Jordan Dingle (born July 14, 2000) is an American

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player who just completed his collegiate career for the

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of the Big East Conference. He previously played for the

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, where he was a two-time All-

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selection and the 2023 Ivy League Player of the Year.

Early life and high school career

Dingle grew up in

Valley Stream, New York Valley Stream is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York (state), New York, United States. The population in the Village of Valley Stream was 37,511 at the 2010 ...

and initially attended

Lawrence Woodmere Academy Lawrence Woodmere Academy, also known as "LWA", and "Woodmere Academy", is an independent school located in Woodmere, New York, United States. It is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and the New York State Board ...

. Before the start of his junior year, he transferred to

Blair Academy Blair Academy is a coeducational, boarding and day school for students in high school. The school serves students from ninth through twelfth grades as well as a small post-graduate class. The school's campus is located on a campus in Blairs ...

, a boarding school in

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Rookie of the Year after averaging 13.5 points, 2.3 assists, and 3.4 rebounds per game. He took a leave of absence from Penn during his true sophomore year after the 2020–21 season was canceled in the

due to the

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. Dingle was named first-team All-Ivy League in 2022 after he averaged 20.9 points, 2.4 assists, and 3.6 rebounds over 26 games. Dingle finished second in the nation with 23.4 points per game and was named the Ivy League Player of the Year and won the

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as the top player in the

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as a junior. After the season he entered the NCAA transfer portal. Dingle committed to St. John's and newly-hired head coach Rick Pitino.

Career statistics

College

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2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

, style="text-align:left;", Penn , 28 , , 26 , , 33.5 , , .464 , , .356 , , .856 , , 3.6 , , 2.3 , , 1.1 , , .1 , , 23.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2023–24 , style="text-align:left;", St. John's , 31 , , 23 , , 25.1 , , .440 , , .311 , , .745 , , 2.0 , , 1.7 , , 0.8 , , .1 , , 11.6 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 110 , , 95 , , 30.3 , , .444 , , .337 , , .785 , , 3.1 , , 2.1 , , .9 , , .1 , , 17.2

Personal life

Dingle's father, Dana Dingle, played college basketball at

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and was a starter for the Minutemen in the

1996 Final Four The 1996 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 14, 1996, and ended with the championsh ...

References

External links

St. John's Red Storm bioPenn Quakers bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dingle, Jordan 2000 births Living people American men's basketball players Basketball players from Nassau County, New York Blair Academy alumni Lawrence Woodmere Academy alumni Penn Quakers men's basketball players People from Valley Stream, New York Sportspeople from Hempstead, New York St. John's Red Storm men's basketball players