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Top 50 Watch List - Naismith Trophy

The most obvious storyline for Hoosier fans would be that Yogi made the list - congratulations.

I looked a little deeper to wonder why so much love for Sam Dekker and Branden Dawson?

I will present 4 career stats for Freshman & Soph seasons and 4 Big 10 players names.

Match them up and then tell me why some players get so much attention over others??

Player 1: Frosh: 8.6 ppg\ 5.1 rpg ---- Soph 12.8 \ 5.8

Player 2: Frosh 9.6 \ 3.1 Soph 12.4 \ 6.1

Player 3: Frosh 8 \ 4.5 Soph 8.9 \ 5.9

Player 4: Frosh 12 \ 6 Soph 16/ 5.4

Now match these players to their career stats * B. Dawson only shown for years 1 & 2

C. Watford, Branden Dawson*, Shavon Shields, Sam Dekker

After reviewing the stats IMO Shavon Shields deserves more appreciation than Dawson and Dekker. Obviously CWat was not on any Top 50 player watch lists and had a pretty famous player that was in the spotlight but his stats were better than Dawson and Dekker. So far Dawson has been marginally better than years 1 through 3 and Dekker has taken a step back. Meanwhile Shields is killing it. I know its early - but interesting. I wonder if any of them will do as well as Cwat did in years 3 and 4??

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