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2016 NBA Draft Preview: College Point Guards

In what is expected to be a wide open NCAA Tournament and a complicated bracket to navigate, you can make things a little easier by narrowing your attention to the point guards. Experienced coaching, rebounding margins, and free throw shooting are important factors in determining game outcomes but the quality of point guard play has had a greater impact on determining NCAA champions over the last decade than any other meaningful statistic. A "closer" is not an official term in basketball but having a player that can consistently close out games by navigating the clock, distributing the basketball safely, and knocking down clutch shots is a necessity.