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Player Profile: Kyle Austin |
Statistics: Kyle Austin |
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Position: Power Forward/Small Forward Shooting Hand: Right Hand Height: 201cm Weight: 102kg Birthdate: 10/18/1988 Passport: USA College: UC Riverside, NCAA 1 |
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VIDEO: Highlight#1: See Kyle kill his competition in Portugal with some highlights form his first pro season. CLICK HERE Highlight#2: Get another look at Kyle Austin's athletic ability and overall ability with a quick glimpse of his complete game. CLICK HERE GAME 1: See Kyle in Portugese league play as he takes apart Ginasio with a display of 31pts, 7rebs while shooting a red hot 5-8 3pt! CLICK HERE GAME 2: Watch Kyle take it to EuroChallenge competitor Benfica as he leads him team to a huge victory in the Portugese Cup. He records 21pts, 6rebs and 2 assists. CLICK HERE GAME 3: Watch Kyle take apart the competition as he leads UCR to a big win against Cal State Fullerton. He is unstoppable as he finishes with 35pts, 11rebs while going 3-3 from beyond the 3pt arc! CLICK HERE GAME 4: This game followed the one above in the regular season and Kyle came back the next night to score 39pts in a double overtime game against Cal Poly. Perhaps the most amazing stat besides his 39pts and 9rebs is the fact he recorded 0 turnovers in 50 minutes of play! CLICK HERE |
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Vitoria - Portugal 2010-11, Palencia - Spain LEB Gold 2010, University of California Riverside - NCAA 2008-10, USC - 2006-08 |
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2011-12: Signed with Pepinster of the top league in Belgium.
2010-11: Signed in LEB Gold with Palensia but after a very successful preseason moved over to Portugal and Vitoria after 8 games. He immediately became the leading scorer in Portugal with an average of 21.7ppg while shooting 50% from behind the 3pt arc after 10 games. That is when the problems started. The team became unable to fulfill their financial commitments to the players and this caused the entire team to become unfocused and sadly eventually leave the team. Kyle was no exception. Amid these first year pressures he found himself constantly embroiled in a battle of paperwork and payments. To his credit he still did manage to control the hardwood and lead his team to several impressive victories including wins over Eurochallenge competitor Benfica and the league's top team in Porto.
2009-10:
Austin
finished the 2009-10 regular season ranked second in the league in scoring
(17.6), fourth in rebounding (7.4), second in offensive rebounds (3.3),
10th in defensive rebounds (4.1), and third in minutes played (34.3). In
conference play, the Pasadena, CA native led the Big West in scoring
(19.4) while finishing fourth in rebounding (7.4), 10th in field goal
percentage (.440), third in three-point field goal percentage (.457).
third in offensive rebounds (3.2) and third in minutes played (36.2).
Austin's scoring averages, both overall and in conference, were the
highest ever in the Division I
history of the program. He had two 30+-point scoring games this season
including a career-high 39 vs. Cal Poly on February 13, and had five
double-doubles on the year.
Earned Big West Player of the Week
honors on Dec. 7 after averaging 23.5 points and 9.0 rebounds while
connecting on 63.0 percent of his field goal attempts in the Highlanders
wins over CSU Bakersfield (Dec. 2) and San Diego (Dec. 4) ... In the San
Diego win, he scored 22 of his career-high 28 points after the half,
outscoring the Toreros by himself in the period (22-15) as the Highlanders
erased a 19-point second-half deficit for the win ... Has three 20-point,
10-rebound games on the season —25 points and 11 boards vs. La Verne on
Nov. 19; 20 points and a career-high 14 rebounds on Nov. 22; and 28 points
and 10 boards vs. San Diego on Dec. 4 ...Has five double-figure scoring
games and three games of 20 or more points ... Grabbed 10 or more more
rebounds on three occasions ...
Named to the First-team All-Big West squad for
the second consecutive season |