Talor Battle is an American basketball player for Cholet Basket

Cholet Basket

Cholet Basket is a professional basketball club that is based in Cholet, France. The club plays in the French Pro A League. Their home arena is La Meilleraie.- Establishment :...

 in France

France

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. In college he played for Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball

Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball

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 team. He is from Albany

Albany, New York

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, New York

New York

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, and attended Bishop Maginn High School

Bishop Maginn High School

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High school career

As a senior Battle averaged 28.7 points, 5.9 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 4.3 steals per game as he led Bishop Maginn to the Class AA state title game. He was rated a top 100 recruit in the ESPN 150, the No. 131 recruit in the nation by Rivals.com and No. 21 among point-guards by Scout.com. Battle ended his career as the fifth leading scorer all-time in New York Section II history with 2,161 points. He played AAU for the Albany City Rocks alongside current Sacramento King's guard Jimmer Fredette

Jimmer Fredette

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. He has a half brother named Taran Buie who is also currently attending Penn State as a freshman. Buie also attend Bishop Maginn.

College career

Battle is currently a Senior at Penn State. A first-team All-Big Ten and All-Region selection as a sophomore, Talor Battle has established himself as one of the top scoring and playmaking threats in the Big Ten and will be the undisputed on-court leader of the Nittany Lions. Coming off one of the best statistical seasons in Nittany Lion history in leading Penn State to a school-record 27 wins and the 2009 NIT title. On February 24, 2011, Battle became the first player in Big Ten Conference history to accumulate 2,000 career points, 500 career rebounds, and 500 career assists. On March 10, 2011, Battle became Penn State's all time leading scorer, setting the record on a clinching 3-point shot in the quarterfinal of the Big Ten Tournament.

Freshman Year

Battle started all but the Nittany Lions' first game at point-guard and led the team in assists (99), points (317) and minutes played (937) while ranking second in threes (48) and third in defensive rebounds (83) on the year...averaged 12.1 ppg in Big Ten conference games raising his scoring average by nearly six points per game from the non-conference season. He posted a career high point total four times in his first five Big Ten games and had 13 double-digit outings vs. conference opponents and 16 on the year. His 35 threes in the Big Ten play led the team.

Year	Games Played	Minutes/Game	Points/Game	Rebounds/Game	Assists/Game	Turnovers/Game	Assist/Turnover	Steals/Game	Steals/Season
2007-08	31	30.2	10.2	3.5	3.2	2.3	1.41	1.3	40

Sophomore Year

In his second season at Penn State Battle posted one of the most outstanding seasons in Penn State history setting a school record with 189 assists and racking up 635 points (fifth best ever) while leading the Nittany Lions to a school-record 27 wins and the programs first-ever national tournament title in the 2009 NIT. Battle was named to the NIT All-Tournament team. Battle earned first-team All-Big Ten, USBWA All-Region and NABC All-District honors while receiving honorable-mention All-America consideration from FOXsports.com and CollegeHoops.net. He led the Big Ten in scoring in the regular season (17.3 ppg) and Led the nation (1,422 minutes) and Big Ten (37.4 mpg) in playing time while making 37 starts and playing in all 38 games. He led Penn State in scoring (16.7), assists (5.0) and threes (92) and was second in steals (45). He Ranked in the top 15 of eight Big Ten statistical categories, including second in assists, third in made threes, and 12th in rebounding (5.3). He Led Big Ten with 14 20-point games

Year	Games Played	Minutes/Game	Points/Game	Rebounds/Game	Assists/Game	Turnovers/Game	Assist/Turnover	Steals/Game	Steals/Season
2008-09	38	37.4	16.7	5.3	5.0	2.4	2.05	1.2	45

Junior Year

In his Junior Year he was the only BCS conference player to lead his team in scoring (18.8 ppg), rebounding (5.4 rpg), assists (4.1 apg) and steals (1.1 spg). Battle earned post-season all-conference honors for the second-straight season by being named to the All-Big Ten second team.

Year	Games Played	Minutes/Game	Points/Game	Rebounds/Game	Assists/Game	Turnovers/Game	Assist/Turnover	Steals/Game	Steals/Season
2009-10	31	37.0	18.5	5.3	4.2	2.3	1.79	1.1	34

Senior Year

Talor averaged 20.2 points a game,4.4 rebounds and 2.9 assists while leading Penn State to a 16-14 record during the regular season and beating Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan State to get to the Big Ten tournament finals. Ultimately Penn State received a bid to the NCAA Tournament, their first in 10 years. Penn State lost to Temple in a close affair 66-64. Talor Battle scored 23 points, received 2 rebounds and 3 assists in the loss.

External links

• Penn State Profile http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/battle_talor00.html
• ESPN Player Profile http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/player/profile?playerId=36465
• Penn State News Story http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/030810aac.html
• Sports Illustrated Article http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tim_layden/03/18/byu/index.html