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STEPHENVILLE – The final piece of the 2010-11 Tarleton men's basketball team has been added with the signing of Carrington Tankson, a transfer guard from Brooklyn Park, Minn.
Tankson, a 6-4, 190-pound junior, will transfer to the Texans from San Jacinto College, and head coach Lonn Reisman is very pleased to have the No. 30 ranked junior college player in the counry by jucojunction.com.
“Tank [nickname] is the proven scoring guard we have been looking for,” Reisman said. “He played in a very tough juco conference and had shown throughout his career to be a great scorer and to have a very high basketball IQ. He comes from a San Jacinto program that I have the utmost respect for, and he has had a great coach the last two years in Scott Gernander. We are really looking forward to the next two years with Tank.”
In his sophomore season in 2009-10, Tankson led the squad in scoring with 15.8 points per game, which was eighth-best in the league. He averaged five rebounds and was second on the team with 37 steals. He was a second team all-region selection and led his team to a 25-5 regular season record. Tankson was given a grade of 88, according to ESPN.com College Basketball Recruiting Service.
As a freshman at SJC, Tankson was third on the team in scoring with 12.4 points per game. He played in all 32 games, starting 26. He averaged four rebounds per outing and shot 78 percent from the free throw line.
A 2008 graduate of Osseo Senior High School, Tankson helped the Orioles to three-straight conference championships and was picked as a first team all-conference honoree. Tankson was also named all-state and was a member of the 1,000-point club. He was named the conference's Most Valuable Player and ranked in the top 10 of Minnesota players while serving as the team captain as well.
For OHS, Tankson averaged 17.3 points, 4.5 assists, two steals and 4.7 rebounds per game as a senior and was named a two-star prospect by both Rivals.com and Scout.com.
The son of Vivian Palmer, Tankson has one brother and three sisters.
The newest was being recruited by Midwestern State, Valdosta Sate and Minnesota-Mankato, but he chose Tarleton.
“I was really impressed on how the staff at Tarleton really sold the school and academics, and not just the basketball program,” Tankson said. “I really enjoyed meeting the players and can really see myself playing alongside them. Coach Lonn Reisman is a wonderful man and after speaking with him, I just knew he was the right coach for me. Tarleton is a great basketball school and they have an amazing game atmosphere that I'm excited about playing in front of. Coach Chris [Reisman] and I really had a good relationship, and he did a good job recruiting me.”
The Texans lost just two players from the 24-8 team that reached the NCAA Division II South Central Region semifinals last season, and Tarleton has added three new players to the squad while three other players who redshirted in 2009-10 will join the active roster as well.
“I really think this team has the potential to be one of the best we have ever had at Tarleton,” the elder Reisman said. “Like every year, there are a lot of expectations on our program, and I am excited to see if this roster can come together and be successful.”
