Episode 12 - Potential Top-5 Draft pick Ja Morant makes HISTORY

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Ja Morant dropped a career-high 40 points on Saturday against the SIU Edwardsville Cougars en route to setting a number of NCAA Division I records. With the whole world fixated on another remarkable performance put out by top NBA prospect Zion Williamson on Saturday night, Murray State’s Ja Morant’s record-breaking evening was a bit overlooked. Morant, who is considered to be a top-5 NBA Draft prospect this June, dropped a career-high 40 points on Saturday against the SIU Edwardsville Cougars en route to setting a number of NCAA Division I. He is the 1st Div. I player to go 21-for-21 or better from the line in the last 20 seasons, and the 1st in the last 20 seasons with 40 Pts, 10 Ast, 5 Stl in a regulation game. Morant scored or assisted on 63 of Murray State's 82 points.Aside from his scoring outburst, Morant was a pristine 21-of-21 from the charity stripe on Saturday as he led his team to a 82-71 victory. He absolutely stuffed the stat sheet as well, and as the tweet above states, it was definitely a performance for the books. Morant has been outstanding all season long in his sophomore year for Murray State. The 6-foot-3 guard is currently averaging 24.3 points (on 54.4 percent shooting), 1.6 three-pointers, 5.9 rebounds, 10.6 assists, 1.8 steals, and 0.6 blocks in 35.9 minutes of action. If you take a look at the leaderboard of this season's top scorers in college basketball you will see a freshman guard that's scoring with the best of them. Sitting at No. 2 with 27.4 points per game—Detroit Mercy's Antoine Davis—is only a freshman.