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Tyler Bernardini
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Height: 6-6  Weight: 205
Junior
Previous Affiliations
   Francis Parker
Previous Experience
  
Carlsbad, Calif.
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Courtesy: University of Pennsylvania
Release: 04/01/2009

 

Career Stats
Games Played/Started: 53/49
Minutes: 1,483 (28.0 mpg)
Points: 705 (13.3 ppg)
Rebounds: 170 (3.2 rpg)
FG Pct.: .421 (227-539)
3FG Pct.: .398 (94-236)
FT Pct.: .763 (167-219)
Assists: 92
Turnovers: 114
Blocked Shots: 8
Steals: 56

Career Honors
2008 Philadelphia Big 5 Rookie of the Year (Dave Zinkoff Award)
2008 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
Two-time honorable mention All-Ivy (2008 2009)

One-time Big 5 and Ivy League Player of the Week, five-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week

2008-09: Honorable mention All-Ivy ... Played in 25 games, with 24 starts ... Missed the last three contests with concussion symptoms ... Led Penn, sixth among Ivy players in scoring (13.7 ppg) ... Third on Penn, 18th among Ivy players with 4.0 rebounds per game ... Also among Ivy leaders in steals per game (6th, 1.4), free-throw percentage (8th, .750), 3-point FG made per game (10th, 1.6) and 3-point FG percentage (15th, .317) ... Led Penn in scoring in a team-high 10 games ... Had a team-leading 18 double-figure scoring games, including four outings with 20 or more points ... Scored 15 points and had three rebounds against Yale (2/27) ... Dropped 18 points, five boards and three steals at Princeton (2/17) ... Combined for 29 points, eight rebounds and four assists on the Brown/Yale trip (2/13-14) ... Had a combined 27 points, six boards, four assists and three steals vs. Columbia and Cornell (2/6-7) ... Had 22 points, four rebounds and three steals at Dartmouth (1/31) ... Had a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds against Saint Joseph’s (1/24) ... Scored 23 points at La Salle (1/21) ... First collegiate double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds at NJIT (1/17) ... Had 18 points, five rebounds, five assists and two steals vs. Lafayette (1/5) ... Combined for 26 points, four rebounds, four assists and five steals at the UCF Holiday Classic (12/29-30) ... Had 12 points vs. Villanova (12/2) ... Scored 19 points at Albany (11/29) ... Dropped 22 points, four assists and three steals vs. Monmouth (11/22) ... Had 14 points and five assists at Drexel (11/18) ... Ivy League and Big 5 Player of the Week after matching a career high with 26 points in season opener at No. 1 North Carolina (11/15).

2007-08: Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... Dave Zinkoff Award recipient as the Philadelphia Big 5 Rookie of the Year (first in Penn history) ... Honorable mention All-Ivy ... Started 25 times and played in 28 of 31 games, missing three Ivy League games to injury ... Five-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week ... Finished second on the team and eighth in the Ivy League in scoring (12.9 ppg) ... Led Penn with 45 three-point baskets and 83 free throws made ... Tied for third on the team with 22 steals ... Also had 43 assists and 11 blocked shots ... Among Ivy players, finished 10th in overall field-goal percentage (.445) and ninth in free-throw percentage (.776) ... Had 18 double-figure scoring games, and tied for the team high with six games scoring 20 or more points ... Hit game-winning shot with 0.6 seconds left, the last of 15 points on the night, to defeat Columbia (3/8) ... Also had four assists and three steals against the Lions ... Scored team-high 25 points (5-of-10 on three-pointers)  with two assists and two steals against Cornell (3/7) ... Went 7-of-9 from the field for 16 points in win at Yale (2/29) ... Hit team-leading 19 points two weeks earlier in win at home against the Bulldogs (2/16) ... Had 20 points in first Ivy game, vs. Harvard (2/1) ... Scored team-leading 16 points in Big 5 game against Temple (1/23) ... Led Penn with 20 points and had six rebounds vs. Big 5 foe La Salle (1/15) ... Filled box score with 14 points, six boards and five assists vs. NJIT (1/5) ... Dropped game-high 23 in win over Elon (12/20) ... Went 10-of-17 from the field for 26 points against No. 1 North Carolina (12/4) ... Led Quakers with 21 points and had four rebounds at Villanova (12/1) ... Scored a combined 28 points in back-to-back Philly Classic games against Virginia (11/23) and Navy (11/24) ... First double-figure scoring game came against The Citadel, when he scored 18 points (11/20) ... Had nine points and six rebounds against Howard (11/17).

High School: Four-year letterwinner in basketball ... Team captain as a senior ... High school coach was Jim Tomey ... Team won league championships in 2007 (28-4 record) and 2004 ... 2007 Coastal South Player of the Year ... First-team all-state (Division IV) and all-league ... First-team All-CIF ... San Diego All-Star Game MVP ... Youth Outstanding Scholar Athlete Achievement Award ... Honorable mention all-league as a junior ... Honor roll student.

Personal: Son of Melanie and Michael Bernardini ... Enrolled in Wharton with a marketing concentration.

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