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Top 30 Seasons Under Bill Self: #23 Travis Releford 2013

(Editor’s note: some idiot read his google doc wrong and skipped 23. Josh Jackson is the real 22. My apologies for the mix up).

This will probably be the shortest post of the countdown, because really how much can you say about a guy who just night in, night out shut his guy down to the point where you could count on an opponents’ best wing not really doing anything.

Releford didn’t have a great steal rate, nor did he have a great block rate. Yet he was an incredible defender because he constantly held opponents below their average, and made coaches adjust their gameplans even early into his career: