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[QUOTE="caw, post: 284037, member: 1764"]
Tim Duncan: Wake Forest Freshman averaged 30.2 MPG, 9.8 PTS, 9.6 RBS and 3.8 blocks.  His team went 20-11 before the NCAAT and a second round exit as a 5 seed, beat COC in the first round.  Did not score in his first game.  54.5 FG%, 74.5 FT%.
 
Andre Drummond: UConn Freshman averaged 28.4 MPG, 10.0 PTS, 7.6 RBS and 2.7 blocks.  His team went 20-13 before the NCAAT and a first round exit as a 9 seed losing to ISU.  Did not score in his first game.  53.8 FG%, 29.5 FT%.  
 
Interesting that both had similar regular season records, but UConn was a 9 seed and WF was a 5 seed.  Duncan was a better defender as shown in BPG and RPG and a better foul shooter.  
 
Duncan had a huge jump from Freshman to Sophomore year, just absurdly huge.  That Wake team had a great Randolph Childress at PG (great in college at least). Wake Forest and Duncan lost to Alaska-Anchorage and NC State (teams at the level of Providence this year, or worse).
 
BTW, LSU with Shaq was a 5 seed as a freshman, 6 seed his sophomore year and a 7 seed his junior year.  Of course he averaged 13 and 12 as a freshman with 3.5 blocks.  He made an even bigger jump than Duncan to almost 28 and 15 as a sophomore.  Yet still couldn't get higher than a 6 seed.  He benefited from playing with Chris Jackson at PG his freshman year and fellow bigmen Stanley Roberts and Geert Haamink.  They only went 23-9.
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