Big East Basketball: Top 25 Players
November 9th, 2009
by Shawn Siegel
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Luke Harangody - Best in BE?
Ranking players is more art then science. How do you compare the potential of freshmen with seniors who have already peaked? How much does physical talent come into play versus intangibles and experience? How big a role do numbers play?
In some situations, the bigger challenge is deciding what position to list a player. College basketball is filled with combo guards, wings who can play from the 2 to 4, centers who are really power forwards, and so on.
All of these questions make lists
like this fun and debatable.. if you disagree with CHN's rankings, post what you
think below.
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BIG EAST |
PG
1. Scottie Reynolds - Villanova
2. Dominique Jones - South Florida
3. Kemba Walker - UCONN
4. Tory Jackson - Pittsburgh
5. Sharaud Curry - Providence
SG
1. Mike Rosario - Rutgers
2. Jeremy Hazell - Seton Hall
3. Jerome Dyson - UCONN
4. Deonta Vaughn - Cincinnati
5. Corey Stokes - Villanova
- With so many more teams, the Big East is always harder to rank. There is no
one dominant player in this group, but many experienced starters. Nova's Corey
Fisher was the hardest player to leave off. One newcomer to watch is WVU's Casey
Mitchell, a juco shooting guard with high expectations.
SF
1. Devin Ebanks - West Virginia
2. Wesley Johnson - Syracuse
3. Lance Stephenson - Cincinnati
4. Stanley Robinson - UCONN
5. Robert Mitchell - Seton Hall
PF
1. Da'Sean Butler - West Virginia
2. Lazar Hayward - Marquette
3. Anthony Mason Jr - St. John's
4. Herb Pope - Seton Hall
5. Dante Taylor - Pittsburgh
C
1. Luke Harangody - Notre Dame
2. Greg Monroe - Georgetown
3. Samardo Samuels - Louisville
4. Mac Koshwal - DePaul
5. Arinze Onuaku - Syracuse
- Impressive that WVU has the top SF & PF. Herb Pope has surpreme talent, but he
might not even start for a deep SHU team. There are a good amount of newcomers
on the list, including the likes of Johnson, Stephenson, Pope, etc. One other
transfer to watch is Nova's Taylor King, who can light up the score-sheet if
given ample minutes.
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Comments
fisher is better than curry,
Submitted by novanation30 on Mon, 2009-11-09 21:12.
fisher is better than curry, and tory jackson goes to notre dame not pitt
Curry Top 3
Submitted by los (not verified) on Mon, 2009-11-30 11:23.
Fisher is not better than Curry for a fact. Curry is in the top 3 PG spot hands down.
If you lived in a Third
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2009-11-09 22:04.
If you lived in a Third World country, you would be stoned to death for saying that Rosario is better than Hazell. It's just blasphemous...Hazell is ten times the player Rosario is.
The Jersey dilemma
Submitted by chronwell on Tue, 2009-11-10 15:23.
I feel Hazell is the best 2 guard in the league. He can hit the 3 and he put it onthe deck alot last year. He plays hard and makes plays when his team needs him. D. Vaughn should be # 2. He's proven he cant be stopped in league play.
I also gotta issue with no Chris Wright. Remove T. Jackson and place him at #5 on the list. Onuaku is a beast and so is N'Diaye, Rutgers' center,who's better than Kowshal.As for small forwards, remove the diaper dandy and DJ Kennedy from St Johns would fit as one of the best in the league.
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NO respect for PC
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2009-11-17 15:20.
Sharaud Curry is a beast and can crossover any PG in the Big East, so suck it novanation30. Also, Marshon Brooks deserves to be on the top 5 SG/SF list he is a great scorer, shooting and slashing, and has the length to block shots under the hoop.
PC deserves no respect
Submitted by novanation30 on Tue, 2009-11-17 19:36.
haha anon you really conivnced me man. Sharaud Curry is just all that man, that's why he'll be lucky to be playing oversees next year. Meanwhile, Corey Fisher was on the USA college team this summer where he beat out Nick Wise for a spot and out played Taylor Battle in the games. Who cares about Marshon Brooks, Nova's got 6 guards on their team better than him. Have fun trying to make the NIT, while we'll be fighting for the Big East title and a one seed in the NCAA torney buddy.
Okay yeah you're cool.
Submitted by los (not verified) on Mon, 2009-11-30 11:30.
Okay yeah you're cool. Let's see anyone try to stop Curry. What happen last year? I'll tell you Curry put up 20+ points easily on Nova. He can't be stop. The only way to beat Curry is if he beat his self. So yeah Curry can put up 20+ points easily but he is a true point and he likes distributing the ball more than anything so we'll see what happens this year.
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No one in their right mind
No one in their right mind would put Mike Rosario ahead of Jeremy Hazell, he isnt even on the same level as Dyson or Vaughn either.
1. Hazell
2. Vaughn
3. Dominique Jones (he has never been a PG)
4. Dyson
5. Stokes