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Message: [QUOTE="WhereistheDove?, post: 4943214, member: 1109"] This is admittedly going to be a very imperfect analysis. I’m sure one of you board nerds will be able to pull the exact data, but I was sitting here thinking about just how dominant defensively our true freshman has been during this tournament run. I compiled the season stats and game stats of each of Castle’s main defensive assignments during this run (at least if memory serves). Yes, sometimes he was on the bench or switched onto someone else, and yes, some of this is attributable to being met at the rim by an absolute monster, but I think the gist is there. Jalen Blackmon (Stetson) Season stats: 21 PPG, 43% FG, 38% 3PT Game stats: 14 points, 4/17 FG, 1/9 3PT Boo Buie (Northwestern) Season stats: 19 PPG, 44% FG, 43% 3PT Game stats: 9 points, 2/15 FG, 0/3 3PT Lamont Butler (SDSU) Season stats: 9 PPG, 42% FG, 30% 3PT Game stats: 7 points, 2/7 FG, 0/2 3PT Terrence Shannon (Illinois) Season stats: 23 PPG, 48% FG, 36% 3PT Game stats: 8 points, 2/12 FG, 0/1 3PT For those of you counting at home, that is a combined 10/51 from the field and 1/15 from three. I’m sure everyone appreciated all of this already but putting it all down next to each other just hit a little different. What he is doing at all, much less as a true freshman, is completely insane. Hopefully he’s got two more of these in him for Sears and possibly Braden Smith. [/QUOTE]