Although Bub Carrington is just four games into his collegiate career, he is already stacking conference accolades.
On Monday, the ACC announced that Carrington won his second-consecutive ACC Freshman of the Week award after winning the same honor last week. He has won both of this season’s awards given out by the conference.
Carrington shined in Pitt’s two wins this past week, leading the Panthers over Florida Gulf Coast and Jacksonville. In those two games, he averaged 18 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 5.5 assists per game for Pitt. Carrington hit 53% of his field goals this past week, as well as seven of his 14 three-point attempts. To close out Pitt’s win over Florida Gulf Coast, he hit his longest three pointer of the season as the shot clock expired.
Carrington committed to Pitt prior to his senior season of high-school hoops. He chose Pitt over Stanford, Loyola Chicago, George Mason, and Iona, and was ranked as the No. 91 prospect in his class coming into his freshman year. While he was a big-time recruit for the Panthers, not many people knew how much he would play, and how much he would produce, as a rookie. However, he had an idea that he would crack the rotation and make an impact.
“I would be lying if I said a lot of the guys leaving didn’t influence my decision, so I kind of seen for myself that I would at least get my feet wet as a freshman,” Carrington said on Monday. “Now, expecting this, getting this? I didn’t expect. But I definitely expected to see the floor.”
I have been watching Pitt hoops for over 40 years. They have had some outstanding guards over the years but Carrington may be the best ever. Not only is he an outstanding offensive player but he works his rear off on defense. some stars tend to get lazy on defense but he is on his guy. I tried to thing of a better guard I have seen at Pitt but can’t.