3 Michigan State basketball takeaways from Night 7 of Moneyball

2. Jaxon Kohler strikes again

Many of my Moneyball takeaways throughout the summer have included some form of praise for Jaxon Kohler. This being his third Moneyball of his Michigan State career he’s built up quite the reputation of performing the best night in and night out.

Because of that reputation and how many times I’ve talked about him in the last month I told myself I was going to look for takeaways that had nothing to do with him. However, when he has the night that he just had it’s impossible to not include him.

During the first six nights of Moneyball, Kohler averaged an impressive 32 points. On Tuesday night, he put that number to shame.

Kohler came out on a Tuesday and scored 58 points. This is the most points of the summer by far for any player and something I never saw coming.

But the thing that makes this even more impressive is the fact that Kohler, a center, scored this many points. Moneyball regularly is a guards game, meaning the guards dominate the play and typically score the most points. But Kohler is routinely an outlier from that trend and he once again showed that in a big way on Tuesday.