And here you thought you’d grown accustomed to watching top young talents get stripped from the upper echelons of Division I men’s basketball the way a tide scours a beach. Perhaps you were numbed by the last two NBA drafts, in each of which freshmen dominated the top 10 selections, with a smattering of foreign players and even an upperclassmen or two thrown in the mix. Driving home the one-and-done theme, at least a third of the first-rounders were freshmen in both years.
But that was just a warmup – a dribble, so to speak.
In a month, when the NBA draft is held at the home of the ACC tournament, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, chances are good the first 10 college players chosen all will be freshmen.