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Matt Balanc

college basketball player (2020–2020) Quinnipiac

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ100744024
Source-derived summary

Matthew Balanc is an American basketball player. He played college basketball for the Quinnipiac Bobcats of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Early life

Balanc attended Springbrook High School in Maryland. As a senior, he averaged 17.6 points per game. Balanc committed to play college basketball at Quinnipiac, choosing the Bobcats over UMBC, Florida Gulf Coast, Rhode Island, and UMass.

College career

Balanc redshirted his true freshman season, and averaged 7.3 points per game as a redshirt freshman. His playing time declined as a sophomore and he posted 3.9 points per game. As a junior, Balanc averaged 14.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, earning Second Team All-MAAC honors. He averaged 12 points and 4.6 rebounds per game as a senior. As a fifth-year player, Balanc averaged 17.9 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.

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Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 133-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Matt, Balanc and college can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Matt Balanc” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.