In April, a veteran-laden group at Baylor overwhelmed Gonzaga, the top team in the country all year, to win the men’s national title in convincing fashion, 86–70.
Next season, as the world reopens amid improving COVID-19 pandemic numbers and teams get back to campus on a more normal schedule, the expectation is that freshmen will go back to driving the successes of many of the country’s top teams.
To that end, we took a look at the top 10 players in the final SI99 boys basketball recruiting rankings for 2021 and analyzed what type of impact each player could have on their team next season.