INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Name: Dennis, Stephen | college: Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (2006–2010)| Additional Info: Stephen Dennis played college basketball at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania from 2006–07 to 2009–10, and both Wikipedia and Sports Reference’s Basketball-Reference player bio list his birthplace as West Chester, Pennsylvania and his college as Kutztown (2006–2010).

Dennis was a four-year starter and made Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) all-league teams each of his four seasons with the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Golden Bears. As a freshman, Dennis was named PSAC rookie of the year and was a second team all-conference selection. For the next three years, he was a mainstay on the All-PSAC first team.

As a freshman in 2006–07, Dennis started all 28 games and averaged 15.4 points per game while adding 6.0 rebounds per game, a team-high 90 assists, 33 blocks, and 46 steals, and he earned 135 trips to the foul line while making 106 free throws. That season he was named PSAC Rookie of the Year, made the All-PSAC East second team, and was selected to the NCAA Division II Bulletin All-Freshman team.

In 2007–08, Dennis played in 26 of Kutztown’s 28 games and led the team at 17.3 points per game while going 161-of-352 from the field and 117-of-153 at the line, and he averaged 5.7 rebounds per game with 76 assists, 61 steals, and 41 blocks in 33.0 minutes per game, earning All-PSAC East first team recognition.

During the 2008–09 season, Dennis set Kutztown’s school record for points in a season with 710 points and averaged a PSAC-best 21.5 points per game over 33 starts, while setting a single-season school record with 170 free throws made and tying a single-season school record with 254 field goals as he shot 50.2 percent from the floor, including 32-of-79 from three-point range (40.5 percent). He also averaged 5.8 rebounds per game, totaled a team-best 142 assists, and finished with 72 steals and 40 blocks, highlighted by a career-high 32 points in the PSAC semifinals to help lead Kutztown past Slippery Rock, and he was named All-PSAC East first team and Daktronics All-Atlantic Region second team.

As a senior in the 2009/10 season, Dennis averaged over 26 points per game and was named the Division II National Player of the Year and a first team All-American by the member schools Sports Information Directors. Dennis graduated as Kutztowns all-time leading scorer, netting 2,406 points for his career. Dennis also left as the schools all-time leader in field goals (850), free throws (621) and assists (447), as well as establishing the schools single-season scoring mark with 817 points in his senior season. In that 2009–10 campaign, he scored 817 points in 31 games (26.4 points per game) and set single-season program marks that included 281 field goals made and 228 free throws made, while national award materials for that season credited him as Division II’s top scorer at 26.6 points per game with 5.8 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 2.1 steals per game, plus 228-of-303 free throws, and noted he scored 30 or more points nine times. He recorded a 31-point, 11-assist, 11-rebound triple-double against Chestnut Hill on December 2, 2009, and set a career-high 42 points against East Stroudsburg on January 13, 2010, while being named PSAC East Player of the Year and earning additional recognitions that included Daktronics Atlantic Region Player of the Year, Lehigh Valley Small College Player of the Year, and selection to the Portsmouth Invitational and the NABC/Division II All-Star Game in Springfield, Massachusetts. Kutztown later summarized his four-year impact by noting his 2,406 career points ranked third in PSAC history at the time, and that he helped the program win three PSAC East titles and reach the NCAA Tournament twice.

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