Taylor joins basketball program

Morgan Taylor has joined the Tiffin Men's Basketball program.
Morgan Taylor has joined the Tiffin Men's Basketball program.

Morgan Taylor will be joining the Tiffin University men's basketball program for the 2021-22 season.

Morgan Taylor - 6'3 PG/G 
Transfer- Triton College 
 
2020-21 (RS Sophomore)/ Triton College: Triton College went 20-4 and Morgan started in all twenty-two games he played in...Averaged 12.0 Points Per Game/ 3.4 Rebounds Per Game/ 2.6 Assists Per Game 
 
2019-20 (Sophomore)/ Incarnate Word: Suffered a season-ending injury after the ninth game of the season.  Morgan had started in four of those games and was averaging 7.4 ppg 
 
2018-19 (Freshman)/ Incarnate Word: Started 15 of 17 games played ... named Southland Conference Player of the week on Nov. 9, the first time a UIW men's basketball player has won that award since Kyle Kittle was chosen on Feb. 29, 2016. Averaged 11.5 Points Per Game / 2.6 Rebounds Per Game / 3.2 Assists Per Game 

High School: Named first-team all-state by the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association while averaging 21.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 4.3 assists per game during his senior year … also named first-team all-Chicago and the East Suburban Catholic Conference player of the year… shot 47 percent from the floor … guided Marist to 27 wins and a deep run into the Class 4A state tournament … set a Marist individual record for scoring 698 points during a season.
 
Taylor was on the honor roll each of his three years at Marist … member of the National Honor Society.
 
Personal: Morgan is the son of Melvin and Crystal Taylor and the brother of Melvin Taylor Jr., … born Dec. 4, 1999, in Chicago ... He will be majoring in Communications. 

"Tiffin was the best fit for me in taking the next steps of becoming a better student-athlete," said Taylor.
 
"I am excited to see a player I truly enjoyed working with move his career forward with a coach I have always respected. Morgan was the embodiment of a team player and I feel very confident in saying that his best basketball is ahead of him and Tom Church is the right man to help extract it from him," said Triton Coach Steve Christiansen.
 
"We are extremely excited to add Morgan to the Dragon Family," said Head Coach Tom Church. "Morgan exemplifies what it means to be a student-athlete.  He is an exceptional student in the classroom and is equally motivated on the basketball court.  He is exactly the type of tough, hard-nosed, high character player we were looking to add to our program.  I have known Coach Christiansen for many years and recruited a lot of his players and we know we are getting a well-coached, hard-working young man in Morgan."