Bison137
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11-08-19 03:22 PM - Post#290335
In response to Bison137
No returnee on this year's team has ever averaged double figures. Last year the top three non-seniors were Moore (9.8 ppg), Toomer (8.7), and Sotos (8.2) - all of which were career highs.
Who can guess which Bison team was the last one to have no player who had ever averaged double figures.
Might have been Muscalas Freshman year. I think Shazier led the team. 09-10?
Just realized that I never gave the answer. Good guess by Scorekeeper, but not quite right. In Muscala's freshman year, 2009-10, the leading scorer was indeed Darryl Shazier. But he averaged 10.1 ppg. In 2008-09, the season before Muscala's arrival, Behan averaged 13.8 ppg as a junior, and Cohen averaged 11.8 ppg as a frosh.
The correct answer is the 1996-97 season. The previous year the top four Bison scorers were all seniors (B. Anderson, Hamer, Steigerwald, and Golden), all of whom averaged over 9.5 ppg. With all of them having graduated, the top returnee of the 1996-97 team was JR Holden, who had averaged 7.4 ppg as a soph. Things turned out pretty well for that team, as Holden's average rose to 17.8 ppg, while Gordon Mboye improved to 14.8 ppg (and 6.2 rpg) and freshman Dan Bowen averaged 7.4 ppg and 6.2 rpg enroute to PL ROY. The team, despite having lost four senior starters, ended up in 2nd place in the PL with a 9-3 record. Holden and Mboya jumped from role players one year to 1st team All-PL the next. The only negative is that the Bison ended up dropping a one-point decision in the championship game, played at Navy.
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