After week on, what team do you think has the most wins against Top 25 teams? The ACC? SEC? Big East? If you guessed an of those then you're wrong. The conference I am talking about is the Atlantic-Sun. Mercer one-upped Gardner-Webb on Saturday by beating #18 ranked USC on the road. The most amazing thing to me about both of those games, was that Kentucky and USC were never in the game. Both Gardner-Webb and Mercer got up early and just poured it on the whole game. Belmont beat a Cincinnati team on Friday night by 11. Granted, Cincinnati is down, but it i still a big win. ETSU was a cold shooting performance in the last 2 minutes from or beating Dayton on the road as well. Overall, what a week for the lowly Atlantic-Sun conference. There were some other huge upsets this weekend. On Friday night UNC-Greensboro upended Georgia Tech 83-74, and Tulane beat Auburn 77-62. It's been a wacky first week so far.
It also looks like this might be the year of the Freshmen. Let's look at some guys that I talked about in my All-Freshmen teams. First, let's all forget about Kevin Durant, and say welcome to Michael Beasley. All Beasley did in the first two games is average 31points and 19 rebounds. WOW!! He's not even thinking Freshmen of the Year, he's thinking National Player of the Year. Although they are not on the pace Beasley is, there are some other Freshmen making some noise as well. Derrick Rose is off to a hot start averaging 19 ppg. and 5.5 reb. Nick Calathes is averaging 18ppg and 6 apg. Kevin Love had 22 points and 13 rebounds in his first collegiate game. Kyle Singler chipped in 15 points and 8 rebounds in Duke's first win of the season. Finally we come to the most hyped Freshmen of the year according to most media, O.J Mayo. Mayo dazzled in his first game with 32 points (12-27 shooting). The only problem is that his team got whipped by Mercer. If Mayo continues shooting 27 shots a game and losing, then I'm afraid they will begin to look like another Southern California team in Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
This has been a wacky start to the season so far. Lots of upsets and Freshmen dominating games. Who would have thought? It seems the same thing has happened this year in College football. If this continues it should be fun.
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It is not too uncommon to see freshmen put up some decent stats in the first few games, given that their opponents are usually on the same level as what they saw in AAU ball over a given summer. Let's see how they hold up in Top 25 action, on the road, and in their conference.
Do you think Mayo will continue to emulate his hero Kobe Bryant and ask for a trade if the Trojans lose another nonconference game? :)
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