BOSTON – Over the next few weeks, GoSuffolkRams.com will look at the student-athletes, coach and team to be inducted into the Suffolk University Athletics Hall of Fame that has its next induction ceremony this October. The first installment features men’s basketball’s Winston Daley, BSBA ’02.
The four-year span of 1998-2002 was one of the most successful eras in Suffolk men’s basketball’s history and Winston Daley is a main ingredient why.
Dubbed “one of the best players in Suffolk’s long history,” by former Rams’ men’s basketball coach Dennis McHugh, Daley was reliable, dependent, and resilient. Most importantly, and unforgettably though, Daley was a team player that pushed his teammates to new heights on and off the hardwood.
Offensively, Daley’s output was second to few. In 103 games played, he poured in 1,257 career points, which is good for 15th on the University’s all-time scoring list. He was one of the most consistent and efficient shooters in program history as well with an over 50 percent connection rate from the field. Defensively, his name is etched in every category in the Rams all-time annals with 839 rebounds (fourth), 117 steals (tied fourth), 90 blocked shots (third) and 8.1 rebounds per game (6th).
A Jamaican-born resident was productive from the get-go. As a freshman in 1998-99, he put together a .626 field goal percentage converting 77 of his 123 field goal attempts.
Daley came back hungrier and more ready as a sophomore. He averaged a double-double of 13.5 points per game and 10.6 caroms per outing, the 12th-best effort on the glass in NCAA Division III in 1999-2000.
The two-year captain saved his best for last as he helped lead Suffolk to new heights as a senior. That campaign saw Suffolk capture a berth to the NCAA Division III Tournament. The ticket was punched to the Big Dance after Daley and the Rams cut down the nets as Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Champions, a feat only that squad has accomplished in program history.
Daley was a critical component to the blue-and-gold’s title season that came behind fast-paced offense and suffocating defense. The All-GNAC First-Team honoree supplied 14.1 points and 8.9 rebounds per game to cap off his Rams’ career.
Alongside his 2001-02 teammates, who were inducted as a team into the Hall as part of the 2019 Class, Daley helped write a tradition of excellence for Suffolk men’s basketball. That four-year group has recorded the second-most wins (59) by a four-year class all-time behind the Class of 1979 that earned 63 victories.
“My favorite memory of playing at Suffolk is the friends that I made on the men’s and women’s basketball teams,” Daley said. “I don’t remember much about the games, but I remember the people.”
Today, Daley is a Senior Training Manager at Health Resources in Action (HRiA). He received his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration in Business and Entrepreneurial Studies from Suffolk and continued his education with a Masters in Sports Leadership at Northeastern.
Daley, already a Hall of Famer with the 2001-02 men’s basketball team, individually joins his two teammates, Jason Luisi (2015) and Dan Florian (2016), to be enshrined into the hall and is the 15th men’s basketball player, including multi-sport athletes, to be initiated overall.
The 2024 Suffolk University Hall of Fame Class features four men, three women and one team representing six different athletic programs.
On October 18, the Suffolk University Athletics Hall of Fame, which held its first induction ceremony in 2007, will increase in size to 79 members broken down by 59 student-athletes, five head coaches, 11 teams and four special honorees.
The 2024 Suffolk University Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on Friday, Oct. 18 at Suffolk University’s Sargent Hall’s Keches Room, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, at 6:00 p.m. Tickets to the event can be purchased here.
THE SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
The Suffolk University Athletics Hall of Fame will recognize the outstanding achievements of former athletes, coaches and others who have played a most significant role in the history of athletics at our University.
For a more insider’s look at the 2024 Suffolk University Athletics Hall of Fame Class be on the lookout for the Hall of Fame series, which will be published on GoSuffolkRams.com leading up to the event. Specific publication dates on inductees are below:
- Tuesday, Sept. 10 – Winston Daley, BSBA ’02 – Men’s Basketball
- Thursday, Sept. 19 – Erin McAndrews, BS ’14 – Softball
- Tuesday, Sept. 24 – Cary McConnell – Baseball
- Thursday, Sept. 26 - Jennifer Nelson, BSBA '08 - Women's Tennis
- Tuesday, Oct. 1 – Ben Rollins, BSE ’13 – Men’s Soccer
- Thursday, Oct. 3 - Jennifer (Ruys) Baker, BS ’14 – Women’s Basketball
- Tuesday, Oct. 8 – Jake Stahl, BSBA ’53 – Men’s Basketball
- Thursday, Oct. 10 – 1947 Baseball Team