Bill Curley

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Bill Curley
Emerson Lions
PositionHead coach
League
Emerson
(assistant)
2014–presentEmerson
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points
394 (2.7 ppg)
Rebounds290 (2.0 rpg)
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William Michael Curley (born May 29, 1972) is an American

Emerson Lions men's basketball team
.

Curley has two brothers and one sister, with both brothers, Matty and Mickey, having played professional basketball overseas.

High school/college career

A 6'9"

McDonald's All-American
in 1990, and was one of the most highly recruited, sought after by Notre Dame, Duke, Villanova, North Carolina and the University of Connecticut.[citation needed]

He accepted a scholarship offer from the

Boston College Eagles. There, Curley led a renaissance of the school's basketball program. He was the Big East Conference Rookie of the Year in 1991, and was twice selected as a first team All-Big East player.[citation needed
]

A four-time team MVP, Curley was the team leader on the 1994 squad which advanced to the

Jim O'Brien called him "...one of the best players ever at Boston College."[1]

NBA career

Selected by the

regular season contests, in his rookie year
.

Upon retiring, with averages of 2.7 points in two rebounds, in only 147 games, Curley settled with his wife and three children in his hometown of Duxbury, Massachusetts, running summer basketball camps.[2]

Coaching career

In 2011, he became an assistant at Emerson College in Boston under his Boston College coach Jim O'Brien. Upon O'Brien's retirement in 2014, Curley was named interim head coach of the Lions. In 2019, he led Emerson to its first NEWMAC championship and its first NCAA tournament appearance. [3]

References

  1. ^ Standing tall in BC's Hall of Fame, Boston.com; accessed October 2, 2021.
  2. ^ Bill Curley Basketball clinic - Basketball camps
  3. ^ Tiedemann, Andy (March 27, 2014). "Jim O'Brien to retire". Emerson College. Retrieved July 13, 2014.

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