At a surface-level glance, Maxwell Evans’ final year at Vanderbilt was something of a disappointment. HIs scoring average only went up from 8.3 to 8.5 ppg, and while he was more efficient on the offensive end, Vanderbilt needed him to make a bigger jump than that with Aaron Nesmith and Saben Lee departed.
Look a bit closer, and a different picture emerges. After scoring 16 points against Valparaiso in the season opener, Evans scored 16 points — total — over the team’s next nine games. Ten games into the season, Evans was averaging 3.2 ppg. I have no idea what was going on with Evans during this stretch — it wasn’t that the shots weren’t falling; he just wasn’t shooting, attempting 26 field goals in nine games, or just under three per game.