Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant: By The Numbers - End of 2011-12 Regular Season Update

End of the regular season for WVU Seniors Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant. Pictured slow dancing together. Truck going in for the kiss. [Photo from BlueGoldNews.com]


The Mountaineers finished off the regular season with a much-needed win at South Florida, yesterday and even though it was a low-scoring affair, it still produced a bump in the career stats for the two senior WVU players.

I have enjoyed watching both KJ and Truck compete at WVU and wish them nothing but the best in whatever they do after their time in Morgantown. Hopefully, they still have several more victories in them and can lead us on nice runs in the post-season tournaments.

I know stats aren't always super exciting but I think once you look at the stats/records these two guys put while wearing the Mountaineer uniform you'll appreciate BOTH of them even more. Enjoy and Let's Go Mountaineers!!

Kevin "KJ" Jones:

Let's start with the man that SHOULD (and hopefully will) be the Big East Player of the Year...Kevin Jones.

KJ running off the court. [Photo from my sister]

Kevin finished off the regular season strong with outputs of 22 points (DePaul) and 18 (USF). All combined Kevin has accumulated 619 points thus far in the 2011-12 campaign, for a season scoring average of just about 20 points/game (19.97 if you want to get technical). Another interesting stat about Kevin's point production for the season is that he not only scored in double figures in EVERY game of the season, but he never scored less than 12 points in a game. Kevin also had 20 double-double performances this season, alone. Pretty impressive stuff right there.

For his career that gives Kevin a total of 1,784 career points at WVU...that currently ranks 1 point behind Rod Thorn (1,785) for 6th place on the all-time scoring list (at WVU). He is also just 13 points behind Greg Jones (1,797) for 5th. He, obviously, should be able to pass both of those guys relatively easily considering we should have AT LEAST two games remaining, if not more. It's a bit of a stretch to go higher but he is 66 points away from Wil Robinson (1,850) and 4th place. So if WVU plays just 2 more games he'd have to average 33/game, if we play 3 games he'd have to average 22/game and so on. Not out of the realm of possibilities, but it doesn't matter much considering he'll be in the top 5 by scoring just 14 points in the next 2 games (since you have at least 1 Big East Tournament game and 1 NCAA Tournament game left).

Of course we all know the top three of 3rd place DaSean Butler (2,095), 2nd place Hot Rod Hundley (2,180) and of course the all-time leading scorer, Jerry West (2,309). But as you can see those aren't happening unless WVU goes on a tear and wins the Big East Tournament or NCAA Tournament.

But anyway, back to KJ's impressive numbers...

So as we sit here he's on the verge of 6th place on the career scoring list at WVU. That's pretty impressive all by itself. But you really start to see just how great a career KJ has had at WVU once you start looking at the other statistical categories in which he has racked up the numbers.

KJ getting excited during the Capital Classic in Charleston. [Photo from BlueGoldNews.com]

Kevin "KJ" Jones career statistics (thru the USF game - end of 2011-12 regular season):
Career Points: 1,784 (7th all-time at WVU)
Career Rebounds: 1,034 (4th)
Career Offensive Rebounds: 443 (1st)*
Career Blocked Shots: 108 (9th)
Career Minutes Played: 4,263 (2nd)
Career Games Played: 137 (6th)
Career Games Started: 102 (13th)**
Career Double-Doubles: 32 (T-7th w/Hot Rod Hundley)
Career 20 Point Games: 22 (T-16th w/Damian Owens)
Single Season Double-Doubles: 20 in 2011-12 season (6th)
Single Season 20 Point Games: 18 in 2011-12 season (9th)
Single Season Total Points: 619 points in 2011-12 season (14th)
Single Season Total Field Goals Made: 245 in 2011-12 season (9th)
Single Season Total Offensive Rebounds: 135 in 2009-10 (1st), 134 in 2011-12 (2nd) and 108 in 2010-11 (4th)
Single Season Total Blocked Shots: 34 in 2009-10 (23rd) and 33 in 2011-12 (24th)

* Denotes a stat that wasn't recorded until much later in WVU basketball history so it's hard to really gauge this one compared to Jerry West, etc. Kevin is the record holder, obviously, but just wanted to point out that the stat hasn't always existed or wasn't recorded as anything other than a normal rebound until long after Jerry West was out of Morgantown.

** Others ahead of him in career starts (but lower in career points) are Kevin Pittsnogle, Alex Ruoff, Truck Bryant, J.D. Collins and Joe Herber - just to name a few that have played within the past decade (there are more if you go back further), to help put things into perspective.

