Interesting read on where they re-ranked the HS seniors to where they have performed to date. Just shows you those rankings change constantly. You don't rely on a player in HS who is ranked high to be a top draft pic when they fall down on their face in college. Some guys plateau in HS and others do in college or the pros.
The college basketball landscape changes a whole lot faster in the full-fledged one-and-done era. Hours from now, 60 young men, most of whom spent at least one year playing college hoops, will become NBA players. A handful of them, like Wisconsin’s Sam Dekker and Virginia’s Justin Anderson, were just celebrating their high school graduations three years ago. Believe it or not, they’re two of the last players from their class who will make the jump to the NBA.
Just two of the top 10 players from the class of 2012—Kaleb Tarczewski of Arizona and Alex Poythress of Kentucky—remain in college. With that class all but gone from the college game, we at SI.com thought it would be fun to go back and re-rank its top 25. Before we get to the rankings, a few notes on how we settled on the reassembled list.
• All players from the top 100, according to RSCI Hoops, were considered eligible from the list. As you’ll see, not every top 25 player made it back into the list three years later.
• Only college careers were considered. That means no bonus points for the great season Nerlens Noel just put together for the NBA’s 76ers.
http://www.si.com/college-basketbal...uiting-class-rerank-nerlens-noel-marcus-smart
The college basketball landscape changes a whole lot faster in the full-fledged one-and-done era. Hours from now, 60 young men, most of whom spent at least one year playing college hoops, will become NBA players. A handful of them, like Wisconsin’s Sam Dekker and Virginia’s Justin Anderson, were just celebrating their high school graduations three years ago. Believe it or not, they’re two of the last players from their class who will make the jump to the NBA.
Just two of the top 10 players from the class of 2012—Kaleb Tarczewski of Arizona and Alex Poythress of Kentucky—remain in college. With that class all but gone from the college game, we at SI.com thought it would be fun to go back and re-rank its top 25. Before we get to the rankings, a few notes on how we settled on the reassembled list.
• All players from the top 100, according to RSCI Hoops, were considered eligible from the list. As you’ll see, not every top 25 player made it back into the list three years later.
• Only college careers were considered. That means no bonus points for the great season Nerlens Noel just put together for the NBA’s 76ers.
http://www.si.com/college-basketbal...uiting-class-rerank-nerlens-noel-marcus-smart