Last season Ash was Big East Freshman player of the year. Ash scored 419 points on the season; do you believe Strong will have more or less than that total this year?
Last season, KK played about the same amount of minutes as Ash (more or less 30 per game). KK had 123 assists during the season; do you believe that Strong will have more or less than that total this year?
KK had 90 Steals; Strong gonna have more or less?
KK had 121 and Ash had 133 rebounds; Strong gonna have more or less than those numbers?
Excellent questions! Very trenchant. Here’s my guesses/predictions.
Ash:
419 points in 38 games and 32 mins/g or 11pts/g
Sarah may not get 31 mins/g initially, but I expect she’ll be there by mid season. But even at 20 mins/g I will not be surprised if she averages 15 pts/g which would amount to ~
600 pts.
KK:
123 assists and
90 steals in 39 games or 3.2 assists and 2.3 steals per game.
Sarah is an excellent defender and passer and I suspect she’ll exceed both numbers, maybe 4 assists and 3 steals per game, or
160 assists and
120 steals.
As for rebounds, I am very confident that Sarah will exceed both Ash and KK combined in rebounds. Together they accounted for 6.6 rebounds /g and I suspect Sarah will average at least 8 rebounds/g or
320 rebounds.
Finally, I expect Sarah will average 2 blocks/g or a total of
80. Last season the team averaged 3.8 blocks/g and I suspect between Sarah, Jana, Ice, Paige and Caroline healthy they’ll average between 6 and 8 blocks.
This means I predict Sarah’s season stat line will be
15 points/g, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks. These are All American numbers. But I doubt she’ll be in the running for NPoY since Paige is likely the front runner for this award.