{"id":826124,"date":"2025-02-28T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=826124"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:22:28","slug":"rasheer-fleming-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/the-magazine\/slam-254\/rasheer-fleming-254\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emergence of Rasheer Fleming into a Double-Double Standout at St. Joseph’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rasheer Fleming is <\/strong>a self-proclaimed \u201clate bloomer,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t mean the work started recently. Nah, the 6-9 junior out at Saint Joseph\u2019s has been grinding away at his craft since he was moving from Tennessee to Kentucky to New Jersey as a kid. Consistency has been the key no matter the scenario. So when opportunity rang last season, the now two-time captain leaned on the work that has led to a perfect harmony of thunderous dunks, unlimited boards and shots routinely being sent into the seventh row.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The breakout forward touting a 7-5 wingspan has taken over the A-10 with a quickness. As of this writing, he\u2019s the only DI player this season to record 20 dunks and 20 threes, netting more than 40 percent of his shots from downtown. He collected back-to-back 26-pieces in December and posted 16 points, 20 rebounds and 3 steals in a single-digit loss to the Texas Longhorns. On any given night, he\u2019s putting up 16.1 points, 9.1 boards, 1.8 steals and 1.5 blocks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development has been on full display since Rasheer was battling for playing time on a stacked Camden roster and with the New Jersey Scholars on the EYBL circuit, where he picked up his Saint Joe\u2019s offer during warm-ups for a Philly Live tournament. He\u2019s been churning out double-doubles ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThey always saw the potential in me, so they\u2019ve always talked about developing me into the greatest player that I could be,\u201d Rasheer says. \u201cThe vision for the team as well, winning a national championship for sure. That was the main vision going into the program, and they\u2019ve always talked about that with me. And I can see it now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos via Getty Images. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rasheer Fleming is a self-proclaimed \u201clate bloomer,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t mean the work started recently. Nah, the 6-9 junior out at Saint Joseph\u2019s has been grinding away at his craft since he was moving from Tennessee to Kentucky to New Jersey as a kid. Consistency has been the key no matter the scenario. So when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":448,"featured_media":826132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65344],"tags":[62525,65362,65345,64942,65363],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-826124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slam-254","tag-feature-1","tag-rasheer-fleming","tag-slam-254","tag-slam-university","tag-st-josephs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826130,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826124\/revisions\/826130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826124"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=826124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}