2024-25 Men's Basketball Roster
Pritchard, Anthony
Jersey Number 30
Anthony Pritchard
- Position:
- G
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 185
- Hometown:
- Tulsa, Okla.
- High School:
- Webster H.S.
- Previous School:
- Tulsa
- Major:
- Community Development/Community Services
Bio
CAREER
Two-time All-MAC selection … two-time MAC All-Defensive Team honoree, became the first player in school history to earn two such honors … entered the 2024-25 season as the consensus MAC preseason player of the year and consensus First Team All-MAC honoree … MAC Defensive Player of the Year and MAC All-Defensive team honoree in 2023-24 … First Team All-MAC selection in 2023-24, becoming the first player at CMU to earn First Team honors since 2016-17 .. 2023-24 NACB All-District 14 honoree … in two-year career at Central Michigan, scored 777 points (13.0 average), grabbed 293 rebounds, dished out 305 assists, had 108 steals in 60 games/starts and 2053 minutes (34.2 mpg.) … shot 44.1 percent (300-680) on field goals, 30.5 percent (40-131) on 3-pointers, and 70.6 percent (137-194) from the free throw line … concluded his career ranked among all-time program leaders in three statistics: No. 10 in career assists (305), No. 6 in season assists (169 in 2024-25), and No. 6 in season steals (60 in 2024-25) … became first player in program history to register a triple-double with 10 points, a career-high 12 assists, and a career-high 10 rebounds at Western Michigan (2/22/25) … in career, registered two double-doubles, 44 double figure scoring games, seven 20-point games, three 10-plus assist games and seven four-plus steal games … led Central Michigan in scoring 19 times, rebounding in 10 games, and assists in 44 games … in his four-year career at Central Michigan and Tulsa, played in 108 games with 99 starts, scored 1,082 points, dished out 472 assists and grabbed 425 rebounds … averaged 10.0 points per game in his career.
2024-25
As a senior guard, started and played in all 31 games … earned MAC All-Defensive Team bonors for the second straight year and became the first player to earn two MAC All-Defensive Team honors … also named to the All-MAC Third Team … Consensus preseason MAC Player of the Year and consensus preseason First Team All-MAC selection … named the preseason MAC Player of the Year by Blue Ribbon Magazine … named the preseason MAC Player of the Year by Lindy’s Magazine … named to the preseason All-MAC First Team by league coaches … preseason First Team All-MAC selection by Lindy’s Magazine and Blue Ribbon Magazine … rated the nation’s No. 88 player on a list of the top-150 by Lindy’s Magazine … rated the MAC’s best playmaker and the top defender by Lindy’s Magazine … nominated for the Bob Cousy Award, the nation’s best point guard … played and started all 31 games and in 1,095 minutes at point guard … averaged 13.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.5 assists, and 1.9 steals per game … scored 405 points, pulled down 144 rebounds, dished out 169 assists and finished with 60 steals per game … converted 43.2 percent (156-361) of his shots, 67.3 percent (25-74) of his 3-pointers, and 67.3 percent (68-101) of his free throw attempts … ranked among national leaders and 1-2 in the MAC all season long in assists, assists per game, steals, and steals per game … led the Chippewas in assists and steals … surpassed the 1,000-point mark in his career vs. Akron (2/15) … registered 22 double figure scoring games, three 20-point games, one double figure rebounding game, two double-doubles and led CMU in scoring seven times, rebounding four times, and assists 23 times … scored 10 points while playing a career-high 50 minutes in season finale vs. Northern Illinois (3/7) … finished with 18 points (8-14 FG) with seven rebounds, and six assists at Ball State (3/4) … scored 15 points (6-11 FG) with six rebounds, and seven assists at Eastern Michigan (2/28) … scored 18 points (7-8 FT), with five rebounds, and six assists vs. Buffalo (2/25) … became first player in program history to register a triple-double with 10 points, a career-high 12 assists, and a career-high 10 rebounds at Western Michigan (2/22) … scored 18 points (8-12 FG) with eight assists at Kent State (2/11) … registered a double-double of 17 points and a then-career-high 11 assists vs. Texas State (2/8) … scored 15 points with eight assists vs. Bowling Green (2/1) … finished with 16 points (7-18 FG) with five assists at Buffalo (1/28) … scored 15 points (7-19 FG) with six assists vs. Ball State (1/21) … finished with 13 points and nine assists at Northern Illinois (1/18) … scored a season-high 22 points (9-17 FG) with eight rebounds vs. Eastern Michigan (1/14) … finished with 12 points at Toledo (1/10) … scored 13 points with five assists at Akron (1/7) … scored 13 points vs. Ohio (1/4) … finished with 12 points vs. Mississippi State (12/17) … scored 10 points (6-15 FG, 7-8 FT) with six rebounds at Valparaiso (12/14) … scored 18 points with nine rebounds and eight assists at Aquinas (12/5) … finished with 18 points vs. Central State (11/20) … scored 21 points (7-13) FG) at George Mason (11/13) … scored 12 points (5-10 FG) vs. Stony Brook (11/7) … scored 12 points in the season opener at South Alabama (11/4).
