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Bray '14 Signs With Belgian Top-Division Team
January 10, 2017 | Men's Basketball
T.J. Bray '14, a first-team All-Ivy League honoree as a senior and a 1,000-point scorer during his Princeton career, has signed with Basic-Fit Brussels, a team in the Basketball League Belgium Division I, the country's top league.
Bray finished with 1,024 career points and graduated as Princeton's third-leading career assist man (374) since the stat began being kept in the mid-1970s. He was a two-time All-Ivy League honoree, also earning second-team recognition as a junior.
"T.J. is one of the best all around players we've had at Princeton," coach Mitch Henderson said. "He absorbed what it meant to make others better and practiced it daily as well as competing each and every day at a very high level."
After Princeton, Bray played a season apiece with two Italian teams, Pallacanestro Trapani in Siciliy and Junior Casale in the northern part of the country near Milan. He was due to play with MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg in Germany's top division, but a knee injury cost him that opportunity and Bray spent the first half of the 2016-17 season rehabbing to return. Bray was Casale's leading scorer (12.0 ppg) and assists leader (3.1 apg) during his season there.
Brussels stands in sixth place in the 10-team league at 7-7 with 22 more regular-season game to go through May. The team also plays in the FIBA Europe Cup, an international competition between European club teams.
Bray joins several former Tigers playing in Europe, including Ian Hummer '13 with TED Kolejliler in Turkey, Kareem Maddox '11 with Krosno in Poland, and Clay Wilson '15 with Bochum in Germany.Â
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Bray finished with 1,024 career points and graduated as Princeton's third-leading career assist man (374) since the stat began being kept in the mid-1970s. He was a two-time All-Ivy League honoree, also earning second-team recognition as a junior.
"T.J. is one of the best all around players we've had at Princeton," coach Mitch Henderson said. "He absorbed what it meant to make others better and practiced it daily as well as competing each and every day at a very high level."
After Princeton, Bray played a season apiece with two Italian teams, Pallacanestro Trapani in Siciliy and Junior Casale in the northern part of the country near Milan. He was due to play with MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg in Germany's top division, but a knee injury cost him that opportunity and Bray spent the first half of the 2016-17 season rehabbing to return. Bray was Casale's leading scorer (12.0 ppg) and assists leader (3.1 apg) during his season there.
Brussels stands in sixth place in the 10-team league at 7-7 with 22 more regular-season game to go through May. The team also plays in the FIBA Europe Cup, an international competition between European club teams.
Bray joins several former Tigers playing in Europe, including Ian Hummer '13 with TED Kolejliler in Turkey, Kareem Maddox '11 with Krosno in Poland, and Clay Wilson '15 with Bochum in Germany.Â
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