Last year's Final Four hero has an extra year of eligibility from the pandemic, but will he use it at San Diego State?
Carmicha Butler was sitting across from the San Diego State bench at Houston’s NRG Stadium when her son, Lamont, caught an outlet pass with seven seconds left, down one, and started dribbling to the other end of the floor. “I was watching the clock,” Carmicha said, “and when he first got the ball I was like, ‘Gooooo!’ I was screaming, ‘Go, do something.’ I was like, ‘Shoot.’ When he shot it, I was actually frozen, waiting to see if it went in. It looked good.
” Butler is elite defensively, evidenced by back-to-back Mountain West defensive player of the year honors. That’s never been in question. Nor has his unselfish winning aura, playing on four NCAA Tournament teams in four years, twice reaching the second week and last year coming one game short of a national championship. The feedback from pro scouts last spring was improving his ball distribution and shooting. The former did, his assist-to-turnover ratio increasing from 1.6 to 2.0.
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