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Witt’s leading scorer Hill declared ineligible
SPRINGFIELD — Gregg Hill’s career with the Wittenberg men’s basketball team ended Tuesday, Jan. 12.
Coach Bill Brown told Hill the news at 4 p.m. outside the locker room. Then Brown entered the locker room to tell the team it would play the rest of the season without its leading scorer, a fifth-year senior who was the last remaining player to have appeared in the 2006 national championship game.
Wittenberg athletic director Garnett Purnell said Hill was declared academically ineligible.
Hill, a 6-foot guard from Redford Union High School in Farmington Hill, Mich., averaged 14.6 points in 13 games. He finished his career with 1,126 points. That places him 21st in Wittenberg history.
With Hill, the Tigers were 11-2 with a 3-1 mark in the North Coast Athletic Conference. They will play their first game of the season without Hill at Denison at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Jan 13.
“We always breed depth in our program,” Brown said. “We feel like we have excellent depth. That’s what we play on. Now it’s just up to everybody. We have to coach a little harder. People will have to be coachable. Everyone has to pick it up.”
Wittenberg played all of last season without Hill as he recovered from a shoulder injury. It should be better equipped to handle his absence this year in part because of the improvement of junior guard Chris Sullivan, the team’s second-leading scorer. Sullivan will take Hill’s spot in the starting lineup.
“I don’t think anybody can deny we’ve always made a commitment to depth,” Brown said. “We do feel we have some quality depth. We move our second-leading scorer into the lineup, and that’s a lot better than moving your sixth-leading scorer into the lineup.”
Brown said for now Kyle Bigler will come off the bench to back up point guard David Nowicki, and freshman Steven Heatherly and junior Seth Hill will also compete for time in the rotation.
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