Coming into this college basketball season, popular opinion was that LSU's Ben Simmons was far and away the best prospect, and everyone else was a tier below him. The first couple weeks of the season seemed to corroborate that notion, but Duke swingman Brandon Ingram has recently shown he deserves to be in conversations with Simmons in a draft class where nobody else has really separated themselves.
The 18-year-old Ingram struggled out of the gate, but he's owned the month of December. In four games, he's averaging 22.0 points per game while shooting 55.9% from the field and 50.