2033/34 Senior Tribute
REED WEISBERG
One look at
Reed Weisberg shooting a basketball was all it took to convince
Graham Sims. We couldn't pass on those projected A shooting grades, not when he was already rated in the 70s and 80s as a high school senior. Reed was recruited to shoot and score, and shoot and score he did.
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#55 SG Reed Weisberg - Villanova - Senior
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Height: 6-5
Weight: 189
High School: Colonia High School
Hometown: Colonia, NJ
Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 40 93 93 93 25 8 7 60 27 59 20 51 83 67 57 75
2032: 38 93 92 92 23 8 7 59 25 58 19 48 82 64 57 64
2031: 35 92 91 91 20 8 7 52 22 51 18 43 81 61 56 52
2030: 32 84 89 89 16 8 6 47 19 45 17 38 81 58 56 40
2029: 30 78 83 83 14 6 4 43 17 41 15 34 78 50 53 10
Potential: C A A A D F F C D C D C
Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 54
Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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2030 40 40 29.5 15.2 0.8 4.6 2.3 3.4 0.68 0.7 0.3 2.4
2031 37 37 28.4 16.8 0.9 4.8 2.2 2.9 0.76 0.9 0.2 2.2
2032 14 14 25.6 21.9 0.4 4.1 1.6 3.0 0.55 0.7 0.2 2.5
2033 22 21 28.5 17.6 0.6 4.7 2.1 2.6 0.81 0.5 0.1 2.5
Career 113 112 28.5 17.0 0.7 4.6 2.2 3.1 0.81 0.7 0.2 2.4
Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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2030 4.6 10.9 .420 3.0 3.3 .895 3.1 8.0 .386 1.40 10.93
2031 5.4 11.9 .457 2.4 2.7 .889 3.5 9.0 .392 1.41 13.11
2032 7.2 12.6 .571 2.8 3.0 .929 4.6 9.2 .504 1.73 17.86
2033 5.6 12.6 .442 2.4 2.7 .881 4.0 9.7 .418 1.39 12.18
Career 5.4 11.8 .457 2.6 2.9 .895 3.6 8.8 .410 1.44 12.74
Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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2030 40 40 1179 609 31 185 93 137 28 13 97
2031 37 37 1050 621 35 178 82 108 35 9 83
2032 14 14 358 306 5 57 23 42 10 3 35
2033 22 21 628 387 13 103 47 58 11 3 54
Career 113 112 3215 1923 84 523 245 345 84 28 269
Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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2030 183 436 119 133 124 321 437
2031 201 440 88 99 131 334 485
2032 101 177 39 42 65 129 250
2033 123 278 52 59 89 213 268
Career 608 1331 298 333 409 997 1440
Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 30 2 10 5 2 1 5 11 18 7 7 8 16
Career 37 4 12 6 3 2 9 12 24 11 13 9 20
Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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All Player of the Game: 28
2029 High School: Rated **** and #55 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2030 NCAA Champion
2030 Freshman All-Conference (Big East Conference)
2033 2nd Team All-Conference (Big East Conference)
A lean, 6'5" wing from New Jersey, Reed shot his way into the starting lineup for a team that won the NCAA championship. He spent his sophomore year proving his performance was no fluke, and he took his game to another level during the first two months of his third season. As I said last year, there was no better shooter in college basketball than
Reed Weisberg.
Then came the knee injury that ended up robbing Reed of a season's worth of games.
Weisberg's career statistics are superb. He is the second leading all-time scorer in Villanova history, and he ranks 14th in all of the Big East. He's also second in three pointers made and attempted at Villanova. But what if he'd never been injured?
For the sake of this exercise, we will assume Reed wouldn't have turned pro after his third year if he'd been healthy. It's not an unreasonable assumption; he wasn't regarded as one of the top pro prospects in his class at the beginning of his junior year. We'll also assume a healthy Weisberg would have played in every Villanova game. Reed played every game in his career, except for those he lost to his hurt knee.
Reed missed the last 25 games of his junior season, and the first 12 of his senior season. Let's suppose Reed averaged 17 points a game over those 37 games. That's his career average. Now, let's do some math.
At that rate, Reed would have scored 629 points during those missing games. If you add those points to the 1923 he did score, his total becomes 2552. That's considerably more than
Jacob Allen's Villanova record of 2073. The Big East record is held by
David Sullivan of St. John's, who scored 2573 points in a fabulous career that ended in 2017. Reed would have been one productive game short of that record.
Projecting Reed's three-point basket total provides an even more intriguing result. At his career rate of 3.6 made threes per game, we'd add another 133 to his career total.
With 542 triples to his credit, Reed Weisberg would be the most productive three-point shooter in NCAA history.
Sharp eyes might notice that Reed was outscoring his career averages as a junior and a senior, even after his injury, so we're possibly underestimating his totals. However you look at it, it's safe to say we might never again see another shooter like
Reed Weisberg.
Reed and his fiancée will be watching the draft at his parents' New Jersey home. If he isn't drafted, Reed will possibly try to sign with a team in Europe. Reed is a citizen of the world; he and his friend,
Ernest Adcock, were students together in the Global Interdisciplinary Studies program. His jump shot will travel anywhere in the world.
Thanks for the memories, Reed.