This is from an article in the Birmingham News:
Three-game losing streak aside, there are plenty of reasons for Alabama fans to tune in Tuesday night's basketball game at Kentucky at 8 CT on ESPNU. Here's one:
You might be watching the SEC player of the year.
Not John Wall.
DeMarcus Cousins.
I know. A lot of so-called basketball experts already have penciled in Wall as the SEC player of the year, the national player of the year, the one-and-done player of the millennium.
Meanwhile, Cousins continues to make a case that he, not Wall, may be Kentucky's real MVP.
Before you accuse me of home-town bias in favor of the Birmingham native, consider his monster numbers, which today earned him his third SEC freshman-of-the-week award.
Cousins has put up a double-double for six straight games -- the first UK player to do so since Chris Mills in 1989.
He has 14 double-doubles for the season, the most in the SEC and the most by a Wildcat since Jamaal Magloire in 2000.
Cousins is seventh in the SEC in scoring (16.4 ppg), second in rebounding (10 rpg), second in field-goal percentage (.542), fifth in blocks (1.87) and first in offensive rebounds (4.35). And just about all of his numbers have increased in conference games.
You might be watching the SEC player of the year.
Not John Wall.
DeMarcus Cousins.
I know. A lot of so-called basketball experts already have penciled in Wall as the SEC player of the year, the national player of the year, the one-and-done player of the millennium.
Meanwhile, Cousins continues to make a case that he, not Wall, may be Kentucky's real MVP.
Before you accuse me of home-town bias in favor of the Birmingham native, consider his monster numbers, which today earned him his third SEC freshman-of-the-week award.
Cousins has put up a double-double for six straight games -- the first UK player to do so since Chris Mills in 1989.
He has 14 double-doubles for the season, the most in the SEC and the most by a Wildcat since Jamaal Magloire in 2000.
Cousins is seventh in the SEC in scoring (16.4 ppg), second in rebounding (10 rpg), second in field-goal percentage (.542), fifth in blocks (1.87) and first in offensive rebounds (4.35). And just about all of his numbers have increased in conference games.
Looks like Boogie is keeping the home fires burning for him. There is no question that DeMarcus is our best player, and it is taking this long to figure this out? The Big Blue Nation has know this for a while now!!
