2014-15 Men's Basketball
Reese Morgan
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 206
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- San Pedro, CA
- High School:
- Peninsula HS
2014-15 (Junior)
Ranked 37th among NCAA?Division I players with an 86.0 (98-for-114) percent free throw mark and finished third in Cal Poly’s lineup with a career high 10.0 points per game … appeared in 27 of 29 games and averaged 21.6 minutes per contest … scored season high 21 points at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 19) ... added 18 points versus Long Beach State (Feb. 14) … finished with 17 points at San Francisco (Dec. 15), at Hawai’i (Jan. 7) and at UC?Irvine?(Jan. 29) ... scored in double digits in 12 of 27 appearances ... twice grabbed season high seven rebound at Nevada (Nov. 15) and versus San Francisco State (Nov. 18) … twice sank career high nine free throws in home victories versus UC Riverside (Jan. 24) and CSUN (Feb. 12).
2013-14 (Sophomore)
Returned to lineup after sustaining an early-season injury to appear in nine of the final 11 games … scored season high 10 points at UC Davis (Feb. 27) and added nine on three three-pointers in NCAA Tournament First Four victory against Texas Southern (March 19) … averaged 7.6 minutes per game.
2012-13 (Freshman)
Appeared in all 32 games, started 10 times and established a single season Cal Poly program record with a 90.0 (54-for-60) percent free throw mark … finished fifth among Mustangs with 5.9 points per game and posted a 2.43-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio … scored career high 26 points and sank seven three-pointers at UC Santa Barbara (Jan. 19) … added 16 points versus Long Beach State (Jan. 3), Hawai’i (Jan. 24) and UC Riverside (March 7), when he knocked down all four three-point attempts … totaled 12 points versus UC Davis (Feb. 9) and 10 at Hawai’i (March 2) … grabbed career high eight rebounds at UC Riverside (Dec. 29) and versus UC Davis (Feb. 9).
2011-12 (Redshirt)
Redshirted first year on campus after suffering preseason injury.
Peninsula HS (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.)
During prep career, scored 2,430 points (22.5 per 108 games), grabbed 909 rebounds (8.4), distributed 306 assists (2.8) and shot 46.4 (738-for-1,592) percent from the floor, 38.8 (214-for-552) percent from three-point range and 81.1 (740-for-913) percent from the free throw line … in California high school history, ranks first all-time in free throws (740) … rated as the No. 56 guard in the class of 2011 by ESPN.com … during 2010-11 senior season, earned Parade Magazine All-America fourth team praise and named MVP of the Bay League and to the All-California Interscholastic Federation first team after averaging 27.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per 33 games, shooting 49.4 (278-for-562) percent from the floor and sinking 247 of 299 (82.6 percent) free throw attempts … 901 points and 247 free throws as a senior led every player in state of California … as a junior, averaged a 19.5-point, 10.0-rebound double-double in being named Bay League Most Outstanding Player and to the All-CIF first team … averaged 21.9 points per game as a sophomore to earn selection to the All-CIF and All-Bay League first teams and all-area second team … also named Bay League MVP and to the All-CIF second team as a freshman during 2007-08 season after averaging 19.9 points per game … registered double-digit scoring figures during 103 of 108 high school games … sunk 40.5 (158-for-390) percent of three-point attempts during final two seasons … served as team captain during final three years … helped program to Bay League titles as a freshman and senior, when the Panthers finished 30-3 overall and reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 CIF Division II state tournament.
Personal
Son of Tom and Jackie Morgan … father played basketball at Cal State Fullerton (1978-80) and was a 10th-round draft pick of the Dallas Mavericks in 1980 … has one brother, Shane … grandfather, Tom Morgan, was a righthanded pitcher for the New York Yankees (1951-52, 1954-56), Kansas City Athletics (1957), Detroit Tigers (1958-60), Washington Senators (1960) and Los Angeles Angels (1961-63) and served as the pitching coach for the California Angeles (1972-74, 1981-83), San Diego Padres (1975) and Yankees (1979) … majoring in kinesiology … career ambition is to own his own physical therapy clinic … Reese Edward Morgan was born on July 16, 1992 in San Pedro, Calif.
