NCAA Basketball: Pros/cons of five-star forward Greg Brown’s 5 schools

1. Texas Longhorns

Brown’s hometown team and most heavily-connected school, the Texas Longhorns are undoubtedly Brown’s top option.

Pros

There’s a long list of good reasons for Brown to head to Austin for his college ball. First, he would be the best player on the team and would start every game. The Longhorns are returning literally everyone from last season’s squad, a team that would have been in the NCAA Tournament with one more win.

Surrounded by shot-makers such as Matt Coleman, Courtney Ramey, and Andrew Jones, the pressure would be off of Brown to hit from deep. Additionally, he would be paired down low with Jericho Sims, a senior who showed significant improvement last season before a season-ending injury.

Everything lines up perfectly for Brown to end up at Texas. Texas has a long history of successful NBA power forwards, including LaMarcus Aldridge and Myles Turner. In Shaka Smart’s tenure at Texas, he has been able to turn high-ranked recruits into first-round picks, with Jarrett Allen, Mo Bamba, and Jaxson Hayes all being premier prospects-turned NBA starters.

Cons

If there is one con for Brown when it comes to Texas, it would be the fact that he would be staying home. Brown has been connected to Smart and the Longhorns throughout his high school career, so going to UT could be viewed as the “easy way out”. Brown could stay home, where he’ll certainly be successful and drafted high, but if he wants to pave his own path, going elsewhere could be a feasible option.

The bottom line is this: it would take something catastrophic for Brown not to end up as a Longhorn. At Texas, he would be part of a Top-25 team that could compete for a Big 12 Championship, develop into a lottery prospect like players prior, and be the hometown hero that every young basketball player dreams of from the moment that they pick up a ball.