Final ESPN 2019 Top 100

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It’s some really good HS Basketball in the DFW. I coached for 10 years out here. Miami should recruit more out here.

Probably even the ACC as a whole. 10 Texas kids on that list but only one is committed to a school (Louisville) in the greatest basketball conference in alllll the land where "it just means more".
 
Roy Williams signs Cole Anthony and Anthony Harris on same day. Only the best offensive and best defensive guards in the USA. That's gonna be one tough backcourt.
 
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Roy Williams signs Cole Anthony and Anthony Harris on same day. Only the best offensive and best defensive guards in the USA. That's gonna be one tough backcourt.

Yawn. See Duke last season. One and done sucks for the players, sucks for the sport, and usually doesn't lead to championships for the schools that build teams around them.
 
Yawn. See Duke last season. One and done sucks for the players, sucks for the sport, and usually doesn't lead to championships for the schools that build teams around them.

Having one-and-done players helps tremendously in winning championships! The reason you don't see more teams with one-and-done's win championships is math:

1) 68-team, single elimination tournament -> introduces an extreme amount of randomness. The best team this year, when healthy, was Duke. They lost by 1 possession on a neutral court. In a playoff with 7 game series, they likely would've won the whole thing. In the tournament, always take the field.
2) Very few good one-and-done's -> there are only 14 players good enough to be lottery picks. It's not like you can look at a half dozen college teams every year and say they have a lot of good one-and-done's. There just aren't enough elite one-and-done's. There are basically only 2 teams that ever have rosters with multiple elite one-and-done's: Duke and Kentucky. They've each won titles with freshman-heavy rosters during the one-and-done era, and have come close a few other times. (Coming close matters, because of point #1)

If the argument is that a high-level, veteran college player in his 3rd year (like Kyle Guy) is better than a middle-of-the-road one-and-done (like Lonnie Walker) then yes, sure. But I'm not sure why that comparison matters...
 
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