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OVERVIEW

One of college basketball's premier point guards, Singletary is generally the fastest player on the court. Even though he was just one year removed from hip surgery, he applied for the 2007 NBA Draft. But by not retaining an agent, he left the door open for a return to Virginia for one more season, going on to become the only player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to record more than 2,000 points, 500 assists, 400 rebounds and 200 steals in a career.

Singletary, the school's second three-time team captain, started all 123 games he played in for the Cavaliers. He ranks fifth in school history and 27th in ACC annals with 2,079 points. He ranks second in school annals with 200 steals, third with 587 assists, third with 222 three-point field goals made, fourth with 573 free throws made and ninth with 642 total field goals made.

Singletary played at The William Penn Charter School as a junior and senior, where he was an Honor Roll student. He earned first-team Philadelphia Inter-Academic League, All-City and All-State honors his junior and senior seasons. He received the Herb Good Basketball Club Award for being the Player of the Year in the Inter-Academic League and was honored as the state and Philadelphia Player of the Year after his senior season.

He was selected the Philadelphia Inquirer's Southeastern Pennsylvania Player of the Year for the 2003-04 season and received the Police Athletic League Athlete of the Year award and the Markward Scholar-Athlete Award. Singletary earned Most Valuable Player honors at the Pittsburgh Hoops Classic Boys National All-Star Basketball Game after scoring 20 points, grabbing 10 rebounds and totaling six assists as a junior. He also averaged 23 points, six rebounds, five assists and three steals a game as a senior during the 2003-04 season.

He was also the Most Valuable Player at the Adidas/EA Sports Superstar Boys Game. He averaged 18 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and 4.5 steals a game as a junior and helped the team compile an overall record of 24-0 in Philadelphia Inter-Academic League games during his two years with the team. He also lettered as a receiver on William Penn's football team.

As a freshman and sophomore, Singletary attended Perkiomen School, where he lettered in basketball and football. He was a first-team All-Conference, second-team All-City and team MVP as a sophomore in hoops and earned Most Improved Player honors in football, adding All-Area honors twice on the gridiron. He received the Best Playmaker Award at the Five Star Basketball Camp between his junior and senior years in high school. He was invited to attend the ABCD Basketball Camp.

At Virginia, Singletary was the only player to start every game during the 2004-05 season. He earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference Freshmen Team honors, as he averaged 10.5 points, 3.9 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 29.9 minutes played a game. He ranked sixth in the ACC in assist/turnover ratio (1.61), and ninth in assists (3.9 apg.) and steals (1.66 spg.). He also ranked first among ACC freshmen in assists and steals, second in minutes played and third in scoring. He was selected to the CollegeInsider.com Freshmen All-American Team and was a second-team pick to the Rivals.com Freshmen All-American Team.

In 2005-06, Singletary became Virginia's first All-ACC first-team selection since Bryant Stith in 1992. He added All-District III honors from the United States Basketball Writers Association and was named State Player of the Year and a first-team All-State selection by the Virginia Sports Information Directors Association (VaSID). He was also chosen Player of the Year in Virginia and first-team All-State by the Richmond Times-Dispatch and was co-recipient of the Bill Gibson Cavalier of the Year Award (team MVP).

He served as team co-captain, as he led the team in scoring with an average of 17.7 points a game in 2005-06 and ranked fifth in the ACC. He finished ranked third in the conference in free throw percentage (.845, 125-148), fifth in steals (54, 1.86 spg.), sixth in assists (121, 4.17 apg.) and eighth in minutes played (982, 33.86 mpg.). He also led the team in assists, steals, free throw percentage and average minutes played per game. He scored a career-high 35 points with six rebounds, six steals and four assists in the loss at Gonzaga.

Again serving as team co-captain, Singletary earned All-American third-team honors from NABC in 2006-07. He was a first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection for the second consecutive year in 2007. He finished the season with averages of 19.0 points, 4.7 assists and 4.6 rebounds a game. He led the Cavaliers in points (609, 19.0 ppg.), assists (151, 4.7 apg.), three-point field goals made (79, 2.47 a game), free throw percentage (.872, 190-218), steals (38, 1.2 spg.) and minutes played (1,064, 33.2 mpg.).

Virginia finished the 2006-07 season with an overall record of 21-11, shared the ACC regular-season championship with North Carolina with an 11-5 conference record and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. It was Virginia's first NCAA Tournament appearance and 20-win season since 2001.

As a senior, Singletary served as team captain for the third consecutive year, only the second player in school history to accomplish that feat. The first-team All-ACC and All-District pick and was a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award, given to the nation's top point guard. He became the fifth player in school history to score more than 2,000 points in a career, leading the team with 653 points (19.8 ppg), shooting 42.6 percent from the field, 36.7 percent from three-point range and 85.1 percent from the free throw line.