2023-24
As a junior point guard at Central Michigan, named the MAC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-MAC and to the MAC All-Defensive Team … earned NABC All-District 14 Second Team honors … became the second player in CMU basketball history to earn the MAC Defensive Player of the Year award joining Chris Kaman in 2003 … became the first player since 2017 to earn First Team All-MAC accolades … also named to the MAC All-Defensive Team, the first player since 2018-19 to earn those accolades … led team in scoring (12.8 ppg., 372 points), assists (4.7 apg., 136), steals (48), field goals made (144) and ranked second in minutes played (957), field goal percentage (45.1), ranked second in rebounding (149) … also averaged 5.1 rebounds per game, hit 15-57 3-pointers and shot 74.2 percent (69-93) on free throws … earned MAC Player of the Week honors on Jan. 29, 2024 after averaging 20.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.0 assists, and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 15-26 from the floor and 11-14 from the free throw line at Western Michigan and vs. Miami (OH) … finished season with 20 double figure scoring games, four 20-point games, and 16 games with five or more assists … led CMU in scoring 12 times, rebounding six times, and assists 21 times … dished out a career-high 10 assists and a career-high tying nine rebounds at Northern Illinois (3/5) … scored 14 points (6-10 FG), grabbed five rebounds, and dished out five assists at Kent State (3/2) … finished with 16 points (6-8 FG) with five assists at Miami (OH) (2/24) … finished with 15 points and nine rebounds vs. Bowling Green (2/20) … scored 16 points vs. Northern Illinois (1/30) … scored a career-high 23 points (9-15 FG, 5-5 FT) with eight rebounds and six assists at Western Michigan (1/27) … contributed 18 points (6-11 FG, 6-9 FT) with eight assists and seven rebounds vs. Miami (OH) (1/23) … scored 20 points (7-18 FG) with nine rebounds vs. Toledo (1/19) … finished with 15 points (6-12 FG) with five assists at Ohio (1/16) … added 11 points and six assists vs. Kent State (1/13) … added 12 points at Eastern Michigan (1/9) … scored 15 points (5-9 FG) with six assists at Ball State (1/6) … scored 19 points (7-18 FG, 5-6 FT) vs. Buffalo (1/2) … scored 15 points with seven assists vs. Detroit Mercy (12/21) … led CMU with 22 points (10-19 FG) at Creighton (12/9) … added 12 points vs. Valparaiso (12/6) … scored 18 points (8-11 FG) with nine assists and seven rebounds vs. Siena (11/20) … scored 22 points (9-13 FG) with six rebounds, and five assists at South Florida (11/15) … contributed 16 points, grabbed a career-high nine rebounds and five assists at Florida State (11/13) … scored 15 points (6-8 FG) with five assists vs. UL-Monroe (11/11) … contributed 11 points in season opener at Oklahoma (11/6).
CAREER AT TULSA
Two-year letterman … appeared in 49 games with 40 starts in his career ... has recorded 311 points, 135 rebounds, 171 assists and 53 steals as a Hurricane … averaged 6.3 points, 3.5 assists, and 2.8 rebounds in his two-year career at Tulsa … shot 41.7 percent (125-300) on field goals, hit 27.4 percent of his 3-point field goals (17-62).
