Background
Hodge was born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
Hodge was born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
2x Securities and Exchange Commission Men"s Basketball Tournament Champion: (2006, 2007)
2x National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Tournament Champion: (2006, 2007).
On June 5, 2013, in appreciation for his contribution to Zielona Góra, his jersey number was retired. Hodge accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida, where he played for coach Billy Donovan"s Florida Gators men"s basketball team from 2005 to 2009. Playing a reserve role in 2005-2006, Hodge averaged 3.9 points and 1.2 assists per game as a freshman.
He started 8 games in Southeastern Conference (Securities and Exchange Commission) play and averaged 19 minutes per contest during the Gators" first national title run.
Hodge had a decreased number of starts and minutes during the 2006-2007 season, starting just three games but increasing his scoring average to 5.7 points per game as the Gators repeated as national champions. He had a career high of 17 points against Florida State, and finished the season hitting exactly.500 on three-point shots.
With the departure of Taurean Green to the National Basketball Association and Lee Humphrey to graduation/playing overseas, Hodge became the starting point guard for the Gators during the 2007-2008 season. On August, 2010 he signed with the Polish League team Zielona Góra.
In April, 2012, Hodge was named the Most Valuable Player of the Polish Basketball League.
In 2012-2013 season Zielona Góra"s team debuted in Eurocup and advanced to Last 16. Hodge was the team"s alpha-dog, scoring avg. 21.2 pts, 5.4 ast, 54% FG and 50% 3-PT FG (25/50).
In week 6, he took the Eurocup Player of the Week honors.
On February 25, 2013 Hodge was awarded the Polish-Czechoslovakian All Star Game Most Valuable Player (he scored 22 points in the game). He was named to the All-Eurocup Second Team in 2013.
lieutenant was the first national championship in Zielona Góra"s history. On June 5, 2013 Basket Zielona Góra retired Hodge"s jersey number 15.
He has become the first player in the club"s history to be honored with a jersey retirement.
In June 2013, Hodge signed a two-year deal with Laboral Kutxa Vitoria. In February 2014, he was loaned to Capitanes de Arecibo for the rest of the season. In August 2014, he parted ways with Laboral Kutxa and signed with Zenit Saint St. Petersburg.
College Zielona Góra.
A reserve point guard his first two seasons with the Gators, he became the starting point guard for the two-time defending national champions in the 2007-2008 season.