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After spending his first two years going against all-conference-quality big men every day (Cripe was a developmental redshirt in 2002-03), James Farrington Cripe went into the 2004-05 season ready to provide a veteran presence in the post. Unfortunately, a series of injuries also forced him to provide a veteran presence in the training room as well. Healthy for the 2005-06 season, Cripe is anxious to put last year behind him and get back on track. After starting the first three games of the 2004-05 campaign, Cripe missed seven straight games with a severely bruised hamstring. When he came back after the first of the year, he played 15 minutes, and scored a season-high seven points (3-3 FG, 1-1 FT) against Duquesne. Then in the very next game against Cornell, he turned his left ankle and was limited in the next two games to 10 minutes, one rebound and zero points. He bounced back in the next game (a win over St. Joe's) with 16 minutes, six points (including a pair of key free throws down the stretch) and two rebounds. After another "healthy" game, he turned his right ankle in practice and missed the Rhode Island and GW games with that injury. Although he didn't get to 100% the rest of the season, he was able to give the Flyers 89 minutes in the last ten games, including 14 minutes (four points, 2-3 FG) in the St. Bona win at the A-10 tournament. For the season, he played in 20 games, averaging 2.1 points and 1.0 rebounds. He was also named the 2005 winner of the John L. Macbeth Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award, which goes to the upperclassman on the team with the best cumulative GPA. Cripe played in all 32 games in 2003-04, averaging 8.2 minutes a game as seniors Keith Waleskowski and Sean Finn closed out their careers. Cripe averaged 1.5 points and 1.5 rebounds in this role. Two of the strongest efforts for the Cincinnati native were against Xavier and Cincinnati. He had nine points and three rebounds in the win over Xavier at UD Arena, and had five points and four rebounds in a career-high 20 minutes at Cincinnati. He also had eight points and seven rebounds vs. Wofford. The redshirt year he spent in transition from high school to college served him well, since Cripe was barely 18 when he graduated from high school (he turned 18 in May of his senior year). He also came to basketball late. He did not play organized basketball until his freshman year of high school, and he grew from 6-4 to 6-10 from his sophomore year to the beginning of his senior year. Cripe averaged 14.2 points and 7.0 rebounds as a senior at Loveland High School (near Cincinnati), his first and only season as a starter. Loveland was 20-3 in 2001-02 and won its third straight Ft. Ancient Valley League championship. Cripe came off the bench during Loveland's 20-2 junior campaign, averaging 5.1 points, and 4.3 rebounds. He played in the Ohio-Kentucky All-Star game following his senior season. Going into his senior season, he had a tremendous AAU summer, ending with him being named to the All-Tournament Team at the Nike Cup in Columbus, Ohio. Cripe has an older sister Lauren (23) and a younger brother Matthew (19), who is a freshman at UD this year.
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