Terence Dials

Terence Dials
Player information
Full name	Terence Jerome Dials Jr.
birthday	15th July 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Detroit , Michigan , United States
size	206 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
college	Ohio State
Clubs as active
2001–2006 Ohio State Buckeyes ( NCAA ) 2006–2007 Entente Orléanaise 2007–2008 EB Pau-Orthez 2008–2009 Entente Orléanaise 2009–2010 Paderborn Baskets 2010 BBC Nyon 2010 Western Liaoning 2010–2011 Pizza Express Apollon 2011 Hebei Springs 2011–2012 Pure Youth 2012–2013 Hyères Toulon Var Basket 2013–2014 Orléans Loiret Basket 2014–2015 BBC Monthey 2015 Club Malvín 00000 00000 00000 00000

Terence Jerome Dials Jr. (Born July 15, 1983 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a retired American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Dials first played as a professional in Europe, including three years in France and in the 2009/10 season in Germany and Switzerland . Between 2010 and 2012 he also played in Cyprus and in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan . After another three years in France and Switzerland, Dials won a championship in Uruguay in 2015 . Afterwards he was no longer professionally active.

Career

Dials grew up in Boardman (Ohio) and went to study at Ohio State University , where he played for the Buckeyes college team in the Big Ten Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In his first year in 2002 he won the Big Ten championship tournament together with, among others, the later Bundesliga basketball players Brian Brown and Velimir Radinović . In the second season he sat out after six games. The other results and seasons were then overshadowed by the scandal surrounding the Montenegrin player Boban Savović, whose perks at the Buckeyes led to a cancellation of the results until 2002 and an additional three-year ban for NCAA finals. In his final college season Dials was voted "Player of the Year" 2006, the Big Ten Conference and the Buckeyes managed for the first time after the lock a qualifier for the national NCAA finals , where they in the second round as favorites surprisingly clearly against the Hoyas of Georgetown University .

Despite the good last season at college, Dials was not selected in the 2006 NBA draft and began a professional career at Entente from Orléans in the French LNB Pro A in 2006 . Despite a positive season balance, the first division climber missed the leap into the play-offs for the French championship because of the poorer direct comparison . For the following season 2007/08 Dials moved to the league competitor and cup winner Élan Béarnais from Pau , who had missed the play-offs for the same reason. In the ULEB Cup 2007/08 , they lost twice against the German representative Artland Dragons and were eliminated in the preliminary round. In the French championship stayed at the end of the season in front of Dial's former team from Orléans, but again missed the play-offs. Dials returned to Orléans, who moved as second in the main round table for the first time after promotion to the play-offs, while the nine-time champions between 1986 and 2004 relegated from Pau as bottom of the table. In the play-offs, Entente moved into the final, in which they were then relatively clearly defeated by record champions ASVEL .

In the 2009/10 season Dials initially remained without a contract and was then signed by the German first division club Paderborn Baskets to replace the injured Nate Gerwig . However, Dials was not in the best of shape for the Bundesliga club, which was in financial and sporting difficulties, and they released him at the end of January, whereupon he moved to the BBC from Nyon in the Swiss national basketball league . After only two months, Dials left the Swiss first division club again at the end of March 2010 and then played for the team from Anshan in the “National Basketball League of China” (NBL), which is located below the CBA . He returned for the 2010/11 European season and played for Pizza Express Apollon in Limassol in Cyprus . After 13 games, however, he went back to China for the NBL and played for the "Springs" from Hebei . Then he completed a few games in Taiwan for "Pure Youth".

After a "try-out" at the French first division club CSP Élite from Limoges in the 2012/13 season preparation, Dials got a contract with the second division Hyères Var Basket from Toulon in the Pro B. After his ex-club from Orléans split from Brandon Hunter , fetched However, at the beginning of April 2013, the Orléans Loiret Basket, the new name of Entente, was high in the top division. The team narrowly missed the play-offs for the French championship in ninth place both in 2013 and in the LNB Pro A 2013/14 . In the 2014/15 season Dials was again active in the Swiss National League for the BBC from Monthey . The club remained in the qualifying round for the play-offs of the best four teams in ten games without a win and finished sixth in the end. At the end of the season Dials moved to Uruguay, where he helped the Malvín Club from the capital Montevideo defend the championship title. Subsequently, Dials was no longer actively registered with professional teams.

Web links

• Terence Dials - Orléans - Joueurs - Pro A - player profile on the websites of the French LNB ( French )
• Terence Dials College Stats - Profile and NCAA stats at sports-reference.com ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ohio State's Terence Dials Named Big Ten Player of the Year by Coaches And Media. (No longer available online.) Big Ten Conference , March 7, 2006, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; accessed on April 8, 2013 (English, media info). 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.  
2. ↑ DIALS, TERENCE. ULEB , accessed April 8, 2013 (English, player profile). 
3. ↑ Terence Dials replaces Nate Gerwig. Basketball Bundesliga , November 2, 2009, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; accessed on April 8, 2013 (Medien-Info Paderborn Baskets). 
4. ↑ Terence Jerome Dials (webmoebel Baskets). (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 8, 2013 (player 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.  
5. ↑ Jochem Schulze: Dials is moving away. Neue Westfälische , January 29, 2010, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 8, 2013 . 
6. ^ Ohio State's Terence Dials Recently Released By Switzerland's Sdent BBC Nyon. LostLettermen.com, March 26, 2010, archived from the original on June 29, 2013 ; accessed on April 8, 2013 .