Aaron White’s 3-game run among Big Ten’s 2015 best

Iowa senior Aaron White had his career week last week. Of that, there is no denying.

In games at Nebraska last Sunday, at home against Illinois last Wednesday, and at Penn State last Saturday, White had these totals:

Sixty-eight points, 34 rebounds, 20-of-34 field goal shooting, 5-of-7 three-point shooting, and his team went 3-0.

I was curious to see if anyone has had a better 3-game run in Big Ten play this season. To my surprise, five different players have scored over 68 points (a 22.7 point average) in three consecutive Big Ten games. No player in the nation is averaging over 22.8 points per game this season.

But of those five players (and six 3-game stretches, since Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky did it twice), only one run is better all-around, in my opinion. That belongs to Ohio State freshman D'Angelo Russell.

In Russell's three games between Jan. 17 and Jan. 25, he scored 82 points, shot 57.4 percent from the floor, was 12-of-26 from 3-point distance, had 27 rebounds and 18 assists in two wins and a loss.

That's 27.3 points, 9.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists in that period. Wow.

Penn State guard D.J. Newbill has the highest-scoring 3-game stretch, with 87 points from Jan. 17 to Jan. 24. He had nine rebounds and nine assists in that period. His team lost all three games, through no fault of his.

Guard Yogi Ferrell of Indiana had 71 points in the three games between Jan. 22 and Jan. 28. He had six rebounds and 11 assists, and his team went 1-2.

Terran Petteway of Nebraska had 70 points from Jan. 15 to Jan. 24. That covered two wins and a loss. He had 21 rebounds, eight assists.

Kaminsky scored 70 points in Wisconsin's most-recent three games, two of them wins. He also had 21 rebounds and eight assists. He had 69 points in the Badgers' three wins between Jan. 24 and Feb. 3, adding 24 rebounds and five assists.

White's 22.7 points and 11.3 rebounds per game over three games stacks up pretty nicely, padded by the fact his team won each of those contests. Plus, he had just 34 field goal attempts in that time. Newbill took 57 shots and Russell 54 in their 3-game sprees, and everyone else had at least 39.

White was 23-of-26 from the foul line in his last three games, including 6-of-6 in the final 30 seconds of overtime in Iowa's 81-77 win at Penn State.