He might be terrific and no, I haven't seen him play. My take is that he's an incoming freshman playing the most difficult position in basketball. You might recall many on here claiming that Bowen had the starting PG position locked up. Then the season began and the Ronnie Lester heir apparent according to some here looked like I feared he would. A highly touted freshman point guard looking completely overwhelmed by the moment. If anyone played beyond his experience level, it was not Bowen, but instead the guy coming in off a catastrophic leg injury.
My point is that playing in the B1G isn't the same as playing in high school and even highly regarded freshman guards frequently stumble. Hopefully sophomore Bowen looks a a whole lot better than freshman Bowen. If not, maybe Harding does take extended minutes, but history tells us that he's probably going to struggle out of the gate like so many before him. I think Dix is probably a more likely alternative based on what we saw of him last year.