The last three Centennial Conference players of the year are in Kevin Hargrove’s book. So are a Division I player and a set of brothers.

The 6-10 junior center became the Muhlenberg men’s basketball team’s all-time leader in blocked shots on Saturday. With 171 blocks and more than a full season left to play, Hargrove is in position to put plenty of distance between himself and Mark Lesko ’02 (a former CC player of the year). He also can move up the all-time CC list, on which he is currently in sixth place, just two away from moving into the top five.

Currently the fifth-leading shot-blocker in Division III, Hargrove has amassed his 171 blocks against 107 different players on 25 teams. More important than the shots he blocks, however, are those he influences, either by causing a shooter to change his motion or by making opponents think twice about coming near him. It’s no coincidence that when Hargrove’s been at his shot-blocking best, his freshman year and this season, opponents are shooting .395 and .394, respectively, against the Mules. Last year, opponents shot .421.

But they don’t keep stats on shots influenced, just shots blocked. So here’s a breakdown of Hargrove’s first 171 blocked shots:

by site

• home – 94 in 33 games (2.85 average)
• away – 57 in 27 games (2.11 average)
• neutral – 20 in 7 games (2.86 average)

by game type

• Centennial Conference regular season – 109 in 45 games (2.42 average)
• Centennial Conference playoff – 7 in 2 games (3.50 average)
• Scotty Wood Tournament -12 in 6 games (2.00 average)
• other – 43 in 14 games (3.07 average)

by game result

• Muhlenberg wins – 94 in 39 (2.41 average)
• Muhlenberg losses – 77 in 28 (2.75 average)

by Muhlenberg record

• 0 blocks – 0-5
• 1 block – 18-5
• 2 blocks – 7-4
• 3 blocks – 6-6
• 4 blocks – 5-1
• 5 blocks – 1-4
• 6 blocks – 0-2
• 7 blocks – n/a
• 8 blocks – n/a
• 9 blocks – 1-0
• 10 blocks – 1-1

by result of blocked shot

• defensive rebound – 100 (58.5 percent)
•    by Hargrove himself – 42
•    by Muhlenberg teammate – 54
•    off opponent out of bounds – 4
• offensive rebound – 71 (41.5 percent)
•    blocked out of bounds – 35
•    live rebound by opponent – 36

by time into game (5 fastest)

• 12 seconds vs. Haverford, Jan. 27, 2011
• 16 seconds vs. Franklin & Marshall Feb. 6, 2011
• 51 seconds vs. Haverford, Feb. 16, 2011
• 1:13 vs. Immaculata, Nov. 19, 2011
• 1:14 vs. Johns Hopkins, Jan. 29, 2011

by opponent (top 10)

• McDaniel – 19 (5 games)
• Franklin & Marshall – 16 (5 games)
• Swarthmore – 16 (4 games)
• Dickinson – 14 (5 games)
• Johns Hopkins – 14 (6 games)
• DeSales – 13 (2 games)
• Washington – 12 (6 games)
• Moravian – 10 (2 games)   
• Gettysburg – 9 (6 games)
• Haverford – 9 (5 games)

by opposing player (4 or more)

• Will Gates, Swarthmore – 6
• Georgio Milligan, Franklin & Marshall – 5
• George Bugarinovic, Johns Hopkins – 4
• Jordan Federer, Swarthmore – 4
• Matt Harte, Wentworth Tech – 4 (all in one game)
• Brian Hunter, DeSales – 4 (all in one game)
• Jay Kober, Swarthmore – 4
• Jon Ward, Ursinus – 4

note: In addition to Milligan, Hargrove recorded blocked shots against CC players of the year James McNally of F&M (1) and Andrew Powers of Gettysburg (3).

miscellaneous

• Hargrove has had two blocks on the same possession four times (once against the same player)
• Twice (vs. Franklin & Marshall as a freshman and vs. McDaniel this season), Hargrove blocked shots on three straight possessions. In the McDaniel game, the three blocks came 36 seconds apart.
• Hargrove’s first career block came against Moravian’s Chris Cullen. He recorded two blocks against his younger brother Cameron Cullen, also of Moravian, last month.