If you’ve read this week’s player power rankings, you already know the answer to the question this article will attempt to answer. But Nysier Brooks leapfrogging Tre Scott on a what amounts to a weekly ranking of individual performances doesn’t mean all that much. What would mean quite a bit is if Brooks has suddenly surpassed Scott as the No. 1 big man off the bench.
Mick Cronin has always ridden his starters hard and as we get into the meat of conference play and March winks at us on the horizon, that will likely become more of the norm.