Around the Big Ten: Slim-Pickings-in-June Edition
Posted by kj on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Most of our Big Ten blogging brethren are devoting all their attention to that sport with the oblong ball these days, but there have been a few interesting basketball-related posts:
Black Heart Gold Pants posted a nice rundown of Iowa’s basketball roster for next season. My take after reading the post: Iowa will have players who are (1) less experienced but (2) a better fit for Lickliter’s system.
The Chris West Basketball Journal has taken a look at what’s become of the 2003 McDonald’s All-Americans five years down the road. The exercise was conducted to see how Brian Butch has fared compared to his high school all-American colleagues (summary: worse than LeBron James, better than Ndudi Ebi). Two Spartan recruits are on the list: Shannon Brown (whom Mr. West ranks 13th most successful out of 24 players) and Brandon Cotton (who was only briefly a Spartan and is still holding out hopes of playing in the NBA). Interesting that a lot of guys in the bottom half of the list went pro early only to end up playing in Europe or the NBDL; would they have been better off if they didn’t enter college with the hype of being a McDonald’s All-American?
MGoBlog asks a question that we all want the answer to: “Why does Drew Sharp still have a job?”
One final pre-draft Drew Neitzel link: He worked out for the Trail Blazers on Tuesday. That’s at least five workouts for NBA teams, which seems like a decent number (I don’t normally follow this stuff very closely). But I’d still guess his odds of getting drafted tomorrow night are less than 50%.
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