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2026 Player Profile – Emanuel Sharp

February 2nd The NBA pitch for Emanuel Sharp is quite simple: he’s college basketball’s premier sharpshooter. While he’s converted a strong 37% of his threes this season, which ranks in the 91st percentile, even that number undersells his shooting excellence. For one, in-season shooting percentages are notoriously fickle, as they rise and fall multiple percentage …

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2026 Player Profile – Najai Hines

January 30th As both the most underrated center and the most underrated NBA draft prospect in the country, there are multiple layers that make Najai Hines great. It’s difficult to address all of them within one write-up, so this rendition of his player profile will focus specifically on his interior dominance. After all, how could …

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2026 Player Profile – Eian Elmer

January 27th Any discussion of Eian Elmer’s statistical profile must begin with his teflon three-point shooting ability. After two years of impressive perimeter shooting, knocking down 40.1% of his threes with a 46.3 three-point attempt rate, Elmer has raised his shooting rate by over 10% this season without seeing a notable decline in his conversion …

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2026 Player Profile – Brady Koehler

January 30th With an impressive foundation on both ends of the floor, Brady Koehler fits the billing of the “modern-day big man.” His perimeter shooting on offense provides excellent floor spacing for his team, while his strong agility and rim protection on defense combine to provide excellent versatility within his impact. In this initial installment …

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2026 Player Profile – Darryn Peterson

January 18th As perhaps the greatest shotmaking prospect in modern NCAA history, any analysis of Darryn Peterson’s statistical profile must start with his shotmaking indicators. This first installment of his player profile write-up will center primarily around that. Peterson has made 41% of his 64 three-point attempts and 53% of his 38 midrange attempts thus …

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2026 Player Profile – Rafael Castro

January 30th In the first rendition of Rafael Castro’s 2025-26 player profile, we highlighted how well-rounded his statistical profile was on both ends of the floor through the first month of the season. With a larger sample size of minutes played stemming from more games played, statistics are now starting to stabilize around their ‘true’ …

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2026 Player Profile – Darius Adams

January 30th With a larger sample size of minutes played stemming from more games played, statistics are now starting to stabilize around their ‘true’ values. This makes Darius Adams’ continued ability to draw and make free throws an excellent sight to see. His free throws attempted per 100 possessions have remained at an elite 98th …

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2026 Player Profile – Matt Hodge

January 16th In the first installment of Matt Hodge’s player profile, we delved into his strong two-point efficiency, three-point volume, and on-court team offensive efficiency, all of which have remained strong after another 10 games. His two-point percentage currently ranks in the 90th percentile, and his three-point rate in the 95th percentile. While he only …

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2026 Player Profile – Jordan Derkack

December 4th Jordan Derkack’s combination of scoring and defense is one that is very valuable. In this rendition of his player profile, we’ll focus on only his scoring. Through nine games with Dayton, Derkack is boasting the most efficient offensive season of his career, including career-best interior scoring and passing efficiency. His ability to draw …

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2026 Player Profile – Yaxel Lendeborg

January 16th In the first installment of Yaxel Lendeborg’s player profile, we delved into his tremendous offensive output, where his intersection of per-possession offensive dominance and versatility created the best offensive player in the NCAA. All of that information has remained entirely the same, as Lendeborg has continued his supremacy and continues to assert his …

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2026 Player Profile – Aiden Sherrell

January 16th In the first installment of Aiden Sherrell’s player profile, we delved into his truly versatile offensive production and its prospective value for NBA teams. While this second write-up will naturally focus on his defensive production, we’d first like to address a claim we previously made. While the raw numbers flagged Sherrell’s low assist-to-turnover …

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2026 Player Profile – Labaron Philon

January 16th We laid out the most impressive statistic in college basketball within the first installment of Labaron Philon’s player profile: despite Alabama boasting the single toughest strength of schedule, and no guard in the country taking on a higher offensive load than him, Philon converted 65% of his 77 two-point attempts. Somehow, despite taking …

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2025 Player Profile – Thomas Sorber

(February 12th) One of the primary criticisms of Thomas Sorber’s early season statistical profile was that it was largely recorded against weak competition.  And Sorber’s numbers, after a month of high caliber Big East competition, among the hardest that any prospect will face, have “suffered”.  And I put “suffered” in scare quotes because his OBPM …

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2025 Player Profile – Desmond Claude

(February 12th) Previously we discussed how Des Claude’s steal rate dropped from the 40th to 31st percentile as a potential random fluctuation.  It now seems unreasonable to consider it as such, as his steal rate has now dropped to the 10th percentile.  Additionally, his three-point percentage, which was encouragingly high to start the season, has …

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2025 Player Profile – Alex Condon

(November 30th) Some of Oso Ighodaro’s numbers are actually down this season – he’s averaging an AST% 7% lower than last season, and a BLK% 1.2% lower. And yet, all of his metrics that aggregate everything together are actually up – he’s 99th percentile in OPIPM, DPIPM, and the combination of the two, PIPM. Defensively, …

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