FB Recruiting ESPN ranks Top 100 CBB players

[JRowland]

No. 5 -- Ulis
No. 11 -- Skal
No. 19 -- Murray
No. 62 -- Briscoe
No. 69 -- Poythress
No. 76 -- Lee

ESPN's top 100 CBB players for 2015-16

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

I love how Murray just keeps getting underestimated.

 

[bssparks]

I love how Murray just keeps getting underestimated.

I have posted several times that Murray destroyed team USA where Trimble was the BACK UP PG and everyone ranks Trimble ahead of Murray (except the NBA draft people lol).

 

[KMKAT]

This is how they lead into their evaluation of Skal:

"After some doubt, Labissiere is eligible to play'

Says who ESPN? Goodman?

So here's the guards who are better than Murray:

Dunn
Valentine
Trimble
Ulis
Hield
Baker
Paige
Jackson
VanFleet
Levert
Brogdon

10 guards better? Please tell us who voted so we can thank them

 

[JFCats22]

Murray at 19 is asinine.

Some other issues I see -

Valentine #3??? Seriously? No way
Melo Trimble is very good, not #4 in the country
Niang should be higher
Perry Ellis - this is his 7th year of college I believe

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

So two top 5 picks didn't even make the top 10. Okay.

ESPN is doing an awesome job with their rankings, going back to their slothful negligence to even rank Murray in their class of '15 rankings.

 

[SilentsAreGolden]

ESPN has historically ranked UK recruits lower than the other services. I'm not saying there is a bias, because many times they are ranked before UK gets them, and don't move much, but there is something at play. Maybe their guys (or is it just Biancardi?), value qualities that don't really fit Cal-type players. Biggest example of this ever was the fact that they didn't have Eric Bledsoe in their Top 100 players.

 

[Primedfor9]

I doubt there was any bias by ESPN on this list. They did put Ulis at 5 which is the highest I've seen him on any of these, plus they listed 6 of our players which I'm sure is more than any other team.

 

[JRowland]

ESPN has historically ranked UK recruits lower than the other services. I'm not saying there is a bias, because many times they are ranked before UK gets them, and don't move much, but there is something at play. Maybe their guys (or is it just Biancardi?), value qualities that don't really fit Cal-type players. Biggest example of this ever was the fact that they didn't have Eric Bledsoe in their Top 100 players.

All I remember about Bledsoe is there was very little film of him available for some time. There was a really grainy, poor quality video that didn't really capture what he was capable of. But I will say that I don't think anybody really knew how good Bledsoe was going to be.

To your point, though, yes -- I've noticed that quite often their rankings for UK players are lower.