But in the NCAA tournament Michigan returned to form, thanks in large part to 6-foot-10 forward Mitch McGary, who during the season averaged about seven points per game but who entered Sunday's game averaging almost 20 points per game during the tournament.
Stoudemire and Anthony are outscored by opponents when on the floor together and Anthony's points per game average drops by eight points a game when Stoudemire is playing in the game.
"You feel helpless, " Harrison, the Big East's second-leading scorer at 19.8 points per game, said of sitting on the bench for the game's last 8:45.
Bryant led the LA Lakers to the NBA finals this season, while James scorched the league's defences, scoring 30 points per game.
The team's top scorer at 17 points per game, he managed only four on 2-for-12 shooting and missed all eight of his tries from beyond the arc.
James leads all remaining NBA playoff scorers with 24.6 points per game, but he's not receiving as much help on offense as he did last season.
Boston was able to slow the Thunder from their best-in-the-NBA scoring pace of 107 points per game, but Oklahoma City's lowest output since Jan. 13 was still enough to come out ahead in this one.
The Friars missed all six of their attempts from long range and were 8 of 27 (29.6 percent) from the floor in the first half as Cotton, the Big East's scoring leader at 20.4 points per game, attempted just three shots and scored only two points.
There's no question that the team will miss Stoudemire, the team's second leading scorer at 17.6 points per game.
He's averaging 29.3 points and 10 rebounds a game this series, an improvement of nearly 12 points and 3 rebounds per game from last year's finals against Dallas.
Anthony came in as the league's scoring leader, averaging 28.7 points per game and he did what he needed to keep the pressure on Kevin Durant (28.3) as they battle for the scoring title with just a few days left in the season.
Anthony came in as the NBA's scoring leader, averaging 28.7 points per game and he did what he needed to keep the pressure on Kevin Durant (28.3) as they battle for the scoring title with just a few days left in the season.
In the final regular-season game between the Big East rivals, the Orange (20-3, 8-2) held Sugar Rodgers, the nation's second-leading scorer at 23.2 points per game, to eight points on 1-of-12 shooting.
During Miami's 2012 championship run, Wade averaged 22.8 points per game.
Opposing point guards averaged 22.6 points per game and accounted for 24% of their team's scoring this season when they played the Knicks, according to 82games.com.
The Knicks are 5-0 under Woodson and though it's a small sample size it's worth noting that no team has allowed fewer than 87.5 points per game this season.
For Canik, she's putting up 15.8 points and 14.4 rebounds in nearly 33 minutes per game.
Without Rose, the Bulls score four fewer points per game, but try hard to improve upon what many view as already the NBA's best defense.
Anthony secured the scoring crown by recently overtaking Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant with a dominant month of April, in which Anthony averaged 36.9 points per game on 54% shooting overall and 46% accuracy from the three-point line.
The West's No. 3 seed won 57 games with a lineup that features nine players averaging at least eight points per game.
As projects go, he has thus far been soccer's answer to Michael Olowokandi, the No. 1 pick in the 1998 NBA draft who averaged 8 points per game over his career.
If the Heat go on to win the title, it would be the lowest scoring output for a championship team's No. 2 scorer since 1954, when Jim Pollard of the Minneapolis Lakers contributed 12.3 points per game, according to Stats LLC.
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