Leonardo Bettiol

• Player
• Seasons: 2025-26
• Number: 3
• Position: F
• Height: 6' 9“
• Weight: 238
• Hometown: Roncade, Italy
• High School: Liceo Duca degli Abruzzi
• Prep School: ?
• Transfer From: Abilene Christian
• Birthday: September 26¹⁾

• Verbally committed on 4/29/25.²⁾³⁾ Signed on 4/30/25.⁴⁾
• Played one season with UM, led the team in points and rebounds, and garnered MAC Second Team honors.
• Official roster page

• Played as a Graduate Student
• Started all 33 games in UM's season, averaging 28.7 minutes. Led the Minutemen with 18.1 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. Led UM in scoring in 13 games. Led or co-led UM in rebounding in 15 games.
• Second Team All-MAC.⁵⁾⁶⁾ Also named All-Tournament team, the only member whose team did not reach the championship game.⁷⁾
• Named Men's Transfer Athlete of the Year among all UMass student athletes in the year-end SAMY Awards.⁸⁾
• Shot .611 from the field, leading the Minutemen. Sports-Reference ranked that as best in the MAC,⁹⁾ but that depends on what minimum was used for FGAs. With different minimums, Bettiol was sixth in the MAC in FG%.¹⁰⁾
• Ranked 4th in the MAC in rebounding with his 7.8 average, and 3rd in total rebounds with 258.
• Ranked 1st in the MAC in Sports-Reference's Usage Percentage metric, at 28.2.¹¹⁾
• Tallied 7 double-doubles on the season. Scored 20+ points 16 times.
• Played almost entirely in the post, with only 3 of his 357 FGAs coming from behind the arc.
• Went to the foul line 229 times, more than twice the amount of the next closest Minuteman (Hankins-Sanford with 111).
• Struggled on defense at times, often getting called out for defensive effort by Frank in post-game comments. Total fouls (116) and fouls per game (3.5) were both most on the team.
• Started with the Minutemen with a 15 & 5 night against Marshall (11/3). Only took 5 shots, but connected on all.
• Put up 23 & 8 in just 20 minutes of work in the win over Albany (11/8).
• Back-to-back double-doubles, 17 & 14 against Le Moyne (11/13), 19 & 15 against CCSU (11/16).
• Put up 21 points, 13 of which came from the line, versus Green Bay (11/22).
• Held to 4-13 shooting against Boston College (12/10), far below his average, but snared 8 rebounds to help the Minutemen get the W.
• Tallied 20 & 8, and shot 9-12 from the field, in the win over Florida State (12/13).
• Beat up on D-3 UMass Boston (12/22) with 9-10 FG shooting, 20 points, and 8 boards, in just 16 minutes of work.
• Ineffective (2 pts, 1 board, 3 fouls, 12 minutes) in the loss at Eastern Michigan (12/30).
• Responded with an 11-13 FG, 32 point (career high), 14 rebound effort, in 44 minutes of work in the overtime game against Bowling Green (1/3).
• Limited to 19 minutes of work, with some ankle trouble, at Ohio (1/6). Finished with 9 points, 1 board.
• Put up 20+ points in seven of the next eight games (Ball State 1/10 through CMU 2/3), in which UM went 6-2.
• Did his part in the big home game against Miami (1/27), putting up 22 points and a career-high 16 rebounds.
• Tallied another double-double (20 & 10), and shot 7-12, in the revenge win over EMU (1/31).
• Shot 8-11 from the field and finished with 22 points in the win over CMU (2/3).
• Held to 33% shooting (6-18) in the 3OT loss at Coastal Carolina (2/7). Snared 10 rebounds and logged 44 minutes (tying his career high.)
• Scored 18 points but pulled in just 3 rebounds in 32 minutes in the loss at Akron (2/13).
• Put up 18 & 9 at undefeated Miami (2/17).
• Tallied 14 & 14 at Ball State (2/24), but fouled out after 27 minutes. Picked up his 5th when UM was up 4 with 3:44 to play. UM lost in OT.
• Put up 24 & 9, shot 9-12, at Bowling Green (2/28). Was a +2 in the 19-point loss.
• Led the Minutemen with 25 points, co-led with 8 rebounds, in the upset win over previously undefeated Miami (3/12), in the MAC Quarterfinal.
• Put up 21 & 6, but was a team-worst -23 in the 77-67 loss to Toledo in the MAC Semis (3/13).
• Game logs
• Get to know video

