Courtesy: Albany Media Relations
ALBANY, N.Y. ? Former
University at Albany basketball player Jason Siggers, who played on two
America East Conference championship teams, recently signed to play
professionally in Denmark. Siggers, a 6-foot-4,
195-pound swingman from Dallas, Texas,
is a member of the Bakken Bears, a first division team. Bakken formed in 1962
and plays in Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark
with a population of 280,000. The Bears have been crowned Danish League
champions in three of the last four years.
Siggers, a
first-team All-America East Conference selection, averaged 13.9 points and 3.9
rebounds as a senior, plus made 46 three-point field goals. He had 14 points,
including 11 in the second half, in the Great Danes’ 60-59 victory over
Vermont in the
2007 conference championship final. He was named to the America East
all-championship squad. He tallied a career-high 34 points, the third-highest
single-game total in the program’s Division I history, against Vermont in the regular
season. He also had a memorable outing in a 59-58 upset at Utah, when he struck for
22 points by canning six three-pointers.
Siggers came off the bench in his first season with the UAlbany
program in 2005-06 after transferring from New Mexico Junior
College. He averaged 5.0 points in 32 games as the
Great Danes won the conference title en route to the men’s basketball team’s
first-ever NCAA Division I appearance.