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Toolson to Play for Sacramento Kings Summer League Team
July 1, 2009
Former Utah Valley University guard Ryan Toolson accepted an invitation to play for the Sacramento Kings' summer league team and will participate in the Las Vegas Summer League July 10-19. "Ryan is an NBA prospect if he's given the opportunity," said UVU basketball coach Dick Hunsaker. "With the Kings I hope he will be able to find his comfort zone and show what he is capable of in the summer league against NBA-caliber competition." Toolson, Utah Valley's all-time leading scorer, will begin his professional career with the same organization that former teammate and NBA free-agent Ronnie Price did in 2005. Price played for the Utah Jazz the last two seasons. Along with being the Wolverines' all-time leading scorer, Toolson (6-foot-4) garnered the top free-throw shooting percentage in the nation in each of the last three seasons at 97.0 percent, 95.1 percent and 92.7 percent, respectively. In addition to his foul shooting mark this season, Toolson's 63-point effort in Utah Valley's 123-121 quadruple-overtime victory over Chicago State was an NCAA single-game season-high in 2008-09. Also, Toolson, a member of the 2008-09 All-Independent First Team, ranked eighth in the nation in scoring at 23.8 points while starting all 28 games for the Wolverines. He finished his career ranked second behind Price (22.2 ppg) in career scoring average at 19.1 ppg. Toolson holds a total of 12 career school records: points scored (2,163), games played (113), minutes played (3,644), field goals made (677), field goals attempted (1,421), free throws attempted (526), assists (282), three-point field goals attempted (730), three-point field goals made (315), three-point field goal percentage (43.2 percent), and free-throws made (494), career free throw percentage (93.9 percent).
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