Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Hoops - the All-Junior Team from SI.com

Thanks Tom for the link:

In the Year of the Junior, these guys comprise a starting five I'd put up against the one-sophomore, four-senior AP All-America team any day:

G: Jarrett Jack
Georgia Tech, 6-foot-3
2003-04 Stats: 12.5 points, 5.6 assists, 4.9 rebounds

There may be more highly touted point men in the ACC, such as Wake Forest's Chris Paul and N.C. State's Julius Hodge, but how many of them carried a team to the title game last spring? Judge Jack not by his entire body of work in 2003-04 -- which wasn't shabby -- but rather by the way he turned it on down the stretch in the NCAA tournament. Kansas is still stinging from Jack's 29-point, nine-rebound, six-assist showing in the Elite Eight.