Torvik predicts UK’s top 5 scorers

[akaukswoosh]

College basketball analytics predict who Kentucky's top five scorers will be

In his first season as the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, Mark Pope's offense was one of the best in college basketball. Knowing that Kentucky is returnin

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[Wildcats4ever2007]

I’d bet a lot of money we won’t have just 2 double digit scorers this year.

 

[Eastkybball]

I expect 3 in double figures consistently.
Lowe, Oweh, Jasper or Aberdeen. So pumped and can’t wait to watch this team. Of course we might start out slow and ppl are gonna be negative but this team is gonna be dangerously good.

 

[Anon1739778738]

Not worried about offense, defensive rebounding and rim protection should vastly improve with this taller athletic roster.

 

[Jkr21790]

We have plenty of guys who can score. Guys like Mo D or Aberdeen may avg like 7/8/9 pts a game with a handful of big time 15-20 pt games but Lowe and Oweh are proven and will be 15 a game ish. I’d say JQ will at least give us 10-11. Easily. Then any of Kam. Jasper and Jelevic could be the 4th double digit scorer. I mean Kam may be a 13 pt wing or Jelevic could be a 12 pt a game scorer and alll around stud. Idk we’ll see but we’ll have 4 or 5 in double figures.

 

[Cleatortoises]

I expect 3 in double figures consistently.
Lowe, Oweh, Jasper or Aberdeen. So pumped and can’t wait to watch this team. Of course we might start out slow and ppl are gonna be negative but this team is gonna be dangerously good.

I doubt we start out slow.
Straight to the jugular.

 

[WallMash]

This is Bart's guess....
Otega Oweh: 18 points per game
Jaland Lowe: 14 points per game
Denzel Aberdeen: 9.7 points per game
Jayden Quaintance: 9 points per game
Jasper Johnson: 8.3 points per game

What that says is none of our offensive minded bigs besides Q are in the conversation. I think the likelihood of either Mo, Europe J, or Garrison reaching 9 points a game is high. And I think we have at least 5 in double figures.

 

[ala_kat2]

Trent Noah is going to work his way into the top five scorers

 

[BlueSince92]

Trent Noah is going to work his way into the top five scorers

This is what I was thinking. If his outside shooting lives up to the summer hype from his teammates, which it already did in spurts last season, he could even be top three. Just because this team has so many other weapons you can’t afford to put a whole lot of focus on one babyfaced kid roaming the perimeter.

 

[PastorofMuppets82]

I feel like Noah slots in somewhere just shy of 8 pts a game on the year when it is all said and done. Filling the Almanor role in a sense (5.3 ppg 1.3 rpg). They'll be games where he is a sniper and they'll be games where he simply isn't needed or useful based on personnel matchups. That's why I like the flexibility of "different" types of talent this team has. We have the ability to grab a guy off the bench that is a better matchup against the guy they are guarding than maybe say our traditional starter/backup would be. Combined with some guys athletic enough to guard multiple positions and some serious wing spans. I think that both helps and hurts Noah depending on who we are playing.

 

[UK67KU59]

I think we'll see an even more balanced offensive attack than last year. Oweh will probably score less per game than he did a year ago and everybody will eat. I could see 4 low double-digit scorers and a lot of high single-digit scorers.

 

[megablue]

This is Bart's guess....
Otega Oweh: 18 points per game
Jaland Lowe: 14 points per game
Denzel Aberdeen: 9.7 points per game
Jayden Quaintance: 9 points per game
Jasper Johnson: 8.3 points per game

What that says is none of our offensive minded bigs besides Q are in the conversation. I think the likelihood of either Mo, Europe J, or Garrison reaching 9 points a game is high. And I think we have at least 5 in double figures.

What kind of scoring can be expected from Williams and Dioubate ??

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[true-blue1]

What kind of scoring can be expected from Williams and Dioubate ??

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I think they will average 7-8 points.

 

[true-blue1]

Any word on Hawthorne? Is he going to redshirt?

 

[Catsfan2025]

Oweh leading scorer
Lowe 2nd
Kam Williams will over over 10
Mo will average over 10
JQ after getting healthy will average over 10
Garrison COULD average over 10 if he makes the jump I expect. If not, 8/9 per game.

Will be several in the 10-15 per game area with Oweh around 17/18. I think 5 players will average at least 10 or more, maybe 6. Last year was about the same. Balanced scoring, average 85 or so per game as a team.

 

[storm1507]

I think Oweh and Lowe will be our top 2 scorers and wouldn't be surprised if Lowe is #1 due to more playing time.

After that I think we will be extremely balanced in both scoring and PT. Man, without injuries to key players we'll be fun to watch and in the hunt for #9.