Jared Butler is Making a Serious Push for the Naismith Award

Rob Ferguson-USA TODAY Sports After watching Jared Butler play his best basketball of the season the past few weeks, it’s hard to imagine that there is anybody playing better in the country. If you keep up with national college basketball analysis you would think that the Naismith award, given to college basketball’s best player, was already a forgone conclusion. For good reason commentators and pundits have projected that Iowa center, Luka Garza, will take home the coveted prize. In short, Garza is having a monstrous offensive season, including, scoring over 30 pts six times this year. In addition, he is over 60% from the floor, and is averaging 26.9 pts. Garza is a dominant player. But Jared Butler is starting to close the gap.

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