2022-23 AT TULSA
As a sophomore at Tulsa, played and started 22 games … averaged 8.8 points, 4.1 assists, and 3.0 rebounds per game … reached double figure scoring in 11 games … finished with 12 points at Cincinnati (Feb. 1) … scored 10 points and dished out seven assists at East Carolina (Jan. 24) … finished with 10 points and a season-high nine assists vs. Tulane (Jan. 21) … registered a season-high 17 points vs. SMU (Jan. 18) … tallied 13 points vs. Temple (Jan. 10) … finished with a season-high six steals at SMU (Jan. 1) … scored 12 points at Loyola Marymount (Dec. 21) … finished with 13 points (6-8 FG) vs. Mississippi Valley State (Dec. 16) … scored 12 points vs. Oral Roberts (Dec. 3) … registered 10 points vs. Murray State (Nov. 20) … scored 13 points, hit a season-high three 3-pointers vs. Charlotte (Nov. 18) … scored 10 points with five assists vs. Jackson State (Nov. 12).
2021-22 AT TULSA
As a freshman at Tulsa, played in 27 games and started in 18 contests, averaging 20.8 minutes per game ... recorded 4.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game ... had a team-high 80 assists in freshman campaign, which accounted for 21.9 percent of the team's assists on the season ... started the season opener against Northwestern State (Nov. 10), dishing out six assists in his first collegiate game ... started 12 consecutive games beginning with Little Rock (Nov. 26) and averaged 3.8 assists during that stretch ... stuffed the scoresheet with eight rebounds, six assists and three steals against Little Rock (Nov. 26) ... recorded his first career double-double in a win against Cincinnati (Feb. 12) with 11 points, seven rebounds and a season-high 10 assists ... scored a season-high 12 points in the conference opener against SMU (Dec. 29) ... missed the final four games of the season due to an injury.
HIGH SCHOOL
A 2021 graduate of Webster High School in Tulsa, Okla. … was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at Webster … averaged 19.8 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.9 steals in his four seasons … averaged 22.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 4.6 assists his senior season … led Webster to the Class 4A state semifinals his senior campaign … was named the Green Country Conference Player of the Year … was a first-team all-state performer both his junior and senior seasons … was named to the Tulsa World all-metro team his junior and senior seasons … earned first-team all-conference accolades as a junior and senior … scored at a 19.4 clip his junior season and added 5.4 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 3.8 steals … he connected on 50-percent of his shots as a junior … his 686 points as a sophomore was a school single-season record … averaged 23.7 points his sophomore season, knocking down 75 three-pointers for a .339 percentage and connected on 74.4 percent from the charity stripe … also averaged 5.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.5 steals in his sophomore campaign … scored at a 13.0 clip his freshman campaign.
PERSONAL
Born Anthony Pritchard on May 6, 2003.
Two-time All-MAC selection … two-time MAC All-Defensive Team honoree, became the first player in school history to earn two such honors … entered the 2024-25 season as the consensus MAC preseason player of the year and consensus First Team All-MAC honoree … MAC Defensive Player of the Year and MAC All-Defensive team honoree in 2023-24 … First Team All-MAC selection in 2023-24, becoming the first player at CMU to earn First Team honors since 2016-17 .. 2023-24 NACB All-District 14 honoree … in two-year career at Central Michigan, scored 777 points (13.0 average), grabbed 293 rebounds, dished out 305 assists, had 108 steals in 60 games/starts and 2053 minutes (34.2 mpg.) … shot 44.1 percent (300-680) on field goals, 30.5 percent (40-131) on 3-pointers, and 70.6 percent (137-194) from the free throw line … concluded his career ranked among all-time program leaders in three statistics: No. 10 in career assists (305), No. 6 in season assists (169 in 2024-25), and No. 6 in season steals (60 in 2024-25) … became first player in program history to register a triple-double with 10 points, a career-high 12 assists, and a career-high 10 rebounds at Western Michigan (2/22/25) … in career, registered two double-doubles, 44 double figure scoring games, seven 20-point games, three 10-plus assist games and seven four-plus steal games … led Central Michigan in scoring 19 times, rebounding in 10 games, and assists in 44 games … in his four-year career at Central Michigan and Tulsa, played in 108 games with 99 starts, scored 1,082 points, dished out 472 assists and grabbed 425 rebounds … averaged 10.0 points per game in his career.
