The most decorated player in Patriot League history, Tucker Richardson \u201923, has signed his first professional contract with BC Nokia in Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BC Nokia currently plays in the top level Korisliiga and competes during the regular season October through March with playoffs extending into April. Richardson is the only American on the current roster for 2023\u201324, according to the team\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richardson is the only player in Patriot League history to earn all four major awards, being named Rookie of the Year in 2017 followed by a sweep in 2022\u201323 as the Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Scholar-Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A product of Flemington, N.J., Richardson holds program records in games played (155), wins (110), assists (626), steals (221), and three-point field goals made (268). He finished his collegiate career with 1,740 points, good for fifth- most in program history, and helped guide the Raiders to four NCAA tournament appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richardson joins former teammates Jack Ferguson \u201922, Jordan Burns \u201921, Will Rayman \u201920, Rapolas Ivanauskas \u201920, and Francisco Amiel \u201919 as recent graduates who have gone on to sign professional contracts overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richardson was named Athlete of the Year at the University\u2019s 2023 Golden \u2019Gates ceremony.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colgate basketball player Tucker Richardson \u201923, has signed his first professional contract with BC Nokia in Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":13672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[1947,40,41,1948,1292],"coauthors":[607],"class_list":["post-13564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scene","category-sports","tag-athlete-of-the-year","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-golden-gates","tag-patriot-league"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-3wM","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/Richardson_Tucker-4223-1-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13564"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13687,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions\/13687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}