Donald Wine

this is going to be unfair for player of the week.

There is probably one clear player of the week as far as stats go.

But Caden Boozer won this game last night.

And he won it in so many different ways, but the biggest way is not his 16 points, 14 of them coming in the first half.

It wasn't in his five rebounds.

It wasn't in his four assists and the one interception steal at the end.

It was the fact that he figured out during this week

What we kind of learned last year when two of our best players went down, we learned that these guys were just ready to break out and have their opportunity to be a leader on this team.

Caden Boozer replaced our floor general this entire week and did a tremendous job doing the play in his best basketball while doing it.

And the fact that.

Caleb going down allows, not necessarily allows, but the opportunity created itself for Caden Boozer to step up and play better than he had been playing this entire season.

It's not like he was terrible this season.

He was very good this season.

But to be elite like he was in this tournament, I think everyone in the selection committee probably last night was like,

Do we do we need a second bracket?

Do we need a what happens if Duke wins this game?

They seem to be just fine with this guy at the floor general playing in those roles.

Everyone picking up the responsibilities of both Pat and Caleb.

We'll talk about how Cameron did both at times during the game.

But man, I'm so proud of how Caden emerged.