Singletary averaged 3.8 rebounds and tallied 202 assists, but turned the ball over 128 times while being charged with 88 personal fouls. He added 60 steals, as he scored in double figures in all 33 games, including 16 20-point performances.

ANALYSIS

Positives: Lacks size you look for from a point man, but increased his bulk and overall strength before his junior campaign ... One of the fastest players in college getting up and down the court, utilizing that speed, along with court vision and intelligence to be a very scrappy player on the defensive end ... Does a nice job of weaving through traffic and his superb vision is evident by the way he confidently executes no-look passes to an open teammate ... Shows sharp change of direction agility and deceptive hesitation steps to force the defender off balance ... Has decent outside shooting range, but hurts the opponent mostly when he pulls up suddenly to fire his consistent mid-range jumper ... Because of his lateral agility and quickness, defenders struggle in attempts to stay in front of him ... Keeps the opponent honest due to his passing ability going into the lanes ... Shows good creativity off the dribble and near the basket ... Generates good hang time in the air of drives to the paint, drawing contact that gets him to the free throw line, where he has become almost automatic the last two years (84.6 percent accuracy at the free throw line for his career) ... Explodes to the basket while executing quick spin moves to float the ball into the net ... Forces the defender to come out and cover him, as he can simply pull up and fire the jumper when the lanes are filled ... Has a good handle on the ball, when he plays in control, looking to create scoring opportunities for others with his deft passing skills ... Has quick hands and feet to stay in front of the shooter and does a good job of reaching around for the steal when disrupting the passing lanes ... Has an efficient pull up jumper, but only when he does a good job of setting his feet and elevating from 10-12 feet away from the basket.

Negatives: Good passer, but will get too confident in this skill and try some highlight reel plays that will generally result in a turnover ... Has the range to shoot from the perimeter, but lacks consistency, as he doesn't always set his feet before firing and is prone to rushing his shot when pressured rather than feeding the ball off ... Decent ball handler, but gets too fancy when allowed to freelance ... Will get absorbed quite a bit by the bigger defenders when driving to the paint at the next level due to his marginal size ... His range suffers away from the basket, as he gets too deliberate with his release point and contorts his frame a bit, allowing the defender to get elevation to block his slow shot ... Better when working in the open court, as he tends to get too out of control with the ball in one-on-one confrontations and will then over-dribble, allowing guards with a long reach better opportunities to steal the ball when playing in the half-court area...Looks to create scoring opportunities for others, but gets too conscious of distributing the ball, passing into tight areas or holding it too long as defenses rotate on him, leading to a very alarming rate of turnovers ... Good ball thief, but will get out of control shooting his hands, causing a high amount of foolish hacking calls ... Good free throw shooter, but a lack of size and strength will see him generally knocked to the floor or pushed away in his attempts to execute an inside game.

Compares To: T.J. FORD-Indiana ... Like Ford, Singletary has blazing quickness up and down the court to compensate for a lack of size. He is a scrappy defender and decent passer with a good mid-range shot, but needs to settle down on the court. He tries to get too fancy with his passes and when forced out of the inside action, he tends to over-dribble waiting to take his shot on the perimeter, inviting the defender to steal the ball. His size is going to be a big problem at the next level, as he is never going to be able to drive on NBA types like he did vs. collegians.

CAREER NOTES

Started all 123 games during his career ... Only the second three-time team captain in school history, he had his Virginia jersey retired before his final regular-season game at UVa's John Paul Jones Arena ... Ranks fifth in school history and 27th in Atlantic Coast Conference annals with 2,079 points scored, topped only by Bryant Stith (2,516 points, 1989-92) Jeff Lamp (2,317, 1978-81), Buzzy Wilkinson (2,233, 1953-55) and Ralph Sampson (2,228, 1980-83) ... Made 642-of-1,583 field goals (40.6 percent), ranking ninth on the school all-time ... His 222 three-point field goals made (614 attempts, 36.2 percent) rank third in Virginia history behind Curtis Staples (413, 1995-98) and Harold Deane (237, 1994-97) ... His 573 free throws made (677 attempts, 84.6 percent) rank fourth on the school career record list, topped by Stith (690, 1989-92), Wilkinson (665, 1953-55) and Lamp (635, 1978-81) ... Singletary's 587 assists rank behind John Crotty (683, 1988-91) and Jeff Jones (598, 1979-82) on the school career record chart ... Totaled 200 steals during his career, ranking behind Othell Wilson (222, 1981-84) in school annals ... His 653 points scored in 2007-08 tied Stith (1990-91) for the seventh-best season total in school history ... His 190 field goals made in 2006-07 rank fourth and his 189 in 2007-08 rank fifth on the Cavalier single-season record list ... Only Crotty (208 in 1988-89 and 214 in 1989-90) had more assists in a season than Singletary's 202 in 2007-08 ... Ranks third on the UVA single-season record list with 60 steals in 2007-08, surpassed by Wilson (69 in 1983-84 and 61 in 1981-82).

