Kansas’ Josh Jackson, Frank Mason and Devonté Graham are included on ESPN’s list of the Top 25 players in the country entering the 2016-17 college basketball season.
Jackson, a 6-foot-8 freshman shooting guard from Detroit ranks No. 4 overall in a list compiled Thursday by ESPN Insider’s John Gasaway, while Mason, a 5-11 senior point guard from Petersburg, Va., checks in at No. 9 and Graham, a 6-2 junior combo guard from Raleigh, N.C., No. 13.
Gasaway, who spoke to The Star’s Jesse Newell on Thursday for an upcoming podcast, had this to say about Jackson:
“Perhaps it was inevitable that Jackson, a freakishly athletic, 6-foot-7 Kansas wing on a one-and-done trajectory, would be compared to Andrew Wiggins, a freakishly athletic, 6-foot-8 Jayhawk wing who went one-and-done after the 2013-14 season.