I don’t root for them necessarily, but I follow them with greater interest than the average player. I expect Marquette to be a Big East competitor with Carton and Garcia.
2. Jalen Wilson, Kansas
Key stats: 15.3 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 1.1 APG, 37.9 3p%
After a redshirt season at Kansas, Jalen Wilson looks like KU’s best player by a wide margin thus far. He’s averaging 15.3 points and 8.7 boards per game as Kansas has jumped out to a 6-1 start to its season headlined by huge wins over Kentucky and Creighton. In two the games KU has played against ranked foes, Wilson has posted career-high 23-point outbursts, with his 23 points and 10 rebounds against Creighton last week fending off a potential Creighton upset in Allen Fieldhouse.
6. Hunter Dickinson, Michigan
Key stats: 15.7 PPG, 7.3 RPG, 1.7 BPG
Dickinson earned his first start in Michigan’s Big Ten opener on Sunday against Penn State after averaging 14.8 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks off the bench through five games. He proved worthy of the honor by leading the team with 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting and collecting seven rebounds in a 62-58 win over the Nittany Lions. That performance earned the 7-1 center his second straight Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor.
I’m surprised they’re including a redshirt freshman on this list.
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Man, would have been nice to have Moody or Wilson this year. Wonder if Wilson is gonna start getting NBA hype soon
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He is, at least from what I saw from Sam Vecenie
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Yeah that seems inevitable if it hasn’t already started. The couple of times I’ve watched Wilson he looked extremely good.
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Makes me wonder what the team would look like with Beilein still around. Brooks would probably still be the 2, Wilson/Franz as the forwards, Dejulius and Castleton still around as the starting PG and C?
I assume Livers would still be around too, plus a much larger chance Bajema is too. Obviously the freshman class would be too hard to predict minus Zeb
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Oh duh, Livers too of course. But who knows how his injury luck last year would’ve worked out in different situation. From what I remember Beilein was on his way to putting together a pretty good recruiting class.
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Vecenie is the best in the biz
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I remember we seemed to be in a good spot with Abdur-Rahim and Kessler, but who knows if those recruitments would have ultimately panned out.
Abdur-Rahim was going to commit on his scheduled official visit as I recall.
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Furman is up 32-19 @ Alabama in the first half at the under 8. For all the recruiting success Oats is having, his on the court results aren’t really there
I wonder who the last coach or player to publicly antagonize Coach K and then experience on-court results was
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Nice win by Va Tech against #24 Clemson, who has been a tough team this year. Gives that Penn St. win last week a little more of a boost.
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Coach B making a cameo guest appearance on BTN Live 
Speaking of former targets
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So VCU is where he landed. Remember Michigan poking their heads into that recruitment, good for him doing well.
And on the NBA radar at that.
I miss the old VCU with Shaka and Havoc…hilarious to watch them frustrate and beat high major opponents, and even more fun watching Beilien teams rip it all to shreds 
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Yea I guess that is a better way to put it since I don’t really care if their team wins in reality.
Glad I am not the only one who likes the talent on Marquette. I really think they could be an interesting team if Carton can be a alpha/ go to.
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Yea I followed him a bit last year and saw him on the box score recently as well.
If I recall he had his moments last year too.
Dang…wish we had landed Hyland.
I guess it’s unclear if we would have landed Mike Smith if Hyland was here, but that would be a great addition to this team that needs playmakers.