Chaz Lanier Is The Hottest Guard Left In The NCAA Tournament
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By Cody McClure
After the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, Tennessee’s Chaz Lanier is among the leading scorers in the field.
The Vols’ senior guard has scored 49 points in two tournament games — more than Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., Houston’s LJ Cryer, and Duke’s Tyrese Proctor.
That makes Lanier the highest-scoring guard left in the NCAA Tournament.
This sample size may only be over two games, but it shows how lethal Lanier has been lately.
He showed up for March, which is a great sign for the Vols’ hopes in getting to the Final Four.
This team simply will not keep winning without Lanier knocking down a bunch of shots.
Does he have to score 24.5 points per game? Maybe not. But if he can keep this pace up the Big Orange might not lose again.
The only two players in the tournament who scored more than Lanier the first weekend were Wisconsin’s John Tonje and Texas A&M’s Pharrel Payne.
Both of those players’ teams are, of course, no longer in the field.
We’ll go as far as Chaz takes us… let’s ride.