Emeka Erege

Emeka Erege
Player information
Full name	Emeka Obinna Erege
birthday	November 8, 1978 (41 years 298 days)
place of birth	Lagos , Nigeria
size	196 cm
position	Small forward
college	Davidson
Club information
society	TV Langen
league	ProB
Jersey number	35
Clubs as active
1997–2002 Davidson Wildcats ( NCAA ) 2002–2003 JL Bourg-en-Bresse 2003–2009 ratiopharm ulm 2009–2010 BBC Bayreuth Since 2013 TV 1862 Langen 0

Emeka Obinna Erege (born November 8, 1978 in Lagos , Nigeria ) is a German basketball player . The son of a Nigerian father and a German mother also has Nigerian citizenship. As a youth selection player and A2 national player , he was internationally active for Germany. After studying in the United States and working in France , Erege played for ratiopharm Ulm for six years, with which he was promoted to the top division of the basketball league. With the BBC Bayreuth in 2010 he again achieved promotion to the top division and the title in the DBB cup competition . Erege then concentrated on completing his master’s degree before becoming active again in 2013 for TV Langen in the third German ProB division .

Career

Erege went from Hagerhof High School to the "Prep School" Long Island Lutheran High School in Brookville within Oyster Bay (New York) , where professional basketball players like Bill Wennington went to school or like Drew Nicholas went afterwards. Two years later he was followed by his brother Obi Erege, who later played for TuS Lichterfelde in the 2nd Bundesliga basketball division . Emeka Erege was already studying at this time after he switched to Davidson College in 1997 in North Carolina . Here he played for the university team Wildcats in the Southern Conference of the NCAA together with the Irish international Michael Bree, the Czech international Martin Ides and the later Bundesliga player Wayne Bernard . In 1998 they won the conference championship for the third time in a row and could only repeat this success again in Ereges senior year 2002 after he had been "redshirted" for a year 1999/2000. A qualification for the national NCAA finals was therefore only successful in these two years and each ended with first-round defeats.

In 2002 Erege signed his first professional contract in the top French league LNB Pro A with Jeunesse laïque from Bourg-en-Bresse . The penultimate landed at the end of the 2002/03 season again because of the poorer direct comparison on the penultimate place in the table and was only able to secure relegation in a relegation round with the second division runner-up Pro B. For the following season 2003/04 Erege returned to Germany and signed a contract with SSV ratiopharm from Ulm for the 2nd basketball Bundesliga 2003/04 , for which his former Wildcats teammate Michael Bree played, with whom he jointly team-internal MVP in Championship year was 2002. The Ulm team, who had previously occupied third place in the table in the south group, only barely missed a promotion position as runner-up in the south group. After another runner-up in 2005, the 2nd basketball league in 2005/06 finally achieved the championship of group south and promotion to the top division of the basketball league with just one defeat in the season. As team captain, Erege, who was one of Ulm's most effective players with over 13 points, five rebounds and almost three assists per game, extended his contract to the higher division. In the basketball Bundesliga 2006/07 , however, his game shares and effectiveness fell and after an injury in the basketball Bundesliga 2007/08 , he completed only half of the games. Nonetheless, with a winning " buzzer beater " from the middle line, he achieved a particularly spectacular basketball success. As a result, he extended his contract, but took shorter sports activities and resumed his studies.

After the basketball Bundesliga 2008/09 , in which Ulm reached the play-offs for the championship for the first time after being promoted again , he ended his contract and switched to the new second division ProA , which had replaced the previous 2. Bundesliga, at BBC Bayreuth who, as third in the previous season, had only missed the promotion because of the poorer direct comparison. In the ProA 2009/10 the championship and promotion to the top division succeeded; in addition, they won the last played cup competition of the DBB , which was played without the participation of the first division. Erege then ended his active career as a basketball player for the time being and after successfully completing his studies became an analyst at a bank in Frankfurt am Main . In January 2013 he surprisingly celebrated a comeback at TV Langen in the third-class ProB, with whom he is playing in the ProB 2012/13 for promotion to the ProA.

Web links

• Emeka Obinna Erege (TV 1862 Langen) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball leagues
• Emeka Erege Stats - Davidson Wildcats - College Playtime Stats on statsheet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ USC “hot” for the revenge against Ulm. Schoenen-Dunk.de, January 16, 2004, accessed on April 20, 2013 (Medien-Info USC Freiburg). 
2. ↑ Andreas Sturm: MTV receives Ulm. Schoenen-Dunk.de, October 20, 2004, accessed on April 20, 2013 (Medien-Info MTV Kronberg). 
3. ↑ 2001-02 Davidson Wildcats Roster and Stats. Sports-Reference.com, accessed April 20, 2013 (English, roster and statistics Davidson Wildcats 2001/02). 
4. ↑ The Ulm captain stays on board. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , June 18, 2006, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 20, 2013 (media info ratiopharm Ulm in the news archive).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ^ Buzzer Beater from Emeka Erege in Oldenburg. YouTube , March 20, 2008, accessed on April 20, 2013 (game at EWE Baskets Oldenburg on December 9, 2007). 
6. ↑ Emeka Erege stays in Ulm. (No longer available online.) Schwäbische Zeitung , September 16, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 20, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ The captain disembarks. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , June 30, 2009, formerly the original ; accessed on April 20, 2013 (Medien-Info ratiopharm Ulm).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ BBC Bayreuth: Emeka Erege is the sixth new addition. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, August 7, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on April 20, 2013 (media info BBC Bayreuth).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ↑ Emeka Erege strengthens Giraffes / Derby. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, January 24, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on April 20, 2013 (Medien-Info TV Langen).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.