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Top 10 (includes top 3 players with stats, and comments on team) 1. Syracuse Tyler Ennis 11.6 PPG 5.7 APG, Jerami Grant 12.3 PPG, 6.5 RPG, CJ Fair 17.4 PPG, 5.8 RPG This is the easiest choice, they are far and away the best team in the country right now.  Jerami Grant is phenomenal, he is a great defender, and can shoot from anywhere, and is also a huge post presence.  Tyler Ennis is one of the three best PGs in the country, along with Aaron Craft, and Marcus Smart.  CJ Fair is an all-american.  Behind that, they have 3 other athletic big men who also have awesome names: Baye-Moussa Keita, Dajuan Coleman, and Rakeem Christmas (so does Duke transfer guard Michael Gbinije).  Anyways, Keita, Coleman, and Christmas could start on almost any team in the country, and lead the team (and maybe the league) in blocks.  In Syracuse's famous 2-3 zone, it is critical to have these big, strong and athletic big men. 2. Michigan St Keith Appling 16.4 PPG, 4.6 APG, Gar...

College basketball truly began this past weekend with the first weekend of conference play.  Oregon lost its first game of the season to number 24 Colorado.  Michigan St took down Indiana.  Undefeated Wisconsin came back to beat ranked Iowa after Fran McCaffery was ejected.   Kansas lost at home to a very talented 21st ranked San Diego St team.  It was an exciting weekend and showed me why college basketball is so great.  Here is a video of the college basketball highlights since 2010. I am going to answer two big questions for this post. Question 1: Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Indiana are four of the best programs in the country.  Recently, they haven't done very well.  All four of these programs are not in the top 15 of this week's poll, and have struggled lately.  Two are unranked.  Will this be a trend for the rest of the year or is this just a slow start? In my opinion, the answer is different for all of these ...

For this blog post, I would like to do something called a blind resume.  Here are the resumes of two teams.  They include SOS (strength of schedule rank in the country), RPI (a computerized ranking of each team), and record (W-L).  It is your job to decide which two of these four teams should be a number one seed. Team 1                    Team 2                 Team 3                Team 4 Record: 9-3            Record: 12-1        Record: 11-1        Record: 11-2 RPI: 4                     RPI: 13                RPI: 1                   RPI: 35 SOS: 2                   SOS: 79     ...