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Garrison Mathews (born October 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Lipscomb Bisons and was named the ASUN Conference Player of the Year for 2019.
Mathews was a dual-sport athlete at Franklin High School in Franklin, Tennessee, playing both basketball and football. At Lipscomb, Mathews dedicated himself solely to basketball for the first time. He became one of the top players in program history, setting the school’s Division I-era records in single-game scoring, career scoring, and three-pointers made.
As a junior, Mathews led the Bisons to their first NCAA tournament. As a senior, he was named Atlantic Sun Player of the Year and first-team All-Atlantic Sun. He also led Lipscomb to a runner-up finish at the 2019 NIT. Mathews scored 44 and 34 points in the tournament’s quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, to help the Bisons reach the championship game, in which they were defeated by Texas. Mathews averaged 20.8 points per game as a senior and scored 2,478 career points in college.
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