The Slipper Still Fits · Nov 10, 2020
2020-21 Player Preview: Joel Ayayi
Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images The last time we saw Joel Ayayi he was receiving the WCC Tournament MVP Award after Gonzaga’s 84-66 win over Saint Mary’s in the WCC Tournament Championship game.
The award put a nice exclamation point on a breakout season for Ayayi in which he proved to be a multi-dimensional threat for Mark Few. In just one year Ayayi went from averaging 5.6 mpg and scoring 39 total points as a redshirt freshman (a total he surpassed in just the three games of the Battle 4 Atlantis) to becoming a linchpin in Gonzaga’s lineup and playing 29.3 mpg while stuffing the stat sheet.