Pitt PG Bub Carrington Putting Lessons into Action

Pitt Panthers point guard Bub Carrington is learning what it takes to be great in college basketball.

PITTSBURGH -- The start of Bub Carrington's college career as a Pitt Panther has featured some clear peaks and valleys. He recorded a triple-double in his debut and was scoring more than 18 points per game while leading the team in assists. 

But a stretch of five straight games against Power 5 opponents brought on an early freshman wall. His shooting numbers dipped and some turnover issues appeared, but Carrington has foutght through some temporary struggles before getting back on track with a bounce-back game against West Virginia - 16 points on 6-13 shooting, nine assists and just one turnover. 

The plan of attack from opposing defenses has become pretty obvious to Carrington. They are physical and try to make everything difficult on the freshman. They also try to force him to his left quite a bit, which surprised Carrington.

“I think I’m fine with [my left]," he said. "But I guess they don’t think so.”

Carrington said he and his coaches have worked on some adjustments and made some strides. He is more patient, standing up better against contact and playing a bigger role as a distributor again, which he believes has made the team better as well. 

“I definitely felt like if you see in our early games, we were successful when I was kind of mainly the distributor and I kind of got away from that," Carrington said. "So I wanted to get back towards that and, as you can see, that helped us a lot.”

Carrington's learning on the fly as a young guard orchestrating the Pitt offense. In addition to all of the normal stressors of making a transition from high school to college, he's adding a full college basketball workload to his plate. And as the competition takes a step up, his preparation has to as well. 

“I’ve seen that it requires more," Carrington said. "You just got to do everything you did in high school before and just do it a lot more and with more attention to detail because obviously we’re going to go on to play against a lot of good guards that do a lot of different things and you’ve got to come in the game and do a full scout on that guard because you have to win that matchup, especially as the guard position. If you want your team to win, you have to win that matchup.”

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