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Brown's Leland King Named By Sports Illustrated.com As One of Top Five Sophomores To Watch For A Break-out Season
9/10/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Providence, R.I. – Using the Breakout Sophomore Formula, Sports Illustrated.com has rated Brown sophomore forward Leland King (Inglewood, CA) as one of the top five sophomores in the nation to have a break-out season. The Sports Illustrated ranking includes: Deonate Burton, forward, Marquette; Kennedy Meeks, center, North Carolina; Shawndre' Jones, guard, Richmond; Brown's Leland King; and Chris Perry, center, South Florida.
According to the article, "The graduation of Brown's ironman/point guard/leading scorer from last season, Sean McGonagill, freed up plenty of possessions, and King is likely to inherit a good share of them. In limited minutes as a freshman, he exhibited a Burton-like tendency to hunt baskets, and King's final three games of '13-14 -- which accounted for half of his total starts -- may have been a preview of what's to come. In those losses to Dartmouth, Harvard and Holy Cross, King played 32 minutes per game, averaging 21 points (on 24-of-52 shooting), 8.7 rebounds and 2.0 blocks. If King can sustain that pace (or something even close to it) as a sophomore, he'll emerge as one of the Ivy League's top scorers."
King Scored in double figures 12 times for the Bears, including a career high 27 points against Harvard. He was also Brown's second leading scorer with 9.6 points per game.
Now in its sixth season, The Breakout Sophomore Formula™ is an attempt to identify future stars who didn't stand out in traditional box scores as freshmen, but had tempo-free stats that indicate high-scoring potential.
A certain degree of obscurity is required for a player to qualify: He cannot have averaged much more than 20 minutes per game as a freshman. But while he was on the floor, he had to use a go-to-guy's share of offensive possessions (around 24 percent or higher) with a respectable level of efficiency (an offensive rating of at least 100.0, or one point per possession). The underlying theory, as first proposed by Basketball Prospectus, is that go-to-guys tend to act like it from the start of their careers, even in limited playing time.
For the full Sports Illustrated story go to:
http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/09/08/deonte-burton-kennedy-meeks-breakout-sophomores
