March 7, 2005

Queens, NY - St. John's University men's basketball guard Daryll Hill (Queens, NY) was named third-team All-BIG EAST on Monday in a vote of the league's coaches.

Hill was the only player to earn all-league honors for the Red Storm, who finished the season with a 9-18 overall record and a 3-13 mark in the BIG EAST.

He was joined on the third team by Connecticut sophomore Marcus Williams, Georgetown junior Brandon Bowman, Notre Dame senior Chris Thomas and Villanova junior Randy Foye. First team honorees included Jared Dudley and Craig Smith of Boston College, Hakim Warrick and Gerry McNamara of Syracuse, Chevon Troutman of Pittsburgh and Ryan Gomes of Providence. Second team honorees included Josh Boone and Charlie Villanueva of Connecticut, Allan Ray and Curtis Sumpter of Villanova, along with Carl Krauser of Pittsburgh.

The BIG EAST All-Rookie team included Sean Williams of Boston College, Rudy Gay of Connecticut, Jeff Green of Georgetown, Ronald Ramon of Pittsburgh, Ollie Bailey of Rutgers and Kyle Lowry of Villanova.

Hill finished the season averaging a team-best 20.7 points per game, which ranked third in the BIG EAST. He is the first Red Storm player to finish the season averaging at least 20 points and the 14th player in program history to do so. In conference games, the team's sophomore captain averaged 22.8 points, which ranked second among all league players. Hill scored 365 points in league games, just six points shy of Gomes' mark of 371.

He also ranked among the top-15 in the BIG EAST in five other offensive categories, including field goal percentage (12th, 41.9%, 201-of-480), assists (10th, 3.52 per game), free throw percentage (7th, 76.4%, 107-of-140), steals (tied for fourth place, 1.78 per game) and three-point field goals made per game (tied for ninth, 1.89 per game).

Hill led St. John's in scoring 19 times this season and reached double figures in all but one game. He was held to nine points in a loss to Seton Hall on January 29, ending a streak of 25-straight games in double figures, dating back to his freshman season. In addition, he appeared in 1,025 of a possible 1,080 minutes. He ranked among the top-five players in the country, appearing in 94.9 percent of St. John's minutes played.

When the Red Storm opened the 2004-05 season with a 79-68 win over Wagner at Carnesecca Arena, Hill scored a game-high 20 points, the ninth-straight game he had scored at least 20 points, dating back to the 2003-04 season. He finished this year scoring at least 20 points 17 times, giving him 25 for his two-year career.

Hill set a career-high in scoring three times this season. He scored 29 points at West Virginia on January 8 and then broke that mark on January 15, with 30 points at Notre Dame. Hill later set a new career-high when he scored 33 points at Syracuse on February 23. In that game he tied the St. John's single-game record with seven three-pointers.

In 54 career games, Hill has scored 960 points, a 17.8 per game average. He will enter his junior year needing 40 points to become the school's 42nd player to reach the 1,000-point mark. He ranks ninth all-time with 84 career three-point field goals made, ninth with 233 attempts and tied for ninth all-time, connecting on 36.1 percent of his attempts.