Kansas: Wilt Chamberlain, Joel Embiid, Danny Manning, Paul Pierce, JoJo White
Damn good starting five, but KU's bench would be rather weak. They've produced more great coaches (Naismith, Phog Allen, Rupp, Dean Smith, and Larry Brown) than players.
We were 17-6 before he was injured against Florida, 4-6 without him. As others pointed out above we had won 5 straight and just reentered the Top 25. So Top 15 may be a stretch, but Top 25 and trending up is a fact, not debatable.
http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/2012-13.html
Noel was a beast the one year he was at UK. We were a top 15 team with him and couldn't even make the tournament without him. He hasn't improved much in the NBA, which leads me to question his work ethic.
That 2018 team matches up well with Villanova (the team that won it) now. They were just too young then. We have 7 guys from that team that were on active NBA rosters for pretty much the entire season last year.
I like watching the NBA Draft more than I do the games. It's interesting to see which/why teams draft a certain player. Do you go need, or best available, etc.
The scholarship itself is worth about $50k per year. So let's not pretend they weren't already being compensated. I have no problem with NIL, and I would even go along with some sort of national minimum wage for all college athletes. I am totally against the collectives, however. That is...
What if you show up on campus and find out you are playing for a Bob Knight wannabe, or half the team is involved in selling drugs, or other similar things?
Some basic math shows that Oscar's season exceeds what Spivey, or anyone else has ever done at UK, in terms of rebounding. Ignoring FTs, because it's impossible to know how many missed FTs were rebounded, Spivey got about 15.1% of all missed FG attempts in 1951. Oscar is at 22.4%.