Basketball Video Game Numbers: College Hoops' Craziest Stats of the Week
Basketball Video Game Numbers: College Hoops' Craziest Stats of the Week
Here’s a look back at some of the best performances we saw across the college hoops landscape from this past week of play.
If you were a fan of FloCollege’s weekly Video Game Numbers series for the college football season, we have a gift for you!
Welcome to the first edition of Video Game Numbers with a college basketball twist, as we’ll highlight weekly standouts on the men’s and women’s sides from each of the NCAA’s three divisions who had beyond-belief weeks with stat lines that’ll make your head spin.
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The inaugural Video Game Numbers on the hardwood doesn’t disappoint, either.
Here’s a look back at some of the best of the best performances we saw across the college hoops landscape from this past week of play:
NOTE: Stats are for the week of Nov. 24-30.
Must-See MBB Stats From The Week
Division I: Primo Spears, G, UTSA
The well-traveled Spears landed with the Roadrunners (the fourth team of his college career after prior stops at Duquesne, Georgetown, and Florida State) this past offseason as a proven scoring threat, having already hit the 1,000-point mark for his career before he even played a game with UTSA.
His return to the mid-major level after averaging double-digit points per game with the Seminoles last season has been nothing short of spectacular.
UTSA went 2-1 this week with Spears scoring at least 20 in every game, first scoring exactly that amount in a loss to Troy last Monday. He came back with a vengeance two nights later at Merrimack, dropping a season-high 29 points with five 3-pointers to boot in a two-point Roadrunners win.
Finally, Spears closed things out for the week upon the Roadrunners’ return to San Antonio on Saturday against Houston Christian by one-upping his previous game, tallying a new season high with 31 points in another Roadrunners win, also dishing a yearly best five assists along the way. His 23.7 points per game through six games played at UTSA makes him the nation’s fifth-leading scorer (as of Tuesday night) and a dynamic threat in an already-strong American Athletic Conference.
Division II: Cameron Kahn, G, Dallas Baptist
The three-time First Team All-Lone Star Conference selection and All-American is well known already for fans of the LSC, so Kahn’s appearance here on the inaugural hoops edition of Video Game Numbers is probably no surprise to those who are aware already that the dude can ball for the Patriots.
The most striking part of the graduate student’s game, however, is his efficiency; he produces in short bursts and is Mr. Reliable for DBU, as well as a big reason why the Pats are 8-1 to start the season and going into Lone Star play later this week.
Dallas Baptist only played twice this week, both games of which were at its annual Thanksgiving Classic, but Kahn made his presence felt in both affairs. In a down-to-the-wire battle with Oklahoma Baptist last Friday, Kahn scored 22 points in 28 minutes on 10-for-17 shooting with no bucket more important than his game-winning layup with under a second left off of a lob.
Less than 24 hours later against Southern Nazarene, Kahn once again put in the work by tallying up 16 points in 26 minutes (plus a solid seven rebounds to boot, with five of them on the offensive glass) as the Patriots won by 18 points, taking their seventh straight game with it ahead of their first LSC game of the year at home against Midwestern State on Wednesday night.
So far, so good for Kahn as he pushes for a fourth straight First Team All-LSC nod.
2nd 12:30 | #5 DBU 54, Midwestern State 43
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Division III: AJ Rohosy, F, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Having first entered college as a normal student before eventually earning a walk-on spot at Washington State, Rohosy sparingly played over two seasons with the Cougars, but did find a new fire to play some competitive basketball for the year as a grad transfer after the excellent student graduated from WSU in three years.
He transferred to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the offseason to become a 6-foot-9 force for a Stags squad hoping to follow up from a trip to the NCAA Tournament’s Round of 16 last season, and so far, CMS is more than happy with the brand-new big man that they’ve got roaming in the paint.
In the Stags’ Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opener against La Verne last Tuesday (a 94-67 win), Rohosy had one of the best games on the interior seen in D-III this season as he powered down 33 points and 18 rebounds in a monster double-double, shooting 13 for 17 (76.5%) along the way while he was at it.
