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Player Report Card: Ejike Obinna

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Here’s a fun stat: in the 2017-18 basketball season, Ejike Obinna started 14 games, the fifth-most of any player on the roster (behind Jeff Roberson, Riley LaChance, Saben Lee, and Maxwell Evans.)

Obinna also played the fewest minutes of the eleven available scholarship players on the team. A midseason bout with illness played some role in that, but even with that, Obinna averaged just 9.4 minutes per game while starting half of the team’s SEC games.

That’s an odd usage pattern, to say the least. Going back to 2001-02 on sports-reference.com, I couldn’t find a single Vanderbilt player who (a) started at least half the games he played and (b) averaged less than ten minutes per game.