On one hand, Jalen Brunson is a junior who started in two national championship games and leads the NCAA in offensive rating for the No. 1 team in the country.
“If your peeled his face off you’d probably have wires coming out of it,” Xavier coach Chris Mack said of Brunson. “He’s phenomenal.”
On the other hand, it’s easy to lose track of Brunson in the national picture behind Collin Sexton, Trevon Duval and especially Trae Young.
Young, who has surprised pretty much everybody over the past two months after dropping 43 points on Oregon and double digit assists in more than half of his games, shoots so many 3s off the dribble that his presence changes the scheme the opposing defense has to run.