In the News:
Danger on defense: Bryce Wills prepares for upcoming basketball season - Stanford Daily
Career Highlights:
- Two-time All-Pac-12 Defensive Team - 2020 (1st), 2021 (HM)
- 2020 Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
- NABC Honors Court (2020)
As a Junior (2020-21)
- Pac-12 All-Defensive Team honorable mention
- Appeared in 17 games with 10 starts, averaged 7.0 points, 3.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game. Shot a career-best 54.1 percent from the field
- Scored in double figures five times, including a season-high 15 points in the opening victory over Alabama in the Maui Invitational (Nov. 30, Asheville, N.C.)
- Went viral on Thursday, Feb. 18 with a massive poster dunk over Washington’s 7-4 Riley Sorn
As a Sophomore (2019-20):
- All-Pac-12 Defensive Team
- Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
- NABC Honors Court
- Appeared in 31 games, all starts
- Turned in averages of 7.8 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game
- Helped lead Stanford to the nation’s seventh-best defense (KenPom) and 16th-best scoring defense (62.5 ppg)
- Scored in double figures 12 times, including a career-high 25 points vs. Arizona (Feb. 15)
- Ranked third on the team in rebounds, assists, blocks and made free throws
- Posted the 10th-best field goal percentage in the Pac-12 during conference play (.512)
As a Freshman (2018-19):
- Appeared in 30 games, making 23 starts
- Averaged 6.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists
- Totaled nine double-digit scoring games
- Scored career-high 16 points against California (Feb. 3)
- Grabbed career-high nine rebounds against California (March 7)
Prior to Stanford
- 2018 graduate of Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle, N.Y.
- Four-year varsity starter and three-year captain for the Gaels
- Averaged 15.5 points, 9.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 3.0 blocks, 2.5 steals and shot better than 60 percent from the floor his senior season
- Led Iona Prep to a Catholic High School Athletic Association New York division title as a senior
- Gaels won 21 games and reached the quarterfinals of the CHSAA AA tournament in 2018
- Two-time NYSSWA Class AA All-State selection (2017 and 2018)
- Two-time selection to the All Westchester/Putnam County All Star Team by the The Journal News, earning first-team honors in 2018
- First-team selection by the coaches in the CHSAA
- Member of The Journal News Super 7 Team, recognizing the top players in the Lower Hudson Valley, in 2018
- Four-star prospect nationally and a consensus top-10 prospect in New York
- Competed for the USA Select team in the Albert Schweitzer Tournament at the Under-18 FIBA World Cup in Mannheim, Germany, in 2018
- Averaged double digits for the USA Select squad, which finished seventh in the tournament