"Playing UP"

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He was just 4 years old most of kindergarten, and only 17 for all but one regular-season game of his freshman year at UL.

In fact, Ragin' Cajuns sophomore point guard Elfrid Payton -- named Wednesday to the first team of the 2012-13 All-Sun Belt Conference Basketball Team -- turned 19 only one day before scoring a career-high 31 points in a game last Feb. 23 against Western Kentucky.

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[SlappyCajun]

Great story on EP. IMO, this guy will be mentioned with the best players post-Toney when it's all said and done.

[CajunRed]

Wait...this is a guy who surely isn't a point guard. More like a forward...and a struggling one at that. Shouldn't even be starting.

:-)

[Turbine]

"and never really came close to skipping a grade so he could catch up age-wise with those around him in class."

Wouldn't skipping a grade have the opposite effect?

[sportsfanatic21]

"and never really came close to skipping a grade so he could catch up age-wise with those around him in class."

Wouldn't skipping a grade have the opposite effect?

Yeah, I assume that should have said "repeating a grade".