Let me first say I am a huge fan of Morgan. She is a hard working, tremendously talented player and rarely do you see a college player who is so good at so many aspects of the game. She is also a great young woman.
While AA ballots are often cast based on a players reputation, skill level, and performance in past years if one were to look at Morgan's performance this season alone she might not get the required votes because she had a tough second half of the season. Since the beginning of this year we played 18 games and Morgan missed five of them. In the other 13 games she averaged 9.6 ppg, shot 42% from the field, averaged 5.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. She had 2 blocked shots in those 13 games. Not bad but not great. Since I am one of those who don't believe stats tell the whole story here is my subjective take. IMO Morgan played at AA level in only 3 of those games ( SC. the first USF game and the first Tulsa game), She played well in 1 or 2 others but not at AA level and the rest she only played ok.
On the other side of the ledger: great players play big in big games and Morgan's performance v. SC was spectacular at both ends of the court. In addition her defense is consistently very good, other teams must collapse on her to stop her opening up her team mates and her leadership skills don't show up in the stat sheet.
Of course tourney time is just beginning but if voting were to take place today I would be worried. Anyone see it differently?
While AA ballots are often cast based on a players reputation, skill level, and performance in past years if one were to look at Morgan's performance this season alone she might not get the required votes because she had a tough second half of the season. Since the beginning of this year we played 18 games and Morgan missed five of them. In the other 13 games she averaged 9.6 ppg, shot 42% from the field, averaged 5.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. She had 2 blocked shots in those 13 games. Not bad but not great. Since I am one of those who don't believe stats tell the whole story here is my subjective take. IMO Morgan played at AA level in only 3 of those games ( SC. the first USF game and the first Tulsa game), She played well in 1 or 2 others but not at AA level and the rest she only played ok.
On the other side of the ledger: great players play big in big games and Morgan's performance v. SC was spectacular at both ends of the court. In addition her defense is consistently very good, other teams must collapse on her to stop her opening up her team mates and her leadership skills don't show up in the stat sheet.
Of course tourney time is just beginning but if voting were to take place today I would be worried. Anyone see it differently?