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College basketball is full of surprising players and there is a new crop every year.
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Some people mourne the fact that college hoops no longer has superstars who play for the same team for four years since these players go to the NBA.
While that may be true, college hoops still surprises and entertains. Each year new talented players enter the college ranks and put on a show. Some of these players go to the big name basketball schools (Duke, UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas, etc.). However, many of these players also attend D-1 schools that are not in the top conferences or in the top 25. Many of these players also attend non D-1 schools. Many of the players that go to schools that are not big name schools come from outside the USA.
Just last night Saint Mary's College (a small school in the SF Bay Area that plays in the WCC) played #11 Oregon at home [the Oregon coach was the Saint Mary's coach before he got the Oregon job 10+ years ago and he decided to have his Pac 10 team play an early non conference game with his old school]. Saint Mary's upset Oregon and the story of the game is a 6' freshman guard for Saint Mary's from Austrailia who played in one of his first college games. He scored 37 points. The Oregon coach commented after the game that he thinks the Saint Mary's freshman point guard has a game and a presence similar to Tony Parker of the Spurs. Quite a compliment and quite a performance by a previously unknown player.
There should be some great college hoops perfromances this year by players we have never heard of.
While that may be true, college hoops still surprises and entertains. Each year new talented players enter the college ranks and put on a show. Some of these players go to the big name basketball schools (Duke, UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas, etc.). However, many of these players also attend D-1 schools that are not in the top conferences or in the top 25. Many of these players also attend non D-1 schools. Many of the players that go to schools that are not big name schools come from outside the USA.
Just last night Saint Mary's College (a small school in the SF Bay Area that plays in the WCC) played #11 Oregon at home [the Oregon coach was the Saint Mary's coach before he got the Oregon job 10+ years ago and he decided to have his Pac 10 team play an early non conference game with his old school]. Saint Mary's upset Oregon and the story of the game is a 6' freshman guard for Saint Mary's from Austrailia who played in one of his first college games. He scored 37 points. The Oregon coach commented after the game that he thinks the Saint Mary's freshman point guard has a game and a presence similar to Tony Parker of the Spurs. Quite a compliment and quite a performance by a previously unknown player.
There should be some great college hoops perfromances this year by players we have never heard of.
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