Lloyd “Sonny” Dove ranks 10th on the SJU all-time scoring list
with 1,576 career points and is second only to George Johnson as
St. John's all-time leading rebounder with 1,037 career boards.
Dove and Johnson are the only two St. John's players ever to score
more than 1,000 career points and grab more than 1,000 career
rebounds.
Dove played from 1964-67. In his first season, he averaged 13.8
points per game and led the team with an 11.7 rebounds per game
average for Coach Joe Lapchick. He was named to the Holiday
Festival All-Star team and to the NIT All-Tournament team that
year. In his second season with the team and first with new head
coach Lou Carnesecca, Dove was named to several All-America teams
including, first team All-America by the Helms Athletic Foundation
and The Sporting News, and a third team All-America by AP
and UPI. Dove averaged 21.2 points per game and 14.2 rebounds per
game that season, which also earned him first team All-Metropolitan
honors.
In his final season at St. John's, Dove was once again named to
several All-America teams including first team All-America by
the Helms Athletic Foundation and The Sporting News,
second-team All-Americaa by UPI and third-team All-America by AP.
The New York writers named him the winner of the Haggerty Trophy,
the Metropolitan area's college basketball MVP. He averaged 22.4
points per game and 11.8 boards. Dove set the then-St. John's
record in 1967 with 242 field goals in a season (which currently
ranks eighth-best) and he became the first St. John's player to
ever grab 1,000 rebounds for a career.