I was curious if he was going to also set an NCAA record for minutes played. He has played 124 games, started all of them, and has averaged over 30 mpg every season.
Somehow, likely not even close. He's played a lot of minutes. He's currently at 4,166 minutes. For comparison, Cassius finished his career at 4,003 (no BTT or NCAA tourney his senior year due to COVID).
But the NCAA record is 5,747 minutes. Let's say Purdue plays 3 BTT games and 4 NCAA games. That's 24 more games. He's averaging 32.1 mpg this year, but that will probably go up in conference play, so let's say 34. That still puts him at 4,982 minutes. Nearly 800 minutes short.
Looked up how that happened, and it's Jacob Gilyard from Richmond, who got the free COVID year. So he played 5 seasons, averaging 36.5+ mpg in all 5. It would have been way higher if Richmond had actually been good. In those 5 seasons he only played in 13 postseason games (including A10 tournament games). He is the NCAA record holder in steals by an absurd margin as well.
