After one of the best individual performances ever at Duke, Carter’s BPM has risen to 13.2.
This is the highest BPM at Duke since BPM started being recorded by sports-reference (2011), excluding Kyrie Irving’s 14.3 over 11 games. This means that, if you believe in BPM, Carter can be thought of as the most valuable player per minute at Duke since the stat began for college, besides Irving over a smaller and weirder sample size.
The highest BPMs on Duke 2015 were Marshall Plumlee 11.3 and Jahlil Okafor at 10.9. On Kentucky 2015, Karl Towns 17.3 and Willie Cauley-Stein 14.7.
Carter also has the highest net efficiency on the team, besides DeLaurier in a much smaller sample size (offensive rating minus defensive rating). His offensive rating is slightly better than Bagley’s and his defensive rating is significantly better. Bagley, of course, carries a much bigger burden on offense, with 27% usage to Carter’s 22%. Would be nice to know what their respective defensive usage rates are (i.e., how many defensive possessions involve a Carter or Bagley deflection, block, steal, stop, etc.).