Big 12 Basketball: Top 10 point guards entering 2021-22 season
By Andrew Tineo
4. Mike Miles, TCU
2020-2021 stats: 13.6 PPG, 3.5 RPG, 3.1 APG
Miles closes out the back-to-back freshman from last season on this list, who made instant impacts within each program. Miles led
Miles is an excellent athlete, who possesses nifty shot-creating. Some of his best games from last year were against some of the better competition on the schedule.
Even with Miles good play, headlined by 28 points against Missouri, the Horned Frogs struggled mightily in conference play. TCU won three games in 2021
One of the question marks is how much higher is Miles ceiling with consistency, especially near the end of the season. His final four games, were the worst of the year, combining for 12-40 from the field and eight turnovers in the last two games.
Miles gets help through the portal and should be a much better TCU team, with adding key players in Shahada Wells (UT-Arlington) and Micah Peavy (Texas Tech) in the backcourt.
Miles had a chance to transfer or declare, but choose to stay in Fort Worth. He will become a leader to a unit that is keeping Head Coach Jamie Dixon further away from his seat getting warmer.