Ransford Brempong

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Basketball player
Ransford Brempong
Player information
Nickname Rans
birthday July 22, 1981
place of birth Brampton (ON), Canada
size 203 cm
position Power forward
college Western Carolina
Clubs as active
2000–2005 WCU Catamounts ( NCAA ) 2005–2007 Matrixx Magixx Nijmegen 2007–2008 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2008–2009 Hanzevast Capitals Groningen 2010–2011 Gloria Giants DüsseldorfUnited StatesUnited States
NetherlandsNetherlands
GermanyGermany
NetherlandsNetherlands
GermanyGermany
National team
2006-2008 Canada

Ransford Brempong (born July 22, 1981 in Brampton , Ontario ) is a former Canadian basketball player who, after studying in the United States, played professionally in the Netherlands and Germany . The name of the Canadian national player , whose family name is common in Ghana , is mostly abbreviated as Rans Brempong . After 2011, Brempong was no longer professionally active, having previously suffered from persistent knee problems.

Career

During his studies at Western Carolina University , Brempong played from 2000 to 2005 for the university team called Catamounts in the Southern Conference of NCAA Division I. The Catamounts are not a particularly successful basketball team and only won this conference in 1996, which was before his student days. He was reported redshirted in the 2003/04 NCAA season after a game due to injury , which means that he was no longer eligible to play in this season and was therefore allowed to play his final fourth college season later. In the Catamounts he is by far the best shot blocker of all time with 308 blocks and almost 2.7 blocks per game. There is no player in the history of the Catamounts who has scored more blocks in one season than Brempong in each of his four seasons, so that he has the four best performances in the category shotblocking per season in the annals of the Catamounts.

After his studies, Brempong played from 2005 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as a professional in the local top division Eredivisie . In 2007 he won the Dutch cup with the Matrixx Magixx . He then moved to the top German basketball division for the 2007/08 BBL season, to the record champions Bayer Giants from Leverkusen . After a good third place in the main round, the Giants were eliminated in the first round, the quarter-finals, the play-offs for the championship. Then the first division license of the Leverkusen club was sold to Düsseldorf . Brempong moved back to the Dutch Eredivisie to the Capitals in Groningen and in summer 2008 played for his country's national team at the qualifying tournament in Athens for the 2008 Olympic Games . Due to the elimination in the quarter-finals against the eventual Olympic participant Croatia , Canada missed the qualification for the actual Olympic tournament, which took place three weeks later in the same place. Brempong was never in a final squad for his home country. After a season in Groningen, among other things, he did not return to the squad of the club now operating as GasTerra Flames due to injury . In the pre -season preparations for the 2010/11 BBL season , he was a test player in the Giants Düsseldorf squad and was able to recommend himself for a contract. So he returned to the Giants, although this time not to Leverkusen, but to Düsseldorf, where the Giants have been based since he left in 2008. After the Düsseldorfers relegated to ProA , he left the club again.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Gülck: Giants test 2.08 meter centers. DerWesten.de , November 30, 2010, accessed April 4, 2013 .
  2. ^ A b Western Carolina Catamount Men's Basketball 2009-10 Media Guide - All-Time History and Records. (PDF; 4.7 MB) CSTV.com, January 21, 2010, pp. 90/64/68 , accessed on October 6, 2010 (English).
  3. ↑ athens2008.fiba.com: Player Profile - Rans BREMPONG (Canada). (No longer available online.) FIBA , 2008, archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; Retrieved on April 4, 2013 (English, player profile qualifying tournament - with participation in Pan-American Games 2007 in contrast to his general FIBA ​​profile). 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fiba.com
  4. ↑ Vijf spelers keren niet terug. GasTerra Flames , May 20, 2009, accessed October 6, 2010 (Dutch, media info).
personal data
SURNAME Brempong, Ransford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brempong, Rans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Brampton, Ontario , Canada