As Colby Jones was dragging a misfiring Xavier team through a needlessly dramatic victory over Butler last night, I tweeted out that he was JP Macura with different hair. Immediately after firing it off, I began to wonder whether or not the shoe actually fit. Let’s set about inspecting the claim.
Xavier has had three wings (or big guards, depending on your preferred nomenclature and how you see each guy) who landed with immediate impact in recent history, throwing in Naji Marshall with the two previously mentioned.
When I started digging into the numbers, I was blown away by how good Colby actually is in comparison to the other two, both of whom were excellent players in their own right.