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Sacramento State

2022-23 Men's Basketball Roster

5 Gianni Hunt

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 190
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Lakewood, Calif.
  • Previous School Oregon State
  • Position G
  • Experience TR

Biography

2022-23 Season
• Played in all 32 games in his first season with the Hornets, including 30 starts.
• Averaged 6.9 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 0.9 steals and 27.8 minutes per game.
• Ranked eighth in the Big Sky in assists.
• Scored in double figures in three of the last four, and five of the last eight games of the season.
• Shot a team-high 45% (33-73) from the 3-point line over the final 22 games.
• Scored 15 points, including the Hornets’ final seven, in a 76-74 road win at Portland State in the regular season finale. That win gave the Hornets a first round bye in the Big Sky Tournament.
• Season-high 16 points came in a home win over Northern Colorado.
• +1.7 assist-to-turnover ratio in Big Sky play was tied for third best in the league.
• Started all 19 games against a Big Sky opponent.
• Over the final four games of the season, he averaged 10.8 points and 53% (8-for-15) shooting from the 3-point line.

Prior to Sacramento State
• Played three seasons at Oregon State (2019-22), where he appeared in 71 games.
• Saw his minutes increase all three seasons, including 24.2 minutes per game in 2021-22.
• Over his career, he averaged 4.1 points, 1.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 18.0 minutes per game.
• Averaged 13.9 minutes as a freshman, 20.2 minutes as a sophomore, and 24.2 minutes as a junior.
• Finished junior season with 4.7 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game.
• As a sophomore, he posted averages of 5.2 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game (2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio).
• Helped the 2020-21 Oregon State team to an NCAA Tournament Elite Eight appearance and a Pac-12 Tournament championship.
• Had seven points and four assists in 24 minutes against Houston in the NCAA Tourney Elite Eight game.
• Had three steals in 14 minutes in NCAA Tourney 1st round win over Tennessee, and four assists in 20 minutes in NCAA Tourney Sweet 16 victory over Loyola-Chicago.
• Had 10 points, two rebounds and two assists in the Pac-12 Championship win over Colorado.
• Career-high 17 points came during his sophomore season against Utah and Stanford.
 
High School
• A 2019 graduate of Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance, Calif.
• Ranked as the nation’s No. 43 high school point guard by ESPN, and was a four-star recruit.
• Helped lead the team to a state championship as a sophomore, and regional finals appearance as a junior and senior.
• Averaged 11.8 points, 7.1 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 2.1 steals per game as a senior.
 
Personal
• Played AAU ball with the Oakland Soldiers.
• An ethnic studies major.
• Invited to the NBA Top 100 Camp, and the Pangos All-American Camp where 120 of the nation’s top prospects are invited.
• Son of Roy and Lorna Hunt.

Statistics

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