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There's no reason for you to know Moe Odum. The only reason I know him is because the West Coast Conference basketball tournament's games aired two weeks ago in the stretch of time after my wife and I would put the kids to bed every night.
Moe Odum is a 6-foot-1 junior from the Bronx; he spent the last two years at Pacific and is currently the point guard for the Pepperdine Waves. He's good - 4th in Division I this year in assists per game, and he's the Waves' 2nd-leading scorer. But Pepperdine was not a good team this year. Prior to the WCC tournament, they went a nondescript 10-21 and finished 9th out of 11 teams in the WCC standings.
When I tuned in about 3/4ths of the way through their first WCC tournament game against the 8th seeded Portland Pilots, it looked like Moe and the Waves weren't long for the postseason. They trailed by 14 with 12 minutes to go in what had been a game that looked like two teams just playing out the string of their seasons.
And then Moe went supernova.
