Married life agrees with Demers, who harbors aspirations of playing abroad next year.
“My lowest moment,” says Demers, who showed up at practice the next day shooting left-handed. And there he met Matt Chewning, a former Division III baller at Eastern Nazarene (in Quincy, Mass. The only Division III player Baptiste invites is Demers. “It’s funny,” he says.
Statistics Mens and Womens College Hockey Scoring, Goals, Assists, Goaltending Leaders, Player Stats, Conferences Stats, Team Stats, Rosters, Statistics Stay in, watch a movie. In total, 10 of the league's top-20 scorers from last season are expected to be back, with 13 of its top-20 rebounders and 12 of its top-20 distributors also returning. Latest COVID-19 news, schedule changes in college sportsKelsey Plum became Division I women's basketball's all-time leading scorer in 2017, breaking a 16-year-old record held by Missouri State's Jackie Stiles.Plum, a certified bucket-getter at Washington, came into her Senior Day needing 54 points to pass Stiles's career mark of 3,393. “I don’t want to miss our show.”How Eric Demers, a married D-III anonymity—a little man on his own campus—fired his way to a historic NCAA scoring season.© 2020 ABG-SI LLC. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. This is his basketball Brigadoon. The leading scorer for the Gamecocks returns, with a ton of responsibility to produce even more in 2020-21.
Lauren dutifully rebounded.
His shooting hand. “He always had talent and a tremendous amount of confidence. After Eric scored 18 points in his third game as a Gordon freshman in 2016, his father, Joe, a longtime coach at Falmouth High, approached Scots assistant Josh Thies.
“At one point, one of their players said, ‘You better save some [shots], cuz you’re gonna run out,’” Demers recalls. He was his own worst enemy freshman year.”And sophomore year. High the varsity coach, Paul Lundberg, remembers espying a lanky sophomore on the jayvee squad who was “not strong but also slow.” “Is he ever going to play for us?” he asked an assistant. “I’ve thought about that,” he says of Woody Harrelson’s Eric Demers went straight from the crib to the basket. Which hardly seems much of an obstacle considering that on three separate occasions this year—including that December decimation of Nichols’s perimeter defense—he has buried nine threes in a game. “Some of my teammates kidded me that as soon as I got married, my scoring average would go down five points per game. Discover the 2020 women's college basketball individual and team leaders across every major statistical category. But who knows or cares? On a recent Friday evening, he and Lauren, who were married last August, planned a family night. Who engaged in epic indoor battles against his younger brother on the hoop in the basement. 25.
“I figured, if the date went south,” says Demers, “I’d at least have someone to talk to.” By the end of the night Ella had fallen in love with Lauren, and he’d fallen pretty hard himself. Butler was Baylor’s leading scorer a season ago, averaging 16.0 points and 3.1 assists for a team that went 26-4, spent a portion of the season as the No.
Demers was about to discover the verity of that axiom. Not much has changed.”Growing up in Acushnet, Mass., a half-hour’s drive southeast of Providence, Demers is the lad who trudged through the snow to shoot baskets at nearby Pope Park. “I invited Eric to move in with us,” says Chewning, who himself has four children under 17. The upside?
“The irony,” Lauren chimes in, “is that Eric hates attention.”On any given night, Demers punches a key code outside and enters a hardwood sanctum about a third the size of a regulation court. And who still does. “In our family we’re big on two things: authority and affection. “He’d ask us questions like, ‘How do I That was the year Demers asked out Lauren, an education major at Gordon, whom he met at a worship night. And remains until Demers finishes.K.J. “Eric is not handy with tools,” says his mother, Ann Marie, “but he was able to put up that basket in no time.”Sitting in his second-floor office in Gordon’s athletic center, Scots coach Tod Murphy points through the bare trees to a housing development less than half a mile south. The fifth-year senior guard at (Division III) Gordon College has conscripted a visitor to rebound, and his new bride, Lauren, to feed him. The exercise is rhythmic and, for his aides, relatively effortless. All Rights Reserved.
How Eric Demers, a married D-III guard—a little … Baptiste is a grad assistant at Penn State, and he runs summer games around the Boston area.
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The head coach at my current school asks me every day, ‘Why isn’t that kid playing here?’”If others have lacked faith in Demers, he’s made up for it with faith in himself. Wing Chris Smith waited until the final day, but the Bruins get back their top scorer (13.1 ppg). It’s actually increased by 10.”With that, Demers finishes his workout in Salem the same way he finishes every other one: 10 consecutive free throws, each one a swish. Between 1935–36 and 1946–47, there were no "official" NCAA scoring champions. Eric Demers launches not shots but repeating rainbows, and their arcs overlap, tracing a parabola as pure as a starlit New England winter’s evening.
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“As soon as he was old enough to sit up, about six months,” says his father, Jim, “we bought him a little plastic ball and a hoop.
Chewning and his wife run a small ministry in the area, and after a few months he had an idea.
The couple wed 18 months later. Which player is dominating the 2019-2020 season? NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Statistics - 2019-20 Season: