ESPN: Top schools by position players

[Marat]

UConn only listed one the top post defenders as #4 school.

Position U: Which college basketball programs produce the best players at each position?

Which schools produce the best point guards, sharpshooters, wings, interior scorers, and post defenders? We crunched the historical numbers. Duke and Kentucky fared well.

www.espn.com

 

[superjohn]

UConn only listed one the top post defenders as #4 school.

Position U: Which college basketball programs produce the best players at each position?

Which schools produce the best point guards, sharpshooters, wings, interior scorers, and post defenders? We crunched the historical numbers. Duke and Kentucky fared well.

www.espn.com

Mateen Cleaves and Cassius Winston. Ty Lawson and Ray Felton. These guys over Kemba and Bazz is insane. If we add point guards my guess is El-Amin, Marcus, and AJ can battle and beat the rest of what they have.

 

[Lefty2one]

We only led the country in blocked shots for what, 9 of 10 years or something insane? Kansas above us? KD listed as a "post defender"? lmao

Averaging 2 blks per game doesn't make you a post defender.

The PG one is egregious too.

 

[AD DB Burner]

RIP, Caron, and Rudy should have been enough to get a spot in the top 5 wings as well.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

We only led the country in blocked shots for what, 9 of 10 years or something insane? Kansas above us? KD listed as a "post defender"? lmao

Averaging 2 blks per game doesn't make you a post defender.

The PG one is egregious too.

This is ESPN style propaganda disguised as an opinion piece.

 

[Lefty2one]

Just for giggles, I did the research...

We led the NCAA in blocks nine straight years (2002-2010), were top five two other times (2012, 2020), and Top 15 another three times (2014, 2015, 2017).

How on earth we aren't at least #2 is criminal.

 

[McLovin]

Duke on every single top 5 list? Yeah, no bias at all here in their ranking formula.

 

[McLovin]

They should also rank the schools by National Championships in that time frame (1996 and beyond) and we would be the top "National Championship U".

 

[auror]

NBA draft picks are a part of the formula. Not surprising that the one and done factories did well in the lists...

 

[Dabutlerdidit]

The article title lacks integrity... it’s says programs that “produce” but most schools listed *recruit* 1 and done talent

 

[ucp990411]

So the school that produced the greatest 3 point shooter of all time along with Ben is not on the list?

 

[tcf15]

Creighton is #5 for Wing U?! CREIGHTON?! That formula must love Kyle Korver and Doug McDermott.

 

[auror]

Creighton is #5 for Wing U?! CREIGHTON?! That formula must love Kyle Korver and Doug McDermott.

Doug McDermott is the only 3x First Team All American during the timespan of the list.

These are the others across NCAA history:

• Tom Gola, La Salle, 1953-55
• Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati, 1958-60
• Jerry Lucas, Ohio State, 1960-62
• Lew Alcindor, UCLA, 1967-69
• Pete Maravich, LSU, 1968-70
• Bill Walton, UCLA, 1972-74
• David Thompson, North Carolina State, 1973-75
• Ralph Sampson, Virginia, 1981-83
• Patrick Ewing, Georgetown, 1983-85
• Wayman Tisdale, Oklahoma, 1983-85
• Doug McDermott, Creighton, 2012-14

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

Doug McDermott is the only 3x First Team All American during the timespan of the list.

These are the others across NCAA history:

In your opinion, does that alone justify their placement on the list?

 

[CL82]

Duke owned the sharpshooter role, led by Shane Battier, JJ Redick and Trajan Langdon.

Thank you Mr. Vitale

 

[auror]

In your opinion, does that alone justify their placement on the list?

Not by itself, but I'd have to go through every school to compare and I'm not prepared to do that.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

Not by itself, but I'd have to go through every school to compare and I'm not prepared to do that.

Reasonable.

In my opinion, the methodology employed by the author sucks.

I read the names quoted and what strikes me is their relative lack of impact on college basketball as a group.

Subjective for sure, but the ease in which something can be quantified is never proper justification for a methodology.

 

[SubbaBub]

5 spot starts and ends with UCLA, Georgetown and Houston. OK being 4th in the list.

We had a lot of great 1's 2's and 3's. Our 4's weren't too shabby either.

Certainly a case of depth over top end. I agree Duke has nothing on us at any position. Our guys match up very well, as if we didn't already prove that.

 

[BuffaloHusky]

I had a similar reaction to the point guards and wings. If these ratings were current players only or even weighted towards current players that would be one thing but 96-97 is the teeth of the great UConn teams.

Just accounting for point guards and using Duke let's compare. Kyrie is great but how many college games did he play? Otherwise, I can't imagine the metrics where Kyrie's basketball career is "better" than Kemba's. Kemba won a NC, went to another final four and has been to a similar number of All-Star goes. The only real difference between the two is playing with Lebron James.

Conversely, Jay Williams played 75 NBA games. Khalid played 50 and AJ and Marcus Williams played over 200. Granted Jay Williams was national player of the year, won a NC and was the first pick in the draft but Khalid's college career is just not that different.