Ryan Sidney
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Ryan Geoffrey J. I. Sidney (born May 25, 1982) is an American former basketball player who played as a shooting guard (listed 6'2"/1.88 m).
College career
Sidney played college ball for Boston College from the Big East Conference between 2000 and 2003, where he based himself as the team's sixth man and was part in the college's transition from being last in the conference to winning it twice, and holding the Win-Lose odd record in the team's history. They managed to make it to the NCAA Division I but not to the higher stages in it. In one of the workouts he broke his jaw and played with a cast for two months. During his 3rd year there (2002/2003) his eldest son was born, and he was involved in a turning point event: his best friend and teammate, Andrew Bryant, was kept hostage in the Rubenstein Dorms just a few floors beneath Sidney's apartment by a man from another college, a man knocked on Sidney's door and informed him on the event, Sidney rushed down and tried to negotiate with the gun holder, the authorities arrested all three present in the scene, Sidney was cleared of charges but decided to drop out of college for "personal reasons", his chances of being picked in the NBA draft suffered a decline. He then decided to finish his degree in Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the small school played in the NCAA Division II, by the end of the year (2003/2004) Sidney registered to the 2004 NBA draft and went undrafted.
