Although he’s the lowest-ranked Duke basketball target from the 2019 class — No. 196 on the 247Sports Composite — there is one stat that jumps off the page and suggests that Joseph Girard III is a wildcard candidate to be a college star.
As a junior in high school, the three-star combo guard from Glen Falls, N.Y., averaged 50 points per game — no, that isn’t a typo — helping him earn the title as the 2018 Gatorade New York Boys Basketball Player of the Year. And despite the fact that his senior season has yet to start, he is already his state’s all-time leading scorer.