2037/38 Senior Farewell
CHARLIE LAMBERT
If you don't like the way the story is going to end, write a new one. That's what
Charlie Lambert did.
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#14 SF Charlie Lambert - Villanova - Senior
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Height: 6-9
Weight: 235
High School: DeMatha Catholic High School
Hometown: Hyattsville, MD
Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 70 75 83 94 37 34 51 72 69 46 41 77 57 63 71 100
2036: 70 74 82 94 34 31 50 67 66 43 39 77 54 57 69 94
2035: 60 68 74 92 30 27 48 57 55 38 37 74 54 54 69 85
2034: 50 63 68 86 28 25 41 47 45 35 35 64 54 51 68 77
2033: 42 59 62 80 26 23 35 39 37 33 33 56 53 41 67 49
Potential: B B B A D C C B B C C B
Health: Good
Scholarship: Yes
Status: Active Roster
Academics: 64
Stat Averages:
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Season G GS MIN PTS ORE REB AST TO A/T STL BLK PF
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2034 37 0 21.2 8.7 1.1 4.4 0.8 1.5 0.56 0.5 1.3 1.8
2035 40 40 28.0 11.9 1.7 6.2 1.5 1.4 1.05 0.5 3.1 2.1
2036 12 12 29.4 15.3 2.4 8.8 1.9 1.8 1.05 0.4 2.9 1.9
2037 39 39 30.2 18.5 1.9 7.7 2.1 2.5 0.85 1.2 2.4 1.9
Career 128 91 26.9 13.3 1.7 6.4 1.5 1.8 0.85 0.7 2.3 1.9
Shooting Averages:
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Season FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P% PPS +/-
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2034 2.9 5.8 .505 1.2 1.6 .750 1.6 3.8 .429 1.50 9.65
2035 3.9 8.2 .474 2.2 2.7 .824 2.0 4.6 .426 1.46 18.00
2036 5.6 10.8 .515 1.7 2.1 .800 2.5 5.3 .476 1.42 18.50
2037 6.4 13.2 .485 2.9 3.4 .855 2.8 6.9 .407 1.40 17.54
Career 4.5 9.3 .489 2.1 2.5 .821 2.2 5.1 .424 1.44 15.49
Stat Totals:
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Season G GS MIN PTS OREB REB AST TO STL BLK PF
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2034 37 0 786 321 39 162 30 54 17 49 68
2035 40 40 1119 477 68 249 60 57 18 122 84
2036 12 12 353 184 29 105 23 22 5 35 23
2037 39 39 1179 720 76 302 82 96 45 92 74
Career 128 91 3437 1702 212 818 195 229 85 298 249
Shooting Totals
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Season FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA +/-
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2034 108 214 45 60 60 140 357
2035 155 327 89 108 78 183 720
2036 67 130 20 25 30 63 222
2037 249 513 112 131 110 270 684
Career 579 1184 266 324 278 656 1983
Career Highs:
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Type Pts OReb Reb Ast Stl Blk TO FGM FGA FTM FTA 3PM 3PA
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Season 32 5 16 6 3 7 6 10 22 8 10 7 15
Career 32 5 16 6 3 10 6 10 22 8 10 7 15
Awards & Achievements:
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Season Award
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All Player of the Game: 21
2033 High School: Rated **** and #57 overall by the FBCB scouting service.
2033 High School: All-State (Maryland)
2035 NCAA Champion
2035 2nd Team All-Conference (Big East Conference)
2036 NCAA Champion
2037 1st Team All-American
2037 1st Team All-Conference (Big East Conference)
The big man from one of the most storied high school programs in the country, and I was surprised when he hadn't received a scholarship offer until well into the recruiting season. He demonstrated a wide range of skills and earned serious playing time as a freshman. The next season, he started on an NCAA championship team and earned Big East honors.
Charlie's junior season started out even better. He led our team in scoring through the first 12 games. Then, his grades were released...and he was ruled academically ineligible. That floored me; players with 64 Intelligence almost never screw up academically. Charlie admitted he stopped caring about school once he was mentioned as a possible professional draft pick.
Charlie watched his teammates win a second national championship without him. That was the final factor behind his decision to return to Villanova for his senior season. He got off to a blazing start that forced opponents to alter their game plans to stop him. And, when they did, players like
Sebastian Roberts, Zayden Calhoun, and
Dane Barlow found more room to operate. And Charlie still ended the year as the conference's second leading scorer.
He didn't win another national championship, but Charlie became only the second first team All-American in school history. The 720 points he scored as a senior is the second-highest single season total on record, behind Mason Reynolds' luminous 858. His 1702 career points rank eighth all-time, and his 818 rebounds place him sixth. And he is the most prolific shot blocker in Villanova history, with a total of 298 rejections. He's had quite a career, hasn't he?
Now Charlie is forecast as a lottery pick in this week's draft. He's also going to graduate in May with a degree in Business Analytics, after earning a 3.33 GPA in his senior year. That's the sort of ending Charlie and I were hoping for.
Thanks for the memories, Charlie.