2024-25
As a senior guard, started and played in all 31 games … earned MAC All-Defensive Team bonors for the second straight year and became the first player to earn two MAC All-Defensive Team honors … also named to the All-MAC Third Team … Consensus preseason MAC Player of the Year and consensus preseason First Team All-MAC selection … named the preseason MAC Player of the Year by Blue Ribbon Magazine … named the preseason MAC Player of the Year by Lindy’s Magazine … named to the preseason All-MAC First Team by league coaches … preseason First Team All-MAC selection by Lindy’s Magazine and Blue Ribbon Magazine … rated the nation’s No. 88 player on a list of the top-150 by Lindy’s Magazine … rated the MAC’s best playmaker and the top defender by Lindy’s Magazine … nominated for the Bob Cousy Award, the nation’s best point guard … played and started all 31 games and in 1,095 minutes at point guard … averaged 13.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.5 assists, and 1.9 steals per game … scored 405 points, pulled down 144 rebounds, dished out 169 assists and finished with 60 steals per game … converted 43.2 percent (156-361) of his shots, 67.3 percent (25-74) of his 3-pointers, and 67.3 percent (68-101) of his free throw attempts … ranked among national leaders and 1-2 in the MAC all season long in assists, assists per game, steals, and steals per game … led the Chippewas in assists and steals … surpassed the 1,000-point mark in his career vs. Akron (2/15) … registered 22 double figure scoring games, three 20-point games, one double figure rebounding game, two double-doubles and led CMU in scoring seven times, rebounding four times, and assists 23 times … scored 10 points while playing a career-high 50 minutes in season finale vs. Northern Illinois (3/7) … finished with 18 points (8-14 FG) with seven rebounds, and six assists at Ball State (3/4) … scored 15 points (6-11 FG) with six rebounds, and seven assists at Eastern Michigan (2/28) … scored 18 points (7-8 FT), with five rebounds, and six assists vs. Buffalo (2/25) … became first player in program history to register a triple-double with 10 points, a career-high 12 assists, and a career-high 10 rebounds at Western Michigan (2/22) … scored 18 points (8-12 FG) with eight assists at Kent State (2/11) … registered a double-double of 17 points and a then-career-high 11 assists vs. Texas State (2/8) … scored 15 points with eight assists vs. Bowling Green (2/1) … finished with 16 points (7-18 FG) with five assists at Buffalo (1/28) … scored 15 points (7-19 FG) with six assists vs. Ball State (1/21) … finished with 13 points and nine assists at Northern Illinois (1/18) … scored a season-high 22 points (9-17 FG) with eight rebounds vs. Eastern Michigan (1/14) … finished with 12 points at Toledo (1/10) … scored 13 points with five assists at Akron (1/7) … scored 13 points vs. Ohio (1/4) … finished with 12 points vs. Mississippi State (12/17) … scored 10 points (6-15 FG, 7-8 FT) with six rebounds at Valparaiso (12/14) … scored 18 points with nine rebounds and eight assists at Aquinas (12/5) … finished with 18 points vs. Central State (11/20) … scored 21 points (7-13) FG) at George Mason (11/13) … scored 12 points (5-10 FG) vs. Stony Brook (11/7) … scored 12 points in the season opener at South Alabama (11/4).
2023-24
As a junior point guard at Central Michigan, named the MAC Co-Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-MAC and to the MAC All-Defensive Team … earned NABC All-District 14 Second Team honors … became the second player in CMU basketball history to earn the MAC Defensive Player of the Year award joining Chris Kaman in 2003 … became the first player since 2017 to earn First Team All-MAC accolades … also named to the MAC All-Defensive Team, the first player since 2018-19 to earn those accolades … led team in scoring (12.8 ppg., 372 points), assists (4.7 apg., 136), steals (48), field goals made (144) and ranked second in minutes played (957), field goal percentage (45.1), ranked second in rebounding (149) … also averaged 5.1 rebounds per game, hit 15-57 3-pointers and shot 74.2 percent (69-93) on free throws … earned MAC Player of the Week honors on Jan. 29, 2024 after averaging 20.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.0 assists, and 2.0 steals per game while shooting 15-26 from the floor and 11-14 from the free throw line at Western Michigan and vs. Miami (OH) … finished season with 20 double figure scoring games, four 20-point games, and 16 games with five or more assists … led CMU in scoring 12 times, rebounding six times, and assists 21 times … dished out a career-high 10 assists and a career-high tying nine rebounds at Northern Illinois (3/5) … scored 14 points (6-10 FG), grabbed five rebounds, and dished out five assists at Kent State (3/2) … finished with 16 points (6-8 FG) with five assists at Miami (OH) (2/24) … finished with 15 points and nine rebounds vs. Bowling Green (2/20) … scored 16 points vs. Northern Illinois (1/30) … scored a career-high 23 points (9-15 FG, 5-5 FT) with eight rebounds and six assists at Western Michigan (1/27) … contributed 18 points (6-11 FG, 6-9 FT) with eight assists and seven rebounds vs. Miami (OH) (1/23) … scored 20 points (7-18 FG) with nine rebounds vs. Toledo (1/19) … finished with 15 points (6-12 FG) with five assists at Ohio (1/16) … added 11 points and six assists vs. Kent State (1/13) … added 12 points at Eastern Michigan (1/9) … scored 15 points (5-9 FG) with six assists at Ball State (1/6) … scored 19 points (7-18 FG, 5-6 FT) vs. Buffalo (1/2) … scored 15 points with seven assists vs. Detroit Mercy (12/21) … led CMU with 22 points (10-19 FG) at Creighton (12/9) … added 12 points vs. Valparaiso (12/6) … scored 18 points (8-11 FG) with nine assists and seven rebounds vs. Siena (11/20) … scored 22 points (9-13 FG) with six rebounds, and five assists at South Florida (11/15) … contributed 16 points, grabbed a career-high nine rebounds and five assists at Florida State (11/13) … scored 15 points (6-8 FG) with five assists vs. UL-Monroe (11/11) … contributed 11 points in season opener at Oklahoma (11/6).
