Steve Djurickovic

Guard
Junior
6-3, 179, Pleasant Prairie, Wis. (Kenosha-Bradford)

Enters the 2010 season ranked 16th on the all-time Carthage scoring list (1,271 points), second for made free throws (425), fourth for free-throw attempts (521) and fifth in assists (266)

2009:  Named “D3hoops.com” third-team All-America and first-team All-Midwest Region and National Association of Basketball Coaches second-team all-region…named first-team All-CCIW for the second-straight year…led the CCIW in scoring (27.6 points per game thru the end of the regular season), assists (6.36 per game) and minutes played (37.04 per game), while ranked fourth in three-point field-goal percentage (.432), eighth in free-throw percentage (.833), 13th in rebounding (4.7 per game), 13th in steals (0.96 per game) and 14th in field-goal percentage (.497)…started all 25 games…named CCIW “Men’s Basketball Co-Player of the Week” on Dec. 8 and on Feb. 16…set Carthage season records for points (691), scoring average (27.6 points per game), made free throws (239), free-throw attempts (287) and assists (159)…scored in double figures in all 25 games with a season-high 38 points at California Lutheran on Nov. 24…scored 30 or more points 11 times, including seven of the team’s first eight games…held to less than 20 points in only three games with a season-low of 15 points against Elmhurst on Feb. 21…dished out a Carthage-record 12 assists in the Red Men’s 87-69 win over North Park on Jan. 31.

2008:  Named “D3hoops.com” fourth-team All-America, national “rookie of the year,” second-team All-Midwest Region and regional “rookie of the year”…named first-team All-CCIW…started all 25 games…averaged 35.8 minutes per game…ranked second among CCIW scoring leaders (23.2 points per game, 13th in NCAA Division III), first in assists (4.28 per game), third in assist/turnover ratio (1.73 per game), tied for fifth in free-throw percentage (.795), ranked 12th in field-goal percentage (.471) and 15th in rebounding (4.4 per game)…named CCIW “player of the week” after making his collegiate debut with 24 points against Eastern and 23 versus Bluffton in the Westminster (Pa.) “Buzz Ridl Classic”…named CCIW “player of the week” again on Jan. 21 after scoring 30 points, including 14 points in the final five minutes and 14 seconds, in the Red Men’s 74-68 win over No. 12 Augustana (Ill.) on Jan. 19…named CCIW “player of the week” for a third time after scoring a season-high 39 points against North Central on Jan. 23 and setting both Carthage and CCIW game records with 23 free throws and set a school record with 27 free-throw attempts…completed 186 of 234 free throws and fell just four free throws short of matching Jack Lutz’ 1967 season record of 190…scored in double figures in all 25 games…collected a season-high nine assists against Millikin on Feb. 23.

High School:  Named Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Division 1 first-team all-state, Associated Press honorable mention all-state, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel honorable mention all-area, Southeast Conference “Player of the Year,” first-team All-SEC and Kenosha News first-team All-Kenosha County with a 22.4 scoring average. 7.2 rebounds and an .806 free-throw percentage…leading scorer in Kenosha County his senior-year on a 12-11 team that reached the sectional championship…scored 30 or more points on four occasions, including a career-high 40 points against Milwaukee North High School on Jan. 13, 2007…named first-team All-Southeast Conference and Kenosha News first-team All-Kenosha County his junior year with a 14.5 points-per-game mark…named honorable mention all-conference as a sophomore and averaged 10.6 points per game…his junior-year team reached the regional finals…scored 1,084 career points…coached by Nick Perrine…three-year football letterwinner and a two-year starting quarterback…his senior year football team went 9-2 and qualified for the state playoffs…four-year honor student and 2007 Holy Rosary “Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year.”

Personal:  Exercise and sport science major…son of Carthage men’s basketball coach Bosko Djurickovic…his mother, Becky, is a former women’s basketball coach at North Park University and a former girls basketball coach at Kenosha Bradford High School…his brother, Pete, is a freshman quarterback on the 2009 Carthage football team, and his sister, Amanda, played volleyball at Carroll (Wis.) before graduating from Carthage…named 2009 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA)/ESPN the Magazine second-team District 5 all-academic…named twice to the Carthage dean’s list and a two-semester member of the Carthage athletic director’s honor roll…born Nov. 9, 1988.