We talked to national college basketball expert Kevin Sweeney of Sports Illustrated about USC basketball. Sweeney had a lot to say about USC’s Boogie Ellis.
“The national landscape of college basketball tends to forget that Boogie Ellis averaged basically 18, 4 (rebounds) and 3 (assists) last year and did it at decent efficiency,” Sweeney began. “I think Boogie got somewhat of a bad rap early in his college career at Memphis because he came in so hyped with so much expectation. He looked like a chucker out there early in his career. He came in, the ball was not standing in his hands long. It was going up and the efficiency wasn’t there. He wore a lot of the Memphis struggles early under Penny (Hardaway). Again, was that fair or not? I don’t know that it was, but I think often the narrative gets cooked in the first two years of a guy’s career. People have forgotten that Boogie Ellis has turned himself into one of the better guards in college basketball, certainly one of the better returning players in the country.”
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