Steven Withington Goodrich (born March 18, 1976) is a former

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(NBA) player who played

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for the

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and

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in the early 2000s. After a remarkable college career, he was seldom used in the pros. Goodrich averaged 1.1

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and 8.7 minutes per game during his two-year career and was cut several times.

College career

Goodrich was born in

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but he grew up in

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. After graduating from William Penn Charter High School in

, Goodrich played college basketball with the

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Tigers. As a center, he led the University to the NCAA tournament the final three years of his career. In the 1996 NCAA tournament, Goodrich would be remembered as the player who passed to Gabe Lewullis, who scored on a lay-up with 3.9 seconds left to eliminate defending national champion UCLA from the tournament. He was named the

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's Player of the Year in 1998 after being named all-conference as a junior. That season, Princeton rode him to a one-loss regular season (to North Carolina) and a No. 5 seed in the East Regional section of the NCAA tournament, where they beat UNLV in the first round.Princeton's '96 duo take different paths

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That 1998 team eventually lost to

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in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Goodrich was not selected in the NBA draft.

NBA

After Goodrich was waived by the Bulls, he was signed days before the

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with the

. This relationship would not last long, as he was cut the following January to make room for free agent signings Anthony Johnson and

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. After being cut by the Nets during the

, he returned the next year to the

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' training camp; however, he was cut October 24. For his NBA career, Goodrich averaged 1.1 points (on .321FG and .556FT shooting), 1.2 rebounds and 1.1 fouls in 8.7 minutes per game in 21 NBA contests.Steve Goodrich
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After NBA

Goodrich played pro basketball in

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and for the

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in the

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. In Germany, he averaged 14.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 3.1 assists in 20 games for StadtSport Braunschweig in 2001–2002. In the Italian A1 league, Goodrich played 24 games for

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, with per game averages of 9.0 points and 3.1 rebounds. He then spent the 2002–2003 season with Darussafaka Istanbul in Turkey. Lastly, he played for

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in the Ukrainian league, where he averaged 17.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game for the Kyiv-based team in the 2003–2004

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season.

From basketball to banking

Goodrich has since moved to Los Angeles and enrolled for a graduate degree at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Goodrich is now based in California, where he works for 1st Century, a bank he helped start and now serves as Senior Vice President, Product Development & Treasury Management.Your Bankers
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