Cole Aldrich: About to Become a Star at Kansas

Last season you didn’t see a lot of Cole Aldrich, but what you did see went a long way. Cole didn’t play much during the regular season, and he didn’t even play much in the NCAA Tournament before Kansas’ huge Final Four game against North Carolina. When the season stats were tallied, he ranked seventh in the Kansas roster in points per game. Kansas was an especially hard team in which to get noticed, as they relied on a very, very diversified scoring arrangement, with no stand-out superstar. And Cole wasn’t even on the short list of players on that team that Bill Self could trust with making a basket. He averaged 8.3 minutes per game.

Said Cole, “I didn’t play a lot of minutes, but I played some big minutes in big games.”

That sure was right. Cole got 17 minutes in the Final Four game, and was assigned the task of playing against All-American Naismith Award winner and college basketball darling Tyler Hansbrough. He wound up scoring 8 points, snagging 7 rebounds and blocking 4 shots in a dominating performance. This year he’s likely going to start for the returning national champions, who have had their roster gutted. Read up on him at FOXSports.com.

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Posted in General on September 17, 2008

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