All Sweet 16 starters ranked by CBSSportsline.com...

[ISUChippewa]

I came across it this morning online. I think it's an interesting concept that I hadn't seen anywhere else before, and I can't complain with most of his rankings, although I do think that Long has earned a mention in his bench players section at the top of the page.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...king-the-sweet-16-starters-from-no-80-to-no-1

 

[CornFedIABoy]

Ignoring 3sus is just plain sacrilege. Burn the heretic!

 

[cyclone101]

Shabazz must be destroyed.

 

[VeloClone]

Let's hear it for Mr. Irrelevant. Daniel may be at the bottom of this list, however, he is important to this team.

 

[Dandy]

I stopped reading when it said "First, we're going to run down some of the best bench players remaining" and Naz Long wasn't named.

 

[Bigman38]

Edozie!

Probably fair though, he hasn't really had a chance to show his value. His minutes this year have to be pretty miniscule compared to every other starter.

 

[Spam]

Ignoring 3sus is just plain sacrilege. Burn the heretic!

Starters...

 

[VeloClone]

Starters...

The first part listed top remaining bench players.

 

[Jsievers24]

I hope Kane takes this personal. Napier is going to get shown up just like Marcus Smart. I do hope though, that Kane doesn't go into his 1v1 hero ball bullcrap too much to prove his point.

 

[Dandy]

ISU
Kane: 4
Ejim: 11
Hogue: 41
Morris: 51
Edozie: 80
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Total: 187


UConn
Napier: 1
Boatright: 40
Daniels: 42
Giffey: 69
Nolan: 79
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Total: 231

 

[HFCS]

CBS sports is abreast of the situation regarding the top 80 players.

 

[Jer]

How does Long not get listed in the off the bench section?

 

[HFCS]

How does Long not get listed in the off the bench section?

Those other bench guys probably all have five or six game winning 3s.

 

[ZJohnson]

Pretty fair assessment. Napier is still the best player in the tourney.

 

[mac4cy]

Second all those that are ****** Naz is off this list. How can you leave the best clutch shooter off the list. Stupid.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I thought the rankings were pretty fair all things considered, though the homer in me would push Monte, Dustin and maybe Melvin up a bit. And Naz deserves a mention.

 

[VeloClone]

They probably only looked at stats. Naz's season stats aren't that impressive (7 pts, 1.5 reb, 1.2 a, .409 3% in 20 min), but he has come on incredibly here at the end of the season. In the last 7 games he has upped those numbers to (10 pts, 2.3 reb, 1.6 a, .545 3% in 25 min) and that doesn't reflect how clutch he has been when the game is on the line. The guy didn't have time to look at all 80 starters in depth to say nothing of all of the bench players on those 16 teams.

 

[ribsnwhiskey]

No Naz = irrelevant article written for page clicks.

 

[Kickedinthenuts]

Using the ranks as a proxy for starting 5 quality, disregarding actual stats to come up with a completely meaningless way to summarize this article (which I think is a really cool concept, BTW):

Michigan State	158
Arizona	159
Kentucky	168
Florida	172
Louisville	173
Wisconsin	184
Iowa State	187
Tennessee	190
Baylor	190
Michigan	200
UCLA	204
Stanford	205
UCONN	231
Virginia	234
San Diego State	275
Dayton	310

Seems about right. Surprised a bit to see Michigan that low. Shows how much Kentucky has underperformed with all of their talent. Virginia still gets no respect as a 1 seed that had a great season. ISU would easily be at the top with Niang conservatively in the mid 30's above Hogue replacing the 80 from Edozie as a token starter in the UNC game.

 

[VeloClone]

The comparison of the totals Kicked came up with would be more meaningful if each team started their best 5 players and each team only played those 5 players.

I agree, it is still interesting to look at, though.