Jonathan Scott was one of 11 freshmen brought into the Otero Junior College men’s basketball team in Colorado two years ago, so he knows all about starting from the bottom.
He’s entering a similar situation in his first season at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
The 6-foot-4 guard is one of 10 players who will be donning a Mocs jersey for the first time in game action this season, as UTC replaces seven of its top eight scorers from a year ago.
Scott averaged 12 points and 5.3 rebounds per game last season, shooting 47 percent from the field, 44 percent from 3-point range and 78 percent from the free-throw line in helping Otero advance to the NJCAA Division I national tournament. He scored in double figures in 23 of the 31 games he played in and had at least two 3-pointers in 17 of those games.
None of his teammates had much four-year college attention after their freshman season, when Otero finished 20-9. That changed last year, when the team won 29 games.