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California Institute of Technology

2016-17 Men's Basketball

22 Ricky Galliani

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 205
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Menlo Park, Calif.
  • Highschool Sacred Heart Prep

Biography

Honors
SCIAC All-Academic Team (Winter 2014-15, 2015-16)
Most Improved Player (2013-14)
Most Valuable Defensive Player (2015-16)

2016-17

   SCIAC RANKS

  • T-8th in offensive rebounds per game (1.8)
  • T-11th in three-pointers per game (2.1)
  • 19th in three-point shooting percentage (.355%)
  • 19th in rebounds per game (5.2)
  • 21st in total points (173)
  • 23rd in points per game (10.8)
  • 28th in field goals per game (3.6)

   TEAM RANKS

  • Led the team in three-point field goal attempts per game (5.8), three-pointers per game (1.9), and offensive rebounds per game (1.8).
  • 2nd on team in three-point shooting percentage (.326), total points (261) and rebounds per game (5.2).
  • 3rd on team in defensive rebounds per game (3.3), minutes per game (29.5), free throws made per game (1.7), free throw attempts per game (2.7), steals per game (0.6) and tied for third in points per game (10.4).
  • 4th in field goal percentage (.391), field goals per game (3.4) and tied for fourth in assists (1.2), and field goal attempts per game (8.8)
  • One of three Beavers to appear in all 25 games.

2015-16

   NCAA RANKS

  • 156th in defensive rebounds (5.76)

   SCIAC RANKS

  • 8th in defensive rebounds per game (5.4)
  • 9th in rebounds per game (6.9)
  • 15th in steals per game (0.9)
  • 16th in offensive rebounds per game (1.4)
  • 24th in points (134)

   TEAM RANKS

  • Led the team in 3-point field goals made per game (1.5), 3-point field goal attempts per game (5.6), and field goal attempts per game (9.4)
  • 2nd in free throw percentage (73.1%), rebounds per game (7.3), and defensive rebounds per game (5.8)
  • T-2nd in offensive rebounds per game (1.5), and steals per game (1.0)
  • 3rd in field goals made per game (3.2) and minutes per game (32.5)
  • 4th in points per game (9.8), free throws made per game (2.0),  and T-4th in assists per game (1.1)
  • 5th in free throw attempts per game (2.7)

2014-2015

  SCIAC RANKS

  • tied-13th three-pointers per game (1.4)
  • t-15th three-point percentage (.333)

  TEAM RANKS

  • 3rd free throw percentage (.767), rebounds per game (3.2)
  • 4th three-point percentage (.292) – min. 10 three-pointers made
  • 5th points per game (6.0) – min. ½ team games played

 

2013-2014
Ranked eighth in single season history with a .368 three-point percentage.

  SCIAC RANKS 

  • 4th three-point percentage (.459)
  • 14th three-pointers per 40 minutes (2.5)
  • tied-20th three-pointers per game (1.1)

  TEAM RANKS

  • Led team in three-point percentage (.368)
  • 2nd three-pointers made (25)
  • 5th field goal percentage (.409) – min. 15 made field goals, steals per game (0.5)

 

Research and STEM activities
Spent the summer arfter his sophomore year as a technical writing intern with Cloudera...Optimized the recommendation engine and algorithim that determines the set and order of people that users swip on at Tinder in West Hollywood, Calif....Served a software/quality engineer internship at Zettaset. 
 

Prior to Caltech
National AP Scholar…Two-year member of the student council at his high school, Sacred Heart Prep…Won the Dark Blue Ribbon at Sacred Heart…Also was awarded the Sheila Petersen Scholarship Award from SHP…Played three years of golf…Played basketball all four years…Was named first-team All-WBAL his senior year (averaging 13 ppg and shooting almost 40% from beyond the arc) and third-team all-county the year before (averaging 10 points a game that year)…Palo-Alto Daily News Player of the Week in January of 2012…Named Team MVP for his senior year and in the same year was celebrated as Sacred Heart’s Athlete of Distinction…His team won the CCS Championship in 2011-2012 and made it to the NorCal finals…Played for KWA.

Personal
Son of Lyn and Bill... Has one older brother, Rob, and one younger sister, Michelle.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

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    2013-14First-Year

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    6'4" 180 lbs
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    2014-15Sophomore

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    6'4" 180 lbs
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    2015-16Junior

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    6'4" 180 lbs
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    2016-17Senior

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    6'4" 205 lbs
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