The scorer who won the final.
Alex Carlisle grew up in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. By the time he reached Wheaton College in Massachusetts he was good enough to captain the side. He started all 71 games he played and left as the programme's ninth-leading scorer with 1,245 points, 17.5 a game. As a junior he topped the entire NEWMAC conference at 22.0 per game; as a senior he made the NEWMAC First Team and the NABC All-District Second Team, and one night he dropped a school-record 46 points. He closed out his college years with a graduate season at Assumption University, an NCAA Division II programme in Massachusetts. The scoring travelled with him.
He came to Limerick to study at TUS and the basketball came too. In his first Eagles season, 2024-25, he finished as the third-highest scorer in the league at 27.6 points a game, took College Player of the Year and dragged the TUS Mid-West side to a Division One college title. He is not a volume shooter who ignores everyone else, though. Carlisle reads a defence, picks his moment, and finds the open man when the double comes. The captaincy at Wheaton was earned on that basis, not handed over. Between games he turns up for more than just game nights, coaching the club's holiday camps alongside Ryan Leonard.
Year two was his best. He was named Domino's Men's Division One Player of the Year and March Player of the Month, and produced his best game in the final: 41 points and the MVP award as the Eagles beat Titans BC 82–63 to win promotion to the Super League. Two seasons from arriving in Limerick to the top flight.
“Unbelievable. He scored 38 in the semi-final and 41 in the final, and he can win you a game with his passing too.”
Head coach Niall McDermott on Carlisle, via Basketball Ireland
2025-26 with the Eagles
Division One Player of the Year and March Player of the Month. Carlisle averaged big numbers all season, 32 points and 7 assists in the double-overtime win over Galway Titans, 27 v Mhaigh Cuilinn, and was named MVP of the Division One final after a 41-point display in the 82–63 win over Titans BC that sealed promotion to the Super League.
2025-26 Averages
| PPG | RPG | APG | 3PT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23.2 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 34% |
Season high: 41 points and final MVP as the Eagles beat Titans BC 82–63 to go up.Domino's Men's Division One, 2025-26
Honours
- 2025-26 Division One Player of the Year
- Division One final MVP, 41 points
- March 2026 Player of the Month
- 2024-25 College Player of the Year (TUS Mid-West)
- Vermont Mr. Basketball; D1 State MVP (2019)
College Record
- Wheaton College (MA), NCAA D3, captain
- 1,245 career points (9th all-time)
- Led NEWMAC in scoring, 22.0 ppg (2021-22)
- School-record 46 points in a game
- Graduate season at Assumption University (NCAA D2)
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