I don’t have time to list each committee member whose basketball IQ must have taken a nosedive when selecting the midseason watch list for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award. No, I’m too busy staring at my Twitter feed hoping to see news of the return from injury of a freshman point guard whose name already pops up in any discussion of the best on-ball defenders in Duke basketball history.
Also, this is only the second year the award has existed, so I’ll cut the committee some slack by not naming names of those who were responsible for choosing the 15 candidates that were announced Tuesday.