page_title: Peyton Siva
section_title: Senior year
hierarchical_section_title: Peyton Siva / College career / Senior year
caption_attribution_description: English: Louisville basketball players Russ Smith (right) and Peyton Siva (left) with the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Trophy.
context_page_description: Peyton Robert Siva Jr. is an American professional basketball player for Alba Berlin of the German Basketball Bundesliga. He played college basketball for Louisville, leading the school to two Final Fours including a national championship his senior season. He was drafted by the Detroit Pistons, who selected him with the 56th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft.
context_section_description: Before the start of the 2012–13 basketball season the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team was picked to finish 1st in the Big East Conference in polls done by Big East writers  and coaches. Siva was selected as the Big East Preseason Player of the Year and to the Big East Preseason first team by both the writers and coaches also. U of L finished the regular season with a 26–5 record and 14–4 in the Big East to tie for a share of the Big East regular season championship with Georgetown and Marquette, who also finished with a 14–4 conference record.  Siva led Louisville to the 2013 Big East Tournament championship and was named the tournament's most outstanding player for the second consecutive year. Siva became the second player ever to win this award multiple times; Patrick Ewing accomplished the same feat in 1984 and 1985 Siva had a Big East tournament and school record for steals in a Big East tournament game with seven vs Notre Dame in the semi-finals, it tied Terrence Williams (also from Seattle, WA) the only other Louisville player and 10 others. The seven steals made him Louisville's all-time career leader with 236 steals, at that time, he passed Darrell Griffith's record of 230 he had from 1976–80. Louisville, with a 35–5 record, was selected the #1 overall seed for the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Siva was a 2012–13 Academic All-America selection. and was a 2012–13 Senior CLASS Award finalist. Finally, he was named the recipient of the men's Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top NCAA Division I senior no taller than 6'0" (1.83 m). Louisville would go on to beat Michigan and win the 2013 NCAA men's basketball championship.
caption: Russ Smith (left) and Siva (right) with the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament trophy.
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