Bill Clark

Bill Clark

Player Profile

Class:
Junior

Hometown:
Redondo Beach, Calif.

High School:
Oak Hill (Va.) Academy

Height / Weight:
6-5 / 205

Position:
Guard/Forward

Birthdate:
04/15/1988

Prep School:
Worcester (Mass.) Academy

As a Sophomore (2008-09)
Started all 34 games ... averaged 12.9 points, 5.0 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 29.5 minutes per contest ... led the team with 66 3-point field goals (66-of-166, .398) ... scored in double digits 25 times, including 20 of the last 24 games ... topped the 20-point mark four times with a career high of 24 at St. Bonaventure ... had 22 at Fordham and at UMass ... added 21 against Bowling Green ... his career scoring high entering the season was 16 ... hit 6-of-6 shots in the second half, including all of his career-high five 3-pointers, to bring the Dukes back from a seven-point deficit in a late-season win over Saint Louis ... hit all five of his 3-point attempts against a SLU defense that entered the game ranked first nationally in 3-point field goal defense ... finished the SLU game 7-of-8 from the field with 19 points ... scored 18 of his 21 in the second half vs. Bowling Green to help Duquesne erase a 10-point deficit in a 76-65 win ... was 7-of-8 from the field - including 4-of-4 from 3-point in the second half vs. BGSU ... the four 3-pointers tied his then career high set as a freshman against USC Upstate ... posted the second double-double of his career with 15 points and a career high 14 rebounds in the A-10 opening win over Charlotte ... added his second double-double of the season with 19 points and 13 boards (six offensive) in the A-10 tournament win over Rhode Island ... also had four assists and two steals in 40 minutes against the Rams ... went 9-of-12 from the field (4-of-6 from the arc) in scoring 22 at Fordham ... had 22 points (8-of-12 from the field), eight rebounds, eight assists and four steals at UMass ... went 4-of-4 from the arc in scoring 14 of his 18 points in the first half vs. No. 9 (AP) Xavier ... was second on the team with 91 assists, including a career-best eight at UMass ... handed out six assists in a game three times ... had 41 assists in 30 games as a freshman ... tied his career high with four steals at UMass and added four more vs. the Minutemen at the A-10 Championship ... hit three or more 3-pointers in a game 10 times ... averaged 15.4 ppg. and shot a team-best .542 in Atlantic 10 regular-season play ... the scoring average ranked tenth and field goal percentage fourth in conference games only ... averaged at team-high 7.5 rebounds and went 23-of-30 (.767) from the foul line in four games at the A-10 Championship.

As a Freshman (2007-08)
Was one of five players to see action in all 30 games ... averaged 8.2 points in 19.6 minutes per game ... started nine times ... led the Dukes in 3-pointers made (40) and attempted (128) ... was the Dukes' third-leading rebounder at 4.3 rpg. ... was second on the team in charges taken with 12 ... scored in double digits 12 times with a high of 16 both at Oakland and vs. Cal State Northridge ... went 11-of-12 from the arc in Duquesne's early-November exhibition wins over Millersville and Seton Hill ... hit at least one 3-pointer in 21 of the 30 games DU played ... hit at least three 3-pointers in a game five times including four of five in a 84-66 win over South Carolina Upstate on Dec. 30 ... finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds against Upstate for the first double-double of his college career ... just missed a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds in his first collegiate game against Howard on Nov. 9 ... was named Atlantic 10 co-Rookie of the Week (March 9) after averaging 11.6 points and shooting 50 percent from the field (6-of-12 from 3-point) in late-season games against Charlotte, Temple and Saint Louis ... averaged 11.0 ppg. on 13-of-28 shooting (6-of-13 from 3-point) in an average of 21 minutes in Duquesne's last four games ... broke out of a 0-of-13 five game 3-point shooting slump to hit 2-of-6 from the arc in scoring all 15 of his points in 12 second half minutes of DU's 69-66 loss to Richmond ... was 10-of-27 from the 3-point arc (.370) in his last seven games.

Prep School
Worcester Academy in Worcester, Mass. (head coach Edward Reilly) ... averaged 20.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in 2006-07 ... scored a season-high 29 against Brewster Academy and added 27 points and 10 rebounds against Hotchkiss School ... had a season-high 16 rebounds versus New Hampton School ... was named Most Outstanding Player of the Blackburn Tournament after helping Worcester to wins over Tilton and Navy Prep Academy ... was rated as the 12th-best player among Massachusetts class of 2007 preps by New England Basketball Services ... attended the same prep school as former DU guard Aaron Jackson ... was rated 123rd on Hoop Scoop's list of top fifth-year players.

