There is bound to be an unsung hero who gets forgotten in the shuffle on a college basketball team loaded with potential Player of the Year candidates. Michael Dickerson was that man for the 1997 Arizona Wildcats.
Dickerson was the team’s leading scorer at 18 points per game in his first of two breakout seasons in Tucson.
The unsung hero primarily came off the bench during his freshman and sophomore seasons. He averaged 11.9 points per game his sophomore year in the 1995-1996 season, but earned only two starts over the team’s final 19 contests.
Arizona was down its two leading scorers from the year before during Dickerson’s junior campaign in 1996-1997.