Photo by Brian Georgeson
Sophomore Markus Howard scored 52 points against Providence, a program high.
At the beginning of Markus Howard’s 52-point tour de force against the Providence Friars, when he only had 10 points and showed little sign of the eruption that was about to come, my mom asked a salient question.
“Is Markus Howard going to go to the NBA?”
“No,” I answered. “At least not yet. He’s too short. He doesn’t have the ballhandling skills to face NBA defenses. He turns the ball over all the time and his defense would be picked apart.