Nick Eppehimer

Nick Eppehimer
Player information
Full name	Nicholas Eppehimer
birthday	20th November 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	Pottstown , Pennsylvania , United States
size	201 cm
position	Small forward
college	Marist
Clubs as active
1999–2003 Marist Red Foxes ( NCAA ) 2003 Benetton Treviso 2003–2004 Banco di Sardegna Sassari 2004 Banca Popolare Ragusa 2004–2005 Norrköping Dolphins 2005 ALM Évreux Basket 2006–2007 Norrköping Dolphins 2008–2009 BC Longwy-Rehon 00000 00000 00000

Nicholas "Nick" Eppehimer (born November 20, 1979 in Pottstown , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American basketball player . Immediately after graduation, Eppehimer became a professional in Europe and won the Italian championship as well as the runner-up in the ULEB Euroleague 2002/03 with Benetton Treviso in the 2002/03 season . Like his brother Brett , Nick had Italian citizenship, which, as a result of the Bosman decision , gave him more favorable contractual conditions, as he did not fall under more restrictive immigration restrictions. Nevertheless, Nick Eppehimer could only make little capital out of it, as he subsequently only played in the second leagues of Italy and France as well as the economically and sportingly weaker Swedish league and no longer reached the level of his first professional station. After a season with a lower class French club, Nick Eppehimer was no longer professionally active as a basketball player after 2009.

Career

After finishing school, Eppehimer went to study at Marist College in Poughkeepsie , where he played for the university team Red Foxes between 1999 and 2003 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) of the NCAA . The basketball team of the Red Foxes , which had its most successful time in the 1980s, was able to win the regular season of the MAAC in 2002, but this was not enough to qualify for the national NCAA finals . In his final college year 2002/03 Eppehimer scored 17 points per game, but the Marist Red Foxes could again not qualify for a tournament in the postseason .

After the Red Foxes were again not represented in the NCAA postseason, Eppehimer went straight to the pro and went to Italy at the end of the 2002/03 European season, where he was signed to the champions Pallacanestro Benetton from Treviso in early April 2003. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague , he completed one more appearance in the last group game in the intermediate round in the 98-76 victory over the national competitor Virtus Bologna , but that was meaningless, since Benetton was already qualified as group winner for the Final Four tournament. At the final tournament a month later, where Benetton lost the final against FC Barcelona , Eppehimer was no longer used by coach Ettore Messina . In the national championship, he completed six missions in 16 games for the defending champions, but with only good four minutes average operating time in the Lega Basket Serie A . In the play-offs , Treviso defended its title against Skipper Bologna . However, his European experience did not help Eppehimer afterwards to be selected in the entry draft of the most highly endowed professional league NBA or otherwise to get a contract in this league. Nick Eppehimer returned to Italy for the 2003/04 season, in which his brother Brett, who was three years older than him, played for the first time in the Italian premier league for the newly promoted Sicilian from Messina after stints in Germany, Spain, England and Greece . However, Nick only got one contract in the second Italian division with Banco di Sardegna from Sassari in Sardinia . In mid-February 2004, his contract in Sardinia was dissolved and Nick moved to the league rivals Banca Popolare from Ragusa also to Sicily. Here, however, he only played one game. At the end of the season, both Sicilian clubs occupied the last place in the table in their respective league.

For the 2004/05 season Nick Eppehimer moved to the Swedish Norrköping to the local first division club Dolphins in the Basketligan , where with Bill Magarity sr. the younger brother of his former college coach Dave Magarity had settled in and worked as a player and coach. Eppehimer received an invitation to the All-Star game of the Swedish league, but retired with his team in the play-off semifinals from the title award . The following season, Eppehimer moved to the second French league LNB Pro B to ALM Basket from Évreux , for which he was only able to play two games at the beginning of the season. After being injured, his contract was finally terminated in early January 2006. Eppehimer then played another season with the Dolphins in Norrköping in the 2006/07 season, before being suspended the following season. In the 2008/09 season he was once again active in France for the third-rate club BC Longwy-Rehon from Longwy in the NM1, before he ended his professional career like his brother Brett at the age of 30.

Web links

• Nick eppehimer Player profiles - Player profile (on the websites of Eurobasket.com english )
• = Legadue Basket = Nick Eppehimer - player profile on the Legadue website ( Italian )
• Nick Eppehimer Stats - Marist Red Foxes - College Playtime Stats on statsheet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EPPEHIMER, NICK. ULEB , accessed on June 24, 2013 (English, player profile). 
2. ↑ Luigi Maffei: Benetton Basket vs. Virtus Bologna - Report. ULEB , April 17, 2003, accessed June 24, 2013 (English, match report). 
3. ↑ Lega Basket: Nicholas Eppeheimer. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed June 24, 2013 (Italian, player profile). 
4. ↑ Mike Jensen: Basketball is in the Magaritys' blood. The Philadelphia Inquirer , December 26, 2010, accessed June 24, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Basketligan 2004-2005. Eurobasket.com, accessed June 24, 2013 (season summary). 
6. ↑ Nick Eppehimer - Évreux - Joueurs - Pro B. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on June 24, 2013 (French, player profile).