Ranking the top 50 men's college basketball players at midseason
No. 1 and 2 were not up for debate. The rest? Fair game. See who made the cut based on performances so far.
ESPN Ranks Top 50 Players
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Peterson is clearly a very good player, and ESPN is always all about the "if-this-if-that" speculating, but I prefer to deal in what has actually happened. I don't think a guy who has played in 34% of the minutes of his team's games can be a top-10 player. For a point of reference, Lipsey has played in 65% despite missing three full games.
I remembering for years hoping to see a single Cyclone player on a top 50 or top 100 list. Three players in the top 30 is next level.
Hmm. Id say Tamin, while good isn't his best this year. Just as far as ISU ranking goes, I don't know how Milan isn't above Lipsey and closer to if not even with Jeff right now.
I laughed that they had Pryce Sandfort a spot above Milan!
Sandfort has been on a heater recently getting 20 points plus and averaging 5 threes in his last 5 games. On the season he is hitting about 41% from 3, over 61% from 2 and over 82% from the line. He's averaging 3 1/2 made threes per game.
Definitely a very good player but his stats don't scream better than Milan to me.
Yeah that's hard to argue. BT stats:
Hard to read, sorry, but the biggies:
Milan ORtg is 147.5 vs 128.3
eFG is 72.7 vs 61.2
54% from 3 vs 41% - Milan has 7 more makes on 30 less attempts.
Pryce has a slightly higher asst rate at 13 to 5.5
Pryce has 61% from 2 vs 57% from Milan.
In no universe would you trade Milan for Sandfart.
I think we can probably remove the "arguably" in front of Milan being the best shooter in CBB.
Sandfort had to make 16 attempts to get those 5 makes last night! If my math is correct, Milan could miss his next 48 3PT attempts and still have no lower % than Sandfort! Sandfort is good--take nothing away from him. But he is NOT in the stratosphere of Milan this year. Milan has made 7 more 3pt shots than Sandfort on 31 less attempts. It isn't just that Milan is scoring, but how efficiently he is doing so.
* my apologies to CascadeClone as I didn't see your post before making this one.
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CascadeClone I didn't see your post before adding some stats myself. Nice job!
Correction - nobody is in the stratosphere of Milan this year when it comes to 3 point shooting.
And no one has a quote in their tagline in the same stratosphere with your Johnny Orr quote!
Count probably remove the quote stating Lipsey is playing fully healthy this season as well
The inaccuracy of this all reminds me that the Squawks got 30 votes in the AP poll this week AND are ranked 25 in the Roaches' Poll. Yeah, I knew there was something that had been sticking in my craw...
has anyone ever been in the 50-50-90 club? I'm too lazy to look but I bet its extremely rare.
Salim Stoudamire did it once just barely, according to this list he's the only one:
3-Point Field Goal Percentage Men's Single Season Leaders and Records | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
3-Point Field Goal Percentage Men's Single Season Leaders and Records
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Only 15 players have ever shot 50% or better on threes in a season.
edit: I guess the list above is only players who made at least 2.5 threes per game, so maybe there are some lower-volume guys who did it, but for someone with Milan's shooting/scoring volume it's exceedingly rare.
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