Billy McCaffrey

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William Joseph "Billy" McCaffrey (born May 30, 1971 in Waynesboro ) is a retired American basketball player .

Life

McCaffrey was a member of the basketball school team at Central Catholic High School in Allentown , Pennsylvania , until 1989 . There he sat at the top of the eternal basket hunter list with 2051 points. His brother Ed played American football in the National Football League (NFL).

He played from 1989 to 1991 under coaching awesome Mike Krzyzewski  at Duke University  and won the NCAA championship title with the team in 1991 . In the final against the University of Kansas , he scored 16 points. After Christian Laettner,  the 1.93-meter-long construction player was the second-best scorer in the championship team. Since he wanted to enjoy himself after playing basketball more, McCaffrey decided to change college and went to Vanderbilt University . In the game year 1991/92 he had to pause due to the NCAA transfer regulations, then he scored 20.6 points per game for Vanderbilt in both the 1992/93 and 1993/94 season. That made him the team's best scorer. In 1993 he was named Player of the Year by the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In the same year and 1994 he was also "All-American".

He spent his first year as a professional basketball player in Italy , where he played for the first division team Juve Caserta and scored 19 points per use in the 1994/95 season. Then McCaffrey moved to Australia , where he strengthened the South East Melbourne Magic team, scored 17.6 points per game in the 1996 game year and won the NBL championship with Melbourne . In the 1997 summer season he played in his home country with Philadelphia Power in the United States Basketball League  (USBL). McCaffrey was in the 1997/98 season with the German Bundesliga club Ruhr Devils (formerly TuS Herten ) under contract, in mid-February 1998 the team was broke and was withdrawn from the game. In the further course of 1998 McCaffrey played again in Australia at South East Melbourne Magic and from the end of October 1998 at Connecticut Pride in the US league CBA . During the 1999/2000 season he played for the Baltimore Bay Runners in the IBL, also in his home country.

From the summer of 2001 McCaffrey worked as an assistant trainer at St. Bonaventure University in the US state of New York . When head coach Jan van Breda Kolff was dismissed in March 2003, McCaffrey briefly took over as head coach at St. Bonaventure. In July 2003 he was introduced as an assistant coach at the University of Maine . He stayed in office for a year. McCaffrey worked in the following years as a coach at school level, from November 2014 he was assistant coach of the basketball team at Moravian College and later again coach of school teams.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b LEGABASKET SERIE A LEGABASKET SERIE A. Accessed June 2, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Assistant Coach Bill McCaffrey. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  3. ^ Express-Times sports staff: Lehigh Valley basketball great Bill McCaffrey joins Moravian College staff. November 27, 2014, accessed June 2, 2020 .
  4. ^ The McCaffrey Family | College football crazy. Retrieved June 2, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ The Morning Call: BILLY MCCAFFREY WILL TRANSFER TO VANDERBILT. Retrieved June 2, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ 1990-91 Duke Blue Devils Roster and Stats. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  7. ^ Leaving Champions Was the Right Move: College basketball: McCaffrey, The Guy Who Left Duke, says it was what he had to do. December 19, 1992, accessed June 2, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ 1992-93 Vanderbilt Commodores Roster and Stats. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 1993-94 Vanderbilt Commodores Roster and Stats. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ https://vucommodores.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/vand_m_baskbl__history0708mediambb.pdf
  11. ↑ Billy Mccaffrey - Player Statistics. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  12. ↑ JOHN JAY FOX, The Morning Call: BILLY MCCAFFREY BRINGS HOME A CHAMPIONSHIP FROM DOWN UNDER HOMETOWN HERO. Retrieved June 2, 2020 (American English).
  13. ^ The, Penn, The Summer Pennsylvanian, Justin Feil: USBL'S Power debut in Philadelphia. Retrieved June 2, 2020 (American English).
  14. ↑ Ruhr Devils mobilize the fans. In: Rhein Zeitung. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  15. ^ "Image damage for basketball". Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  16. ^ Pro Exposure Online Transaction Wire. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  17. ↑ The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee on December 14, 1999 · Page 81. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  18. ↑ St. Bonaventure. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  19. ↑ John Wawrow: St. Bonaventure's President Resigns. March 9, 2003, accessed June 2, 2020 .
  20. ↑ PLUS: COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Ex-Bonnies Coach Joins Maine Staff . In: The New York Times . July 9, 2003, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2020]).
  21. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/billymccaffrey1405?challengeId=AQFxFfI8mn8w8wAAAXJ1qF9CI8jE7MYLM2qQO4Q8zq0kt5BI2tIVvplrXdgk67yszjFqXwJtSub32Dbh7
personal data
SURNAME McCaffrey, Billy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCaffrey, William Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Waynesboro, Virginia