The Purdue career blocks record is 349, set 36 years ago in 1980-81, by Joe Barry Carroll. His career block stats:
1977 - 82 (28) 2.93 bpg
1978 - 105 (27) 3.89 bpg (what a year - he must have known I had just been born)
1979 - 70 (35) 2 bpg
1980 - 92 (33) 2.79 bpg
career avg. - 2.84 bpg (per official stats; Wikipedia seems a bit off here at 3.7 - not sure where that came from)
Hammons is getting close to this record. It will be fun to follow this over the remainder of the year.
Hammons' career block stats:
2013 - 67 (34) 1.97bpg
2014 - 96 (31) 3.09 bpg
2015 - 96 (34) 2.82 bpg
259 total
2016 - 43 (17) 2.53 bpg
career avg - 2.6 bpg thus far
Hammons has 302 career blocks so far. He needs 48 more to break the record.
If we play 14 more games (remainder of conference schedule, one BTT game, one NCAAT game), he will need to average 3.43 bpg to break the record. (doomsday scenario)
If we play - he will need to avg.
15 more games - 3.2 bpg
16 more games - 3 bpg
17 more games - 2.8 bpg
18 more games - 2.67 bpg
19 more games - 2.53 bpg
20 more games - 2.4 bpg
21 more games - 2.29 bpg
Obviously the further the team goes in the post-season tournaments, the easier they will make it on Hammons, given his season and career averages are somewhere between 2.5-2.6 bpg. (He also could have helped himself here by playing the first few games of this season.)
I think he has a real chance here, especially if we put together some BTT/NCAAT tournament runs.
1977 - 82 (28) 2.93 bpg
1978 - 105 (27) 3.89 bpg (what a year - he must have known I had just been born)
1979 - 70 (35) 2 bpg
1980 - 92 (33) 2.79 bpg
career avg. - 2.84 bpg (per official stats; Wikipedia seems a bit off here at 3.7 - not sure where that came from)
Hammons is getting close to this record. It will be fun to follow this over the remainder of the year.
Hammons' career block stats:
2013 - 67 (34) 1.97bpg
2014 - 96 (31) 3.09 bpg
2015 - 96 (34) 2.82 bpg
259 total
2016 - 43 (17) 2.53 bpg
career avg - 2.6 bpg thus far
Hammons has 302 career blocks so far. He needs 48 more to break the record.
If we play 14 more games (remainder of conference schedule, one BTT game, one NCAAT game), he will need to average 3.43 bpg to break the record. (doomsday scenario)
If we play - he will need to avg.
15 more games - 3.2 bpg
16 more games - 3 bpg
17 more games - 2.8 bpg
18 more games - 2.67 bpg
19 more games - 2.53 bpg
20 more games - 2.4 bpg
21 more games - 2.29 bpg
Obviously the further the team goes in the post-season tournaments, the easier they will make it on Hammons, given his season and career averages are somewhere between 2.5-2.6 bpg. (He also could have helped himself here by playing the first few games of this season.)
I think he has a real chance here, especially if we put together some BTT/NCAAT tournament runs.
