This morning, Ashton Hagans won his second SEC Freshman of the Week award, and while most coaches would focus on the freshman guard’s high number of steals or ever-increasing point totals, John Calipari brought up a less flattering stat on the SEC Teleconference: his turnovers. Cal said that the fact that Hagans won the award for games in which he also turned the ball over a lot is a good lesson to the rest of the team about what really matters.
“It’s a great thing for my team to understand. In the two weeks [Hagans] was SEC Freshman of the Week, he had five turnovers in both games.