Other career high (in a single game) stats for KJ:
Points in a game: 30 vs Kansas State (Dec 2011)
Field Goals Made (Game): 13 vs Alcorn State (Nov 2011) and Baylor (Dec 2011)
Field Goals Attempted (Game): 22 vs VMI (Nov 2010)
3pt FG Made (Game): 3 vs Seton Hall (Dec 2009), Cincinnati (Feb 2010), Washington (March 2010), Kentucky (March 2010), St. John's (Dec 2010), Marquette (March 2011), Clemson (March 2011), Alcorn State (Nov 2011), Seton Hall (Dec 2011), Connecticut (Jan 2012), Marshall (Jan 2012) and Louisville (Feb 2012)
3pt FG Attempted (Game): 8 vs St. John's (Dec 2010), Alcorn State (Nov 2011) and Connecticut (Jan 2012)
Free Throws Made (Game): 8 vs Coppin State (Dec 2009)
Free Throws Attempted (Game): 14 vs Coppin State (Dec 2009)
Rebounds (Game): 18 vs Kent State (Nov 2011)
Offensive Rebounds (Game): 11 vs Louisville (March 2011)
Assists (Game): 6 vs St. John's (Dec 2010)
Steals (Game): 3 vs DePaul (March 2009), Duquesne (Dec 2009), Coppin State (Dec 2009) and Oakland (Nov 2010)
Blocked Shots (Game): 4 vs Ohio State (Jan 2010)
Turnovers (Game): 4 vs VMI (Nov 2010)
Minutes Played (Game): 51 vs Pitt (Feb 2010)




Darryl "Truck" Bryant:

Truck dribbling up the court with his gold/yellow shoes. [Don't remember where I found this photo. So it's either BlueGoldNews.com or WVIllustrated.com]


And so that brings me to Truck's stats at WVU. I know a lot of people complain about Truck but he put up pretty impressive numbers nonetheless. Truck currently sits at #14 on the WVU career scoring list. He is 55 points behind Damian Owens (1,616) for 13th place so I there's a chance he could get to that if WVU plays more than just 2 post-season games. If WVU only plays 2 games he'd need to average 27.5 ppg - and if he was doing that I'd assume we're winning games and continuing on in March. But you see where I'm going so back to the stats. Here they are...

Darryl "Truck" Bryant's career statistics (thru the USF game - end of 2011-12 regular season):
Career Points: 1,561 (14th all-time at WVU)
Career Minutes: 3,745 (6th)
Career Games Played: 133 (7th)
Career Games Started: 121 (T-2nd w/J.D. Collins)
Career 20 Point Games: 16 (T-29th w/Lee Patrone, Dale Blaney and Chris Moss)
Career Assists: 387 (10th)
Career Steal: 114 (22nd)
Season Free Throws Made: 161 in 2011-12 season (14th)

Truck enjoying the game. [Photo from my sister]

Other career high (in a single game) stats for Truck:
Points (Game): 34 vs Villanova (Dec 2011)
Field Goals Made (Game): 12 vs Villanova (Dec 2011)
Field Goals Attempted (Game): 23 vs Villanova (Dec 2011)
3pt Field Goals Made (Game): 5 vs Miami (Dec 2011), Providence (Feb 2012), Marquette (Feb 2012)
3pt Field Goals Attempted (Game): 12 vs Providence (Feb 2012)
Free Throws Made (Game): 12 vs DePaul (Feb 2012) and South Florida (Feb 2012)
Free Throws Attempted (Game): 16 vs DePaul (Feb 2012)
Rebounds (Game): 8 vs Providence (Jan 2011)
Offensive Rebounds (Game): 6 vs Pitt (Feb 2012)
Assists (Game): 8 vs Notre Dame (Feb 2012)
Steals (Game): 5 vs Louisville (Jan 2010)
Blocked Shots (Game): 1 vs Providence (Feb 2009), Marquette (Dec 2009), Villanova (Dec 2011) and Georgetown (Jan 2012)
Turnovers (Game): 6 vs DePaul (Jan 2011), Kent State (Nov 2011) and Missouri State (Dec 2011)
Minutes Played (Game): 50 vs Kansas State (Dec 2011)

KJ and Truck goofing off after the Rutgers at WVU game. [Photo from my sister]

I'm sure I'll go back and update as many of these stats as I can after the season is officially over, but just thought I'd pass them along to any of you that would like to read them.

Thanks for reading!! Feel free to comment, if you'd like. Let me know if you believe Kevin Jones will win Big East Player of the Year...and if not, who will?