Personal
Played for perennial national power Oak Hill Academy in 2006 ... was named Sixth Man Award winner at the August 2005 Five-Star Camp ... considered Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Providence, Saint Joseph's, Utah and Vanderbilt - among others - prior to signing with Duquesne ... earned a spot on the academic honor roll at both Oak Hill and Worcester Academy ... spent the summers of 2008 & 2009 working as a student aide in the Duquesne admissions office where one of his responsibilities was conducting campus tours for prospective students ... corporate communication major ... full name is William Clinton Clark, Jr. ... date of birth: 4/15/88.

Clark's Career Stats

Year
GP
GS
MIN
AVG
FG
FGA
FG%
3FG
3FGA
3FG%
FT
FTA
FT%
O.REB
D.REB
REB
AVG
PF
DQ
AST
TO
B
S
PTS
AVG
2008
30
9
589
19.6
80
209
0.383
40
128
0.313
45
70
0.643
48
81
129
4.3
96
2
41
41
9
28
245
8.2
2009
34
34
1004
29.5
141
286
0.493
66
166
0.398
92
135
0.681
54
117
171
5.0
121
7
91
84
7
32
440
12.9
Career
64
43
1593
24.9
221
495
0.446
106
294
0.361
137
205
0.668
102
198
300
4.7
217
9
132
125
16
60
685
10.7
High Games: Points - 24 at St. Bonaventure (So.); Rebounds - 14 vs. Charlotte (So.); Assists - 8 at Massachusetts (So.); Blocked Shots - 2 vs. Winston-Salem (Fr.); Steals - 4, three times vs. Massachusetts - A-10 Tour. (So.) last; Minutes - 40, four times vs. Rhode Island - A-10 Tour. (So.) last

Clark 2008-09 Game-by-Game (Sophomore)

OPPONENT	  M	Fg-At	3m-At	Ft-At	O-D-Reb	PF	A  	TO	B	S	Pts
HIGH POINT	*24	6-8	2-4	0-1	1-2-3	1	1	1	0	0	14
at. St. Francis	*38	5-10	1-5	1-5	2-4-6	3	6	2	0	1	12
FURMAN	        *28	5-7	3-5	1-1	1-0-1	3	4	1	0	1	14
at SC Upstate	*28	1-1	1-1	5-6	0-3-35	5	3	1	0	1	8
at Duke	        *25	1-9	0-4	4-4	1-6-7	2	1	1	0	2	6
at Pittsburgh	*19	3-7	2-6	0-0	3-2-5	4	2	5	0	0	8
at Radford	*34	3-8	2-5	2-2	0-2-2	3	4	1	0	0	10
W. VIRGINIA	*40	5-12	3-10	0-0	1-4-5	4	4	1	0	0	13
ODU	        *27	2-7	1-5	0-2	1-1-2	2	4	5	1	0	5
RICE	        *15	1-2	1-2	0-0	1-0-1	4	1	1	0	0	3
NC CENTRAL	*28	2-7	1-5	7-9	2-3-5	2	2	4	1	2	12
at Robt Morris	*27	3-5	1-2	4-6	0-5-5	4	6	4	0	1	11
B. GREEN	*33	8-14	4-5	1-3	5-3-8	1	3	1	0	1	21
CHARLOTTE	*34	4-9	2-6	5-8	6-8-14	4	1	2	1	1	15
at St. Bona.	*31	8-15	4-7	4-4	2-3-5	2	6	3	1	2	24
GEO. WASH.	*19	4-6	3-5	3-4	1-1-2	5	2	3	0	0	14
DAYTON	        *29	7-11	3-5	2-2	1-1-2	3	5	6	1	3	19
at St. Joseph's	*29	3-8	0-5	3-4	1-6-7	4	3	2	0	0	9
at Fordham	*38	9-12	4-6	0-2	2-5-7	4	1	3	0	1	22
ST. BONA.	*33	5-12	2-7	5-11	1-3-4	4	1	2	0	1	17
at St. Louis	*40	4-6	1-2	4-4	0-5-5	5	2	2	0	2	13
XAVIER	        *32	6-7	4-4	2-7	1-1-2	4	3	6	0	0	18
at Richmond	*24	3-9	1-3	4-5	1-2-3	5	1	3	1	0	11
TEMPLE	        *24	3-9	1-5	5-5	2-1-3	4	2	1	0	0	12
at La Salle	*20	3-7	2-3	0-0	3-4-7	5	3	2	0	0	8
at UMass	*40	8-12	2-6	4-4	2-6-8	4	8	2	0	4	22
RHODE IS.	*26	5-11	1-6	0-0	2-2-4	5	1	4	0	0	11
SAINT LOUIS	*30	7-8	5-6	0-0	0-5-5	4	0	3	1	1	19
at Dayton	*26	4-11	2-9	2-4	2-5-7	2	0	5	0	2	12
vs. UMass	*35	3-10	1-5	9-10	2-3-5	3	5	2	0	4	16
vs. Rhode Is.	*40	5-10	2-5	7-10	6-7-13	4	4	3	0	2	19
vs. Dayton	*25	0-2	0-2	5-6	0-6-6	3	0	1	0	0	5
vs. Temple	*32	4-10	3-7	2-4	1-5-6	4	2	0	0	0	13
at Va. Tech	*31	1-4	1-3	1-2	0-3-3	5	0	1	0	0	4
* - indicates game started

