When basketball players have strong freshman campaigns, the mythical fear is that they will decline in their sophomore season, falling victim to the dreaded "sophomore slump."
In Middle Tennessee guard Giddy Potts' case, he proved that fear isn't always warranted.
The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Athens, Ala., product followed a freshman year in which he was named to the Conference USA All-Freshman team by leading the nation in three-point shooting percentage and scoring a team-high 14.9 points per game as a sophomore.
While his school-record 50.6 3-point percentage (he made 79 threes, good for second all-time at MT) last season was a big increase over the 37.