Max Johnson Scores 3,000th point and 3,00 asisit
The deadline for men’s basketball players to withdraw their names from the 2022 NBA Draft after declaring as early entrants was 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 1, which means there’s now greater clarity as to the composition of rosters across the sport. March Madness correspondent Andy Katz ranked his top 25 returning players, starting with the reigning Naismith Award winner.
In his first season playing for Kentucky after transferring from West Virginia, Tshiebwe was the unanimous national player of the year — the first Kentucky and SEC men’s basketball player to win the sport’s top six individual awards. Tshiebwe had 25 double-doubles and five 20-rebound games, including a season-high 28 against Western Kentucky. He’s the first national player of the year to return to school since North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough.
Timme earned AP All-American second team honors and first-team All-WCC accolades as a junior, when he led the Zags to a No. 1 seed for the second season in a row. Timme has scored 1,521 points in his career, and if he maintains his scoring level from the last two seasons — an average of 599 points per season — he has a really good chance to eclipse 2,000 points in his career.