Tyrese Rice
Tyrese Rice ( born May 15, 1987 in Richmond, Virginia ) is a Montenegrin- American professional basketball player. He has been active since the end of his studies in his home country in 2009 as a professional in Europe, from the 2013/14 season he will play for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Career
Rice changed in 2005 after graduating from the LC Bird High School in Chesterfield County ( Virginia) on the outskirts of Richmond to study at Boston College in Chestnut Hill ( Massachusetts). There he played for the college team Eagles in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC ) of the NCAA. In the first year Rice reached together with, among others, the later NBA Jared Dudley professional the championship final of the ACC, which went against the prestigious and nationally set to number 1 Blue Devils of Duke University with two points difference lost. In the national finals of the NCAA in 2006 they reached the knockout stages of "Sweet Sixteen " in which they lost against the nation's set to number 3 Wildcats Villanova University after extra time. Up to 2008 they also reached below the NCAA finals, but different in second-round defeat in 2007 and a first round defeat in 2009 from each early. Rice ranked team internally Status 2012 on place 5 of the best points scorer of the Eagles with 2,099 points and averaging just 16 points per game in his four year college career and, after he had been elected in his debut season in the selection of the best " Freshmen " of the ACC, three times successively appointed to the selection of the ten best players in the ACC in the " First Team " or "Second Team " of the Conference.
After Rice was not selected in the 2009 Entry Draft for the most heavily doped professional league NBA, he began his career in Europe at Panionios Athens in the Greek A1 Ethniki. Panionios reached the main round of eight straight so just the play-offs to the Greek Cup in 2010, in which it was eliminated in the first round series champion Panathinaikos Athens. For the following season 2010/11 Rice joined the German Bundesliga to the Artland Dragons. The Dragons reached the semifinal series of the play-offs, where one was almost defeated in five games defending champion Brose Baskets. Rice was invited to BBL All-Star Game in 2011 and, on 26 Round with an effectiveness value of 43, the season record in that category. At the end of the season in the " BBL All- Second Team" appointed among the top ten players of the season.
In the season 2011/12 Rice moved to Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius Lithuania. At the beginning of the season, they lost the final game to qualify for the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2011/12 at home to Galatasaray Istanbul and started then the Eurocup 2011/12, in which one again reached a two-time Cup winner the Final Four tournament. After a semi-final defeat against Valencia Basket Club you won the game for third place against Spartak St. Petersburg. In the national competitions and in the Baltic Basketball League, the club had to defer again Zalgiris Kaunas time rival. Only in the VTB United League 2011/12 could be placed in front of Kaunas, but lost the semifinals at the Final Four tournament this competition against the Russian champions CSKA Moscow series. The small locomotive final against Kuban Krasnodar could then decide for themselves and took a third place in the Eastern European competition. Plan for the next season 2012/13 Rice moved along with his teammate Lawrence Roberts to the German first division club Bayern Munich, who had, however, omitted in advance to participate in European club competitions. Rice was elected to his second season in Germany again to the " All- BBL Second Team" of the ten best players of the past season.
After only one year in Munich, Germany Rice left again and moved to Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv. In July 2013 he received Montenegrin passport and then took part with Montenegro in the Euro Basket 2013.
Private
Tyrese Rice is a single father of a son.