Harper has spent most of his basketball career overseas. He played for the Gimle BBK Bergen in Norway during the 2007-2008 season. In 15 games Harper averaged 25.1 ppg and 8.3 rpg. Harper spent the 2008-2009 season in South Korea with KCC Egis, where he averaged 15.1 ppg and 5.1 rpg.

During his final season at Paine College, Harper averaged 16.6 ppg and 6.9 rpg. Harper helped to lead the Paine team to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference semifinals in ’06 and regular season runner up ’06 and ’07. Harper was named to the All-SIAC 1st team during the ’06 and ’07. Harper was also honored in SIAC with the All-SIAC Player of the Year during the ’06 season.

Harper will make his Bighorns debut Wednesday, March 18, when the Bighorns travel to Utah to take on the Flash.

The NBA Development League, founded in 2001, is the NBA’s official minor league and features 16 teams with direct affiliations to NBA teams for the 2008-09 season. An expansion team will begin play in Portland, Maine for the 2009-10 season. Sixty former NBA Development League players were on 2008-09 NBA start-of-season rosters, and the league continues to develop current NBA coaches and referees. In fostering the league’s connection to the community, its teams, players and staff promote youth basketball, support local needs and interests, and assist in educational development through NBA D-League Cares programs. The NBA D-League also advances the game of basketball as the research and development arm of the NBA. Throughout this season fans can watch all NBA D-League games on NBA Futurecast, the free live Web-streaming initiative found at nba.com/Futurecast.

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