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  Derek Raivio

Derek Raivio

Player Profile

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Vancouver, WA

High School:
Mountain View

Height / Weight:
6-3 / 177

Position:
Guard

Birthdate:
11/11/1984

Experience:
3V

High School: Attended Mountain View High in Vancouver, Wash, where he was coached by Mike Cranston...set school records for single-season and career points with 700 and 1,568, respectively...his single-season and career totals rank fourth in Clark County history and are second in all-time Great Saint Helen's League history...45 points against Hudson's Bay his senior season also a school record...senior season averaged 29.2 ppg as Mountain View went 18-7 overall and 11-3 in the GSHL...team advanced to West Central-Southwest District Tournament...two-time GSHL Player of the Year...junior season averaged 22.6 ppg and 6.0 assists/game as team went 15-12...advanced to West Central-Southwest District Tournament and won opener before being eliminated with back-to-back losses...sophomore season averaged 11.8 ppg...played in seven varsity games as a freshman...played in Washington-Oregon All-State game in Portland.

FRESHMAN (2003-04): After averaging less than 9 minutes/game through the first eight games, averaged more than 11 minutes/game for the season with double-digit minutes in 16 of 31 games with a season-high 24 minutes at home against San Francisco and San Diego...scored 11 points at home against Loyola Marymount for his first career double-digit game, going a perfect 4-for-4 from the field including 3-for-3 from 3-point range while playing just 13 minutes...scored career high 15 points against San Diego, going 5-for-7 from the field, 3-for-5 from 3-point range...season-high 4 assists at LMU...in West Coast Conference games led the conference in 3-point percentage at 59.3 (16-for-27).

SOPHOMORE (2004-05): Got off to a solid start running the offense, collecting career-high 11 assists in season opener against Portland State, then bettering that with 13 two nights later against Montana...scored career-high 21 points against Washington, matched that in upset of then third ranked Georgia Tech at the Las Vegas Showdown then recorded career-high 32 points in West Coast Conference opener at Santa Clara...went 8-for-11 from the field including 6-for-9 from 3-point range, and went 10-for-10 from the free throw line against the Broncos...after missing two second-half free throws against Oklahoma State ran off 41 consecutive makes to tie school record set by Geoff Goss in 1994, the streak ending at home against Santa Clara...in addition to going 10-for-10 against SCU, went 12-for-12 from the line against San Diego, giving him two of the 14 times a Gonzaga player has gone at least 10-for-10 from the line for a share of the single-game percentage record based on a minimum of 10 attempts...scored 29 points against San Diego, 12 of them on his perfect game from the line while going 6-for-10 from the field and 5-for-6 from 3-point range...first career points/assists double-double was 19/10 at home against Santa Clara...named to the All-WCC first team...scored 14 points in WCC Tournament semifinal with San Diego and 16 in title game against Saint Mary's...went 7-for-14 from the field in the tournament, including 4-for-8 from 3-point range, and went 12-for-14 from the free throw line...named to the All-Tournament team...went 4-for-17 from the field for 23.5 percent and 2-for-11 from 3-point range for 18.2 percent in two NCAA Tournament games...had 7 assists in the NCAA Tournament, giving him 149 for the season to tie for 9th on Gonzaga single-season list...77 3-pointers for season tied him with Richie Frahm for 8th on single-season list, and his 100 career 3-pointers tie him for 10th with Quentin Hall on all-time GU list.

JUNIOR (2005-06): Played in 31 of 33 games with 30 starts, giving way to one of five Bulldog seniors on Senior Night...started the season with 19 points against Idaho, 24 against Maryland in first round of EA Sports Maui Invitational and 26 points against Michigan State in semifinals in Maui...went 22-for-40 for 55.0 percent from the field in the first three games...hit just 4-of-21 shots over next three games, including Washington game where he took a hard fall while driving the lane midway through the first half and was forced from the game with a lower back bruise...missed the next two games against Washington State at home and Oklahoma State at The Battle in Seattle...came back with 18 points against Virginia...hit his first 20 free throws of the season to give him a streak of 28 straight and leading the NCAA Division I in free throw percentage for the season, his streak ending when he missed his first free throw attempt against Virginia...went into another mini-slump following the Virginia game, going 6-for-26 over his next three games before breaking out of it with five straight double-digit games that was capped with 24 points against Loyola Marymount on a 9-for-15 night from the field...hit double digits just one more time over the next eight games and was mired in a 12-for- 51 shooting slump and scored 44 points in that stretch...came back with 12 points at Pepperdine and 13 at home against San Diego...after going scoreless in regular-season finale against San Francisco scored 21 points in West Coast Conference Tournament semifinal against San Diego, including three second-half 3-pointers as Gonzaga won 96-92 in overtime...scored 13 points against Indiana in NCAA Second Round win, including 8-for-10 from the line as he went 6-for-8 in the final 2:37 to help Gonzaga seal win...scored 12 points, grabbed three rebounds and had six assists against UCLA in NCAA Sweet Sixteen game...went 4-for-8 from the field, including 2-for-4 from 3-point range, against the Bruins...averaged 29.0 minutes/game in NCAA tournament, playing 28 minutes in First Round against Xavier, 27 minutes against Indiana and 32 minutes against UCLA... finished fourth in NCAA Division I in free throw percentage at 91.2 percent, connecting on 80 of 91 attempts...the 91.2 percent breaks his single-season school mark of 90.3 percent set in 2005 when he went 102-for-113...his 90.3 percent career free throw percentage (195-for-216) ranks first, his 158 career 3-pointers and his 376 career 3-point field goal attempts both rank seventh on the all-time GU charts, his 108 steals are 10th and his 267 career assists have him within 17 of moving into a tie for 10th.

Misc.: Born 11-9-84.

 

 
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