Bourama Sidibe is starting his fifth season of basketball for the Syracuse Orange, albeit delayed due to another leg injury. Injuries are not the only thing that has limited Sidibe's time on the court, for even if he had been healthy another factor would have come into play: Fouls.
Sidibe is the most foul prone player in Syracuse basketball history, averaging a foul for every 5.28 minutes of playing timing. That pace would have him foul out of a typical basketball game at about 26 1/2 minutes. Sidibe has picked up 274 fouls in his career in only 1,448 minutes. He has also managed to foul out of 14 games. He did improve his numbers his junior season when he started all year, averaging 5.85 minutes per foul.
The two closest players on the list to Sidibe are Jeremy McNeil with 5.42 minutes per foul (383 fouls in 2076 minutes) and Derek Brower also with 5.42 (214 fouls in 1160 minutes).
The most prolific fouler in Syracuse history is Otis Hill with 460 fouls in his career and 28 disqualifications. Andre Hawkins has the distinction of the most disqualifications with 35 in his career. Hawkins was an undersized center who used his brute strength to battle big men like Georgetown's Patrick Ewing and St. John's Bill Wennington.
Mike Hopkins is the more foul profile guard in Syracuse history, averaging a foul every 7.21 minutes (309 fouls in 2229 minutes). Hopkins was known as being a scrappy player, and the foul rate would back that up.
This is a chart of the top 10 Syracuse basketball players based on minutes per fouls.
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