In high school Ben, a 5-foot-11 point guard from Wadsworth, Ohio, averaged 21.3 points, 2.7 assists, and 2.9 steals per game as a senior at Wadsworth High School in 2003-2004 while shooting 49.4 percent from the field, 48.6 percent from three-point range, and 90.2 percent at the free throw line. For his efforts during the season that helped his team to a 20-3 record, Ben was named to the Division I All-Ohio First Team, the Cleveland Plain Dealer First Team, the Sun Newspapers First Team, and the Medina County First Team. He also was selected as the Akron Beacon Journal Player of the Year, the Greater Akron Basketball Coaches Association Senior Player of the Year, the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Medina, Summit, and Portage Counties Player of the Year, the Northeast Ohio Inland District Co-Player of the Year, and the only two-time Medina County Player of the Year. • Ben guided Wadsworth High to a 57-10 record in his three years as the starting point guard that included a 20-0 regular-season record in 2002-2003. • Shot 50.6 percent from the three-point arc (123-of-253) and 89.4 percent from the free throw line (219-for-245) for his career. • Career free throw percentage would rank first in Ohio high school history if he had attempted five more free throws to meet the minimum attempts of 250. • Ranks third in school history with 1,031 career points, and he set the school single-game scoring record with a district tournament-record 46 points against Hudson High School on March 6, 2004.. |
In high school Tony Stockman averaged 25.4 points, 6.1 assists, 4.7 rebounds and three steals a game while shooting 51 percent, 40 percent from the 3-point line, and 84.3 percent at the foul line. He scored 30 points or more in nine regular-season high school games. • Medina's second all-time leading scorer with 1,211 points holds the record for most points in a game by a Medina bee as well as his career-high game was a 42-point effort against Wadsworth. • Finished high school career with 215 rebounds, 246 assists and 171 steals ... Medina was 58-9 in his three varsity seasons. • Awards included: Ohio’s Mr Basketball, First team all-state as a senior; Cleveland Plain Dealer Dream Team; Medina County Player of the Year; Pioneer Conference Player of the Year; first team All-Pioneer Conference as a junior and senior ... 20-4 as a senior, losing in round of 16 in state tournament ... scored 41 points in final game against Mansfield. He was the Associated Press Co-Player of the Year as a high school senior in Ohio ... shared the title with Chet Mason (Cleveland South/Miami, Ohio) in 2000.
After high school Tony Stockman attended Clemson University. • Stockman was the top sophomore scorer in the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2001-02 overall and in conference games. He averaged 12.2 points per game overall and 14.1 in ACC regular-season contests. • Finished his sophomore season with 80 3-point field goals, which tied for fifth in Clemson history in a single season. • In just two seasons at Clemson, he connected on 155 3-pointers, the fourth-best total in Clemson history. • Nearly 65 percent of his made field goals at Clemson were 3-point shots. • Averaged 12.1 points in 59 career games at Clemson. • Scored a career-high 30 points at North Carolina in last regular season game of the 2001-02 season, a contest in which he scored 28 of Clemson's 40 points in the first half. • Tied a Clemson single-game record with eight 3-point goals vs. North Carolina, all came in the first half. He also had 30 points in a 118-115 double-overtime win over Wake Forest. He scored 716 in his two years at Clemson.
Stockman left Clemson after a two-year stint with the Tigers ... sat out the 2002-03 at Ohio State to satisfy NCAA transfer rules. • In his 2003-2004 season at Ohio State he averaged 13.6 points per game. He played 972 minutes the most of any of his teammates his junior year. One of the Big Ten's best free throw shooters and leaders in steals, Tony led the Buckeyes with 73 made 3-pointers in 2003-04, 3rd most in OSU single season history. . •. As a Junior: Reached 1,000 career points with 16 vs. Iowa (2/18/04) ... reached 900 with 10 at Illinois (1,109) .... • Set a Value City Arena record with seven 3 pointers and scored 25 points in a 71-64 win over Penn State• Led Buckeyes with 21 games with 10 or more points ... also topped teammates with 7 games with 20 or more points ... was team-high scorer 12 times and the game-high offensive player 8 times. • Played well in 2 games. vs. Minnesota -34 points, 7 assists, 10 rebounds and 7 steals in 78 minutes vs. the Gophers. •. Reached double figures in 21 of 29 games and in 58 of 88 career contests. • Recorded a career-high 7 assists in win over Central Michigan in Maui. • Led team with 61 steals, which tied for 7th all-time in a single season at OSU ... his 6 steals vs. Northwestern Feb. 4 is tied for 3rd for thefts in a game at OSU. • In his Senior 2004-2005 Season at The Ohio State University Tony averaged 12.0 ppg, 78% from the free throw line, and made 66 3-pointers (Ending his college career with 294 3-pointers made). • In one of his best games in his senior season, Stockman rescued Ohio State scoring 19 of his 25 points in the 2nd half, as the Buckeyes rallied and beat Penn State 72-69 in 2005 Big Ten Tournament.
Tony’s first year playing professional basketball in Europe was with L’Hermine Atlantique in Nantes, France in 2006. In 34 games played, he lead his team with an average of 16.7 ppg, made 88 3-pointers and shot 72% from the free throw line. In his best game during is ’06 season in France, he scored 34 points, he was 7 of 12 from 2 pointers at 58%; he was 5 of 6 from 3-pointers shooting 83%; and 5 of 6 from the free throw line also shooting 83%; in a 95-88 victory over Levallois. Tony started out his ’07 season with the Galil Elyon, in Israel. In the Israeli league in 7 games he averaged 12 points, shooting 43% from the 3-point line, and 80% from the free throw line. In two games in the Men’s Israeli Cup he averaged 15.5 points, shooting 58% from the two, 41/7% from the three, and 100% from the free throw line. In the Eurocup Challenge, where they played teams from Greece, Cypress, and Czech Repulic in 6 games, he averaged 12.7 points, shooting 46.2% from two, and 42.9% from three, and 70% from the free throw line. In his best Israeli games, he scored 24 points, 3 of 7 from the 2 point, 5 of 8 from the 3-point 62%, 3 for 4 from the free throw line at 75%, against BK Prostejov. In a game against Pizzaexpress he was 3 of 3 from two pointers at 100%, 5 of 6 from the 3-pointers at 83%, scoring 21 points.
