| Year: | 2015 |
| Team: | Men's Basketball |
If strength is in the numbers, then Jason Luisi has to be considered one of the finest and most productive players to ever wear a Rams’ basketball uniform.
A 6-1 shooting guard, Luisi started every game in his four-year career and is the first Suffolk men’s basketball player to lead his team in scoring each of his four seasons. He is the University’s second all-time leading scorer with 1,869 points, right behind 2007 Athletic Hall of Fame inductee Donovan Little (2,033 points).
In his senior year, Luisi averaged 17 points per game, directing the Rams as they won the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) regular season title and conference tournament championship. He was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, and Suffolk earned an NCAA tourney bid.
A two-time, first team All-GNAC selection, Luisi averaged 17.8 points per game during his career, sixth on Suffolk’s all-time list. As a senior, he led the NCAA Division III in free throw percentage with an impressive 92.6 mark, connecting on a sizzling 87 out of 94 attempts. He is also Suffolk’s leader in career free throw percentage (.883).
Putting the ball in the basket from long range was as natural an act for Luisi as lacing up his sneakers. His marksmanship raining three-point shots over opposing defenses, Steph Curry-like, was a thing of beauty. Each time the ball left his hands everyone in the gym felt it was going to splash through the net.
In a press release at the end of his senior campaign, Luisi was described by Dennis McHugh, his coach at the time, “as arguably the best shooter this season in New England.”
Luisi’s love of basketball is in his DNA. For the past nine seasons, he has been an assistant coach for the Emmanuel College women’s basketball team. Prior to that, he served as an assistant coach to the Suffolk men’s basketball squad and head girls varsity coach and junior varsity boys coach at Dorchester High School.
An adapted physical education teacher in the City of Boston, Luisi and his wife, Meredith, live in Hyde Park and are expecting their first child in December.