Scholarship table
I believe Maravich holds the single season scoring record. 1381 in 31 games in 1970. 44.5 per, on 38 shots per game.
What? You don't think he can knock off Pistol Pete's all-time record? Some fan you are. That's only roughly 44 ppg. Doable.Great work, Brew. Thank you.
Actually, thanks to Marquette playing more games these days, Markus would "only" have to average slightly over 35.4 ppg and reach the national championship game. If he wants to make a run at the Pistol, I'm here for it.
Assume we replaced Wojo with the Ghost of Press Maravich (this is Halloween after all). Press takes a liking to Markus and does the LSU thing. He creates the "Hauserletter" Offense to get Markus 35.4 ppg or more.How long do you think it would take before defenses doubled and tripled Markus?Assume we averaged 77 ppg as a team (not unreasonable if our defense is any good), that would mean that the entire rest of the team (including the bench) would average 41.6 ppg, or an average of about 4.5 points per player, assuming we went 11 deep. If you throttled Markus and held him to 25 ppg or less under those circumstances, no way we're going to win more than a handful of our games. That folks, is what happened to LSU in the late 1960s.
Doesn't he need 1713 to pass Maravich's 3,367? What is the max we could play? Is it 39 or 40? That would put him in the 43-44 ppg, wouldn't it?Absolutely ridiculous that Maravich needed only 83 games to reach that number.
I was referring to the single season record. 39 is the max number of games, which would mean just over 43.9 ppg to pass Maravich for career scoring. Of course, that's also close to doubling Markus' 3-year total in one season.Even with the offense designed for him, those are insane numbers Maravich put up, especially in just 3 years.
With no 3 pt line
the LSU teams weren't that bad. Not great by any stretch, but not terrible.In 1970 LSU went 13-5 and finished second to Kentucky in the SEC. With only one bid per conference getting a NT bid, LSU went the NIT route and as we know, lost to the MU team in NYC.When Maravich was a freshman the varsity was 3-23. 1-17 in conference. So 13-5 was a near miracle in three seasonsWhile Pistol's teammates didn't get a lot of shots, there definitely were rebounds aplenty.Dan Hester put up 16 and 11. Al Sanders with 12 and 15. Bill Newton added 11 & 10. on a side note, Maravich scored 714 points as a freshman. Which would have put him around 4400 points scored in less than 100 games at LSU.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.