You have to give freshman walk-ons the benefit of the doubt because you probably won’t know what their value to the team will be until later on. Such is the case with guard Elijah Morgan, who didn’t even play a game’s worth of minutes in his first year for Notre Dame. Consequently, there wasn’t a lot of exposure for the New Orleans native, so there’s no photo of him on our service and no video highlights of him on the athletic department’s YouTube channel. It’s a reminder that unless you can make a big difference right away, you’re typically stuck on the bench in your first year with a major program.
But if Morgan can take one thing away from this season, it’s that the best of his 12 games came at Cameron Indoor Stadium. In five minutes of Notre Dame’s blowout loss to Duke, he scored five points, three of which came on his first and only trey of the season. He also picked up one assist. Hopefully, he’ll have more to offer the Irish in the future.