BYU's Dybantsa is Fifth Scoring Leader in Last Six Years Averaging < 26 PPG

Need an example showing how scoring is down in college basketball? Disregard the freak set of circumstances in 2008-09 when eventual NBA MVP Stephen Curry went scoreless against Loyola (Md.). Unsure if it is a byproduct of doomed civilization stemming from eco-fascist climate change, but only one NCAA Division I player averaged in excess of 30 points per game in the 21st Century (since LIU's Charles Jones in 1996-97). He was Campbell's Chris Clemons, who barely achieved the feat six seasons ago (30.1 ppg).

This campaign, Brigham Young freshman AJ Dybantsa became the fifth scoring leader in the last six seasons to averaged fewer than 26 ppg. Yale's Tony Lavelli posted a modest 22.4 ppg in 1948-49. As a means of comparison to an era when scorers flourished, an average of 17 players annually posted higher scoring marks than Dybansta in a four-season span from 1967-68 through 1970-71, including a high of 24 in 1969-70 when LSU's Pete Maravich dwarfed Dybantsa's output with 44.5 ppg despite the absence of the three-point field goal.

Glenn Robinson Jr. (30.3 ppg for Purdue in 1993-94) was the only player from a power six league to pace the country in scoring in a 41-year span from 1971-72 through 2011-12 (South Carolina was independent in 1980-81 and TCU was SWC member in 1994-95). Dybantsa joined the following list citing the high and low games for players during the season when they led DI in scoring average:

NOTE: Leaders are unofficial from 1935-36 through 1946-47.