Wednesday, April 13, 2011

New Trend in College Hoops?

For the first time in a number of years, the best college basketball players are returning to school. Jared Sullinger, Perry Jones and likely Harrison Barnes , who were all consensus top 5 picks, are giving college hoops another shot. It seems that the lack of talent, compared to recent history, in this year's NBA Draft would compel top talent to take their chance at easy millions. Because of how bad this year's draft may be, with the exception of Kyrie Irving, Derrick Williams and Kemba Walker, I find myself in favor of players returning to school, and maybe even another age limit rule change. This is due to the evident dip in the quality of play this past college basketball season. More than ever, in my time of watching basketball, has their been such equality throughout the field of teams in the NCAA tournament. Mid-major teams and teams with a veteran core of players seemed to have an upper hand on some of the teams with pro-level young stars. It will be interesting to see if the players who decided to return have better seasons, and will their better seasons influence other All-Americans to stay in school longer.

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