Alright. We've all seen how dominant the University of Kentucky has been in recent years, but they just don't keep people around. Most of their players jump ship after a year or two. And they're still as good as they are year after year. In the picture below, the number to the right of the year is the round drafted and the number to the right of that is the overall selection number. This past year, they had four players drafted in the first round, including the first and second overall. Wow. That doesn't just happen.
In fact, they've had two players drafted in the first ten for the past three years. Wait, what? John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins went first and fifth in 2010, Enes Kanter and Brandon Knight went third and eighth in 2011, and just this past year, Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist went in the first two spots.
Now, none of these players have made a huge impact in the league, but who really does within their first few years? Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and maybe Allen Iverson. But that's about it.
Either way, in my opinion, Kentucky puts out a higher number of top prospects than any other college. But I could be missing somebody. Duke? North Carolina? Marquette? What do you think?
Picture credit: http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/careernba.html
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