It sounds so easy, right? Scoring in college basketball is down — I mean, 67.6 points per game this past season, which matches the second-worst average in the past 50 years, many of which didn’t have a shot clock or a 3-point line — and concern is way up. It’s hard to watch a game for myriad reasons, and we’re witnessing the NCAA’s attempt to fix all of this. Some of the aesthetics are covered with regard to timeouts and stoppages. They’re going to work because they’re so logical, but the fundamental fixes exist in theory only right now.

A conference call a week from today will most likely usher in some changes we’re already covered — and some, like eliminating the five seconds violation, we have not — but that feels like the hard way. So-called better rules rules affect officials, coaches and offensive and defensive players, and there’s going to be collateral damage along the bend in a learning curve.

The easy way? Better players, whether through recruiting or development. This is something people are saying, albeit in hushed tones. What these rules threaten to do is not only narrow the gap between those who can score and those who struggle, but also those who are successful and those who meddle. More and more it seems college basketball is a bit like college football in that points per game is the most important statistic (I’d argue the obtuse offensive efficiency is most important in college hoops, and there isn’t a true equivalent measure in college football).

Anyhow, to continue something we touched upon in the F Double, it seems Bob Huggins and this recruiting class are in step with the evolution of the game. Beetle Bolden feasted off ball screens in high school and was a first-team all-state player three straight seasons in Kentucky who scored more than 2,000 points in his career. Esa Ahmad, again, is Huggins’ best recruit since Devn Ebanks, and the Ohio player of the year is a superior offensive player who averaged 25.2 points per game as a senior. Lamont West averaged 18.7 points per game, and though he’s still a bit of an unknown, he’s looks like a smooth handler who’s 6-foot-9, and you can’t teach that.

Then there’s Teyvon Myers, who trumps them all. He had the highest scoring average in junior college last season, and scoring is his thing. “What messes defenders up is I’m actually stronger with my left hand,” he said. “I’m basically left-handed. I’m actually right-handed, but I’m better with my left. People see me dribbling and shooting with my right hand and they try to force me left all the time, but that’s what I want to do.”

There’s basically no video of Myers at Williston State College, where he played and averaged 25 points per game last season, but these are his highlights from the previous year at California’s Allan Hancock College. He lives on the left side.

This is a kid who remembers making 15 3-pointers and scoring 62 points in one game as a high school freshman. He broke the scoring record at another one of his high schools — there were three — in his first game. That was a spring game, and he nearly broke it in the next game. At Allan Hancock, he scored 25 points in his first game, 31 in his second and 33 in this third. He never scored fewer than 20 in his 17 games and surged to a 41-point game late in the season. He didn’t erupt quite as quickly at Williston, combining for 30 points his first two games before getting the first of seven games with at least 30 points his third time out with the Tetons.

Nothing compared to what happened Feb. 11. Myers scored 55 in a five-overtime loss to the North Dakota State College of Science. He was 18-for-43 from the floor, 8-for-24 from 3-point range and 11-for-16 at the foul line. It’s a great junior college story, and Myers, who is loath to soak in the memory because it came in defeat, is careful not to take all the credit.

“It’s not like I was hot,” he said. “My team needed me, and I was willing to do anything I could for us to win. We were so off at the start. We’d just taken a 10-hour ride in the snow. We were late to the game and we didn’t have any time to warm up or anything. But I always have a motor. That’s just how I am. The team was real sluggish and we came out slow, and I was in the huddle like, ‘Coach, please get me the ball. I’ll keep us in this until the guys wake up.’”

Williston led by five points at halftime and Myers still marvels at how his teammates set screens so he could shoot and the way they skipped passes to him when he cut behind defenders.

“I was the one scoring, but we were all doing what we had to do for us to win that day,” he said. “But it was hard.”