Brady Reece Manek is an American college basketball player for the North Carolina Tar Heels of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He previously played for the Oklahoma Sooners.
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With around 10 minutes of the No. 8 UNC vs. No. 1 Baylor Round of 32 game on Saturday, one of the Tar Heels’ star players, forward Brady Manek, was ejected due to a flagrant-2 foul. The foul was called after Manek pushed himself into Baylor’s Jeremy Sochan under the basket.
The definition for a flagrant foul is: Flagrant Foul Penalty 1: Unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent. Flagrant Foul Penalty 2: Unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent.
Parents:
MISCELLANEOUS: Son of Cary and Tina Manek… Born in Edmond, Okla.
Cary Manek, Brady’s father, recalled Brady’s tendency to let the phone ring on most of his recruiting calls didn’t come from a lack of interest in continuing his playing career — it was because his mind was already made up.
“He’d look at his phone and tell me, ‘Oh, this is coach whoever from wherever,’ and I’d look at him and say, ‘Answer it,’ but he’d always say, ‘I don’t want to,’” Cary said.
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“After putting up with that for about a month, I asked him, ‘What’s the hang up? Why won’t you answer these calls? People would die to be in the situation that you are.’
Now, over midway through his junior season at OU, Manek has gone from just a catch-and-shoot forward in head coach Lon Kruger’s offense to a more well-rounded offensive and defensive player.
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Along with being the Big 12’s third-leading scorer so far this season by averaging almost 16 points per game on a shooting percentage just above 47 percent, Manek has already made as many 3-pointers as he did last season, and he’s done so on 23 fewer attempts and in 12 fewer games.
He’s also recorded more blocks this season than in either of his previous years with the Sooners, and he’s significantly cut down his total amount of turnovers.
Stats:
| Year | Team | FG% |
|---|---|---|
| 2017–18 | Oklahoma | .466 |
| 2018–19 | Oklahoma | .469 |
| 2019–20 | Oklahoma | .453 |
| 2020–21 | Oklahoma | .422 |
At the time, the Tar Heels were up 67-42 after leading the majority of the game. Manek led the team at the time with 26 points and had four three-pointers.
After Manek’s ejection, the Bears went on a 9-0 run to close more of the score gap.
Born: 4 September 1998 (age 23 years), Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