CAREER AT TULSA
Two-year letterman … appeared in 49 games with 40 starts in his career ... has recorded 311 points, 135 rebounds, 171 assists and 53 steals as a Hurricane … averaged 6.3 points, 3.5 assists, and 2.8 rebounds in his two-year career at Tulsa … shot 41.7 percent (125-300) on field goals, hit 27.4 percent of his 3-point field goals (17-62).
2022-23 AT TULSA
As a sophomore at Tulsa, played and started 22 games … averaged 8.8 points, 4.1 assists, and 3.0 rebounds per game … reached double figure scoring in 11 games … finished with 12 points at Cincinnati (Feb. 1) … scored 10 points and dished out seven assists at East Carolina (Jan. 24) … finished with 10 points and a season-high nine assists vs. Tulane (Jan. 21) … registered a season-high 17 points vs. SMU (Jan. 18) … tallied 13 points vs. Temple (Jan. 10) … finished with a season-high six steals at SMU (Jan. 1) … scored 12 points at Loyola Marymount (Dec. 21) … finished with 13 points (6-8 FG) vs. Mississippi Valley State (Dec. 16) … scored 12 points vs. Oral Roberts (Dec. 3) … registered 10 points vs. Murray State (Nov. 20) … scored 13 points, hit a season-high three 3-pointers vs. Charlotte (Nov. 18) … scored 10 points with five assists vs. Jackson State (Nov. 12).
2021-22 AT TULSA
As a freshman at Tulsa, played in 27 games and started in 18 contests, averaging 20.8 minutes per game ... recorded 4.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game ... had a team-high 80 assists in freshman campaign, which accounted for 21.9 percent of the team's assists on the season ... started the season opener against Northwestern State (Nov. 10), dishing out six assists in his first collegiate game ... started 12 consecutive games beginning with Little Rock (Nov. 26) and averaged 3.8 assists during that stretch ... stuffed the scoresheet with eight rebounds, six assists and three steals against Little Rock (Nov. 26) ... recorded his first career double-double in a win against Cincinnati (Feb. 12) with 11 points, seven rebounds and a season-high 10 assists ... scored a season-high 12 points in the conference opener against SMU (Dec. 29) ... missed the final four games of the season due to an injury.
HIGH SCHOOL
A 2021 graduate of Webster High School in Tulsa, Okla. … was a four-year letterwinner and three-year starter at Webster … averaged 19.8 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.9 steals in his four seasons … averaged 22.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 4.6 assists his senior season … led Webster to the Class 4A state semifinals his senior campaign … was named the Green Country Conference Player of the Year … was a first-team all-state performer both his junior and senior seasons … was named to the Tulsa World all-metro team his junior and senior seasons … earned first-team all-conference accolades as a junior and senior … scored at a 19.4 clip his junior season and added 5.4 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 3.8 steals … he connected on 50-percent of his shots as a junior … his 686 points as a sophomore was a school single-season record … averaged 23.7 points his sophomore season, knocking down 75 three-pointers for a .339 percentage and connected on 74.4 percent from the charity stripe … also averaged 5.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.5 steals in his sophomore campaign … scored at a 13.0 clip his freshman campaign.
PERSONAL
Born Anthony Pritchard on May 6, 2003.
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