Matt Dickey
Matthew Dickey is an American basketball player who is best known for his collegiate career at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. A 6'1" point guard, Dickey guided the Bulldogs men's basketball|Bulldogs] to consecutive Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA Tournament] berths in 2011 and 2012. As a senior in 2011–12 [NCAA Division I men's basketball season|2011–12] he was named the Big South Conference's Big [South Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|Player of the Year]; he led the team with a 16.1 points per game average en route to conference regular season and conference tournament championships. UNC Asheville set a school record with 24 wins that year.
College career
Lightly recruited out of Hewitt-Trussville High School in Trussville, Alabama, Dickey only received scholarship offers from Belmont, Morehead State, Wofford, and UNC Asheville. After accepting the scholarship to UNC Asheville, Dickey contributed right away by averaging 10.9 points per game during his freshman season.Over the course of Dickey's college career he would go on to increase his scoring average each season. His coach, Eddie Biedenbach, credited his hard work for the improvement. By the time Dickey was a senior he averaged a team-leading 16.1 points per game and guided them to their second straight NCAA Tournament appearance. In the 2012 tournament, UNC Asheville came extremely close to becoming the first team in history to win as a #16-seed after losing to #1-seed 2011–12 [Syracuse Orange men's basketball team|Syracuse] 72 to 65. That game was the last of Dickey's collegiate career. He finished with 1,778 points, which is a school record for career points in their Division I era.