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The Best Ever?

Senior Point Guard Tim Hill Has Statistics, Wins To Make Case

Those options include a July camp in Italy, attended by scouts from several teams in Italy's First Division, as well as a potential invite to one of the three major NBA pre-draft camps in Portsmouth, Va.

"I'm being considered for the Portsmouth camp," Hill says. "They only pick 64 players, so the chances are slim, but it's nice to know that my name is floating around out there and that people at the next level have recognized my accomplishments."

Outside of professional ball, Hill has a pretty attractive Plan B: he's spent the last two summers in New York working on Wall Street for Goldman, Sachs.

"It's a fairly nice situation to be in," Hill says. "The guys at the firm are supportive of me wanting to play somewhere after college, but they know that long-term, I've probably got to go to work some time."

While in New York, Hill worked out periodically with the NYU and Columbia basketball teams and even sampled some of the Naked City's seamier sights.

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"I went to the Tunnel [a club] one night," Hill says. "And my mouth was hanging open, my eyes were about 10 feet wide. I couldn't believe some of the sights in there."

Hill's seen a little bit of everything, from wins over the likes of Penn, Boston College, Santa Clara and Princeton to the long-term achievement of leading Harvard to the best four-year record in program history.

But for all that he's experienced, Hill has never seen the bright lights of March Madness, something that, but for a simple twist of fate, might have been his.

Any regrets?

"Every once in a while, you might say 'I wish I had gone to a better basketball school,'" Hill says. "But in the end, I've got no reservations. I couldn't have had a better four years."

Hill even had a chance to look into the other side of the mirror last December in San Francisco. While training for the Cable Car Classic at the Golden State Warriors' practice facility, Hill bumped into North Carolina's Ed Cota, whom he trails by less than one assist per game on the Division I leader board.

"North Carolina was practicing right after us," Hill says. "And I was kind of like, 'Man I want to jump into that practice and see what it's like.'"

Chances are, Hill could have held his own. But that just would have meant the rich getting richer. Harvard basketball is an infinitely better place for having had Tim Hill in it.

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