Joe Higgins

Guard
Senior
6-0, 170, Kenosha, Wis. (St. Joseph/Marquette University)

2008:  Played in all 25 games and made 10 starts…averaged 24.4 minutes per game, 1.3 points per game, 2.4 assists and 1.2 steals

2007:  Starting point guard and played in all 25 games, making 24 starts…averaged 2.6 points per game, 3.96 assists (second in the CCIW) and 1.08 steals (13th in the CCIW)…scored a season-high 11 points against Marietta on Dec. 20 at the “Adidas D-3 Desert Shootout”…collected a season-high nine assists in the Jan. 31 Wheaton (Ill.) contest…set a Carthage game record with seven steals in the Jan. 13 Augustana (Ill.) game…averaged 24.9 minutes per game.

2006:  Attended Marquette University fall term 2005 but did not play basketball…transferred to Carthage in January 2006 but did not play basketball.

High School:  Named All-Lakeshore Conference and Kenosha News All-Kenosha County both his junior and senior years…his sophomore-year team won both conference and sectional championships, his junior-year team won both conference and regional titles, and his senior-year squad won a regional championship…coached by Greg Leech…four-year letterwinner on the football team and named all-conference both his junior and senior years…recipient of the St. Joseph High School Dominic & Amelia Tirabassi Outstanding Athlete Award…National Honor Society member, Wisconsin Coaches Association all-academic, Lakeshore Conference all-academic and honor student.

Personal:  Accounting major…named to the Carthage dean’s list three times and named to the spring 2007 Carthage athletic director’s honor roll …born Dec. 6, 1986.