Best is Yet to Come?: Broome Unlikely to Bloom Into Nation's Top Scorer

Guard Cane Broome, who finished eighth in the nation in scoring with 23.1 points per game as a sophomore with Sacred Heart, transferred to Cincinnati. But due to the Bearcats' style of play, it is unlikely the Northeast Conference MVP will come anywhere close to continuing such prolific point production after sitting out the next campaign. Broome probably will be a transfer similar to guard Antoine Mason, the runner-up to unanimous national player of the year Doug McDermott (Creighton) in scoring (25.6 ppg with Niagara in 2013-14) who switched to Auburn for his final season of eligibility and scored a modest 14.4 ppg.

Thus Broome is expected to be like Mason and fail to join the following chronological list of mid-major players, including three straight in the mid-1970s, transferring from one four-year school to another and subsequently pacing NCAA Division I in scoring:

NCAA's Top Scorer School Season(s) Led Nation in Scoring Original University
Frank Burgess Gonzaga 32.4 ppg in 1960-61 Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Larry Fogle Canisius 33.4 ppg in 1973-74 Southwestern Louisiana
Bob McCurdy Richmond 32.9 ppg in 1974-75 Virginia
Marshall Rogers Pan American 36.8 ppg in 1975-76 Kansas
Greg "Bo" Kimble Loyola Marymount 35.3 ppg in 1989-90 Southern California
Kevin Bradshaw U.S. International 37.6 ppg in 1990-91 Bethune-Cookman
Greg Guy Texas-Pan American 29.3 ppg in 1992-93 Fresno State
Charles Jones Long Island 30.1 ppg in 1996-97 and 29 ppg in 1997-98 Rutgers
Courtney Alexander Fresno State 24.8 ppg in 1999-00 Virginia
Ruben Douglas New Mexico 28 ppg in 2002-03 Arizona

NOTE: Burgess and Bradshaw served in U.S. military.