National POY Discussion

Markus Burton on ND is having a very good season as well, albeit on a not great team.

20.1 (2nd in ACC) with 3.4 boards, 3.2 assists and 1.4 steals (14th) in 30.6 mpg. He's shooting 46/42/85%.

I'm not sure that's 1st Team worthy. But certainly All ACC.

- Chillin
Good catch. I was going to say Coop is #2 in scoring, but I'm was looking at ESPN's stat leaders page, which only lists players who appear in at least 75% of their team's games. Burton has only played in 14 of ND's 21 contests after losing a month plus to injury, so he doesn't meet ESPN's qualification criteria. He has appeared in 8 of ND's 10 ACC games to date.
 
Broome's advanced stats (Player Efficiency Rating, Win Shares, Box Plus/Minus, etc.) are also fantastic. He's a very good player.

KenPom's kPOY (KenPom Player of the Year) gives a lot of weight to team stats. Basically, it answers the question: How good does a player contribute to the best teams' success? As you might imagine, Flagg scores very well using that approach.

1. Cooper Flagg, 2.733
2. Johni Broome, 2.305
3. Hunter Dickinson, 1.599
4. Braden Smith, 1.579
5. Kam Jones, 1.499
6. Javon Small, 1.373
7. Trey Kaufman-Renn, 1.342
8. Graham Ike, 1.289
9. PJ Haggerty, 1.254
10. Mark Sears, 1.239
Where is RJ?
 
To give another Duke angle on this, I took a Poli Sci course on Middle Eastern Politics with eminent Islamic World scholar Ralph Braibanti, and we took a class field trip to Ghandi. The point being to both understand non-Western perspectives generally, and the Hindu-Muslim conflict in post-colonial India (which begat Pakistan) in particular.
While I had several "favorite" professors at Duke, none made a more enduring impression or had a more positive influence on my perception of what it meant to be a scholar than Dr. Braibanti. I returned to the Duke campus many times after graduating, but he was the only professor I made a point of paying a visit.
 
While I had several "favorite" professors at Duke, none made a more enduring impression or had a more positive influence on my perception of what it meant to be a scholar than Dr. Braibanti. I returned to the Duke campus many times after graduating, but he was the only professor I made a point of paying a visit.
I took a course from Dr. Braibanti as an undergrad at Duke as well. I remember him and his teaching style clearly. I wish I could've heard him analyze the Muslim political world in the post 9/11 period, as I only heard him in those innocent days of the mid-1980s . . .
 
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