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A lot of folks have said a lot of great things about Arkansas<\/a> freshman Darius Acuff Jr<\/a>. this season,\u00a0myself included<\/a>. But Texas<\/a> coach Sean Miller took it to another level Wednesday following his Longhorns’ 105-85 loss to the Razorbacks at Bud Walton Arena.<\/p>\n Did you see the quote?<\/p>\n It’s a good one.<\/p>\n “In my time … I’ve never seen a point guard better,” Miller said before later adding, “I just have never been on a court where one player at that position is any better than he is. Greatness is how I would describe his game, and he seems like an amazing young man. … Guys like him, they just don’t come into college basketball very often. He’s a generational player. He’s really good. And this No. 1 pick thing, I don’t know why people aren’t talking about him more. I can’t imagine anybody better.”<\/p>\n Now\u00a0that’s\u00a0a quote.<\/p>\n Acuff took 15 shots against Texas, made eight and finished with 28 points and 13 assists. That means he’s now averaging 22.2 points and 6.4 assists, shooting 43.7% from 3, and recording an assist-to-turnover ratio better than 3-to-1.\u00a0According to OptaStats<\/a>, no Division I player has ever posted numbers that good in each of those categories for a season while appearing in at least 75% of his team’s games.<\/p>\n Acuff is on pace to be the first.<\/p>\n He’s already broken Arkansas’ record for most points in a season by a freshman. With 27 more assists, Acuff will also own the program’s record for most dimes by a freshman in a season. Simply put, the SEC Player of the Year trophy should be his.<\/p>\n Arkansas remains No. 20 in Thursday morning’s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings, where Duke<\/a> is No. 1 for the 12th straight day. Next up for the Razorbacks is Saturday’s regular-season finale at Missouri<\/a>.<\/p>\n Top 25 And 1 rankings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports Graphic A lot of folks have said a lot of great things about Arkansas freshman Darius…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2747,2692,26068,32492,32493,44360,4857,32494,787,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-191829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-rankings","tag-college-basketball-top-25","tag-college-basketball-top-25-and-1","tag-darius-acuff-jr","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-mens-college-basketball-rankings","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}