NCAA Basketball: Zion, Markus Howard leads 2019 college hoops All Star game
By Josh Svetz
The 2019 All Star game is approaching. What would the NCAA Basketball version look like with this season’s crop of players?
On February 7th, the NBA will finally give the people what they want by televising the NBA All Star Draft. Team Giannis and Team Lebron will go head-to-head picking some of the best players in basketball today, playground style.
While this will be a fun event for NBA fanatics, college hoops fans get left in the cold. Unfortunately, there is no televised all star draft, but, what if there was? What would it look like?
Your pondering can cease this instant because I did the work for you. Ripped straight from the NBA format, here is how a college basketball all star draft would go.
The Rules
Before we get into if Zion Williamson and Ethan Happ get to dominate together or if Ja Morant will be throwing alley oops to Grant Williams, let’s set some ground rules for this exercise.
1. We aren’t splitting up conferences. The teams will get picked from the full NCAA player pool with no restrictions. Let’s face it, the schools in the East just have a richer selection of ballers and the West vs. East draft pool would leave out too many amazing players.
2. We won’t be drafting players outside of the starters. Basically, we’re making the 5 v 5 starting lineup and then listing off the draft pool. Trying to determine what order players would get chosen would be impossible.
3. The NBA reserves were made up of 7 guards and 7 forwards, therefore, I’ll be following that format with my choices.
4. Ultimately, this is my opinion, but just know I did my homework and this list doesn’t play to favorites. It’s going to be as objective as possible. Though, team performance will heavily affect who makes the list as many times, that is a big factor when the NBA selects all stars.
With that settled, let’s meet the captains.