free_mhayden said:
Pumpkinhead said:
free_mhayden said:
Yeah, in no world was Caruso overall better than Sloan.
He was likely a better "game manager", but in college hoops if one guard is putting up 18/game and the other is putting up 8/game, there's really no debate.
I get the stats argument, though if I was building a college team and had to choose between either a senior Sloan or a senior Caruso, I feel like I'd have a really hard time choosing.
18pts a game for Sloan as a senior in a tough Big 12.
8pts a game for Caruso as a senior in a mediocre SEC.
The only case you could make for building around Caruso instead of Sloan is if you had 2-3 other scorers on the team and didn't need Alex to score.
BTW, mhayden, I am not sure the schedule that Sloan played his senior year in the Big 12 was really that much more difficult than what Caruso faced his senior year.
That 2015-2016 season when Caruso was a senior, their non-conference schedule included Gonzaga, Syracuse, Texas, Baylor, Kansas State, and Iowa State. It was a pretty impressive non-con strength of schedule which is a large reason of why the Ags got a 3-seed that season.
A&M actually went 4-1 versus the Big 12 that season, losing only to the Oklahoma Sooners in the Sweet Sixteen.
As I said in my last post, ya'll talked me into ranking Sloan over Caruso. But I don't think there was that strong an argument for devaluing Caruso's senior year stats. The overall SOS that season was pretty solid.