BOSTON - Senior forward Billy Collins (Concord, NH), and junior guards Kevin Fitzgerald (Belle Harbor, NY) and Matt Turner (West Haven, CT) were selected as Boston University men's basketball tri-captains for the 2002-03 season at the Terriers end-of-season banquet on April 28.

Collins, an America East First Team All-Conference selection and the championship Most Outstanding Player, reprises his role as a team captain. It will be his third year in a row serving as a team leader. Last season, Collins was second on the team in scoring (12 points per game) and first in rebounding (8.1 rebounds per game). He was the Terriers most deadly three-point shooter, making a remarkable 48.2 percent of his threes, a team record. He led the Terriers in double doubles with eight.

While Fitzgerald did not merit any of the league's postseason awards last year, his contributions to the Terriers run to the championship cannot be understated. The only player to start each of the team's 32 games, he was a stabilizing force in the Terrier backcourt, leading the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.53).

Throughout the season, "Fitz" did what ever was needed for the team to win, whether it was scoring a career-high 16 points, tallying a career-high 10 assists, or making a length-of-the-court pass to teammate Stijn Dhondt with 0.3 seconds remaining in the tournament semifinals, the ensuing shot Dhondt fortuitously banked in to give the Terriers the win and extend the team's season.

Turner came into last season as a Preseason First Team All-Conference pick, and was living up to that billing before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in early December. Before the injury, Turner was averaging over 17 points per game and shooting 50 percent from behind the three-point line. His return to the lineup makes the backcourt, which was thin last year, into a strength in 2002-03, as he will be matched up with Second Team All-Conference performer Chaz Carr.

Boston University is coming off one of its most successful seasons in the program's 100-year history. The Terriers finished with a 22-10 record, won the America East Conference Championship, and made the school's sixth-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament.