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Roger is a member of the St Rose College Athletics Hall of Fame. He is among the most potent offensive threats in school annals and the only 2,000 point scorer (2,027) in Saint Rose history; Roger  was a two-time All-American and was twice tabbed as a National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) first-team All-New England selection. Eastern Basketball’s Player of the Year as a senior in 1997 and a member of its All-East team in each of his final three years, he was a Daktronics/CoSIDA first-team All-Region selection as a junior and was honored as both the ECAC and New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) Player of the Year as a senior. A three-time, first-team All-Conference selection, Powers was part of three NCAA Tournament teams, including the 1995-96 Elite Eight squad. He still stands as the school’s all-time leader in field goals made (747), 3-pointers made (305), and 3-point FG% (.437); and is 11th all-time in blocks (45). Furthermore, he owns three of the top-10, including the top-two, single-season scoring marks. Powers was inducted into the Saint Rose Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008.