GSC Men's Basketball All-Decade Team
SEARCY – He was one of the most dominant offensive players in Gulf South Conference history, and Thursday former Harding forward Matt Hall received the honor of GSC West Division Men’s Basketball Player of the Decade. The conference listed Hall on the 1st Team and former Harding guard and long-range sharpshooter Aaron Farley on the 2nd Team.
Additionally, Harding earned more All-Sports points in men’s basketball in the last decade than any other GSC West Division team, narrowly edging out Delta State.
Hall, a native of DeQueen, Ark., scored 2,227 points in his career that spanned from 2003-08. That total ranked second in Harding history and GSC history. He was two-time All-America, three-time All-Region, three-time 1st Team All-GSC and three-time Academic All-GSC. Hall was one of only two players in conference history to earn Conference Player of the Year honors three times, taking the honor in 2005, 2007 and 2008. He won the GSC scoring titles in 2005 and 2008.
Hall played in 116 games for the Bisons and averaged 19.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
Farley, a guard from Paragould, Ark., played at Harding from 1999-2003 and earned national recognition during the 2002-03 season when he connected on a GSC-record 88 straight free throws. It was the second-longest streak in NCAA Division II history. Farley earned All-America honors that season. He was a three-time 1st Team All-GSC recipient and was the GSC West Player of the Year in 2003. Farley is the GSC’s career leader in free throw percentage at 87.1 percent. He holds the Harding career record with 206 three-pointers made.
Farley played in 105 games as a Bison and averaged 14.7 points and 4.0 assists per game.