• ICYMI – Bryce Cotton Named 2nd Team All-American by NBC Sports’ Rob Dauster
• FriarBasketball.com – Craig Belhumeur – Importance of Chartered Flights
• NY Post – Zach Braziller – Revamped Big East back at the Garden
• Projo – Jim Donaldson – What is the only original Big East team to never finish first?
• Fayetteville Observer – Bret Strelow – Appalachian State fires Jason Capel; what’s next for Devonte Graham?
• ESPN (insider) – John Gasaway – Ranking the nation’s top 25 players

Now that the regular season has been in the books for a few hours, I decided it’s high time that I update my rankings of the top 25 players in Division I. The premise of my list is simple:

The NBA doesn’t exist. If we were evaluating these players purely on college production and not on anticipated professional potential, who would rise to the top as the best performers in Division I?

To find that answer, I’ve gone back to a number of my preferred information sources, including but not limited to:

• My observations based on watching hundreds of hours of college hoops (I like my job)
• The excellent individual player stats generated by Ken Pomeroy at kenpom.com
• Data on play-by-play performance collected by Jeff Haley and available at hoop-math.com
• Translations that project NBA performance based on college metrics, compiled by Insider colleague Kevin Pelton

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