Texas Basketball: 3 players you forgot played with Kevin Durant

Over the course of the last decade, the Longhorns didn’t see many players that got as much experience and sat around for as long as former 6-foot-10 power forward Matt Hill did in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s. Hill’s freshman season was the same as Durant’s, in 2006-07. And then his senior campaign would take him all the way through 2010-11.

Some of the best per game stats that Hill posted over his career on the Forty Acres was during his freshman season. He played in 23 games, and played in the second most minutes per game of any of his four seasons in college (11.4). He averaged 2.2 points per game, 2.5 rebounds, 0.1 assists, and 0.7 blocks, while shooting 42.9 percent from the field and 58.8 percent from the charity stripe in 2006-07.

In total in his career with the Longhorns, Hill played in 103 games while averaging 1.4 points per game, 2.1 rebounds, 0.2 assists, and 0.5 blocks, while shooting 42.5 percent from the field and 55.3 percent from the charity stripe. He was a good rebounder, but that wasn’t all that needed while Durant was reeling in more than 11 boards per game in 2006-07.

The advanced numbers for Hill were nothing special, but his efforts occasionally off the bench as a rim protector and a pure energy player hitting the glass were hard to match by other big men that Barnes had in the mix at the time. He registered a 9.4 player efficiency rating 2.5 total win shares, and .100 win share per 40 minutes in his career with Texas.