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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4889070, member: 10"] Just in case anyone needs a reminder, the NCAA Tournament is dominated by guards and not 7 foot centers. [HEADING=2][I]Stock falling: Data doesn't favor 7-footers as championship centerpiece [/I][/HEADING] [I]Edey is the best college basketball player in the country. He should win the National Player of the Year award for the second consecutive season in the coming weeks. The biggest question is ... can he lead Purdue to a national championship? The data says it's rare. The only two 7-footers to win the Naismith Award and a national championship in the same season are Ewing and [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/UCLA/ucla-bruins/']UCLA[/URL]'s Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Edey would be the third if Purdue runs the table. The next three players on the list (Dickinson, Kalkbrenner and Filipowski) all play for Final Four contenders. All three could be potential All-Americans. The data doesn't favor that, either. The last national champion with an All-American center was Duke in 2015. That year, Jahlil Okafor averaged 17.3 points and 8.5 rebounds. Could Edey, Dickinson, Kalkbrenner, Filipowski, or even North Carolina's [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/players/3141956/armando-bacot/']Armando Bacot[/URL] become the next All-American center to win the championship in the same season? Time will tell.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketball-stock-watch-purdues-zach-edey-looks-to-break-big-man-drought-michigan-state-misses-out/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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