The best men's college basketball player for every jersey number this season
We looked at all 357 men's college basketball rosters to project who'll be the best by jersey number this season, using traditional and advanced statistics.
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Seven Big12 players mentioned---3 from Baylor. Fun read.
No. 2 – Cade Cunningham, Oklahoma State
With respect to Villanova's Collin Gillespie, who might have a case to be the choice as the best player on a better (maybe, best?) team, Oklahoma State freshman Cade Cunningham is the pick here. He's the most talented freshman in the country.
Cunningham is listed a 6-8 and 220 pounds. Oh, and he's a guard. Andy Katz ranked Cunningham among the top preseason candidates to win the Bob Cousy Award, which is given to the best point guard in the country and Cunningham is No. 3 on Katz's list of preseason National Player of the Year candidates.
The advanced analytics site barttorvik.com projects Cunningham to average 18.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game, which would put him among the top scorers in the Big 12.
(That projected assist number of 2.1/game seems very low. )