Triple Double

[tornado]

Triple doubles in D-I college basketball are quite rare....
most know that there's only been one ever in all the history of Bradley basketball...
and that many programs have never had one ever!

so it is kind of an oddity that in just the past week or so...THREE different times in D-I ball, it has occurred!

Epke Udoh of Baylor had 18 points, 17 rebounds, and 10 blocks

http://www.baylor.edu/lariat/news.php?action=story&story=67115

Hassan Whiteside of Marshall had 14 points, 14 rebounds, and 10 blocks

http://www.latimes.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-bkc-marshall-ucf,0,3780866.story

Jarvis Varnado of Mississippi State had 17 points, 12 rebounds, 10 blocks

http://media.www.reflector-online.com/media/storage/paper938/news/2010/01/15/Sports/Varnado.Records.His.Second.TripleDouble.As.Dawgs.Outlast.Arkansas.8280-3853696.shtml

[jasonpeoria911]

Even more of an oddity that it came in the form of blocks, most is the traditional, points-boards-assists.

Jason

[electricmayhem]

Varnado is a beast. Anyone ever see him play? He gets up quick.

[Braves4Life]

Varnado is a beast. Anyone ever see him play? He gets up quick.

Unfortunately, I saw him play against us pre-beast (2 or 3 years ago when they beat us postseason). You could tell even then he was going to be a big time player. I swear his legs were like pogo sticks.

[tornado]

I have revived this Triple-Double thread for a reason...

As noted above triple doubles in the college game are quite rare....

In fact the most anyone has ever gotten in a single season is FOUR (four players have gotten four in a season)
-- and six is the career record (two players have six in a career)
(but also note that NCAA has not always kept track of assists, steals, and blocks - so it may have occurred elsewhere "unofficially)

And it's been widely noted that now Bradley is known to have two such triple doubles - LINK

So why is this relevant?
Because just 17 games into this season there's a player on BYU who already has THREE triple-doubles already this season -
so he's certainly got a great shot at tying or beating the single season record.

http://www.vanquishthefoe.com/byu-cougars-basketball/2015/1/4/7491101/kyle-collinsworth-ncaa-record-triple-doubles

[tornado]

The player referenced above is BYU's Kyle Collinsworth...

this season he's at it again and has set & extended his own TRIPLE-DOUBLE record...
The season is only 1/3 thru and he already has 8 triple-doubles in his career!

https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/678063389734772737

btw- one other past John Groce recruit, Caris Levert, also just put up a triple double

https://twitter.com/sjkauf/status/677142044540846081