Every time I read preseason college basketball rankings, I’m reminded of those heist movies where the obvious suspects get all the attention while the real masterminds operate in plain sight, quietly assembling the perfect crew for the job nobody sees coming.
CBS Sports’ Isaac Trotter unveiled his offseason crown jewel a few weeks ago, outlining the top five players in college basketball at 10 different positional archetypes. Yet in his exhaustive analysis of college basketball’s elite, he managed to overlook three Arkansas starlets who could make major waves this season. The only Razorback even mentioned in the initial projections was Darius Acuff, Jr.