2006-2007 jucos

[courtside]

http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/new/story/2...productive40692

Article on the productivity of this past year's juco's. Thought it would be an interesting read for the board.

[Clock_Tower]

Very interesting and probably accurate read. Article is consistent with the generally accpeted viewpoint that good teams should not rely upon JUCOs each year. With that said, Jucos can and do fill gaps nicely.

SLU has so many gaps this year that we need JUCOs. Actually, we need JUCO last year and year before as well but that didn't happen

Still, good article.

[Milwaukee Billiken]

The author acts like his statistics are earthshattering, but they're really not. His point makes sense but is not news. Jucos don't have a big impact at BSC schools. His finding that "may astonish even those who are most skeptical of recruiting junior college players" isn't astonishing at all. 20 players average less than 5 points per game. Wow. Well, 22 players average less than 19.9 minutes per game. Of those, half average less than 10 minutes. Of course they're not going to have a big impact. They don't play.

[Schasz]

Interesting but the A10 is a mid major conference and SLU's needs for next year are glaring. We best land a couple juco's who will be key contributors, that is, if we have any expectations for post season in '07-'08 season.

[Basketbill]

Interesting but, if I am not mistaken he missed Hannah from mizzou in his top ten of players. Clearly he had better seasons than the most of those listed.

I would wonder if only 13 of 36 played more than twenty minutes a game, how does that compare to last year. Secondly has Rodney Alexander seen this article?

[courtside]

This information was also provided:

Here are stats for 17 other juco players, each of whom was considered a Top 40 juco player by Hoopmasters in last year's class.

Here is the data:

Scoring:

15.0 ppg - 15.4 ppg (1)

10.0 ppg - 14.9 ppg (3)

7.5 ppg - 9.9 ppg (2)

5.0 ppg - 7.4 ppg (4)

0.1 ppg - 4.9 ppg (7)

In short, 13 of 17 (76.5%) scored less than 10.0 ppg.

Only one player averaged over 7.0 rpg (7.9), one other averaged over 6.0 (6.2), and only two others averaged over 5.0 rpg (5.6 rpg and 5.1 rpg).

Plus, not a single player averaged over 4.0 apg. In fact, only one averaged over 3.0 apg (3.1 apg).

Of the 17, who played reasonably well?

James Davis (Lamar) - 7'1" center - 25.5 mpg, 15.4 ppg, 7.9 rpg

Jerome Habel (San Diego State) - 6'10" - 29.4 mpg, 10.9 ppg, 6.2 rpg

James Spencer (Wyoming) - 30.7 mpg, 10.5 ppg, 3.8 rpg

Darren Hopkins (Lamar) - 30.9 mpg, 13.4 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.8 apg

No one else averaged over 8.0 ppg.

Not exactly impressive stats overall, even at the mid-major and low-major level.