Kenneth Frease

Player information
Kenny Frease
2012
Full name	Kenneth Eugene Frease III
Nickname	Big Fella, Big Kenny, K-Train
birthday	18th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Canton , Ohio , United States
size	211 cm
Weight	129 kg
position	center
college	Xavier (Cincinnati)
Club information
society	BBC Monthey
league	National League A
Clubs as active
2008–2012 Xavier Musketeers ( NCAA ) 2012–2013 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2013–2014 Artland Dragons 2014–2015 Yeşilgiresun Belediyespor 2015 Artland Dragons 2015–2016 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig 2016–2017 Science City Jena 2018 SA Massagno Basket Since 2018 BBC MontheyUnited States Germany Germany Turkey 00000Germany Germany Germany 00000Switzerland 0Switzerland

Kenneth Eugene Frease III (* 18th October 1989 in Canton , Ohio ) is an American basketball player who as a professional in the highest after studying in his native country from 2012 German league basketball league for five years except for a short trip played in Turkey . Frease has been playing in the Swiss National League since April 2018 ; After a few missions at the end of the season for Massagno Basket, he switched to the league competitor from Monthey for the following season 2018/19.

Career

After completing school at Perry High School on the outskirts of his native Canton, Frease went to study at the Xavier University of Cincinnati , where he was enrolled in Marketing , but in particular as a scholarship holder for the college team Musketeers Basketball back then in the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10 ) the NCAA played. During Frease's active time with the Musketeers, they failed three times as a team with the best season record in the A-10 to make it into the championship tournament finals; It was not until his senior year 2012 that the Musketeers reached the tournament final as the third best team in the A-10, which however was lost to the Bonnies of St. Bonaventure University . The Musketeers were always invited to the nationwide NCAA finals despite their lack of success in the final round, but Frease and his team did not get beyond the sixteenth round Sweet Sixteen three times . In 2012 the Musketeers lost the Bears of Baylor University in the round of 16 by five points. In addition to the active later in Germany Jamel McLean and Isaiah Philmore also later with the part Güssing Knights in Austria active Travis Taylor to his teammates in the Musketeers. After the also heavyweight teammate Jason Love, who later played professionally in Belgium, finished his college days in 2010, Frease was able to increase his play with the Musketeers significantly and in his fourth and final year in the NCAA he put up a good ten points and six rebounds per game . Although Frease was allowed to audition in training camps of the NBA clubs Minnesota Timberwolves and Cleveland Cavaliers , he was not selected in the Entry Draft of the highest endowed professional league in 2012 .

Therefore, Frease began his professional career in Europe and signed a one-year contract with the German Bundesliga club Walter Tigers from Tübingen in the summer of 2012 . In the 2012/13 basketball Bundesliga , the Tübingen team only just missed out on tenth place in the play-offs for the championship. Frease was able to convince with his strength and his feet, which were agile in relation to his size and weight, with which he compensated for his lack of jumping power. In the following 2013/14 season , Frease played at league competitor Dragons from the Artland community , who also played internationally in the ULEB Eurocup . In seventh place, the Dragons once again made it into the play-offs, in which they surprisingly dethroned series champion Brose Baskets in the first round before they were defeated by cup winner Alba Berlin in the semi-final series . Although the Dragons after the season, contrary to their tradition, almost all of their legionnaires offered a new contract, Frease moved to Turkey, where he played for the second division Yeşilgiresun Belediye from Giresun . Although the ambitious team achieved promotion to the top division at the end of the season, Frease also wanted to return to Artland after a few weeks. After the injury of Dragons captain Anthony L. King in mid-January, he dissolved his contract in Turkey and was re-signed by the Dragons. Although at the end of the season in almost the same line-up as in the previous year, the Dragons were unable to follow the form of the previous year's play-offs and missed the eleven place in the final round of the championship in the 2014/15 season . Subsequently, the previous owners and the management of the first division team decided to withdraw from professional gaming operations.

However, Frease remained as a professional in the top German division and played for the following season 2015/16 for the Lower Saxony competitor Löwen from Braunschweig , where he replaced his compatriot Kyle Visser . Under coach Raoul Korner , the entry into the play-offs of the best eight teams in tenth place was again only just missed. For the following season 2016/17 Frease moved to the newly promoted Science City from Jena , but in which his playing times fell below 20 minutes per game. The Thuringians never faced relegation danger when they returned to the first division and managed to stay in the league for the first time, but were ultimately 13th in the table after only eleven wins of the season with no chance of reaching a play-off place. Then Frease initially suspended and only got a new contract with Società Atletica from Massagno in Ticino in spring 2018 . With this team he retired in the first play-off round of the Swiss National League A from the race for the championship. In six season appearances, however, Frease was able to recommend himself for a contract for the following season with the league competitor from Monthey in Valais .

Web links

easyCredit BBL - Kenneth Frease - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
FREASE, KENNETH - player profile on the websites of the EuroCup ( English )
Kenny Frease Bio - Profile on the sports website of Xavier University (English; as of 2012)
Kenny Frease College Stats - Statistics from college playing times at sports-reference.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Kenneth Eugene Frease. Mackolik.com, accessed on June 27, 2015 (Turkish, individual statistics of the TB2L).
↑ Frease helps out with the Dragons. Artland Dragons , January 23, 2015, accessed June 27, 2015 (media info).
↑ Christoph Matthies: Kyle goes - American "Big Kenny" is coming. (No longer available online.) Braunschweiger Zeitung : Unser38.de, June 26, 2015, archived from the original on June 28, 2015 ; accessed on June 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ David Chappuis: Manu Schmitt nouvel entraîneur du BBC Monthey Chablais. BBC Monthey , August 3, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018 (French, media info).

personal data
SURNAME	Frease, Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Frease, Kenneth Eugene III (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Canton (Ohio) , USA

[1] Kenneth Eugene Frease. Mackolik.com, accessed on June 27, 2015 (Turkish, individual statistics of the TB2L).

[2] Frease helps out with the Dragons. Artland Dragons , January 23, 2015, accessed June 27, 2015 (media info).

[3] Christoph Matthies: Kyle goes - American "Big Kenny" is coming. (No longer available online.) Braunschweiger Zeitung : Unser38.de, June 26, 2015, archived from the original on June 28, 2015 ; accessed on June 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] David Chappuis: Manu Schmitt nouvel entraîneur du BBC Monthey Chablais. BBC Monthey , August 3, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018 (French, media info).