Constructing the very best NCAA competition champ from the field of
The field of 68 is set, and the 2022-23 season took an amazing series of twists and turns to get us this far. The men’s basketball choice committee said “no thanks” to the AP poll’s preseason No. 1 (which then stated “no thank you” to the NIT). The group chose in the preseason to complete ninth in the Big East won both the regular-season title and the league’s tournament. And did we discuss the coach who ended his 47-year career by delicately mentioning it in passing after a Wednesday afternoon ACC competition game in Greensboro, North Carolina?Given all that’s
happened, it’s time for our latest males’s dream draft.The ground rules are easy.
ESPN’s Jeff Borzello, Myron Medcalf and John Gasaway are each out to construct a group that can win the 2023 national championship. Each”basic supervisor “selects 8 players and one head coach from the field of 68. In this snake draft, GMs need to each choose one mid-major player and are prohibited from making more than one choice from any one team.So, let’s build some winners. The following is the discussion that happened in between our GMs, modified for clearness, in selecting their groups in the 3rd March Madness dream draft. Dive to the final roster here.Brackets are open! Head to Tournament Challenge and complete your bracket now!John Gasaway: Hi! All of us ready to Fantasy?Myron Medcalf: Yep.Jeff Borzello: While I revitalize the portal, hell yeah.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Gasaway: Excellent, let’s do this. Eight field-of-68 players,
among them mid-major and a coach. For draft order,
I propose we utilize the order of
surface from our Champ Week choices, keep in mind those? I happen to have the final results here.Medcalf: I’m down with
that.Borzello: Yeah that works.I’m presuming I didn’t win.Gasaway: Myron goes initially, he was right on 15 conference competitions. Gasaway goes 2nd (14). Borzello 3rd(13). Really Lunardi beat us all (16 ). No one tell him, please.Medcalf: I will teach you all my ways.Gasaway: We have much to discover, obviously!Borzello: Based upon your last couple playerdrafts, you need all the assistance you can get with the very first pick!Medcalf: LOLOL. Very first pick: the 7-foot-4 juggernaut … Zach Edey.Gasaway:
With the second pick, Gasaway takes Brandon Miller.Borzello: DAMMIT JOHN Gasaway: Two choices for Borzello, snake this thing.Borzello: Let me ride with Trayce Jackson-Davis. And, Jaime Jaquez
Jr., of UCLA.Medcalf: Dammit Borzello Gasaway: DAMMIT JEFF Borzello: HAHAHAHA Gasaway: He’s such a warrior.Medcalf: Quick concern: How are we dealing with kinda hurt men? Marcus Sasser, Timmy Allen, etc.Borzello: Take them if you wanna.Gasaway: Yeah, I think Sasser is
level playing field, Myron, you saw him in person, you have the advantage on us.Medcalf: This is true.Men’s Tournament Challenge Total your bracket by selecting the winner for
each game of the 2023 guys’s NCAA tournament. Play Tournament Challenge Gasaway
: Anyhow, in Round
2 Gasaway takes Big East Playerof the Year Tyler Kolek.Medcalf: Great pick. Culture guy.Borzello: Yeah big fan.
But he used gown socks for the semifinal game. Can’t trust him.Medcalf: LOL Gasaway: Two picks for Medcalf up next.Medcalf: I’ll start with
Sasser. Then, Colby Jones.Gasaway: Oooh, 2 good ones.Medcalf: We’re building champions over here.Borzello: Colby Jones is a grown man.Medcalf: Yeah he is. Love him.Borzello: How are you men taking my Big East men.
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Greatest hits, misses on choices – Full NCAA tournament coverage Gasaway: In Round 3, Gasaway takes Keyonte George.Borzello: Very same rules use, ideal? No group overlaps and one
mid-major player?Medcalf: Yep them’s the rules.Gasaway: One mid-major, can’t take Tyger Campbell if you currently have Jaquez.Borzello: I’ll take Jalen Pickett.Medcalf: Dang, Borzello.Gasaway: Old-man game!Medcalf: He’s so real.Gasaway:
Absolute Illinois destroyer.Medcalf: Been a lot
of Illinois destroyers, John.Gasaway: So true.Borzello: If you 2 had simply adhered to your flyover area players instead of poaching
out of the Big East, we wouldn’t have thisproblem. Disputing between two people, I’ll opt for Souley Boum.Medcalf: Love him.Gasaway: Oooh, I thought that may occur! Two of the three Xavier actual Musketeers are gone.You understand what, let’s do it, I require size and I am not just being swayed by you two. Jack Nunge. play 0:34 Xavier’s NCAA competition sneak peek Joe Lunardi breaks down his forecast for Xavier’s NCAA tournament prospects.Medcalf: Whoa !!!!!!!! Borzello: Wow.Medcalf: I’m astonished by the players we’ve currently skipped.Gasaway: Take ’em, man! You
‘re up!Medcalf: Zach Edey had much better prepare to run. Offer me Kendric Davis.Gasaway: DAMMIT MYRON Borzello: Excellent pick.Gasaway: That is
not a mid-major, though, right guys?Borzello: He cooked yesterday.
Nah, not a mid-major. Got ta be true mid-major. Medcalf: He was relentless the other day. Another of me?Gasaway: Yep.Medcalf: Provide me the pride of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The neglected twin. Kris Murray.Gasaway: Good! All right, I’m going mid-major and taking Max Abmas while I can.Medcalf: Damn.Borzello: That was gon na be my method
! Prepared him two times this season,
I should have right of first refusal!This is wild thata consensus first-team All-American lasted this long, however I seem like it’s time to
take Jalen Wilson.Medcalf: Smart pick.Gasaway: Hear, hear, like that pick.Medcalf: Another one for Borzello right?Gasaway: Yes indeed.Borzello: Let me get
Jordan Hawkins.Gasaway: Oooh, nice!Medcalf: Yeah that’s a good pick.Borzello: I just have two picks left, FYI. So we’re closing in.Gasaway: Right. I’m boosting, Nunge requires some assistance in the paint, so I’ll take First 4 Gamer of the Year Tolu Smith and hope
he never ever goes to the [. complimentary throw] line.Gasaway: [Awed silence] Medcalf: You understand Borzello dislikes your choice if he’s silent.Gasaway: Yeah, if I do not get a DAMMIT from Jeff I understand I screwed up.Medcalf: I’ll take Kyle Filipowski.
