The last time Tim Begley played in a basketball game that counted, he was walking off the court in Cleveland after Penn's first-round NCAA Tournament loss to Boston College in March. The next time he plays, he will be in Germany, and getting paid.
Begley is one of three recent Penn graduates who will be playing overseas this season. The all-time three-point leader in Quakers history signed a one-year contract with 2005 German League champion GHB Bamberg.
Joining Begley there is 2003 Penn graduate Koko Archibong. The forward averaged 7.9 points and 5.0 rebounds per game to help Bamberg win the Bundesliga, while averaging 27 minutes a game.
While they are not with him now, Begley spent the summer playing with fellow ex-Quakers Adam Chubb and Jeff Schiffner in the Jersey Shore Basketball League. The three all played for USA Financial, which advanced to the semifinals of the summer league.
While Schiffner, Chubb and Begley were in New Jersey, their former teammate Ugonna Onyekwe, who graduated in 2003, was in Las Vegas playing in the NBA Summer League for the Chicago Bulls.
But now, Penn's second all-time leading scorer has found a home playing for Bnei Hasharon in Israel.
Onyekwe is coming off two seasons in the Spanish second league, where he captured one scoring title and one Defensive Player of the Year nod from the magazine Eurobasket.
Onyekwe and Bnei Hasharon will begin play on October 23, in a season that will continue until April.
