Four of the five players who were voted CBS Sports Preseason First Team All-Americans last season actually went on to be CBS Sports First Team All-Americans. It was remarkable how closely things went as they were projected to go.
But this season is not like last season.
This season wasn’t nearly as predictable — evidence being that Gonzaga’s Drew Timme is the only CBS Sports Preseason First Team All-American who has also been named a CBS Sports First Team All-American by our panel of voters who submitted ballots after last weekend’s Elite Eight games. How surprising is our First Team relative to preseason expectations? Consider: Timme is joined on the First Team by a transfer who wasn’t even expected to be the best player on his team (Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe), by a three-year player who wasn’t even expected to be the best player on his team, (Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji), by a player who didn’t start for his team…
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