Alex Ruoff

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Basketball player
Alex Ruoff
Alex Ruoff.jpg

in a training session with Club Joventut Badalona, ​​2017
Player information
Full name Alexander Marc Ruoff
birthday August 29, 1986 (34 years 3 days)
place of birth Hamilton , Ohio , United States
size 198 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college West Virginia
Club information
society BG Göttingen
league Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2005-2009 United StatesUnited StatesWVU Mountaineers ( NCAA )
2009-2010 BelgiumBelgium Belgacom Liège
2010-2011 BelgiumBelgium Okapi eel star
2012-2013 United StatesUnited States Canton Charge
2013 United StatesUnited States Iowa Energy
2013-2015 GermanyGermany BG Göttingen
2015-2016 SpainSpain CB Bilbao Berri
2016 GermanyGermany MHP giant Ludwigsburg
2016-2017 GermanyGermany BG Göttingen
2017-2018 SpainSpain Joventut Badalona
2018 GermanyGermany Central German BC
2019 FinlandFinland Helsinki Seagulls
2019– GermanyGermany BG Göttingen

Alexander Marc Ruoff (born August 29, 1986 in Hamilton , Ohio ) is an American basketball player .

Career

After graduating from high school in Brooksville (Florida), Ruoff went to study at West Virginia University , where he played for four years from 2005 for the college team Mountaineers in the then Big East Conference of the NCAA . After this team had narrowly failed to make it into the prestigious Final Four tournament of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship a year earlier with the German national player Johannes Herber , they were eliminated in 2006 in the last sixteen Sweet Sixteen against the Longhorns of the University of Texas . In 2007 they missed qualifying for the NCAA finals, but won the National Invitation Tournament in the final against the Tigers of Clemson University . A year later they returned to the finals and narrowly failed in Sweet Sixteen after extra time at the Musketeers of the Xavier University of Cincinnati . In Ruoff's senior season , the Mountaineers lost in 2009, somewhat surprisingly, in the first round against the Flyers of the University of Dayton . While the most important in-team records of the Mountaineers are held by later NBA legend Jerry West , who played for the Mountaineers in the early 1960s , Ruoff is the record holder for the most successful throws from behind the three-point line that it was in West's times NCAA didn't exist back then. Ruoff, however, failed to make the leap into the NBA's highest endowed professional league, although he auditioned in the NBA Summer League in 2009 for the Washington Wizards and in 2010 for the then New Jersey Nets .

Instead, Ruoff began a professional career in 2009 as a player in the Belgian Ethias League , where he first played for Belgacom Basket from Liege . With this team he reached first place after the regular season and won the Belgian Supercup , but ultimately lost the play-off final series clearly against defending champion Spirou BC Charleroi . After the NBA Summer League, he returned to Belgium in 2010, this time playing for Okapi from Aalst . This team improved to second place in the regular season behind master Spirou BC and lost the final series without a win of their own, again from Ruoff's point of view, against the defending champion. Although Ruoff's contract was extended for the following season, he was injured at the beginning of the season and was then unable to intervene in the game for the rest of the season. Ruoff did not return to the NBA Development League until a year later. After Ruoff had been selected by the Erie BayHawks in the Minor League Entry Draft , he came to the Canton Charge before the start of the season via the Reno Bighorns , for which he had 24 appearances until February 2013 before his contract was terminated. A few days later he was committed in March 2013 by Iowa Energy, for which he had another 13 missions until the end of the season.

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Ruoff was committed by the BG Göttingen, which had still missed the return to the top division in the ProA 2012/13 . Together with Harper Kamp and David Godbold , among others , Ruoff was instrumental in ensuring that the BG Göttingen was actually able to achieve the championship and promotion to the top German division in the ProA 2013/14 . Then the first division returner surprised with the new signings Khalid El-Amin and Raymar Morgan and only just missed the play-off final round of the German championship on the last matchday in tenth place in the basketball Bundesliga 2014/15 . After the end of the season, Ruoff moved to the Spanish ACB league to Dominion Basket from Bilbao , with whom he also took part in the 2015/16 Eurocup . As the first of his preliminary group, in which the German representatives EWE Baskets Oldenburg and Telekom Baskets Bonn were defeated twice each, they entered the second group phase, in which, as a third party, you could only leave ratiopharm Ulm behind and progress among other things at the group first FC Bayern Munich failed. In the ACB League, Ruoff and his team failed, like a year earlier in Göttingen, only with a home defeat on the last day of the game to get into the play-offs, which in the case of Bilbao was a negative surprise, and also finished tenth at the end of the season.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season , Ruoff moved to the German Bundesliga club MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg . However, the contract was terminated after five league games. He then received a contract with the BG Göttingen until the end of the season.

Due to injury, he was not used in the 2017/18 season, under contract with the Spanish top club Joventut Badalona . In July 2018 he signed a contract with the Bundesliga club Mitteldeutscher BC . Due to knee problems, he was only able to play in two preparation games and traveled back to his home country in September 2018. In mid-January 2019 he signed a contract with the Finnish first division club Helsinki Seagulls.

In December 2019 Ruoff returned to the BG Göttingen in the Bundesliga.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Associated Press : Young's 24 lead West Virginia past Clemson in NIT final. ESPN , March 29, 2007, accessed December 23, 2014 (English, match report).
  2. ↑ 2014–15 Men's Basketball Record Book. (PDF (5.2 MB)) West Virginia University , p. 136 (internal document) , accessed on December 23, 2014 (English, Individual records).
  3. ↑ Mark Bambey: Spectacular additional engagement: BG Göttingen brings Alex Ruoff. Göttinger Tageblatt , September 4, 2013, accessed on December 23, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Mark Bambey: BG Göttingen brings Alex Ruoff back. Göttinger Tageblatt , October 20, 2016, accessed on October 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ https://www.mitteldeutscherbc.de/schluesselverendung-die-woelfe-schnappen-sich-alex-ruoff/
  7. ↑ Alexander Winkler: MBC is looking for a replacement: Big concerns about key player Alex Ruoff. In: mz-web.de. September 13, 2018, accessed January 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Lee Moore joins MBC - Alex Ruoff is not operational for the time being. In: MBC. September 13, 2018, accessed January 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Kokoa ja kokemusta Seagulls-miehistöön - Alex Ruoff saapuu Helsinkiin! - Helsinki Seagulls. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
  10. ↑ https://www.stimme.de/sport/ueberregional/sportwelt/basketball/Zum-dritten-Mal-BG-Goettingen-haben-US-Profi-Ruoff;art476,4293101
personal data
SURNAME Ruoff, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruoff, Alexander Marc (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ohio