March 9, 2005

Queens, NY - St. John's University men's basketball guard Daryll Hill (Queens, NY) was named to the United States Basketball Writers Association District 2 team, it was announced today.

It was the second award this week for Hill, who was named third-team All-BIG EAST Conference on Monday. Schools from New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Washington, D.C. are represented on the District 2 team.

The District 2 team is made up of Turner Battle of Buffalo, Keydren Clark of St. Peter's, Jerry Johnson of Rider, Juan Mendez of Niagara, Gerry McNamara and Hakim Warrick of Syracuse, Peter Mulligan of Manhattan, T.J. Thompson of George Washington and Loren Stokes of Hofstra.

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.