2015-16 All-Big Ten Team
The Big Ten All-Conference teams and individual award winners were announced Monday. Illinois guard Malcolm Hill (Fairview Heights, Ill./Belleville East H.S.) earned second-team All-Big Ten honors by both the league coaches and media. Hill has compiled an impressive list of accomplishments in his junior season with the Fighting Illini:
- One of 10 finalists for Jerry West Award (nation's top shooting guard)
- One of only two Big Ten players to lead his team in scoring, rebounding and assists
- Third in Big Ten in scoring, averaging 18.6 points
- Highest scoring average by an Illini player in the last 13 years
- Scored in double figures in 29 of 31 games, with 16 performances of 20+ points and four of 30+ points
- Averaging 20.0 points over the last 15 contests, with nine games of 20+ points during this stretch
- Career-high 39 points in final regular season game at Penn State (March 6), tying the seventh-highest scoring performance in Illini history
- Ninth in Big Ten in rebounding, averaging 6.6 boards
- Eight games with double-figure rebounds, led by career-high 14 boards at Rutgers (Feb. 3)
- Third-best defensive rebounder in the conference, averaging 5.4 rpg
- Seven double-doubles on the season
- Fifth in Big Ten in free throw shooting at 82.4 percent
- Leads league and ranks 19th in the NCAA with 182 made free throws
- Second in the conference with 221 free throw attempts
- 14th in Big Ten in assists with average of 3.3 per game, after entering year with career average of 1.0 apg
- Third in league in minutes played at 35.6 mpg
- Big Ten Co-Player of the Week (Dec. 21)
- Emerald Coast Classic All-Tournament Team (Nov. 27-28)
- Has played and defended all five positions over the course of the season
Junior center Maverick Morgan also was recognized by the conference office as Illinois' Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree.
