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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 884180, member: 40"]
Therein lies the rub: what does higher ceiling have to do with who is the best [U]right now[/U], in college basketball?

This is the critique I have of the "best frosh" lists that omitted Ennis early, and only now have him rising up the scales in favor of guys with more perceived NBA potential.  Rating someone at the collegiate level should be independent of future NBA potential.  For example, there isn't [or shouldn't be] an SU fan who would trade Ennis for one of the more highly rated Harrison twins.  Those guys might [emphasis on MIGHT, because I'm not discounting Tyler's eventual NBA draft prospects] be better prospects who are athletically more suited for the NBA.  And maybe they'll get drafted higher than Ennis would [no guarantee, given how Ennis is coming on--but that's the conventional wisdom].

But would anyone take either of those players over Tyler Ennis?  Hell no.  And despite the myopic, monosyallabic protests that might ensue from bluegrass land, if you put Ennis on that team for one of the Harrisons THEY'D be in the top 5 and undefeated.
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