Projected Top 100 Scorers in College Hoops This Season

[HooperScooper]

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/10/15/top-scorers-kyle-wiltjer-stefan-moody-buddy-hield

No UConn players. What's the chance that nobody on the team scores at least 13.4 ppg? I'd say it's pretty low. We can all talk about how balanced scoring wise this team will probably be but I think you always have 1-2 guys who separate themselves from the others buy a margin. I'd be pretty shocked if nobody averages at least 13.4 ppg.

 

[KingOPancakes]

There are a handful of guys on the team that could easily average 13.4. I think the problem right now is that nobody knows who our primary scorer(s) is/are going to be. One or 2 of them should crack the list but there's no way of knowing who it'll be until the season plays out. It's completely up in the air at this point.

But I would gladly trade nobody from UConn finishing in the top 100 if we have a bunch of guys in the 100-200 range

 

[HuskyBballFan]

I don't think it's that crazy. The 2009 team had four guys average between 13-14 ppg. I would guess that Hamilton and Gibbs both end up higher than 13.4, but probably not by too much.

 

[ConnEd]

Purvis. With any improvement in his FT shooting and 3-pt shooting, he should easily average 15 playing the way he did at the end of last year. Now, he will get more attention from the D, and there are more scorers to share with, but he is going to score. Hamilton and Gibbs should both be in the 13 PPG range too.

 

[Matrim55]

Purvis. With any improvement in his FT shooting and 3-pt shooting, he should easily average 15 playing the way he did at the end of last year. Now, he will get more attention from the D, and there are more scorers to share with, but he is going to score. Hamilton and Gibbs should both be in the 13 PPG range too.

Over his last 9 games he went for 16 ppg on 45% shooting, 40% from 3 and 71% from the stripe. Eight of 9 games in double-digits, including 28 and 29-point games vs. SMU.

I'll be pretty surprised if he's not a bigtime scorer for us this year.

 

[cornellball]

Shonn Miller averaged 14.1 points in 10 games over the last two years against high level D1 competition (Vandy, Duke, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Harvard, South Carolina, Penn State, Syracuse). He was often double teamed as Cornell had few other offensive threats. I'd be surprised if he does not average 13.4 playing for a team that is offensively adept as opponents will not be able to double team him. He's going to surprise you and I plan to be saying "I told you so" at the end of the season.

 

[Dogbreath2U]

Shonn Miller averaged 14.1 points in 10 games over the last two years against high level D1 competition (Vandy, Duke, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Harvard, South Carolina, Penn State, Syracuse). He was often double teamed as Cornell had few other offensive threats. I'd be surprised if he does not average 13.4 playing for a team that is offensively adept as opponents will not be able to double team him. He's going to surprise you and I plan to be saying "I told you so" at the end of the season.

I will be very happy if this turns out to have a deja vu quality to the prediction.

 

[Matt1010]

Shonn Miller averaged 14.1 points in 10 games over the last two years against high level D1 competition (Vandy, Duke, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Harvard, South Carolina, Penn State, Syracuse). He was often double teamed as Cornell had few other offensive threats. I'd be surprised if he does not average 13.4 playing for a team that is offensively adept as opponents will not be able to double team him. He's going to surprise you and I plan to be saying "I told you so" at the end of the season.

We have so many offensive weapons that he won't get the shot volume that he did at Cornell. 10-11 ppg sounds about right IMO, but I will gladly accept an "I told you so" at the end of the season.

 

[pnow15]

Jury is out on Adams. He could play at such a high level that he gets 14 lacing up his sneaks.

 

[RipCity]

I think this is fine. We have a ton of scoring options so I don't know if anyone will consistently score that much. Our scoring efficiency, however, should be a lot better than it was last year.

 

[mauconnfan]

To be honest this team has 6 guys who can carve out 20 point games on a given night so it will be hard for anyone to have a real high average. I mean what the Huskies have will be better than teams who have a guy who averages 24.5 pts a game.

It will be a night-to-night option change depending on hot hands, the opponents choice in who they want to take out of the flow etc etc.. This is a good thing.

 

[imno1]

Omar and his 20+ per game isn't on this list? Ridiculous


XRM should be a lot higher

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Shonn Miller averaged 14.1 points in 10 games over the last two years against high level D1 competition (Vandy, Duke, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Harvard, South Carolina, Penn State, Syracuse). He was often double teamed as Cornell had few other offensive threats. I'd be surprised if he does not average 13.4 playing for a team that is offensively adept as opponents will not be able to double team him. He's going to surprise you and I plan to be saying "I told you so" at the end of the season.

I think you've got to balance the double teams with the fact that he was the #1 option for Cornell. We've got a lot of guys that can score, and like to score. Miller's not going to be the focal point of the offense and guys like Gibbs and Hamilton aren't going to defer to Miller at the end of the shot clock, or at any time for that matter. He's almost certainly going to see a decrease in minutes and shot attempts at UConn.

 

[Kitaman]

Am I the only one that's bullish on Senior Omar? I have a feeling he is going to surprise the Nation.

 

[Danzz]

Hamilton is going to explode this season. We could see close to 20 PPG from him.

 

[dennismenace]

To be honest this team has 6 guys who can carve out 20 point games on a given night so it will be hard for anyone to have a real high average. I mean what the Huskies have will be better than teams who have a guy who averages 24.5 pts a game.

It will be a night-to-night option change depending on hot hands, the opponents choice in who they want to take out of the flow etc etc.. This is a good thing.

Hot hand and mismatches mostly will dictate who the go to guy is on a night to night basis. It is is going to be very exciting to watch how KO manages this. If Adams is a sixth man it is going to be exciting watch him come in and be an explosive scorer off the bench. The possibilities are really looking good. Don't think it is going to be fun for opposing defenses.

 

[Jay-Bone]

There are a handful of guys on the team that could easily average 13.4. I think the problem right now is that nobody knows who our primary scorer(s) is/are going to be. One or 2 of them should crack the list but there's no way of knowing who it'll be until the season plays out. It's completely up in the air at this point.

But I would gladly trade nobody from UConn finishing in the top 100 if we have a bunch of guys in the 100-200 range

I'm more inclined to wonder how many players will average double-doubles. Hamilton, Miller, Brimah, Gibbs.....but will there be enough missed shots?