ | ||
- | Height / Weight: 6' | ||
- | Position: Point Guard | ||
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- | ===== High School Career ===== | ||
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- | Mason chose to follow fellow Lincoln resident Mike Bargen to Marquette, choosing the Golden Eagles over the University of California. | ||
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- | ===== Marquette Career ===== | ||
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- | Mason was part of Mike Deane' | ||
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- | ===== Collegiate Career (Barton C.C. and Arizona State) ===== | ||
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- | After leaving Marquette, Mason did not enroll at any school for the second semester of the 1996-97 school year. Instead he chose to wait until the next year and get his academics in order at Barton Community College in Kansas(coincidentally, | ||
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- | **Barton CC Career** | ||
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- | Led Barton County Community College to a 29-4 record in his one season (1997-98) and started all 33 games. He posted a school-record 8.3 assists per game, including 16 in the team's first game. Averaged 10 points and 3.3 steals as the Cougars won a share of the conference title with a 14-2 Jayhawk West record and ended the season ranked ninth. He had 109 steals and led Region VI (19 teams) in steals, assists and assist-to-turnover ratio. Shot 53 percent from the field in leauge games and was a first-team all-conference pick. | ||
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- | **Arizona State Career** | ||
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- | Arizona State' | ||
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- | Mason has had a lot of happenings with his family in recent years which have made him mature. In his first year, his father Alvin Ford died of cancer in January. In his second year, his mother was diagnosed with lupus in January and had surgery in early March, yet that was when he played his best. He flew back in the middle of the year to see her in Nebraska, and then met ASU in Oregon and had 14 points in a heartbreaking loss in Eugene, yet helped ASU to an overtime win at Oregon State two nights later with 18 points. He was married in the summer of 2000 to Anita Kelly, and the couple has a son, Alton, Jr., And in 1999-2000, when freshman Kyle Dodd took over the point job duties for a five-game stretch while Mason' | ||
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- | Mason was the team's lone senior in 2000-2001 and he led the team in scoring at 13.4 points per game (14th in Pac-10) and was the only Sun Devil to start in all 29 games. He posted 30 points vs. second-ranked Stanford on Jan. 4 and had 23 points at the top-ranked Cardinal in season finale on March 10. In his final home game on March 3, he hit the game-winning shot with four seconds remaining to give ASU a 61-59 win over Oregon State. Two nights earlier, he tied the ASU record with 17 free throws made (19 attempts) and scored 25 points in a win over Oregon. In his final 19 games he made 82-of-103 (.800) from the free throw line. Finished the year fourth in the league with 1.66 steals per game and was seventh with 3.76 assists per game and a 1.68 assist-to-turnover ratio. | ||
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- | In his junior season (1999-2000), | ||
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- | In his first year at the Division I level (1998-99), he started slowly but came on strong at the middle of the Pac-10 season. He had 15 steals in his final eight games and averaged 31.4 minutes per game on the year. Mason was the team leader with 119 assists (4.1 per game) and also had 60 steals. He averaged 32.8 minutes in Pac-10 play after he did not score in double digits until the seventh game of the year, when he had 11 points vs. UNLV on Dec. 5. Posted 10 points at USC in league opener on Jan. 2 and had back-to-back 13-point games vs. Washington State (Jan. 9) and vs. seventh-ranked Arizona (Jan. 14). He had 13 points, five assists and three steals while going against eventual Pac-10 Player of the Year Jason Terry in the Arizona game and had 14 points and six assists at Washington on Feb. 6. At tenth-ranked Arizona on Feb. 10, he played 38 minutes without a turnover. Scored in double digits in five straight games at the end of the year. He did not turn the ball over vs. Kansas State on Nov. 24 (34 minutes), vs. Stephen F. Austin on Dec. 8 (25 minutes) and vs. Navy on Dec. 28 (26 minutes). | ||
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- | ===== Career Stats ===== | ||
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- | |Year| |G-GS| |Min-Avg| |FG-A| |Pct| |3P-A| |Pct| |FT-A| |Pct| |Rb-Avg| |F-D| |Ast| |To| |Bk| |St| |Pts-Avg| | ||
- | |00-01| |29-29| |928-32.0| |125-302| |.414| |34-117| |.291| |106-142| |.746| |101-3.5| |86-5| |109| |65| |4| |48| |390-13.4| | ||
- | |99-00| |32-26| |656-20.5| |66-158| |.418| |20-57| |.351| |46-57| |.807| |52-1.6| |66-2| |84| |45| |4| |45| |198-6.2| | ||
- | |98-99| |29-28| |910-31.4| |91-222| |.410| |17-67| |.254| |47-79| |.595| |78-2.7| |64-2| |119| |58| |9| |60| |246-8.5| | ||
- | |Car| |90-83| |2494-27| |282-682| |.413| |71-241| |.295| |199-278| |.716| |231-2.6| |216-9| |312| |168| |17| |153| |834-9.3| | ||
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- | ===== Professional Career ===== | ||
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- | 2001-2002: Tournai Estaimpuis (Belgium): 28 games: 20.5ppg, 3.6rpg, 3.4apg | ||
- | 2002-2003: Telindus BC Oostende (Belgium): ULEB Cup: 5 games: 11,4ppg, 2.4rpg, 1.4apg, 2.2spg, 2.2bpg; Belgian League: 7 games: 8.3ppg, 2.0rpg, 1.9apg: was cut during the season | ||
- | 2003: AND1 Touring Team (played in Latin America) | ||
- | 2003-2004: Honka Espoo Playboys (Finland-League): | ||
- | 2004-2005: Euphony Bree (Belgium-D1): | ||
- | 2005-2006: Olimpia GE Larisa (Greece-A1, starting five): EuroCup Challenge: 10 games: 10.8ppg, 2.8rpg, 3.2apg, 1.8spg, FG: 45.7%, 3PT: 39.5%, FT: 75%; Greek League: 26 games: 12.5ppg, 2.2rpg, 3.2apg, 1.4spg, 2FGP: 49.0%, 3PT: 31.0%, FT: 76.0% | ||
- | 2006-2007: Tofas Bursa (Turkey-TBL), | ||
- | 2007-2008: Hanzevast Capitals Groningen (Holland-Eredivisie, | ||
- | 2008-2009: BC Igokea Partizan Aleksandrovac (Bosnia-D1, starting five), left in Oct.' | ||
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- | ===== Awards/ | ||
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- | JUCO All-Conference 1st Team - 98 | ||
- | Belgian Cup Semifinals - 04 | ||
- | Belgian League Regular Season Runner-Up - 05 | ||
- | Belgian League Champion - 05 | ||
- | EuroCup Challenge Semifinals - 06 | ||
- | Dutch Eredivisie All-Star Game - 08 | ||
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- | ===== Links ===== | ||
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- | * [[http:// | ||