Auburn basketball Mandatory Credit: Arden Barnes-USA TODAY Sports
Auburn basketball’s freshman point guard Sharife Cooper took the college basketball world by storm…once he was finally allowed to play by the NCAA, of course. Cooper played his first game back with the team on January 9 against Alabama after his eligibility was withheld for all of the non-conference portion of the season–and even some of the SEC schedule.
Even after missing the first 11 games and 72 practices, though, Cooper racked up 26 points in that Alabama game and then recorded his first double-double in the following game against Georgia.