Frogs Get Guard From Texas Juco

[50's PONY]

May 4, 2009
TCU adds sweet shooting juco guard...
By Van Coleman [email protected]

Jim Christian and his TCu staff have added a quality junior college combo guard in 6-3 Greg Hill...

TCU head men¹s basketball coach Jim Christian announced on Monday that Midland College standout Greg Hill (Gary, Ind. | Midland College) has signed a National Letter of Intent and will join the Horned Frogs for the upcoming 2009-10 season.

"Greg brings us immediate experience, explosive scoring and size at the shooting guard position,² said Christian. ³We targeted and signed another hard worker that comes from a winning program. We are extremely pleased to have signed a player from one of the most powerful junior colleges in the State of Texas as well as in the nation."

"I¹m excited about coming to TCU. The coaches made me feel really comfortable and made me feel like this was the place that I should be. Everyone from Coach Christian down to the players made me feel that they really wanted me here, which was a great feeling," said Hill.

The 6-2 shooting guard is coming off an impressive sophomore campaign where he led the Chaparrals to a 33-4 overall record and a berth in the NJCAA National Championship Game. In a 67-60 setback to Salt Lake Community
College in the gold medal contest, Hill finished with a game-high 25 points with six three-pointers, which tied the record for most three-point field goals made in a championship game.

Hill was selected as a first team All-Region V as well as first team All-Western Junior College Athletic Conference award winner after averaging 15.5 points per game, which ranked sixth in the Region V standings. The newly-signed Frog led all players in Region V with 84 three-point field
goals as well as 257 three-point field goal attempts during the 2008-09 campaign.

In his two seasons with the Chaps, Hill guided his junior college program to a 61-8 overall record and a 27-5 mark in Western Junior College Athletic Conference action. During his tenure with the Chaps, Midland was consistently ranked in the top-10 in the NJCAA ranks, including a final standing of sixth in the country during the 2008-09 campaign.

Hill already has ties with the TCU men¹s basketball program as he was a former teammate of freshman Ronnie Moss (Fort Worth, Texas | Christian Life Academy) at Bridgton Academy during the 2006-07 season. That season, Hill averaged 21.0 points per game and was part of a Bridgton Academy program
that captured the Northeastern Prep School Championship.

"It¹s great to already know and played with someone on the team in Tuffy. He¹s a great player, and it¹s going to be fun playing with him once again," said Hill.

Hill is the second player to sign with the Frogs during the spring period and the third player to ink a National Letter of Intent with the Purple and White for the upcoming 2009-10 campaign. Hill joins Xavier Roberson (Houston, Texas | Mississippi Elite Christian Academy) and Garland Green
(Missouri City, Texas | Hightower H.S.) as the newest members of the TCU men¹s basketball program.

[MidlandMustang]

I can confirm that TCU is getting a good one. Wish we could have got him.

[papawasamustang]

Hill is a very good player. In addition to Hill, TCU also received a commitment yesterday from Dernodo Eiland from Pratt JC. Eiland also listed us as a school of interest.

[White Helmet]

Yes a school of interest, who didnt offer, his only other offer was Chattanooga.

[papawasamustang]

Yes a school of interest, who didnt offer, his only other offer was Chattanooga.

What's your point? Where's your worthless smart [deleted] remarks about not being local?

[MustangIcon]

Yes a school of interest, who didnt offer, his only other offer was Chattanooga.

What's your point? Where's your worthless smart [deleted] remarks about not being local?

His point is we weren't interested in him enough to offer. As in we didn't lose him to TCU bc we didn't want him. However, TCU lost Julius Francis to us since they did offer him.

And his lame "not local" comments that are replayed like a broken record are pretty similar to you quoting Billy Gillespie 44 times about recruiting locally.

[White Helmet]

Yes a school of interest, who didnt offer, his only other offer was Chattanooga.

What's your point? Where's your worthless smart [deleted] remarks about not being local?

His point is we weren't interested in him enough to offer. As in we didn't lose him to TCU bc we didn't want him. However, TCU lost Julius Francis to us since they did offer him.

And his lame "not local" comments that are replayed like a broken record are pretty similar to you quoting Billy Gillespie 44 times about recruiting locally.

Correct just for you I didnt want to mention that the kid wasnt local, but he isnt.

[HFvictory]

Bottom line is both TCU & SMU suck at basketball right now and neither seems to be able to hire the coach necessary to get them out of being bottom dwellers (though too early to tell on Jim Christian).

Neither school ripping it on the recruiting trail. Nations top recruit lists TCU in his final 12 but TCU beating out schools such as Duke would take a minor miracle and a lot of cash.