And another right?Gasaway:
Correct. I believe you need a mid-major,
Myron? Am I right?Borzello: I liked Filipowski! Not afraid of Tolu!Medcalf: All right. I’ll take Grand Canyon’s Rayshon Harrison.Gasaway: There you go. In my Round 7 as my next-to-last player I
‘ll go for D, Kevin McCullar Jr.Borzello: I’ll go Tucker DeVries as my mid-major. Gasaway: Is that eight for you Borzello or do you get one more?Borzello: And my final choice is another All-American you people let fall to the eighth round,Azuolas Tubelis. My group is a BUZZSAW.Gasaway:
My last choice is Wade Taylor IV.Borzello: Like that pick.Borzello: So many great players are gon na get left out.Gasaway:
Do you get one more Myron?Medcalf: Yep. I have one more. We ended up at the very same breakfast areain Bloomington. It needs to have been a sign. Jalen Hood-Schifino. Borzello: Strong.Gasaway: Interesting!Borzello: All unselected: Isaiah Wong Drew Timme Keyontae Johnson Markquis Nowell Oscar Tshiebwe I disputed between Wongand Boum for like five minutes with my fourth pick.Gasaway: I considered Nowell really seriously.
Pretty OK with the rest of those. Although Tshiebwe will most likely rise to another measurement in the tournament.Gasaway: Right, for preparing coaches, I think we go back to
Myron-John-Jeff order, yes?Borzello: I AM SUBMITTING AN INJUNCTION.Gasaway: No one’s touching your man Jeff, all good.Medcalf: I’ll take Shaka Smart.Borzello: You get Drew Valentine once again, John.Medcalf: LOLOLOL Gasaway: I would take him(like I performed in the
first edition )but, you understand, they were 1-400. So, Kelvin Sampson.Borzello: Love it.
My turn?Gasaway: Rick Pitino isn’t walking through
that door … oh, wait
, he is!Borzello: RICKY P Gasaway: There we are! This was a great discussion.Full lineups The 2023 March Madness champion teams Last thoughts Medcalf
: They say charm is in the eye of the beholder. My associates have strong groups. I think I’ve put together, nevertheless, the very best group. Shaka Smart is a lot more than a young, energetic coach. His Marquette team required turnovers on more than 23 %of its Big East opponents’belongings this seasonand likewise had the most efficient offense in the league. He’s going to
like a backcourt led by Kendric Davis (college basketball’s Tyreek Hill), Marcus Sasser and Colby Jones. My men are selfless and made up. Davis’speed, Sasser’s discipline and leadership and Jones ‘grit will be the perfect trio for Smart.I enjoy Kris Murray
in my small-ball lineup, too. He came back for another year after his twin, Keegan, turned pro. He’s one of America’s many versatile talents,
and he’ll be a tremendous match problem since every challenger will need to send aid to protect Zach Edey,
the most enforcing force in college basketball considering that Zion Williamson.You have to make some difficult options when you secure my group. None of them are favorable.My bench has
some gems, too. Jalen Hood-Schifino is a pro. Rayshon Harrison leads a Grand Canyon group that’s a sexy upset choice in the
opening round against San Diego State.
And Kyle Filipowski has actually developed into amongthe best players in America towards completion of his freshman campaign.Team Myron is prepared
for anybody.Borzello: My team is a juggernaut. I was
in fact intending to begin my group with Brandon Miller, given the variety of quality big men headlining the sport this season, however Trayce Jackson-Davis was a tremendous choice
, too.
I think Jaime Jaquez Jr. has actually played as well as anyone in the country down the stretch, and Jalen
Wilson and Azuolas
Tubelis were All-America prospects for
the large bulk of the season. Those 4 offer me size, flexibility and depth in advance
, plus Jackson-Davis has actually been utilized much more as a playmaker and Tubelis is elite at the high post. Wilson and Tubelis entering the 6th and eighth rounds, respectively, was a joke!
I have a feeling Gasaway and Myron were tanking for the very first two picks next season.Jalen Pickett, meanwhile, has an old-school game, but he’s a brutal match,
while Souley Boum is brave and makes huge shots.
Both people can be primary ball handlers too. Jordan Hawkins
and Tucker DeVries offer me size and elite
shooting ability
on the wing. I considered taking Drew Pember as my mid-major choice, which would have permitted another playmaking guard like Isaiah Wong and Markquis Nowell instead of Tubelis–however Tubelis and DeVries supply some real pop off the bench.And then I have Rick Pitino on the sideline. In anelimination game setting, a one-game situation, he’s still the guy.Gasaway: You 2 may as well pack up and
go home now, since
my Kelvin Sampson-coached octet is going
to absolutely control March Insanity.
NBA youth (Brandon Miller, Keyonte George ), overall veteran proficiency(Tyler Kolek), strength (Kevin McCullar Jr., Wade Taylor IV ), size(Tolu Smith, Jack Nunge ), shooting (Max Abmas)… Sometimes I amaze myself as a GM, honestly.This group will outscore the challenger 18-2 in every four-minute window. Then at the media timeout Sampson will chew out them about quiting the 2 points. I’m all set, and I await your concession speeches.