He was contained more often (scoring just nine points) in the Stags’ following game a few days later against Southwestern, but Rohosy roared back into form to close out the week against Trinity (Texas) on Saturday with a 24-point, nine-round performance to help make it a 3-0 week for 6-2 CMS, the SCIAC co-favorite with Cal Lutheran.
Must-See WBB Stats From The Week
Division I: Reigan Richardson, G, Duke
As she showcased on none other than FloCollege this past week, Richardson is the driving force of a Duke team that picked up its two best wins of the season to date at the Ball Dawgs Classic in Henderson, Nevada, with the Blue Devils winning a pair of top-10 games against Kansas State and Oklahoma to celebrate their Thanksgiving week.
Up against the towering Ayoka Lee and K-State in its opener at Lee’s Family Forum last Monday, Duke took it 73-62 as Richardson opted to play second fiddle in that one to Ashlon Jackson, who lit up the nets with 30 points and six 3-pointers against the Wildcats. But the Blue Devils’ overtime win over then No. 8-ranked Oklahoma was when Richardson took it upon herself to really drive the point home that she has emerged into one of the country’s best guards.
Richardson dropped a career-high 35 points on the Sooners last Wednesday — including 10 of Duke’s 15 points in the overtime period — as she became unguardable with the game on the line, winning the Ball Dawgs Classic MVP award as she knocked down five triples and also dealt seven assists as if her wicked scoring surge wasn’t enough.
Her efforts helped get Duke up to No. 8 in the latest Associated Press poll, its highest ranking since the 2014-15 season. A 3-1 record against Quad 1 teams, including two at the Ball Dawgs Classic, has the Blue Devils looking like a team to watch throughout the year — and Richardson as a potential threat to win some national recognition if she keeps the pace up.
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Division II: Alisha Little, G, Colorado State-Pueblo
The stuff Little has been doing for the ThunderWolves this season has been nuts as despite only being 6-1, she’s second nationally in D-II in blocks per game (3.57) while also being a consistent double-double threat with averages of 22.6 points and 9.0 rebounds per night.
We’re here for Little’s wild week that was, however, as she lit up the stat sheet on both ends in two CSU Pueblo wins this past week against Haskell Indian Nations and Northern New Mexico.
In the first game last Friday, Little had to carry the ThunderWolves to a narrow 57-53 win in which she was within shouting distance of a quadruple-double, putting up a ridiculous two-way statline of 35 points, 10 rebounds, eight steals and six blocks as her league’s reigning defensive player of the year showed exactly why she’s probably the frontrunner to win it again this season.
Things went better for CSU Pueblo in their second game Saturday, blasting past the Eagles by a much more comfortable 75-46 margin, but the domination didn’t stop for Little. She put on another eye-popping performance by notching another 30-point double-double (31 points, 10 rebounds) while once again being a menace on the defensive end, notching six steals with four blocks.
Sixth in the nation in scoring (as of Tuesday night) on top of her well-established defensive prowess, Little plays anything but. Don’t be surprised if she breaks out for a triple-double sometime this season.
Division III: Grace Jaffray, G, Johnson & Wales
While other freshmen in school are still trying to build a daily routine at college for the first time, Jaffray — who graduated from high school a year early in order to enroll right away at JWU — is averaging 29.2 points per night through five career D-III games as a true freshman, making her tied for second nationally in D-III in scoring average.
It’s safe to say that it looks like the Wildcats have found the anchor of their roster for years to come.
The Maine native broke the program’s freshman single-game scoring record in her college debut with a 39-point explosion against Salve Regina back on Nov. 9, but she went for more against Wheaton (Massachusetts) last Tuesday as she broke the school’s all-time single-game scoring record with a 43-point outburst to lead Johnson & Wales to a 5-0 start, its best in a decade.
Not to mention, that record-setting scoring spree from Jaffray was also her first career double-double as she brought down 10 rebounds to boot, and she added in a coach-pleasing five steals and 14 for 15 clip from the free-throw line while she was at it, too.
Jaffray is very, very early into her college career, so it’s foolish to put any labels on her right now, but having 30-point nights in three of your first five college games is almost unheard of. If trends continue, we may be watching a record-shattering career unfold before our eyes.
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