Completed Event: Men's Basketball at Penn on February 21, 2025 , Loss , 75, to, 88
Final

Men's Basketball
at Penn
75
88
Fitzgerald is the second leading returning scorer for the Big Green ... hoping to build upon the strides he made at the end of last year ... perhaps the team’s best scoring option in the post.
2007-08: Started the season opener at Air Force ... came back the next day to score 11 points and grab seven boards in the victory over VMI ... tallied six points in just nine minutes against Colgate ... posted seven points and eight rebounds in the win over Harvard in Hanover ... saved his best work for the last three weeks of the season ... averaged 11.6 points and nearly four boards per game over the final seven contests as he started each game ... more than 55 percent of his season point total came in those games ... posted double figures in five straight contests, beginning with a season-high 17 points against Ivy champion Cornell ... also snared seven rebounds and swatted a career-best three blocks ... put 15 points on the board in the next match-up with the Big Red ...went 6-for-11 from the floor for 12 points and grabbed six caroms in 16 minutes against Penn ... helped the Big Green end their seven-game skid by converting 3-of-5 field goals and all four foul shots in the win over Princeton ... had 10 points in the win at Columbia ... launched a three-point shot in that game for the first time in his career as well.
Career Highs
Points
17 vs. Cornell, 2/16/08
Field Goals
7 twice, last at Cornell, 2/29/08
FG Attempts
17 at Cornell, 2/29/08
Three-Pointers
0
3FG Attempts
1 at Columbia, 3/1/08
Free Throws
8 at Cornell, 2/14/09
FT Attempts
10 at Cornell, 2/14/09
Off. Rebounds
5 vs. Lehigh, 11/29/08
Def. Rebounds
7 vs. Harvard, 1/11/08
Rebounds
9 vs. Lehigh, 11/29/08
Assists
2 at Penn, 2/20/09
Turnovers
4 twice, last at Cornell, 2/14/09
Blocks
3 vs. Cornell, 2/16/08
Steals
3 at Cornell, 2/29/08
Minutes
32 at Cornell, 2/29/08
2006-07: Got the starting nod in eight games of his rookie campaign ... hit 6-of-7 shots from the field to score 12 points in 18 productive minutes in victory at Maryland-Eastern Shore ... poured in another dozen points on 5-of-6 shooting in two-point loss to Ivy League champion Penn at Leede Arena ... had eight points on 3-of-3 shooting before fouling out at Vermont ... in three highest scoring games shot 14-of-17 from the field ... grabbed six rebounds in just 13 minutes in the win over Stony Brook.
High School: All-Colorado pick by Rocky Mountain News ... Class 5A All-State ... Player of the Year in Colorado Springs Metro ... averaged 21.8 points and 10.2 rebounds as a senior ... helped Palmer to a 20-4 record and a Colorado Springs Metro League title in senior year ... selected along with Dartmouth teammate Robby Pride for “The Show,” a Colorado All-Star game ... recruited by Yale, Bucknell, Colgate, Idaho and UC Santa Barbara among others ... played AAU ball with Coach Dunn’s son Arin.
Personal: Full name is Elgin Lochart Fitzgerald ... majoring in geography ... born May 8, 1988 ... son of Sheri Orinjok ... has two sisters ... late father Ed played hoops at West Texas State.
DID YOU KNOW? Elgin Fitzgerald played AAU basketball with Coach Dunn's son Arin.
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