Freshman 10 Archive

There isn’t a lot to talk about this time around. Well, at least if you’re amongst the vast majority that has rightfully conceded this season to the freshmen. We’ve started to see some guys come back to Earth and display the expected inconsistencies that will crop up for most freshmen, but the youngsters are still taking over games with regularity and it seems to be a different one every night. Beasley and Gordon have been trading spots atop the nation’s scoring list and, as Gary Parrish of CBS Sportsline wrote awhile ago,

Um, yeah, this isn’t going to be easy.

 

Michael Beasley (Kansas State)

Austin Daye (Gonzaga)

Donte Greene (Syracuse)

JJ Hickson (NC State)

Kevin Love (UCLA)

OJ Mayo (USC)

Derrick Rose (Memphis)

Other

Basketball is back.

 

..continued from Part One: BCS Rookies and Part Two: Mid-Major Rookies

 

Eugene Harvey All Stars (Outstanding Performance on Bad Team)

G Corey Chandler, Rutgers

High Major Freshman of the Year (includes C-USA minus Memphis, WAC, Mountain West, CAA, A-10 and Gonzaga)

I know it’s bleak but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Soon there will be a world where Brett Favre wallows in obscurity, Tim McCarver is put into a retirement home, Tom Brady’s potency on and off the field is irrelevant and, in the ultimate sign that order has been restored to the universe, Frank Caliendo will be no more. Yes, college basketball begins in just two short weeks.

What a boring great weekend of March Madness! The games were so poorly played exciting! Man, there were so many favorites Cinderellas making deep runs in the tourney!

 

Nat'l Freshman of the Year: Kevin Durant (Texas)
High-Major Freshman of the Year: Jeremy Wise (Southern Miss)
Mid-Major Freshman of the Year: Stephen Curry (Davidson)

CHN First-Team All-Freshman
G: DJ Augustin (Texas)
G: Mike Conley (Ohio State)
F: Kevin Durant (Texas)
F: Brandan Wright (UCLA)
C: Greg Oden (Ohio State)

CHN Second-Team All-Freshman
G: Stephen Curry (Davidson)
G: Javaris Crittenton (Georgia Tech)
F: Chase Budinger (Arizona)
F: Ryan Anderson (Cal)
C: Spencer Hawes (Washington)

The Lopez twins and Jon Scheyer make the Freshman 10 for the first time.