greg paulus

Medina, Ohio High school Christian Brothers Academy,

Syracuse, New York Career highlights Awards 2006 ACC All-Freshman 1st Team

2006 ACC All-Tournament 2nd Team Tournaments 2006 NCAA Tournament

2007 NCAA Tournament

2008 NCAA Tournament

2009 NCAA Tournament

Gregory Russell Paulus (born July 3, 1986) is a former college basketball player and point guard on the Duke University men's basketball team. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 College career 2.1 Freshman 2.2 Sophomore 2.3 Junior 2.4 Senior 3 Awards and honors 4 References 5 External links //

Biography

Born in Medina, Ohio, and grew up in the Syracuse suburb of Manlius, New York. Father is David Paulus.

College career

Paulus received scholarship offers to play football at the University of Miami and Notre Dame.[citation needed] He also received basketball scholarship offers from Duke University, Syracuse University and Notre Dame.[citation needed] He chose to play basketball and joined the Duke Blue Devils. Greg Paulus and Joe Mauer each have the distinction of being a Gatorade National High School Football Player of the Year who did not play football at the collegiate level.[citation needed]

Freshman

Games: 36, PPG: 6.7, RPG: 2.8, APG: 5.2[1]

Paulus was a member of the Duke team that finished with a 32–4 record and won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular season and tournament championship. Paulus led the ACC in assists per game at 5.2. He set a Duke freshman record for assists in a game with 15 (with three turnovers) in a 104–77 home victory over Valparaiso on December 18, 2005; that assist total was only one away from the all-time single-game Duke record of 16, set by NCAA career assist leader Bobby Hurley.

His 187 assists ranked third behind Bobby Hurley (288 in 1990) and Jay Williams (220 in 2000) among the freshman assist leaders in Duke history.[1]

Sophomore

Games: 33, PPG: 11.7, RPG: 2.2, APG: 3.8, FG%: 45.6[2]

Paulus injured his foot during the preseason. After the season, Coach Chris Collins said Paulus struggled because he had a tarsal coalition, and it was corrected through surgery; he has since fully recovered. He had a career high on March 15, 2007 with 25 points against Virginia Commonwealth.

Junior

Games: 34, PPG: 11.4, RPG: 2.1, APG: 4.1[1]

Paulus led Duke to a 28–6 record including an 89–78 victory over rival UNC in which Paulus led Duke in scoring with 18 points. Paulus led the Atlantic Coast Conference in assist to turnover ratio during the 2007–08 season, and shot over 42 percent from beyond the arc on his way to making 82 three point field goals.

Senior

Games: 36, PPG: 4.9, RPG: 1.3, APG: 1.3

After being the starting point guard for his first three