In the spirit of March Madness this blog uses this year's tournament to reflect on the NBA and a question which many NBA people might find interesting. This years Elite 8 consists of: 1 Big10 team, 1 Big East team, 2 SEC teams, 1 Horizon League team, 2 Big 12 teams, and 1 ACC team. Clearly a field dominated by the six BCS conferences, with the one exception being the Pac-10. I thought I would take this idea of major conference domination one step further. Linking the idea of NBA players (who went to college) and their conferences in a six-team tournament of their own. First, I will determine a 5 man starting line-up of current NBA players, with today's stats representing each of the six BCS conferences. Then we can decide which conference's NBA talent dominates.
Without further delay, your NBA starting five from each conference, in order from worst to best:
6. Pac-10: Brook Lopez, Kevin Love, Brandon Roy, Aaron Brooks and Gilbert Arenas
5. Big Ten: Carl Landry, Deron Williams, Zach Randolph, Jason Richardson and Eric Gordon
4. Big 12: Kevin Durant, Paul Pierce, Chauncey Billups, LaMarcus Aldridge and Kirk Hinrich
3. SEC: Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Joe Johnson, Rajon Rondo and David Lee
2. Big East: Rudy Gay, Caron Butler, Dwayne Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Troy Murphy
1. ACC: Chris Paul, Tim Duncan, Chris Bosh, Anthony Morrow and Luol Deng
There you have it, this can't be much of a surprise to anyone. I will take any comments and disagreements. I have a feeling some of those conferences would have liked to have Kobe or Lebron on their side. -Schatz Man, jonathankschatz@gmail.com
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