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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2004727, member: 199"] So I went ahead and compared this list to HG: [ATTACH=full]18908[/ATTACH] 1. Red - Horvat is Australian so wasn't under consideration 2. Purple - top 24 Americans not selected (1-25) 3. Green - not in top 25 selected to teams. Caveat - I only used HG, and it would probably be better to use an average of the HS rankings because there are always strange anomalous rankings for specific players - e.g. Kushkitauh who had been very highly ranked in HG initially (top 10 I think) and then dropped drastically maybe two years ago, but has retained a much higher ranking in other services. What stands out to me is: 1. 20 of the top 24 americans in HG rankings are included - that is really close correlation and I would expect a similar result from the other services as well or from an average of all services. 2. The top 18 Americans in HG rankings made the team. The first in their ranking to not make the team is ranked 20/19 for Americans. 3. Of the four selected outside the top 24, three are centers - team balancing one suspects and they are three of the next five post prospects in HG. The fourth player is a guard ranked by HG at 33 replacing the highest ranked player not selected, another guard ranked #20. When you get outside the top 15 rankings for the 1000s of HS players, the rankings are going to start fluctuating quite a bit - a difference in 5-10 positions in ranking is not going to be that uncommon. Just as when you rank college teams in a pool of 350, the evaluations of teams outside the top ten start fluctuating significantly and when you get outside the top 20 it gets really confusing. So whatever the perception of the public, the evaluation process for McD AA seems to follow closely the evaluation of HS talent generally, and while we all know that depends on exposure, which means traveling teams (HS and AAU), that is a given based on the nationwide nature of the beast, the volume of players to be evaluated, the wide diversity of competition, and the limited funds of those doing evaluations. [/QUOTE]

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