UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND 2006-07: Named to the All-WCC first team as selected by league coaches ... recorded his 1,000 career point at Portland in regular season finale at San Francisco, becoming the 30th Pilot in history to reach the milestone and 11th to do it in three years of eligibility or less on The Bluff ... recorded first career double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds at Pepperdine on Feb. 5 ... named the WCC Co-Player of the Week on Jan. 9 after averaging 23.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in leading Portland to wins over Pepperdine and LMU ... missed nine games with a strained hamstring ... carried Portland to a 61-58 win over Montana on Dec. 22 with a season-high 23 points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals, scoring 13 of the team’s final 17 points and blocking the game-tying three-point attempt at the buzzer ... set UP single season free throw record (.912) by making 104-of-114 attempts ... UP’s career leader in FT percentage (.852) ... tied for fifth in career three-pointers made (140), fourth in three-point percentage (.388) and ninth in free throws made (294).
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND 2005-06: Portland has received word from the NCAA that Cooper will be granted another year of eligiblity for the 2006-07 season ... All-WCC Honorable Mention selection in 2006 ... played in 27 games and started 25 ... second on the team and 10th in the conference in scoring (14.9) ... second in the WCC in three-point percentage (.450), third in three-pointers made (2.2) and seventh in free throw percentage (.797) ... 17.2 scoring average in conference play was seventh overall ... 59 three-pointers sixth-most in UP single-season history and .450 three-point percentage third on the season charts ... 40.3 career three-point percentage is third in UP history, while his .823 career free throw percentage is sixth all-time ... 10 20-point games including a career-high 25 vs. Oregon State ... career-best seven assists vs. LMU ... made 15 of 16 free throws vs. Oregon and 14 of 14 at the stripe vs. San Francisco ... led UP in scoring 10 times and reached double figures on 20 occasions ... recorded six consecutive 20-point games late in the conference season.
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND 2004-05: Played in 30 games, starting in 26 and averaging 27.5 minutes per game ... selected as a finalist for the V Foundation’s Comeback Award ... recipient of the 2005 North Portland Salvation Army’s Outstanding Youth Award ... second on the team in scoring (11.4 ppg), assists (68) and free-throw percentage (.854)... ranked fifth among the WCC in free-throw percentage … double-figure scoring in 17 games ... averaged 2.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.2 steals per game.… led team in scoring eight times … led team in rebounds three times … led team in assists six times … led team in steals seven times … scored 20 or more points on four occasions ... 88-of-103 (.854) from the free-throw line for the season and 37-of-46 (80 percent) in WCC games ... posted a career-best 23 points vs. San Francisco on March 3 ... scored 20 or more points in three of the last four games of the season … a career-best seven rebounds at UC Riverside on Dec. 22 ... a career-high 11-of-13 from the free-throw line vs. San Diego on Feb. 19 ... a career-high five assists at Loyola Marymount on Feb. 10 ... career-best six three-pointers at Pepperdine on Feb. 12 ... shot 40.0 percent from the field, 35.8 percent from three-point range and 85.4 percent from the free-throw line.
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND 2003-04: Sat out due to NCAA transfer rules.
EASTERN WASHINGTON: One-year letterwinner for coach Ray Giacolletti ... as a freshman at Eastern Washington, Cooper averaged 6.5 points per game ... set school record for consecutive free-throws made (44) in a single-season ... one of two other players to score in double figures (13 points in 18 minutes of play) as EWU came out with a stunning 68-67 upset win over then-No. 9 Saint Joseph’s in the first round of the Black Coaches’ Association Classic on Nov. 15, 2001 ... made three starts in 30 games and shot 31.0 percent from three-point range and 89.9 percent from the stripe (led the Big Sky Conference).
BENSON HS: Three-year letterwinner for coach Don Emry … PIL first team all-league … McDonald’s All-America Nominee … Team MVP senior season … Cooper led team in points per game (15.5), assists (3.7) and free-throw percentage ... he tallied 1.6 boards per game his senior season ... set the state tournament record with 26-consecutive free-throws ... career-best 14 free-throws, along with 26 points in Benson’s defeat of Jefferson High School at the state semifinals in 2001 ... selected to the 2001 State Tournament all-Tourney team ... a member of the 2001 first-team Portland Tribune all-Basketball team and a 2001 Oregon all-Star team pick.
PERSONAL: Born July 9, 1983 in Portland, Ore. … mother is Carrie Green, sister is Darcus Grigsby … Cooper’s uncle, Woodraw Green was a four-year letterwinner at Arizona State, and in 1974 was a first-round draft pick (16th overall) for the Kansas City Chiefs ... major is general studies, minor is drama.
