2024-2025 Men’s Basketball Season: General Offseason Discussion

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It will be a nice relaxing recovery game from the Duke-Cheaters game on 2/1 to then sit back and watch Arkansas/Kentucky with absolutely no dog in the race.
Except this one:

 
Has anyone ever lead a Duke team in assist and blocks for a season? Seems like an odd feat for anyone to achieve but I think Cooper Flagg has a chance to do it this year. Listening to the stats game on the DBR podcast this morning, Flagg was considered for leading in both of those categories individually. It’s possible Malauch has more blocks per minute but Flagg will likely play a lot more minutes. Assists will probably be spread out among lots of guys but Flagg could end up the leader just because he plays the most minutes.

Maybe this should wait for the bold prediction thread that usually pops up about this time.
 
Has anyone ever lead a Duke team in assist and blocks for a season?

I haven't come across anyone who has, but here are some notables.

Sophomore Josh McRoberts (2006-2007) came close. He averaged 2.5 blocks (1st) and 3.5 assists (2nd to Greg Paulus' 3.8 assists).

Senior Grant Hill (1993-1994) had 5.2 assists (1st) and 1.2 blocks (2nd to Cherokee Parks' 2.2). I reluctantly looked at his previous seasons just to be thorough, but, you know, Bobby Hurley.

Sophomore Kyle Filipowski had 1.5 blocks (1st) and 2.8 assists (3rd to Tyrese Proctor's 3.7 and Jeremy Roach's 3.3).

Freshman Zion Williamson (2018-2019) was 1st with 1.8 blocks and 3rd with 2.1 assists (Tre Jones had 5.3 and RJ Barrett had 4.3).

Freshman Wendell Carter (2017-2018) averaged 2.1 blocks (1st) and 2.0 assists (3rd, after Trevon Duval's 5.6 and Grayson Allen's 4.6).

Sophomore Shane Battier (1999-2000) averaged 2.1 of each, 1st in blocks and 3rd in assists (well behind Jay Williams' 6.5 and Chris Carrawell's 3.2).

Freshman Paolo Banchero (2021-2022) had 0.9 blocks (2nd to Mark Williams, who had over 3x as many with 2.8) and 3.2 assists (2nd to Wendell Moore's 4.4). Both look like ties, but he had 1 more assist over the whole season than 3rd place Roach and 3 more blocks than 3rd place Theo John.

While the eras and situations are different, I'm pretty impressed that Battier, McRoberts, and Carter each averaged more than 2 blocks and 2 assists per game.
 
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