Even with snow on the ground and that jolly fat man making his yearly rounds – John Madden, not Santa Claus – is it too early to talk big dance? Of course not.
Making college basketball picks has been getting bigger and bigger every year and with the increasing dollar amounts people who make their own March Madness picks or fill out their own NCAA brackets are always looking for an edge, even this early in the college basketball season.
One possible edge in determining the big dance winner is how some programs, particularly the mid-majors, are able to keep the core of their team intact year after year. Rather than dashing off for the big NBA money, mid-major players are staying in school.
With all the hubbub of the freshman phenoms year in and year out, we see a steady increase of one-and-done freshman playing one year for their major Division I schools then before spring semester grades are turned in, they are jumping ship for the NBA and all the extras that go with it. Extras like big-money contracts and giant ape shoe money.
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