University of Tennessee at Chattanooga junior guard Jordan Frison has a history of being able to play his best basketball when only the best is good enough.
That reputation dates to at least his prep days in Memphis, where as a senior he guided Overton to the TSSAA Class 4A championship, averaging 28 points, six rebounds and four assists per game in that 2022-23 season. At the state tournament in Murfreesboro, he averaged 27.3 points, 10 rebounds and nearly seven assists in the Wolverines’ three wins and was named MVP of the event.
Having led that program to its lone state title — and just its second state tourney appearance, with the first one 60 years earlier — Frison moved on to Pittsburg (Kansas) State, which plays in the Mid-Intercollegiate Athletics Association, considered possibly the best NCAA Division II men’s basketball league in the country.
After being named MIAA freshman of the year in 2024, he was named the league’s player of the year last season after averaging 18.4 points, 6.1 assists and 3.7 rebounds per game. Those numbers jumped in the final 13 contests, when he had six games of 28 points or more, including all five of his contests in which he scored 30 or more for the Gorillas.
But that’s Division II. Could he do that in Division I?