2007-08 SEASON

All-American honorable mention by The NBA Draft Report and Associated Press ... All-Atlantic Coast Conference first-team pick ... National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District V and United State Basketball Writers Association All-District III first-team selection ... Named ACC Player of the Week (11/19 and 3/10) ... Chosen Richmond Times-Dispatch State Player of the Year and Virginia Sports Information Directors Association (VaSID) State Player of the Year ... First-team All-State choice by the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Virginia Sports Information Directors Association (VaSID) ... Bob Cousy Award finalist and Lowe's Senior CLASS Award finalist ... Sidney Young Memorial Award recipient (Team award to that individual who exemplifies the highest qualities of leadership, cooperative spirit, and unselfish service in the interest of athletics at the University of Virginia) ... Became the school's only three-time team captain, joining Donald Hand ... Started all 33 games at point guard, pacing the Cavaliers with a career-high 653 points (19.8 ppg), as he hit on 203-of-476 field goals (42.6 percent), 58-of-158 three pointers (36.7 percent) and 189-of-222 free throws (85.1 percent) ... Had 127 rebounds (3.8 rpg) with a career-high 60 steals, one blocked shot and 202 assists ... Charged with a career-high 128 turnovers and had 88 personal fouls, fouling out of one game ... Scored in double figures in all 33 games, including 16 contests with at least 20 points.

2007-08 GAME ANALYSIS

Scored eight of his 22 points in the final 30 seconds, including a lay-up after a steal to put Virginia ahead with 4.6 seconds remaining, as he rallied the Cavaliers from four points down in the final minute to an 80-76 win over Old Dominion in the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Invitational. Also had 10 assists in the game ... Gave Virginia the lead for good at 65-64 with a jumper in the lane with 1:16 remaining in the Cavaliers' 66-64 victory over Richmond in the opening round of the College Basketball Invitational Tournament ... Scored 20 points and had 10 assists in a loss to Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament ... Tallied a game-high 27 points (including the 2,000th point of his Virginia career), had eight assists and six rebounds in a victory over Maryland in his final regular-season game at the John Paul Jones Arena ... Totaled a career-high 41 points and grabbed nine boards in a loss at Miami ... Tied the UVa single-game steals record with seven in a win over North Carolina State and also had 21 points and six assists ... Had his second consecutive double-double with 19 points and 10 assists in a victory over Boston College ... Scored 34 points and had 10 rebounds for a double-double in a loss to Virginia Tech ... Had his first double-double of the season with 14 points and a career-high 10 assists in a win against Northwestern in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge ... Scored four consecutive points in the final 90 seconds to give Virginia the lead for good and finished with game-high totals of 24 points and eight assists in the Cavaliers' 75-72 win at Arizona.

2006-07 SEASON

Third-team All-American selection by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and Collegehoops.net, adding honorable mention from the Associated Press ... First-team All-ACC selection for the second consecutive season ... First-team selection to the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District V Team and the United States Basketball Writers Association All-District III Team ... One of 17 finalists for the Bob Cousy Award ... One of 22 players on the Wooden Award ballot and a candidate for the Naismith Trophy ... Recipient of the WINA Award as Virginia's Top Male Athlete ... Co-recipient of the Bill Gibson Cavalier of the Year Award (team MVP) and Most Assists Award (team award) ... Selected the ACC Player of the Week two consecutive weeks (1/02-1/08), marking the first time a Virginia player earned the honor in consecutive weeks since Bryant Stith in January of 1990 ... Averaged 19.0 points, 4.7 assists, 4.6 rebounds and 33.2 minutes played a game ... Led the team in points (609, 19.0 ppg.), assists (151, 4.7 apg.), three-point field goals made (79, 2.47 a game), free throw percentage (.872, 190-218), steals (38, 1.2 spg) and minutes played (1,064, 33.2 mpg) ... Ranked second in the ACC in three-point field goals made (2.47 a game) and free throw percentage (.872, 190-218), third in scoring (19.0 ppg.), fifth in assists (4.72 apg) and 10th in minutes played (33.25 mpg) ... Scored in double figures in the last 22 games of the season.

2006-07 GAME ANALYSIS

His jumper with 26 seconds left in regulation sent the game into overtime and his jumper with one second remaining in overtime provided the winning points in a 68-66 victory over Duke ... Scored 37 points and made a career-high seven three-point field goals in a win over Gonzaga ... Had 30 points in back-to-back victories against American (33) and Gonzaga (37) ... Tied for team-high scoring honors with 25 points and led the team with six assists in a 93-90 season-opening victory over Arizona in the first men's basketball game played in John Paul Jones Arena ... His jumper with 1:03 left put Virginia ahead for good in a 67-62 win over North Carolina State.

