UConn’s Alex Karaban has craziest NCAA basketball stat company with Bill Russell, Lew Alcindor

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It’d almost be impossible to have better historic company than what UConn’s Alex Karaban finds himself residing in.

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He’s on an all-time record list that has three names: Karaban, Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

The tidbit from OptaStats is this: Those three players are the only guys in NCAA Tournament history to have at least 200 points scored in March Madness while also having a team winning percentage of 94% or higher.

Russell did his dominating for the University of San Francisco. The Dons won two national titles with Russell.

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The then-named Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, won national titles in all three of his varsity seasons at UCLA.

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Back then, players had to play on the freshman team in their first year on campus. When Alcindor was on the frosh team, they beat UCLA’s varsity team in an exhibition game. And that Bruins team won the national title, too.

So if it’s safe to figure if Alcindor had played four years of varsity ball, he would’ve won four champions.

Karaban already has two national titles, and he and the Huskies are in the Final Four trying to win a third one.

He’s not a big guy like Russell and Kareem. He’s a sharp-shooting, solid guard who has done everything Dan Hurley has needed him to do for the past few years.

Now, he’s got one more chance to show how much of a winner he is.

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