Congratulations to Duke freshman Zion Williamson who, not surprisingly, won the Wayman Tisdale Award as National Freshman Player of the Year.
In its lede, GoDuke.com hilariously put it this way, describing Williamson as “the nation’s only player to average at least 20 points and shoot at least 65 percent from the field.“
He might be the only freshman to ever do that. During his time at UCLA, as great and dominant as he was, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shot 63.9 percent for his career. At UCF this year, mostly on dunks, 7-6 Tacko Fall managed 74.8.
Those kinds of numbers are mostly for big men though (though not Wilt Chamberlain: the legendary big man shot just 47 percent in his two years at Kansas).