You may have noticed that this year’s Final Four wasn’t exactly the showcase of NBA talent that some might have expected. Aside from obvious no Notre Dame basketball, there was also no Duke, no Kentucky and no Arizona.
In the one and done era, we sometimes get caught up in admiring the impressive collections of new talent rather than looking favorably on teams that have been together for years. In this year’s final weekend, the highest ranking freshman from the 2017 class to get to San Antonio was Jermaine Samuels of Villanova — the No. 42 recruit in the nation.