2005-06 SEASON

First-team All-ACC and All-District III selection by the United States Basketball Writers Association ... Co-recipient of the Bill Gibson Cavalier of the Year Award (team MVP) ... Co-recipient of the Sidney Young Memorial Trophy (team award to the athlete who exemplifies the highest qualities of leadership, cooperative spirit and unselfish service in the interest of athletics at the University of Virginia) ... Won the Most Assists Award (team award) ... Team co-captain ... Named the ACC Player of the Week after scoring a season-high 35 points with six rebounds, six steals and four assists in a loss at Gonzaga ... Averaged 17.7 points, 4.4 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 33.9 minutes played a game ... Ranked third in the ACC in free throw percentage (.845, 125-148), fifth in scoring (512 points, 17.7 ppg), fifth in steals (54, 1.86 spg), sixth in assists (121, 4.17 apg) and eighth in minutes played (982, 33.86 mpg) ... Led the team in scoring, assists, steals, free throw percentage and minutes played ... Scored 20 or more points 11 times during the season.

2005-06 GAME ANALYSIS

Scored 13 consecutive points late in a victory at Virginia Tech to put Virginia in position to win the game ... Had a double-double with 29 points and a career-high 10 rebounds in a loss to North Carolina in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament ... Scored a game-high 29 points and had four assists in 37 minutes in a win over Miami ... Made a jump shot with 1:12 remaining to give Virginia the lead for good in a victory over Clemson ... Registered two free throws with 1:35 left in overtime to give Virginia the lead for good in a win over Virginia Tech.

2004-05 SEASON

All-ACC Freshmen Team selection ... Selected to the collegeinsider.com Freshmen All-American Team, adding second-team honors from Rivals.com ... Named ACC Rookie of the Week five times during the season ... Averaged 10.5 points, 3.9 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 29.9 minutes played a game ... Ranked sixth in the ACC in assist/turnover ratio (1.61), and ninth in assists (113, 3.9 apg) and steals (48, 1.66 spg) ... Ranked first among freshmen in the ACC in assists and steals, second in minutes played (866, 29.9 mpg) and third in scoring (305 points, 10.5 ppg) ... Led the team in assists and steals.

2004-05 GAME ANALYSIS

Scored the team's final four points, including the winning basket with 2.2 seconds to play, in a 64-62 win at North Carolina State ... Scored a season-high 25 points and had seven rebounds in an 89-87 victory over Auburn ... Tallied a team-high 23 points and had nine assists in 45 minutes in a double overtime loss to Maryland ... Added 15 points, had eight assists, a career-high six steals and six rebounds in a win over Arizona.

INJURY REPORT

2005-06 Season: Underwent hip surgery.

HIGH SCHOOL

Attended The William Penn (Philadelphia, Pa.) Charter School as a junior and senior, playing basketball for head coach Jim Phillips ... The Honor Roll student earned first-team Philadelphia Inter-Academic League, All-City and All-State honors his junior and senior seasons ... Received the Herb Good Basketball Club Award for being the Player of the Year in the Inter-Academic League and was honored as the state and Philadelphia Player of the Year after his senior season ... The Philadelphia Inquirer's Southeastern Pennsylvania Player of the Year for the 2003-04 season and received the Police Athletic League Athlete of the Year award and the Markward Scholar-Athlete Award ... Earned Most Valuable Player honors at the Pittsburgh Hoops Classic Boys National All-Star Basketball Game after scoring 20 points, grabbing 10 rebounds and totaling six assists as a junior ... Averaged 23 points, six rebounds, five assists and three steals a game as a senior during the 2003-04 season ... Also the Most Valuable Player at the Adidas/EA Sports Superstar Boys Game ... Averaged 18 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and 4.5 steals a game as a junior and helped the team compile an overall record of 24-0 in Philadelphia Inter-Academic League games during his two years with the team ... Also lettered as a receiver on William Penn's football team ... As a freshman and sophomore, Singletary attended Perkiomen School, where he lettered in basketball and football ... First-team All-Conference, second-team All-City and team MVP as a sophomore in hoops and earned Most Improved Player honors in football, adding All-Area honors twice on the gridiron ... Received the Best Playmaker Award at the Five Star Basketball Camp between his junior and senior years in high school ... Invited to attend the ABCD Basketball Camp.

PERSONAL

Sociology major ... Served as a volunteer coach for youth basketball ... Son of Jacqui and Harold Singletary ... Born Sean Michael-Eli Singletary on 9/06/85 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.