Biography and Career Highlights
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Notable: Entered his name in the 2009 NBA Draft before
withdrawing it June 13.
2008-09: Named the 2009 State Farm Missouri Valley
Conference Tournament Most Outstanding Player, only the second player in league
history to receive the award from a member of the runner-up team • Earned
First-Team All-Missouri Valley Conference honors • Selected to the Valley's
All-Defensive Team • Named the Valley Player of the Week three times (Dec. 1,
Jan. 5 and Feb. 16) • Named the Most Valuable Player of the World Vision
Invitational, which was hosted by Illinois State • Named to the SMU Tipoff
Classic All-Tournament Team • Scored the first game-winning basket of his
basketball career (all levels) when he drove the lane for a game-winning lay up
at Evansville (Feb. 11) • Scored the 1,000th point of his career at Central
Michigan (Dec. 17) • Started 33 games and played in all 34 • Did not start at
Indiana State (Jan. 10), after developing flu-like symptoms prior to the tip •
Scored in double-digits in 28 games • Posted five 20-point scoring games •
Tossed in a season-high 24 points against Nicholls in the first day of the
World Vision Invitational • Shared the team lead with four double-doubles (each
points and rebounds) and now has six on his career • Collected a career-best
three blocked shots against Evansville at the State Farm Missouri Valley
Conference Tournament and finished with a team-best seven blocks in the three
games combined at the tournament • Prior to the start of the season was named
the Valley's Preseason Player of the Year • Received the 2008-09 Bob and Audrey
Weber Endowed Scholarship in June 2008.
2007-08:First-team All-Missouri Valley Conference and the
Larry Bird Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year runner-up • Recorded
33 starting assignments • Averaged 15.8 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists and
1.3 steals per game on a 43.2 field goal percentage • Two-time Missouri Valley
Conference Player of the Week (Nov. 18 and Feb. 18) • Made a career-high 12
field goals at Indiana State • 28 double-digit scoring efforts in the last 31
games, including a career-best 34-point effort at Indiana State • 30 total
double-digit scoring outputs, including nine efforts with 20 or more points •
Averaged a league-second-best 17.1 points per game to go along with 5.6
rebounds per game on a 47.2 shooting percentage in Valley play • Tallied seven
or more rebounds 13 times • Recorded career-highs in points (34 at Indiana
State), rebounds (13 at Eastern Michigan), assists (six versus Utah State),
steals (six versus SEMO), blocks (two versus SIU and at Bradley) and minutes
played (38 versus Creighton) • Tallied first career double-doubles at Eastern
Michigan and Bowling Green.
2006-07: The 2007 Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of
the Year • Averaged 9.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game • Tallied 12
double-digit scoring outings, including three in the last four games of the
season • Named Valley Newcomer of the Week (Feb. 26) • His career-high 28
points at Creighton (Jan. 1) tied the third-highest single-game total by a
freshman in Illinois State history • Tied the school record with eight made
three-pointers in the game at Creighton • In his hometown, tossed in 19 points
at Illinois-Chicago (Dec. 23).
Phillips Academy:As a senior, averaged 25 points, eight
rebounds and three assists per game • Named first-team all-city in 2006 •
Second-team all-state selection by Illinois Hoops and was named third-team
all-state by the Associated Press • Rated No. 137 in the national 2006
recruiting class by Rivals.com and No. 38 nationally among shooting guards •
Ranked as the Valley's top incoming freshman by Scout.com • As a junior,
averaged 21 points, six rebounds, three assists and nearly five steals • Played
in the 2005 Wallace Prather Jr. Memorial All-Star Classic, which features the
top players from the adidas camp • The 2005 IHSA Class AA Slam Dunk Champion •
Played in the 2006 Riverwar All-Star Game • Coached by Paris Parham, current
ISU assistant coach.
Personal: Full name: Osiris Eldridge • Birthdate: June 18,
1988 • Birthplace: Chicago • Mother: Beverly Eldridge • Major: undeclared •
Osiris means "the Egyptian god of the dead" • Pronounced: oh-SY-ris.
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2009 State Farm
Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Most Outstanding
Player |
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2009 First-Team
Missouri Valley Conference |
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2009 Missouri
Valley Conference All-Defensive Team |
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Valley Player of
the Week - Dec. 1, 2008; Jan. 5, 2009; Feb. 16, 2009; Nov. 18, 2007;
Feb. 18, 2008 |
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2008 First-Team
Missouri Valley Conference |
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2007 Missouri
Valley Conference Freshman of the Year |
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Points
34 at Indiana State, 2-16-08
Rebounds
13 at Eastern Michigan, 12-4-07
Minutes
43 vs. Indiana State, 2-8-09
Field Goals
12 at Indiana State, 2-16-08
Field Goals Attempts
20, twice
3-Point Field Goals
8 at Creighton, 1-1-07
3-Point FGs Attempts
14 vs. Northern Iowa, 3-8-09
Free Throws
10 vs. Cincinnati, 12-8-07
Free Throws Attempts
12 vs. Cincinnati, 12-8-07
Assists
6, twice
Steals
6, twice
Blocked Shots
3 vs. Evansville, 3-6-09
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