The Truth

Jason Conley led the nation in scoring as a freshman at VMI (30 ppg). A lot of people argued that his scoring average was a result of playing mediocre competition, but that season, in his team’s biggest games, he scored 24 against Kentucky, 25 against Virginia, and 38 against Villanova.

In Conley’s sophomore season he only played 10 games, averaging 22 ppg. That season, he scored 25 points against Tennessee.

During his sophomore season, Conley decided to transfer to the University of Missouri. A lot of people predicted that he would be a star at Missouri.

In his Junior season at Mizzou, Conley averaged 8 points per game in limited time.

In his Senior season at Mizzou, Conley averaged 10 pppg.

Now I’m not saying that Morrison’s numbers would dip even close to that that much if he were playing in a tougher conference, and Morrison is obviously twice the player Conley was. I’m just trying to demonstrate that you can’t assume that because a player plays well in limited games against tough competition, he would play that well over an entire season in a major conference.

That’s why I think JJ Redick’s season is more impressive. But please note, JJ Redick is having one of the best offensive seasons in the past 20 years of college basketball. To say Morrison hasn’t been as impressive as Redick to this point in the season is in NO WAY an insult to Morrison. He has been absolutely tremendous, and is definitely one of the two players worthy of consideration for NPOTY.

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