VIDEO: Sykes' Top-18 Moments at 18
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GreenBayPhoenix.com
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com)
- When Keifer Sykes (Chicago, Ill.) turned
18 on Dec. 30, 2011, he was starting at point guard for Green Bay and had just
scored eight points the night before at Butler against an All-Horizon League
performer. His Phoenix career was off to a solid start, but the 5-foot-11 guard
was showing only a small glimpse of what was to come. Now nearly a year later,
Sykes has been named to the
Bob Cousy Award Watch List as one of the nation's top point guards.
Twenty-eight games into adulthood, Sykes will play his
last contest as an 18-year old on Saturday night when the Phoenix host South
Dakota at 7 p.m., and it is
20-point
outbursts like he had against Marquette on Wednesday that have become far
more common than single digit efforts.
This season, he has four games with 20 or more points,
has reached double figures in 10 of 11 games, and he leads the Phoenix in
scoring at 16.7 points per game. Sykes has scored 519 points in just 41 career
games, and GreenBayPhoenix.com looks at his top-18 highlights from the age of
18.
The Bob Cousy Award, named for Hall of Famer and former
Boston Celtic Bob Cousy, recognizes the top point guards in men's college
basketball. The watch
list of candidates will be narrowed down to a final 20 around Jan. 1, final 10
near Feb. 1 and final five by approximately March 1. A premier selection
committee has been appointed by the Hall of Fame to review the final five
candidates in contention for the nation's top collegiate point guard award.
These
Hall of Fame committees are made up of top college basketball personnel
including media members, head coaches, sports information directors and Hall of
Famers. The winner of the 2013 Bob Cousy Award will be presented at the Hall of
Fame's Class Announcement on Championship Monday in Atlanta as part of NCAA
Final Four weekend.
Previous
winners of the Bob Cousy Award have included Jameer Nelson (Saint Joseph's),
Raymond Felton (North Carolina), Dee Brown (Illinois), Acie Law (Texas A &
M), DJ Augustin (Texas), Ty Lawson (North Carolina), Greivis Vasquez
(Maryland), Kemba Walker (Connecticut) and last year's recipient Kendall Marshall
(North Carolina). For more information on the 2013 Bob Cousy, log onto CousyAward.com.
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