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I have made no effort to hide the fact that I really admire this kid from Evansville, and right now he'd have my vote for Player of the Year - and I'd go ahead and just give it to him now...
He has been an automatic double double and is averaging 17.9 point & 14.5 rebounds per game - and that rebound figure is almost certainly to end up being the highest rebounding average for an MVC player since the days of Xavier McDaniel!
His current 14.5 rpg LEADS the nation as we speak.
As noted elsewhere, only a couple players in the past 31 years have even hit 10 rpg, and none over 10.6
He's not flashy but I think he does more to help them win than anyone - he also leads the league by far in blocked shots.
Anyone predict what we will "hold him to"?
I think we do a pretty good job but our bigs will undoubtedly get into foul trouble the way the games are being called...
I say he ends up with 14 pts & 12 rebs
btw- the proper pronunciation of his name is:
E-gid'-E-us Muhs-KA'-vich-us
and he's just the 14th player ever in the MVC to score 1000 points and grab 1000 rebounds
and a couple other key facts for today's game..
DJ Balentine needs FIVE field goals to tie Colt Ryan at #2 in their all time scoring list - #1 is Larry Humes (1964-66) who is 162 ahead.
Egidijus Mockevicius now has 1,016 career rebounds - he needs just 37 to tie Jerry Sloan for #2 all time, with #1 being Dale Wise who has 181 more than Egidijus.
Mockevicius (they nickname him "IGGY" or sometimes "Egi" in their media guide) is just 1 percentage point (.621 vs. .631) behind the Aces' all time FG% career record holder Brian Hill.
Mockevicius also already holds their all time career blocks make at 248.
At his current pace Balentine COULD catch up with Mitchell JJ Anderson (2,341) or even John Williams (2,374 for InSU) as 5th or even 4th all time in MVC scoring.
3rd is Larry Bird but that would be 500 points of 4th.
He has been an automatic double double and is averaging 17.9 point & 14.5 rebounds per game - and that rebound figure is almost certainly to end up being the highest rebounding average for an MVC player since the days of Xavier McDaniel!
His current 14.5 rpg LEADS the nation as we speak.
As noted elsewhere, only a couple players in the past 31 years have even hit 10 rpg, and none over 10.6
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Anyone predict what we will "hold him to"?
I think we do a pretty good job but our bigs will undoubtedly get into foul trouble the way the games are being called...
I say he ends up with 14 pts & 12 rebs
btw- the proper pronunciation of his name is:
E-gid'-E-us Muhs-KA'-vich-us
and he's just the 14th player ever in the MVC to score 1000 points and grab 1000 rebounds
and a couple other key facts for today's game..
DJ Balentine needs FIVE field goals to tie Colt Ryan at #2 in their all time scoring list - #1 is Larry Humes (1964-66) who is 162 ahead.
Egidijus Mockevicius now has 1,016 career rebounds - he needs just 37 to tie Jerry Sloan for #2 all time, with #1 being Dale Wise who has 181 more than Egidijus.
Mockevicius (they nickname him "IGGY" or sometimes "Egi" in their media guide) is just 1 percentage point (.621 vs. .631) behind the Aces' all time FG% career record holder Brian Hill.
Mockevicius also already holds their all time career blocks make at 248.
At his current pace Balentine COULD catch up with Mitchell JJ Anderson (2,341) or even John Williams (2,374 for InSU) as 5th or even 4th all time in MVC scoring.
3rd is Larry Bird but that would be 500 points of 4th.
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