You’re forgetting the title of the thread “Why are there no more dominant Big East scorers?”. It’s true too, the days of Caron Butler, Ray Allen, Carmelo Anthony, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, Rip Hamilton, Dikembe Motumbo, Ed Pinckney, Troy Murphy, Ryan Gomes, Tim Thomas, Samuel Dalembert, Ron Artest, Rudy Gay, Hakim Warwick, Austin Croshere, Bill Wennington, and many many more are over. I’m sure I missed several pre-2005. All these guys were first round picks, and we haven’t seen the likes of them since. Times indeed are passing the Big East by. You bring up championships, and the point is a good one, with basketball being a team sport, but that’s not the point of this thread. My contention stands.
Nostalgia is a great thing, isn’t it?
Your point seems to be that there are no dominant scorers in the Big East any more - at least not like there used to be. And that this condition has existed for the last 20 years. Do I have that right?
You then produced a list of 18 players pre-2005 to illustrate your point and added that you could add many, many, many more. Again, do I have that right?
Here is your list with their career averages ppg and their best single season ppg. You didn’t list them in any particular order, so I’m listing them in alphabetical order. Here goes:
19.0, 23.4 - Ray Allen
22.2, 22.2 -Carmelo Anthony
13.1, 14.5 - Ron Artest
18.0, 20.9 - Caron Butler
12.6, 17.9 - Austin Croshere
7.1, 8.3 - Samuel Dalembert
15.3, 17.7 - Patrick Ewing
13.6, 15.2 - Rudy Gay
18.4, 21.6 - Ryan Gomes
19.8, 21.5 - Rip Hamilton’s
19.5, 22.9 - Chris Mullin
21.4, 22.7 - Troy Murphy
9.9, 15.2 - Dikembe Mutombo
17.9, 23.3 - Billy Owens
14.5, 15.6 - Ed Pinckney
16.9, 16.9 - Tim Thomas
15.4, 21.4 - Hakim Warrick
8.2, 12.5 - Bill Wennington
So, now I’ll present a list of high scoring players post-2005 with their career and single season scoring averages. I’ll add that I too can add many more. I must note at this point that post-2005 does not leave 20 years, which is the number of years with a dearth of dominant scorers which you mentioned earlier. Your with players up to 2005 represents 26 years of Big East history. Post-2005 leaves 18 years.
In a final note, let me call attention to the fact that this list includes the leading scorer in Bug East history, Markus Howard of Marquette. I’m also including the years of each player player’s career so it can be seen how these players are distributed over the past 18 years:
13.8, 21.1 - Ben Bentil (2014-16)
14.4, 24.6 - Marshon Brooks (2007-11)
14.4, 18.9 - Jalen Brunson (2015-18)
16.0, 19.8 - Julian Champagne (2019-22)
15.2, 21.8 - Bryce Cotton (2010-14)
17.8, 25.4 - Quincy Douby (2003-06)
19.2, 23.3 - Luke Harangidy (2006-10)
13.2, 18.7 - Josh Hart (2013-17)
15.3, 19.7 - LaDontae Henton (2011-15)
21.6, 27.8 - Markus Howard (2016-20)
18.9, 21.4 - Dominique Jones (2007-10)
21.7, 26.7 - Doug McDermott (2010-14)
10.9, 18.9 - Demetris Nichols (2003-07)
19.5, 21.6 - Shamorie Ponds (2016-19)
17.5, 23.1 - Myles Powell (2006-20)
13.4, 16.9 - Adama Sanogo (2020-23)
14.3, 18.7 - Russ Smith (2010-14)
16.1, 23.5 - Kamba Walker (2008-11)
