West Chester East graduate Andrew Carr scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to propel the University of Delaware men’s basketball team to a 59-55 victory over UNC Wilmington last Tuesday in the championship game of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament.

The win earned the fifth-seeded Blue Hens, who beat three higher-seeded teams in three consecutive days in Washington, D.C., an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

A 6-foot-9, 220-pound sophomore majoring in Health Behavior Science, Carr averages 9.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks per game for Delaware, which enters the tournament with a 22-12 record.

His father, Phil Carr, and uncle, Tim Carr, both played collegiately at Delaware in the 1980s.

“I fell in love with the school first, and then that kind of was just a positive,” Carr told City of Basketball Love about his family’s connection to the university.

Delaware is coached by Berwyn native Martin Ingelsby, the brother of film producer Brad Ingelsby, who wrote HBO’s Mare of Easttown, and the son of former NBA player Tom Ingelsby.