Colbey Ross
American basketball player (born 1998)
Colbey Ross (born October 22, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Trieste of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the Pepperdine Waves.
High school career
Ross played four years of varsity basketball for Eaglecrest High School in Centennial, Colorado. As a junior, he averaged 18.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, leading his team to the Class 5A state title game. Ross was named Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year and was the only junior selected to play in the state's High School All-Star Game. As a senior, he averaged 18.4 points, 5.0 assists, 4.9 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game, helping Eaglecrest win the Class 5A state championship and earning most valuable player of the state tournament. Ross was recognized as Mr. Colorado Basketball and repeated as Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year. He was lightly recruited by college basketball programs and committed to Pepperdine over two other NCAA Division I scholarship offers, from Northern Colorado and Pacific.
College career
On November 20, 2017, in his fourth college game at Pepperdine, Ross scored a freshman season-high 25 points and added five rebounds and four assists in a 92–84 loss to UC Santa Barbara at the Legends Classic.
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