Chauncey Gilliam to transfer from UMBC
By: Corey Johns -

Sophomore guard Chauncey Gilliam has been granted permission to seek transfer to another school according to the UMBC athletic department. Gilliam played two years on the men’s basketball team and started 52 of the 61 games in which he competed in.

“I love playing at UMBC but it’s just a business decision and I’m looking out for the best opportunity for my career,” Gilliam said.

This season Gilliam led the team with 13.3 points per game while also averaging 3.7 rebounds, 1.5 steals, and 1.3 assists in 29.3 minutes per game and was named to the All-America East Conference third team.

Further coverage of this will be in the April 6 issue of The Retriever Weekly.

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Too bad for UMBC and the AE. Hopefully Chauncey’s career goals relate to his engineering education and not professional basketball. He is unlikely to stand out in a higher conference, given his size and skills. Hopefully his plan works out better than Jake O’Brien from BU last summer.
Regardless, best of luck to young Mr. Gilliam, wherever his travels lead him.

Oscar - March 31, 2010, 4:52 am

My comment is to Oscar. How much organized ball have you played in life? Before knocking what you don’t know try getting your facts straight, Chauncey is and was the best thing that ever happen to UMBC in terms of basketball recruitment. He has an amazing upside potential but couldn’t do it there for several reasons. There is no support for athletes there making it hard to major in what one wants and play sports. There is no connection between instructors and coaches. One pulls one way and one pulls the other Secondly the team structure was not designed to accommodate a player like Chauncey. Here’s a person who is multi-faceted and was used as a one dimensional player and reprimanded by the coach when he played within his comfort zone. Lastly, the point guard Dela Rosa is good but is not complimentary to Chauncey’s game. He operate from coaches instructions to keep the ball in his hands 95% of the time. This is the problem with the team all players should touch the ball or develop that skill-one to speed up the game and two to keep the opposing team guessing. For a coach not to recognize this and put the ball in the best players hand down the stretch shows a coach who doesn’t want to win. And in my opinion one of the worst if not the worst coaches I’ve ever seen. Goes against everything I taught Chauncey to be as a TEAM player. When UMBC fires Monroe and get a young coach that shares this philosophy then maybe the basketball team will find itself getting ahead in terms of winning in a very weak conference The America East…

Gill - March 30, 2011, 6:34 pm