Ryan Taylor (basketball)

Ryan Taylor (born June 18, 1992) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Marshall Thundering Herd before playing a season in Iceland with Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur and a season in the CBA with the Indianapolis Blaze.

Ryan Taylor
Taylor with Marshall in 2015
Personal information
Born (1992-06-18) June 18, 1992
Indianapolis, Indiana
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight249 lb (113 kg)
Career information
High schoolHargrave Military
(Chatham, Virginia)
CollegeMarshall (2013–2017)
NBA draft2017: undrafted
Playing career2017–2019
PositionPower forward
Career history
2017–2018ÍR
2019Indianapolis Blaze
Career highlights and awards
  • CBA champion (2019)
  • 2× Third-team All-C-USA (2015, 2017)
  • C-USA All-Defensive Team (2017)
  • C-USA All-Freshman Team (2014)

College career

Talyor joined Marshall in 2012[1] but redshirted his freshman year. He played 31 of 33 games in 2013–2014, starting 29 games and averaging 12.8 points and team leading 7.2 rebounds. In 2014–2015 he led Marshall in scoring and rebounding, with 14.1 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, and was selected to the All-Conference USA Third Team.[2] In November 2016, Taylor was suspended by coach Dan D'Antoni for one game after he had been ejected from Marshalls 71–61 victory over Jackson State. Taylor had fouled out in the game and had continued to berate the referee from the bench, leading to his ejection.[3] On January 10, 2017, Taylor was named the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week after he averaged 25.3 points and 13.3 rebounds in Marshall's three victories during the week of January 2–7.[4][5] During the season he passed Dan D'Antoni and Mike D'Antoni on Marshalls all-time scoring list and became the 50th player to break the 1000 point barrier in the schools history.[2] In 2017 he became the first Marshall player to reach career totals of 1,500 points, 800 rebounds and 250 assists.[6]

Professional career

Taylor signed with Úrvalsdeild karla club ÍR in September 2017.[7] He quickly established himself as one of the top players in the country[8][9] and in December 2017, he was named the best player of the first half of the season.[10][11] On March 5, Taylor made the game saving block on Haukar's Haukur Óskarsson three point attempt at the buzzer in ÍR's 64–62 victory.[12] During the regular season, he averaged team highs of 21.9 points and 10.4 rebounds in 22 games.[13]

ÍR ended the regular season with the second best record in the league and faced Stjarnan in the first round of the playoffs.[14] In the third game of the series on March 22, Taylor struck Stjarnan's center, Hlynur Bæringsson, in the back of the head which resulted in Hlynur getting a concussion and missing both the rest of the game and the rest of the playoffs. As the referees did not see the hit clearly, Taylor was not ejected from the game[15] and ÍR won a 67–64 victory.[16] Two days later, Taylor received a three-game suspension from the league for the hit.[17][18] Without Taylor, ÍR managed to edge out victory in the fourth game with a 24-point, 21-rebound performance by Danero Thomas, winning the series 3–1.[19] Taylor returned in the third game of ÍR's semi-finals series against Tindastóll.[20] After splitting the first two games, Tindastóll went on to win the next two, eliminating ÍR 3-1 from the playoffs.

In 2019, he played for the Indianapolis Blaze in the Central Basketball Association where he helped the team to the CBA championship. In 5 games for the Blaze, Taylor averaged 11.0 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.[21]

The Basketball Tournament

In July 2018, Taylor played for the West Virginia Wildcats in The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a winner-take-all $2 million, single-elimination event.[22] He had a double-double, 16 points and 10 rebounds, in the Wildcats first game, an 114–87 victory against 17th-seeded Charlotte Chess Center on July 20. The following day he led the team with 18 points and 11 rebounds but was unable to prevent a 99–68 loss against Scarlet & Gray, a team of mostly Ohio State men's basketball alumni, which knocked them out of the tournament.[23] Taylor has subsequently played for Herd That, a team rostered primarily with Marshall alumni.[24][lower-alpha 1]

