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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 4430908, member: 6927"] We may be talking about different things without realizing it. "Playing like the best player in the country" doesn't necessarily mean "must outscore everyone else in the country". Taurasi was clearly the best player in the country her junior and senior years, and she played like it quite consistently, but her PPG wasn't eye-popping. Back to the Big East POY race, if DePaul ends up being as bad as their early results indicate (lost to Northern Illinois and Cleveland State), the chances of Morrow getting BE POY will be small even if she leads the country in scoring. As for the national POY race, I have never heard any official source say that the conference POY award is an eligibility requirement. My sense is this is a bit of an urban myth. Two entirely separate groups of voters decide one and the other, and they're not even necessarily evaluating the same bodies of work. [/QUOTE]