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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5151637, member: 71"]
We had a few who could have, some (Ray, as I stated earlier for one) weren't given the opportunity to do so because one (more) was ahead of them.  I was intentionally very specific with my wording.  I did not say best player as a freshman nor best offensive player as a freshman.

Castle was as good of a player as a true freshman as any we've had (that's a hill that I will die on) but even if you were to take his top dozen games he would be behind McNeeley as a scorer.  That doesn't mean that Castle wasn't the better player, even with McNeeley being a far superior three point shooter.

When this season is in the books I would absolutely love to be able to claim that McNeeley was every bit as good as Castle was because that would play a very large role in a great tournament run but, being able to place one of our kids over another doesn't interest me anywhere near as much as enjoying watching our program's success and appreciating greatness that we've seen in players who have accomplished that here.
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