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Illinois basketball: 2019-20 season wrap-up for Kipper Nichols

Here is Kipper Nichols season wrap-up.

Expectations

Kipper’s 2018-19 season was sub-par as he averaged 5.7 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game. He shot 42-percent from the field and 21-percent from three-point range while shooting 5.4 shots per game. For most of 2018-19, he was inconsistent but had a few good games.

For the 2019-20 season, I predicted Kipper would average 4.6 points, 2.4 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game while shooting 49-percent from the field and 23-percent from the three-point arc. I predicted these stats for Kipper because he wasn’t going to have the ball in his hands as much due to the fact other players were going to have a bigger role than him.