For no real reason I was trying to find one more conference to do as I did all these stupid things, looking up the scoring and tabulating a bunch of shit, and I ended up picking the West Coast Conference for the last one, because it is the top-tier mid-major conference from the West Coast, like a Pac-10 B-League, where stars can be born, mostly at Gonzaga, but in other little left coast colleges as well. The WCC is mostly known as Gonzaga's stomping ground, where they tend to win the regular season all the time, and the conference tournament most of the time. But for your informational purposes only, here is the top 14 scoring basketball players of the past four WCC men's basketball tournaments (which has a tweaked out format, which I'll get into tomorrow)...
#1: Leonardo Pomare (San Diego forward; 135 points in WCC tourneys '06-'09) - San Diego has made shocking runs from the bottom 4 seeds through the WCC tourney's stacked format a number of times, and Leonardo Pomare has been a big part of that in the past. He's the son of a former Panamanian basketball legend, and post college, made a run through Panama, but is now in Japan, starring for the Sendai 89ers.
#2: Brandon Johnson (San Diego guard; 134 points in WCC tourneys '06-'08) - Still in college; will speak upon him tomorrow.
#3: John Bryant (Santa Clara center; 113 points in WCC tourneys '06-'09) - Because he is a 6'10" 300-pound goofy ass whiteboy, he has gotten looks from the NBA after a long ass solid collegiate career with Santa Clara. He got some NBA Summer League action last summer, and has been playing for the Erie BayHawks in the D-League ever since. And in a conference where Gonzaga stars are seen as the cream of the crop, it is worth noting he was WCC Player of the Year last year, which means he could probably be as good as Adam Morrison in the NBA. At the very least, he'd make a good poor man's Kevin Love.
#4: Diamon Simpson (Saint Mary's forward; 112 points in WCC tourneys '06-'09) - A two-time All-West Coast Conference player who got into the NBA Summer League last year, kicked it with Golden State in the preseason, and then got assigned to teh Los Angeles D-fenders in the NBA D-League, where he made the all-star game. This all means he's one or two badly twisted ankles from being a Sacramento King.
#5: Ross DeRogatis (San Diego guard; 89 points in WCC tourneys '06 and '07) - The West Coast Conference is far more international than you'd expect, although I guess both coasts have mad immigrant influence and it's just the middle of the country that's white as fuck. And like Pomare was Panamanian-American, DeRogatis is Italian-American, and post San Diego, made a pro run through the Italian League, then Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and now back to Spain's second league.
#6: De'Jon Jackson (San Diego ; 81 points in WCC tourneys '07-'09) - Still in college.
#7: Jeremy Pargo (Gonzaga guard; 75 points in WCC tourneys '06-'09) - Pargo was Gonzaga's post-Adam Morrison hotness flavor, and after the 2008 season actually had pre-draft workouts with multiple NBA teams, yet stayed in college for his Senior season. His hotness wasn't as hot, at least not with the NBA, and after playing in multiple NBA-connected summer leagues, the 2008 West Coast Conference player of the year took his hot ass to the Israeli Premier League, where he stars for Galil Gilboa, which is the Jewish version of Rocky. Oddly enough, having heard of Jeremy Pargo, it seems strange to me that he has a brother I've never heard of named Jannero who is on the Chicago Bulls.
#8: Nir Cohen (San Diego forward/center; 72 points in WCC tourneys '06 and '07) - And then there is an Israeli dude for San Diego, the most international of all college basketball traditions. He actually played in Israeli leagues before doing a stint at a Bronx junior college before spending two years at San Diego. Ever since, he has bounced around the Israeli Premier League, first for Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan, then Atlshuler Saham Galil Gilboa, and now Hapoel Afula. American basketball teams have far too short a name.
#9: Rob Jones (San Diego forward; 69 points in WCC tourneys '08 and '09) - Rob Jones left San Diego in the most nefarious way of all - to transfer to conference rival St. Mary's. He is on this list, but not the returning scorer list, because he's not technically on the St. Mary's roster, sitting out this year due to NCAA rules.
#10: Micah Downs (Gonzaga guard; 68 points in WCC tourneys '07-'09) - Man, I remember this dude also being hyped as the hotness, and yet his stats aren't all that impressive. He couldn't catch on with the NBA, and went to a Croatian team called KK Zadar, but was dropped by them last month. Gonzaga must have a helluva public relations dude in their athletic department. (I should also admit that I always assumed Micah Downs had downs syndrome and was that kid that scored the points on that famous high school clip from a while back.)
#11: Dior Lowhorn (San Francisco forward; 68 points in WCC tourneys '08 and '09) - Still in college.
#12: Derek Raivio (Gonzaga guard; 67 points in WCC tourneys '06 and '07) - Another former West Coast Conference player of the year (in 2007) who tested the second-tier pro leagues in America briefly after college in 2007, but ended up going to Germany, where he was a big enough star for the Koeln 99ers, taking them to something called the ULEB Cup, that he got a multi-year contract with TBB Trier, also in Germany's top league.
#13: Brody Angley (Santa Clara guard; 66 points in WCC tourneys '06-'08) - Straight up swoggy haired whiteboy, like you'd expect to be playing major level basketball in the 2000s, who parlayed that into being one of the foreign stars of the Swiss League last year, and now he starts for SKS Polpharma in Poland, where his goofy hair and horseface smile is greatly appreciated by white Eurotrash basketball whores.
#14: David Pendergraft (Gonzaga guard; 48 points in WCC tourneys '06-'08) - David Pendergraft was a popular drink, but apparently he no longer is.
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