The first overall potential choice for the NBA 2025 draft, the first -year striker Cooper Flagg, will be in action on Saturday evening (8 p.m. he on Fox and the Fox Sports application) while the Duke Blue Devils N ° 3 will face the ‘Illinois at Madison Square Garden.
Flagg is in the middle of a powerful first season at the college level, with an average of 19.7 points, 7.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.6 interceptions and 1.2 blocks per match, while pulling 48 , 6 / 36.6 / 81.3 before the inclination of Saturday.
In this spirit, what are the best seasons of a first-year-old male university basketball player?
We have gathered the best 10.
10 best university basketball seasons by a first-year student
“The favorite player of your favorite player” was a force with which you have to count in his first year season. With an average of 26.2 points of 12.2 peaks – which was third in the country at the time – and 12.4 rebounds, as well as 1.6 blocks and 1.3 interceptions per match, Beasley helped the Wildcats to Go to the second round of the NCAA tournament and win their first tournament match in 12 years. Beasley would go pro a after the season, becoming the second global choice in 2008.
Love was a double-double walking for Bruins, with an average of 17.5 points, 10.6 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game, while firing 55.9 / 35.4 / 76.7 in its sole one Season on the stage of the college. The great man and the future MR. The triple-double, Russell Westbrook, helped Bruins at a season of 35-4, a seeded n ° 1 in the NCAA tournament and an appearance in the Final Four. Love would become the fifth overall choice of the NBA 2008 draft, a choice behind Westbrook.
Johnson was as spectacular at the college level as at the NBA level. Whether it is facilitating, hitting the boards and starting fastbreak or attacking the rack, Johnson did everything for Spartans; He collected an average of 17.0 points, 7.9 rebounds and a large ten, 7.4 assists per match his first year. The following season, Johnson and the Spartans won the national championship, and he would become the first global choice of the 1979 NBA draft.
Williamson stormed the sports scene during the 2018-19 season. Manage the rock, attack the edge with the reckless abandonment, glue mi -plage sweaters and make skin above the edge as well as anyone in sport, Williamson – which was held at 6 feet 7 and 285 pounds – was A show in his lonely season in sport. This season, Williamson collected an average of 22.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.1 interceptions and 1.8 blocks per game, while pulling a 68.0% hanging on the field. He would help Duke reach Elite Eight, and he continued to be the first global choice of the NBA 2019 NBA.
Rose has helped Memphis undoubtedly the best season in the history of the program. On average 14.9 points, 4.7 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 1.2 interceptions per match, pink, which could explode from the dribble, was the engine of the tiger offensive. While they finally lost against Kansas at the end, Rose and the Tigers have always been 38-2 and reached the national championship, the leader on average of 20.8 points and 6.0 assists per match in the NCAA tournament. Rose was the first overall choice of the NBA 2008 NBA.
During the best seasons that an academic basketball player has had one of the best seasons, whatever the year she arrived. During the 2006-07 season, during displayed 25.8 points, 11.1 rebounds, 1.9 blocks and 1.9 interceptions per game, while pulling 47.3 / 40.4 / 81.6 for Longhorns. During’s point, Rebound and Block Militaires all led the Big 12. The well-balanced and very effective star striker led Texas to a record of 25-10 and a victory in the first round in the NCAA tournament. During was the second overall choice of the NBA 2007 NBA; He was part of the latest version of the Seattle Supersonics before renamed Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.
4. Chris Jackson / Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, LSU (1988-89)
Chris Jackson, who changed his name for Mahmoud Abdul -Rauf in 1993, marked a lot in his first year season in Lsu – like many. He finished second in the country in score, with an average of 30.2 points per game per game per game, while pulling 48.6 / 38.9 / 81.5 and helping the Tigers reaching the NCAA tournament. The following season, he led the dry again by scoring, with an average of 27.8 points per match en route to be selected with the third overall choice of the NBA 1990 draft.
3. Michael Jordan, Caroline du Nord (1981-82)
In what was his first introduction to the national scene, Jordan helped the Tar Heels to win the national title of the 1981-82 season which saw the North Carolina going 32-2. UNC ahead of Patrick Ewing, Sleepy Floyd and the Georgetown Hoyas in the title match, 63-62, with Jordan contributing 16 points and nine rebounds. Jordan would play two additional seasons in Chapel Hill, leading the ACC in the scoring in his last season (19.6 ppg) before becoming the third overall choice in 1984.
Without doubt the best player to adapt to orange, Anthony delivered the school his only title of champion in the 2002-03 season, when Anthony has an average of 22.2 points and 10.0 rebounds per game, everything By pulling 45.3 / 33.7 / 70.6 on the way to Syracuse Galing 30 -5. The 6 -feet 8 inch striker could pull the dribble, finish at the edge, play in the post and stick it deep. His 248 defensive rebounds this season are the most by a player in a single season in school history. Anthony was the third overall choice in 2003, and his son, Kiyan, will play for Syracuse from next season.
More often than not, the Wildcats struck at the door of a national title with head coach John Calipari, but they only won the national championship once during his 15 years that led the show – With Davis. During the 2011-12 season, Davis was only one. Although he can certainly dominate in painting and later developed a reliable jump shot, Davis was mainly a threat to the defensive, with an average of 4.7 blocks to the nation, while being shocked in 10, 4 rebounds per game. Offensively, he recorded an average of 14.2 points per game, while pulling on a summit of 62.3% on the field. Davis fired 1 out of 10 on the field of the national championship, but he countered the offensive struggle by snatching 16 rebounds and refusing six shots, while Kentucky shot the Kansas. Davis was the first global choice of the NBA 2012 draft.
Honorable mentions:
- Trae Young
- Greg Oden
- Patrick Ewing
- Jahlil OKAFOR
- John Wall
- Kenny Anderson
- Wayman Tisdale
- Jared Sullinger
- Chet Holmgren
- Shaquille O’Neal
- Demaus cousins
- Pervis Ellison
- Cooper Flagg
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