Tanner Richards Caps Title Run as MVP

Tanner Richards earned MVP honors after leading GSA ALLSTARS to the championship, and the numbers carry the argument as much as the title does.

Across 2 games, Richards averaged 16.0 points and finished with 32 total points and 4 threes. He led his team in scoring and ranked second in the field for scoring across the tournament. He also collected a Player of the Game award along the way.

The signature performance came against Cortez Taylor's... well, against Hoop Nation Family, where Richards put up 30 points and knocked down all 4 of his threes on the way to Player of the Game. That outing accounted for nearly all of his scoring on the run. In the matchup with Team Zero, he managed 2 points without a three, a night his teammates helped shoulder.

The case for Richards is built on consistency at the top of the box score. Second in the field in scoring, the leading scorer on his own roster, and a Player of the Game honor in a two-game stretch that ended with a trophy. The 4 threes all arrived in one of the two games, and the 30-point performance stands as the centerpiece of the award.

With GSA ALLSTARS winning the title, Richards did not have to make his case on a losing team. The run and the championship are the same story. He led the scoring for the squad that finished first, delivered the tournament's standout single-game line, and walked off with both the title and the MVP.