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#1 Zack Rosen
Position: None
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 175
Year: Junior
City/State: Colonia, N.J.
High School: St. Benedict's

Career Stats
Games Played/Started: 56/54
Minutes: 1,911 (34.1 mpg)
Points: 721 (12.9 ppg)
Rebounds: 186 (3.3 rpg)
FG Pct.: .407 (203-499)
3FG Pct.: .372 (100-269)
FT Pct.: .850 (215-253)
Assists: 263
Turnovers: 162
Blocked Shots: 3
Steals: 73

Career Honors
2009-10 First-team All-Ivy (unanimous)
2009-10 NABC First-team All-District 13
2008-09 Philadelphia Big 5 Rookie of the Year
One-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week

2009-10: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Appeared in all 28 games, starting all but the game at Yale (1/29) ... First-team All-Ivy (unanimous) ... Second-team National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 13 ... Second-team All-Philadelphia Big 5 ... Led Penn, Ivy League in overall scoring (17.7 ppg) and free-throw percentage (.862) ... Tops among Ivy players in conference scoring (18.7 ppg) and free-throw percentage (.875) ... Also led Penn with 124 assists, 71 three-point baskets and 144 free throws made ... Made more threes than any Penn player since Tim Begley hit 76 in 2004-05 ... Made more free throws than any Penn player since Paul Romanczuk made 151 in 1997-98 ... Overall among Ivy players: first in minutes played (37.1), second in three-point FG made per game (2.5), third in assists per game (4.4), seventh in assist/turnover ratio (1.35), 10th in steals per game (1.1), 10th in field-goal percentage (.439), 10th in three-point FG percentage (.425) ... Led Penn with 25 double-figure scoring games (ended season with 14 such games in a row) and nine games with 20 or more points ... Led team in scoring in 17 games ... Hit five or more three-pointers in five different games ... Had five or more assists in 16 different games ... Second on the team with 32 steals ... Had back-to-back 18-point games against Princeton (3/9) and Dartmouth (3/6) ... Went for 23 points at Cornell (2/27) ... Scored a combined 56 points in Ivy weekend against Brown (2/19) and Yale (2/20) ... Also had 10 assists against Brown for his first collegiate double-double, and collected five steals ... Had 22 points, five assists and three steals in Penn's 79-64 win over No. 22 Cornell (2/12) ... Dropped 29 points, four assists and two steals against La Salle (1/20) ... Had 28 points in Penn's win over UMBC (1/6) ... Scored a career-high 30 points at Lafayette (1/3) ... Had 23 points and six assists at Monmouth (12/12) ... Recorded 18 points, seven assists and five rebounds at Navy (12/4) ... Scored 25 points and added five boards and five assists in double-overtime loss to Delaware (11/21) ... Started season with eight points, season-high seven rebounds, and six assists at Penn State (11/13).

2008-09: (Game-by-Game in PDF) One of four players to appear in all 28 games ... As a freshman, led Penn with 27 starts ... Received the Dave Zinkoff Award as the Philadelphia Big 5 Rookie of the Year ... Averaged 8.1 points and 3.4 rebounds per game ... Led Penn and the Ivy League in assists (139, 5.0 per game) and assist/turnover ratio (1.99) ... His 139 assists put him eighth on Penn's single-season list ... Finished second in the Ivy League in free-throw percentage (.826) and third in steals per game (1.5) ... Led Penn in scoring three times and rebounding twice ... Had 13 double-figure scoring games, fourth on the team ... Had 13 points, five rebounds, five assists and five steals vs. Princeton (3/10) ... Scored 10 points each against Columbia (3/7), Cornell (3/6) and Brown (2/28) ... Had 15 points, six boards, five assists against Dartmouth (2/20) ... Finished with 14 points, eight rebounds, and only OT field goal in Penn's OT win at Princeton (2/17) ... Ivy League Player of the Week for February 2, following Penn's weekend at Harvard and Dartmouth ... Recorded five points, five rebounds and seven assists at Dartmouth (1/31) ... In first Ivy League game, he recorded 15 points and season-high nine assists at Harvard (1/30) ... Filled box score with 10 points, five rebounds, seven assists and three steals at La Salle (1/21) ... Recorded season-high 17 points, eight assists and five boards vs. Lafayette (1/5) ... Had 10 points and six rebounds vs. Campbell (12/30) ... Had 12 points, eight assists, six rebounds and three steals at Albany (11/29) ... Scored eight points and dished out seven assists vs. Penn State (11/25) ... Had eight assists and seven rebounds at Drexel (11/18) ... In collegiate debut, started against No. 1 North Carolina and finished with five assists, four rebounds and two steals.

High School: Lettered four years in basketball, playing two years at St. Benedict’s after transferring in from Colonia HS ... Team captain ... Led St. Benedict’s prep team to state prep title in 2007-08 ... In 2006-07, played on St. Benedict’s varsity team that was 24-1 and ranked fifth in the nation by USA Today (after holding a No. 1 ranking during the season) ... In 2005-06, helped Colonia to 21-6 mark and Greater Middlesex County title ... Two-time first-team all-state prep at St. Benedict’s ... First-team all-county in 2004-05 at Colonia ... Third-team all-county in 2003-04 ... Also lettered twice in baseball at Colonia, earning second-team all-county ... National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society member.

Personal: Son of Karen and Les Rosen ... Between his freshman and sophomore years at Penn, played on the gold medal-winning United States Men's Open Basketball Team at the 18th Maccabiah Games in Israel ... Enrolled in Wharton.

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