Gold Jerseys

mamasa · October 8, 2018

Indiana Men’s basketball coach Archie Miller tweeted out a little after 8pm this evening that the first ‘Gold Jersey’ of the year was earned today, by none other than Juwan Morgan. Archie uses the gold jersey as his standard performance evaluator during the week’s practices.

Archie made note that Morgan outperformed the next closest teammate by a stunning 31 points. If you think about the context of a basketball practice, that usually lasts about 2 hours or so per day. For Juwan to outperform everyone else by 31 points is incredible. Archie made mention in the tweet that he was “looking forward to seeing if someone gets his gold jersey next week.” This should come as no surprise to anyone that Morgan was able to be the first player to earn the gold jersey for the 2018-2019 season. Morgan will have his hands on that jersey as much as possible. It’s Morgan’s senior year– he’s got one last opportunity to make another run at a second Big Ten title, and to play into early April.

It’ll be interesting to see who shines in next week’s practice and ultimately earns the prized jersey for week two. Devonte Green earned the gold jersey on a few occasions last year, along with a few of seniors. It will be interesting to see if somebody else at least bridges the gap from Morgan’s 31 point victory, because that will mean one of two things– Morgan either was just that good, or everyone else on the team wasn’t that good. Indiana is still three plus weeks from it’s season opener, so there is plenty of time for progress to be made and another gold jersey to be earned.

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