Notes on Braxton Dupree
So Braxton Dupree is a Towson Tiger.
I asked him yesterday about his Maryland experience.
High point? He said it was the wins over North Carolina, one in his freshman season and one this past season.
Low points? After starting out well in his freshman year, he struggled with consistency and with his weight. Remember that Dupree scored 14 points in his first game as a starter, followed by 10 points the next game.
The next game was a loss to VCU at Verizon Center in which he started but scored only three points with one rebound in 12 minutes. He scored three points the next game, too (against Morgan State). He had trouble regaining momentum after that.
Dupree told me: "I just felt like if I had taken better advantage of my initial opportunity by being more consistent, then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now."
Give Dupree credit for this: he lost 20-25 pounds and moved better his sophomore season. But that, it seems, came too late to salvage his Maryland career.
Comments
Here is hoping his college career blossoms at Towson.
Best wishes Braxton
Posted by: JettRavensSuperPup | May 19, 2009 12:36 PM
+1
Posted by: 67terp | May 19, 2009 7:25 PM
I am a long time season ticket holder and have watched numerous come into the program.
BD looked like a big guy who would move people around but it did not go that way. He seemed lost a lot of times and did not show self confidence. He also had the ball knocked out of his hands a lot when going after rebounds.
He seems like a decent young fellow and I hope he does well at TSU.
Posted by: Bob Kean | May 22, 2009 7:30 AM
Braxton will have a great opportunity at Towson University (we dropped the "state" from the school name 10 years ago...). The sports programs, specifically basketball, are on the rise and with the best freshmen recruit the school has ever seen in Isaiah Philmore (John Carroll) and others such as Polk, Dupree, and Gumbs (in addition to the solid point guard Troy Franklin who will be a sophomore)...things are really shaping up.
New arena is also being built so I expect big things in the coming seasons.
Looking forward to Braxton helping us get there.
Posted by: towsonuniversityfan | May 25, 2009 5:38 PM
Good Riddens, BD your a bum.
Posted by: John | May 27, 2009 2:59 AM