• Was with ACU in the WAC for four years, redshirting his first.
• A bit foul-prone, with 6.1 fouls per 40 minutes over his three seasons, but has been decreasing each season.
• Academic All-WAC: (3x: 2023 Winter, 2024 Winter, 2025 Winter)
• Roster page

• Averaged 13.1 pts, 3.9 boards in 25.8 minutes, starter in 31 of their 32 games.
• Second on the team in scoring average, fourth in rebounding.
• Led the team in FG% at .524.¹²⁾ The .524 was ACU's single-season best in their Division I history (they upgraded to D-I in 2013).¹³⁾ The .524 was also second-best in the WAC.¹⁴⁾
• Scored 20+ points four times.
• Racked up 111 fouls, the most in the WAC and 11th-most in D-I.¹⁵⁾
• Began the season with 22 & 8 against Howard Payne (11/4).
• Scored 18 and stole a career-high 4 at Kennesaw State (11/20). Also hit his first career 3-pointer.
• Put up 19 & 6 at Omaha (11/30).
• Tallied 16 & 7 at Texas A&M Commerce (12/18).
• Put up 22 & 6 in the win over Texas Southern (12/21).
• Shot 10-14 from the floor and finished with a career-high 27 points against Stephen F. Austin (12/31). (Former Minuteman Keon Thompson tallied 9-4-2 for SFA.)
• Tallied 13 & 6 in the win at Utah Tech (2/6).
• Flirted with a double-double, with 8 & 9, in the win over Seattle (2/13).
• Shot 8-13 and scored 19 in the win over Utah Tech (2/22).
• Put up 20 & 8 against Utah Valley (3/6).
• Game logs

• Appeared in 31 of their 34 games, started in 22. Started 21 of the team's last 22 games.
• Averaged 9.8 pts, 5.0 boards in 21.4 minutes.
• Racked up 111 fouls, fourth-most in the WAC and 17th-most in D-I.¹⁶⁾
• Put up 7 & 2 at NC State (11/10). (NC State made the Final Four that season.)
• Logged his first collegiate start and shot 5-5 from the field, for 10 points, against Howard Payne (12/10).
• Got 21 minutes of work at Arkansas (12/21), tallying 14 & 8.
• Notched his first double-double with 11 & 11 against Utah Tech (1/25). Logged another (14 & 10) just two days later against Southern Utah (1/27).
• Shot 6-7 from the field, tallied 15 & 5, in the win at UTRGV (2/15).
• Put up 17 & 8 at Southern Utah (2/29).
• Season-best 23 points, eight made field goals, seven free throws and three steals at Utah Tech (3/2).
• Brought down 15 rebounds versus Seattle U (3/7).
• Game logs

• Played in 24 of their 30 games, all off the bench. Averaged 4.0 points and 1.1 boards. Shot .565 (39-69) from the field.
• Hit his first double-figure scoring game with 11 points against North American (11/30), in just 9 minutes of action.
• In another 9 minutes of work, put up 10 & 5 against Arlington Baptist (12/3).
• Logged 11 minutes against Howard Payne (12/21) and pulled in a season-high 7 rebounds.
• Scored a season-high 17 points on 7-of-11 shooting, in 17 minutes of work, versus Utah Tech (1/28).
• Game logs

• Was with the Wildcats, but redshirted the season.

Additional data: Sports Reference

Career highs from RealGM

• Lettered in basketball at Liceo Duca degli Abruzzi.
• Average 10 points and nine rebounds on 30 minutes per game in his time with the Italian Junior National Team.
• Member of the U15, U16, U18 Italian National teams.
• Was a member of one of the top eight teams in Italy in both 2017-2018 and 2019-2020.

• Parents are Barbara and Christian.
• Enjoys watching Netflix and playing video games.

• Twitter: @LeoBettiol3
• Instagram: @leonardobettiol