Coaching career

In 2019, Taylor was named the head boys' basketball coach at St. Joseph Central Catholic High School in Huntington, West Virginia.[28]

Notes
  1. Two players named Ryan Taylor have played in TBT: forward Ryan Taylor who attended Marshall,[25] and guard Ryan Taylor who attended Ohio, Evansville, and Northwestern.[26] The first Ryan Taylor is the subject of this article; the second Ryan Taylor won TBT's three-point shooting contest in July 2022.[27]

References
  1. Jeff Borzello (17 May 2012). "Former Louisville commit Ryan Taylor signs with Marshall". CBS Sports. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  2. "Ryan Taylor Bio". herdzone.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  3. Doug Smock (22 November 2016). "Marshall suspends Ryan Taylor for basketball game against Ohio State". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  4. "Marshall's Taylor is Oscar Robertson national player of the week". sportswriters.net. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  5. Woody Woodrum (10 January 2017). "Marshall's Ryan Taylor Is Oscar Robertson National Player of Week". Herd Insider. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  6. Rick McCann (1 February 2017). "Ryan Taylor wants to go out on top". The Herald-Dispatch. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  7. "Ryan Taylor til ÍR". karfan.is (in Icelandic). 19 September 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  8. Kristján Jónsson (20 February 2018). "Taylor var boðið til æfinga hjá NFL-liði". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  9. Kári Viðarsson (18 January 2018). "Ryan Taylor situr í hásæti himnaríkis!". karfan.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  10. Eiríkur Stefán Ásgeirsson (18 December 2017). "Helena og Taylor kjörin best". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  11. Kristján Jónsson (20 February 2020). "Fær svigrúm til athafna". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). p. 3. Retrieved 26 April 2022 – via Tímarit.is. open access
  12. Tómas Þór Þórðarson (5 March 2018). "Skólastjórinn missti sig eftir flautublokk Taylor í Seljaskóla". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  13. "ÍR - Domino´s deild karla (2017-2018 Tímabil)". kki.is (in Icelandic). Icelandic Basketball Association. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  14. Skúli B. Sigurðsson (8 March 2018). "ÍR í öðru sæti og mætir Stjörnunni". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  15. Anton Ingi Leifsson (22 March 2018). "Hlynur steinlá eftir högg Taylor - Verðskuldaði þetta brottvísun?". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  16. Kristófer Kristjánsson (22 March 2018). "ÍR með forystuna eftir hörkuleik". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  17. "Ryan Taylor í þriggja leikja bann". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 24 March 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  18. Runólfur Trausti Þórhallsson (24 March 2018). "Taylor í þriggja leikja bann". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  19. Þór Símon Hafþórsson (25 March 2018). "Umfjöllun og viðtöl: Stjarnan - ÍR 69-71 - Danero Thomas skaut ÍR í undanúrslit". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  20. Kristján Jónsson (11 April 2018). "Þeir eru eins og hákarlar". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  21. "Indianapolis Blaze - 2019 Regular Season - Roster - #13 - Ryan Taylor - F". playcba.com. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  22. "W.Va. Wildcats playing for $2M". The Herald-Dispatch. 21 July 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  23. "Roundup: West Virginia Wildcats knocked out of The Basketball Tournament". Charleston Gazette-Mail. 21 July 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  24. Traylor, Grant (June 28, 2020). "Herd That banking on chemistry to push team through The Basketball Tournament". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  25. "Ryan Taylor". thetournament.com. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  26. "Ryan Taylor". thetournament.com. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  27. @thetournament (July 28, 2022). "$33,333 RICHER RYAN TAYLOR IS YOUR @PUMAHoops 33-POINT CONTEST CHAMP!!!" (Tweet). Retrieved July 28, 2022 – via Twitter.
  28. Grant Traylor (May 20, 2019). "Boys basketball: Former Marshall standout Ryan Taylor named St. Joseph coach". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
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