Top 25 breakout stars for the coming season
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Hawkins, Sanogo, and Jackson all stand to have breakout seasons. If none of them bust this could be a very special season.
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Sanogo doesn't really fit that description. He was one of the 5 finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar award last year. He could be better this season, but he already broke out.
5 finalists named for the 2022 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award
The five finalists for the 2022 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award are Walker Kessler (Auburn), Adama Sanogo (UConn), Drew Timme (Gonzaga), Kofi Cockburn (Illinois), Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky).
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Just as an aside, it's really wild that 3 of the 5 finalists are coming back to school this year.Sanogo doesn't really fit that description. He was one of the 5 finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar award last year. He could be better this season, but he already broke out.
5 finalists named for the 2022 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award
The five finalists for the 2022 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award are Walker Kessler (Auburn), Adama Sanogo (UConn), Drew Timme (Gonzaga), Kofi Cockburn (Illinois), Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky).
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I’m honestly not sure. I’m happy to have both. Carter apparently is a bull at getting in the paint based upon summer observations and Hopkins is a level of talent we don’t normally see at PC.
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He almost single handedly beat Kansas. As a freshman!
I think because Creighton has so many options, it’s hard for one guy to break out. They could very well have nobody average 15 a game, but have like 6 double figure scorers
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I have nightmares of knee-braced Arthur Kaluma wreaking havoc against us in Hartford and in Omaha.
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A product of the changing NBA.
6. Speaking of Timme, you'll be forgiven if you think this is the Year of the Big. In fact, college hoops has had many Years of the Big in recent seasons, and will likely continue to feature more traditional 4s and 5s as the NBA continues to relegate such players. It's no longer a once-every-few-years trend; this is the norm, and it's a good thing for college hoops. That in mind, the best of the bigs figure to be Timme, reigning NPOY Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky), Armando Bacot(UNC), Trayce Jackson-Davis (Indiana), Zach Edey (Purdue) and Hunter Dickinson (Michigan), among many others. The aforementioned oaks are prime preseason first/second/third team All-American candidates.
By the way, back to the original topic. Below in the same article. But going from a great player to a star is still not a "breakout player" in my book.
21-25. Players to know: the juniors. We'll lead with Dickinson at Michigan, who healthily increased his averages last season, and if anything, was slightly underappreciated in a Big Ten chock-full of big-time attractions. The Big Ten probably has the best array of juniors, as Dickinson will have two other bigs he'll compete with for player of the year in IU's Jackson-Davis and Edey at Purdue. If a wing is going to steal the show like last year, Iowa's Kris Murray is the best bet. One more junior to put on your radar and it's another big: UConn stalwart Adama Sanogo might be due for a star turn.
College basketball season starts in 68 days: Get ready with 68 names, games, storylines to know for 2022-23
November will be here soon enough so here are 68 facts, figures and predictions to get you ready for this season
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I like #68 on that list… Final Four in Houston. We all know what happened in April 2011 in Houston.A product of the changing NBA.
6. Speaking of Timme, you'll be forgiven if you think this is the Year of the Big. In fact, college hoops has had many Years of the Big in recent seasons, and will likely continue to feature more traditional 4s and 5s as the NBA continues to relegate such players. It's no longer a once-every-few-years trend; this is the norm, and it's a good thing for college hoops. That in mind, the best of the bigs figure to be Timme, reigning NPOY Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky), Armando Bacot(UNC), Trayce Jackson-Davis (Indiana), Zach Edey (Purdue) and Hunter Dickinson (Michigan), among many others. The aforementioned oaks are prime preseason first/second/third team All-American candidates.
By the way, back to the original topic. Below in the same article. But going from a great player to a star is still not a "breakout player" in my book.
21-25. Players to know: the juniors. We'll lead with Dickinson at Michigan, who healthily increased his averages last season, and if anything, was slightly underappreciated in a Big Ten chock-full of big-time attractions. The Big Ten probably has the best array of juniors, as Dickinson will have two other bigs he'll compete with for player of the year in IU's Jackson-Davis and Edey at Purdue. If a wing is going to steal the show like last year, Iowa's Kris Murray is the best bet. One more junior to put on your radar and it's another big: UConn stalwart Adama Sanogo might be due for a star turn.
College basketball season starts in 68 days: Get ready with 68 names, games, storylines to know for 2022-23
November will be here soon enough so here are 68 facts, figures and predictions to get you ready for this season
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Well Andy Katz agrees with you on Sanogo being a breakout player this season. But I will stick with my original argument in this thread against that. He was already one of the 5 finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar award last year. He could be better this season, but he already broke out.
Top 15 men's college basketball potential breakout stars, ranked by Andy Katz
These are 15 DI men's college basketball players ready to make the leap in 2022-23, ranked by NCAA.com's Andy Katz.
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