MANOR COLLEGE’S MANNY ROACH NAMED EASTERN STATES ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR

MANOR COLLEGE’S MANNY ROACH NAMED EASTERN STATES ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Posted: Mar 17, 2025

By Steven M. Glassman

Director of Sports Information

March 17, 2025

 

NEWTOWN, PA—The Eastern States Athletic Conference (ESAC) Regular and Postseason Champion Manor College Men's Basketball (14-4 overall, 6-2 Eastern States Athletic Conference) sophomore guard Manny Roach (Medford, NJ/Life Center Academy) was named ESAC Player of the Year by the Conferene's Head Coaches.

Roach is the first Manor's Men's Basketball ESAC Player of the Year.

Manor won its first Conference/Region Postseason Championship in the program's history, winning the ESAC on March 1, 103-80, versus the 13th-ranked USCAA Division II Bucks County Community College Centurions.  Roach set school single-game USCAA records with 43 points, including eight three-point field goals and 18 three-point field goal attempts, and tied a school single-game USCAA record with 15 overall field goals made.  He set a personal single-game career-best 26 overall field goal attempts and tied personal single-game career-best 11 rebounds versus the Centurions.

Roach led the conference in the following per game categories: minutes (36.3), three-point field goals made (3.2), three-point field goal attempts (7.1), three-point field goal percentage (45.6), free throw percentage (91.7),  assists (5.4), and steals (3.3).  He was second in the conference per game in points (18.3) and blocked shots (1.8).  Roach led Manor with 5.8 defensive rebounds per conference game.  He was second on Manor per conference game in overall field goal attempts (14.8) and free throws made (2.8).  Roach was among team leaders with 6.1 overall field goals made and 6.3 total rebounds per conference game. He scored in double-figures in every ESAC game this past season. Roach also contributed conference "double-doubles" at Bucks County on January 23 (15 points and 10 rebounds) and at the Christendom College Crusaders on February 15 (25 points and 10 assists).

Roach joins Men's Soccer player Eddie Fortescue Jr (2023) as being named ESAC Player of the Year.

 

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