Peter Hooley

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Peter Hooley
Personal information
Born (1992-02-05) 5 February 1992 (age 32)
NationalityAustralian
Listed height193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school Concordia College
(Adelaide, South Australia)
College Albany (2011–2016)
NBA draft 2016: undrafted
Playing career2016–2019
Position Shooting guard
Career history
2016–2017 Plymouth Raiders
2017–2019 Ballarat Miners
2017–2019 Melbourne United
Career highlights and awards

Peter Jeffrey Hooley (born 5 February 1992) is an Australian sports broadcaster and former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Albany and professionally in the National Basketball League (NBL). Hooley is a host of commentary show NBL Overtime.

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College career

Hooley played for the Albany Great Danes from 2011 to 2016. He was a standout player for the team, earning All-America East honors three times and the America East tournament Reggie Lewis Most Outstanding Performer honors in 2014 and 2015. [1] While attending the University at Albany, SUNY Hooley finished as the America East Conference men's basketball scholar athlete of the year twice, following the 2013–14 and 2015–16 seasons. [2]

Freshman Campaign

Hooley would receive a medical redshirt for the 2011-12 basketball season after only appearing in four games due to a stress fracture on the right foot. [3] During the 2012–13 season Hooley would tally nine double digit scoring games, including new career highs of 18 points and 12 rebounds as the Albany Great Danes visited the Hartford Hawks men's basketball program for a regular season conference matchup. [4] Hooley would finish his Freshman campaign with 263 points, 102 assists and 111 rebounds in 858 minutes as Albany won the America East Conference men's basketball tournament and returned to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament for the first time since 2007.

Sophomore Campaign

During 2013–14 season for Albany, Hooley would start 32 of the 33 games he appeared in averaging 35.1 minutes per game. [5] The only game he would not start would be on Senior Night, when Albany coach Will Brown elected to start all seniors in the Great Danes' final regular season home game. [6] Hooley would reach a new career high for points in a game several times throughout the season, peaking with a 30-point outing as Albany defeated UMBC in the first round of the America East tournament. In total, Hooley would accumulate 10 games in which he scored at least 20 points and 25 games in which he scored in double figures, on his way to averaging a team high 15.5 points per contest. Hooley would tally 512 points, 87 assists and 89 rebounds for the season as the Albany Great Danes men's basketball team repeated as America East tournament champions; punching their ticket to the 2014 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament with a 69–60 victory over the Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball program. Hooley would be named the America East Conference men's basketball tournament Reggie Lewis Most Outstanding Player for the first time in his career.

Junior Campaign

Hooley missed 9 games for Albany during the 2014–15 season including 8 straight America East Conference games as he returned to Australia to be with his ailing mother. His mother, Sue Hooley, would die after a 4+1⁄2-year battle with colon cancer on 30 January 2015. [7] Hooley, who would later state "I always played for her before all of this", would eventually continue to do just that. On 13 February 2015 he returned to the court for Albany, recording his 1000th career point in a six-point Great Dane's victory at NJIT. [8] With only five games remaining in the regular season, Hooley would ease his way back into the rotation for Albany, averaging 24.2 minutes per game while coming off of the bench.

In a 60-58 America East Conference men's basketball tournament semifinal victory over the University of New Hampshire Hooley would come off of the bench and record a game high 21 points in 35 minutes of action. [9] With the Albany Great Danes men's basketball program once again facing the Stony Brook Seawolves in the America East tournament finals, Hooley would hit Albany's only three pointer of the game with 1.6 seconds left to give Albany their third consecutive America East Conference men's basketball tournament championship in a 51–50 triumph. When asked about the shot after the game, Hooley referred to his late mother Sue stating "When you've got angels watching you, you can do anything" [10]

Hooley finished his Junior season with 329 points, 72 rebounds and 56 assists in 781 minutes, while winning his second consecutive America East tournament Reggie Lewis Most Outstanding Player award. [11]

Senior Campaign

Hooley would appear in and start all 33 of Albany's games during the 2015–16 season, scoring in double figures in 19, while totaling 411 points, 90 assists and 153 rebounds for the season. He would finish his Albany career with 1,519 points, 336 assists and 426 rebounds. [12] Hooley remains only the second Albany Men's Basketball player to win multiple Reggie Lewis Most Outstanding Player Awards, while he and teammate Sam Rowley are the only two Albany Great Danes men's basketball players to have reached the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament three times in their career. [13]

Hooley currently sits seventh all time for Albany Great Danes men's basketball players in career points (1,519), sixth in games played (126), tied for fourth in games started (92), fourth in free throw's made (410), eighth in free throw percentage (80.2%) and sixth in three point field goal's made (181).

College Statistics

Career Totals
SeasonGGSMPFGFGA3P3PA3P%FTFTAFT%TRBASTSTLPTS
2011-1240242905.000001234
2012-133311858811942571.3527693.81711110225263
2013-143332115714335971183.388155182.852898727512
2014-15241678110825245132.3416890.756725613329
2015-163333108513034340164.244111146.7601539031411
Career1279039054641157181555.326410511.802426337991519
America East Conference Averages
SeasonGGSMPFGFGAFG%3PA3P%FTAFT%TRBASTSTLPTS
2012-13151129.02.97.1.4112.5.2973.1.7834.23.70.49.0
2013-14151434.74.310.5.4115.9.4204.9.8772.92.90.715.4
2014-158428.64.58.9.5074.4.4573.3.7311.42.10.413.4
2015-16161633.54.510.9.4145.1.2933.8.7385.12.60.913.3
Career544331.94.09.4.4254.5.3643.8.7963.72.90.612.7

Professional career

Following the close of his college career, Hooley signed with the Plymouth Raiders of the British Basketball League. [14] He averaged six points per game for the Raiders before returning to Australia for personal reasons. He then signed with the Ballarat Miners of the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) in February, 2017. [15] For the 2017 SEABL season, Hooley averaged 20.6 points and 4.5 assists per game for the Miners, earning a berth on the All-Star Five Team. He re-signed with the Miners for the 2018 season. [16]

Hooley parlayed his strong SEABL performance into a contract with the National Basketball League's Melbourne United as an injury replacement for Daniel Dillon. [17]

Broadcasting career

Hooley joined the NBL commentary team for the 2019–20 season. [18] He was appointed as a panelist on commentary show NBL Overtime in 2024. [19]

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References

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  2. ↑ "University at Albany All-Time MBB Records" (PDF). www.ualbanysports.com. 25 December 2017.
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  13. ↑ "Albany men's basketball records" (PDF). 26 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  14. ↑ Bonavita, Liana (27 June 2016). "Former UAlbany guard, Peter Hooley, signs pro bball contract". news10.com. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  15. ↑ "Hooley completes the puzzle". The Courier . 27 February 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  16. ↑ "Holley re-signs with Miners". SEABL.com.au. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  17. ↑ "United Sign Young-gun Peter Hooley". nbl.com.au. 3 August 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  18. ↑ "Andrew Gaze to lead commentary team for 2019/20 NBL season". Mumbrella. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  19. ↑ "Champions light up broadcast". NBL.com.au. 16 September 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
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