Clark 2007-08 Game-by-Game (Freshman)

OPPONENT	  M	Fg-At	3m-At	Ft-At	O-D-Reb	PF	A	TO	B	S	Pts
HOWARD	        *18	3-6	2-5	2-2	5-4-9	3	4	2	0	1	10
WSSU	         17	2-6	2-4	0-0	3-5-8	4	2	4	2	2	6
at Rice	        *19	2-5	2-5	1-2	1-6-7	3	1	1	0	1	7
at Oakland	 22	6-15	3-7	1-3	4-4-8	3	0	1	0	0	16
NIAGARA	        *17	3-8	3-6	1-2	1-2-3	4	0	2	0	0	10
vs. Northridge	 21	7-12	2-6	0-2	1-3-4	0	2	2	1	4	16
at Drake	*26	4-10	3-8	0-1	4-2-6	3	2	4	0	2	11
PITTSBURGH	*18	2-6	1-4	0-0	1-2-3	2	0	1	0	0	5
at W. Virginia	 27	4-13	1-8	2-2	2-2-4	0	1	3	1	1	11
ST FRANCIS	 17	2-4	2-4	0-0	0-3-3	3	3	0	0	0	6
ROBT MORRIS	 11	1-5	0-2	0-0	1-1-2	2	3	1	0	0	2
USC UPSTATE	*27	4-7	4-5	1-2	3-7-10	4	1	2	0	1	13
at Bowl. Green	 22	2-7	1-5	3-4	4-3-7	4	4	0	0	3	8
FORDHAM	         23	1-6	0-4	0-0	1-5-6	2	0	1	0	1	2
at Rhode Is.	 25	3-9	2-5	1-4	1-1-2	4	1	2	0	0	9
at Fordham	 14	2-3	0-1	1-2	0-1-1	4	1	0	0	2	5
ST. BONA.	 23	2-9	1-6	5-6	2-3-5	1	3	2	0	1	10
GEO. WASH.	*15	3-5	1-3	0-0	0-1-1	4	2	1	1	1	7
UMASS	         18	4-10	0-4	3-5	3-1-4	5	3	1	0	1	11
at St. Bona.	*19	0-3	0-3	0-0	0-1-1	4	1	0	0	1	0
ST. JOSEPH'S	 12	1-1	0-0	1-2	1-2-3	4	0	1	0	0	3
at La Salle	 21	1-6	0-4	4-4	2-3-5	3	2	1	1	1	6
at Dayton	 12	0-3	0-2	0-0	2-2-4	4	0	2	1	1	0
RICHMOND	 19	4-9	2-6	5-5	1-4-5	4	0	1	1	0	15
at Xavier	*23	2-8	1-4	2-2	1-0-1	3	0	0	0	1	7
LA SALLE	 19	2-5	1-4	0-1	0-2-2	2	1	1	0	0	5
at Charlotte 	 24	4-8	2-5	4-6	2-2-4	5	1	1	1	1	14
at Temple	 20	4-7	3-5	2-4	0-1-1	4	2	0	0	0	13
SAINT LOUIS 	 14	2-5	1-2	3-4	1-4-5	4	0	2	0	1	8
vs. La Salle	 26	3-8	0-1	3-5	1-4-5	4	1	2	0	1	9
* - indicates game started