Quite a few familiar names here. A fascinating glimpse into the past compared to what has happened since. To think that Davion Mitchell was 67th in the CBS ranking (59 for 247) and is now a national champion & DPoY with a promising NBA career!
Baylor Basketball Recruiting
Are MBB Recruiting Rankings Destiny or Inexact Science?
CBS Sports released their top 101 players in college basketball for the upcoming season. Baylor will ink a top 5 national recruiting class. Will Kendall Brown, Langston Love and Jeremy Sochan be on this list in the near future? All of those guys are top 40 national recruits? Or are we more likely to see players like Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Adam Flagler who were unranked coming out of high school? Are recruiting lists destiny or an inexact science? The answer is a little of both. Let’s look at the CBS list and how these guys ranked out of high school using the 247 Composite index.
Here are the results per original classification year. It is probably no surprise that those that stay in school longer tend to be hard working overachievers who were for the most part outside the top 50 players coming out of high school and have made themselves into great college players as upperclassmen. The younger guys on this list are mostly top 50 players coming out of high school.
2016 Class
| 1-25 Rank | 26-50 Rank | 51-100 Rank | 101-150 Rank | 151-600 Rank | Unranked |
| 3 | 2 | 5 |
2017 Class
| 1-25 Rank | 26-50 Rank | 51-100 Rank | 101-150 Rank | 151-600 Rank | Unranked |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 3 |
2018 Class
| 1-25 Rank | 26-50 Rank | 51-100 Rank | 101-150 Rank | 151-600 Rank | Unranked |
| 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
2019 Class
| 1-25 Rank | 26-50 Rank | 51-100 Rank | 101-150 Rank | 151- 600 Rank | Unranked |
| 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
2020 Class
| 1-25 Rank | 26-50 Rank | 51-100 Rank | 101-150 Rank | 151-600 Rank | Unranked |
| 11 |
CBS Top 101 Players in College Basketball 2020-21
| Player | CBS Rank | School | Year | 247 Composite |
| Luka Garza | 1 | Iowa | 2017 | 118 |
| Cade Cunningham | 2 | Oklahoma St | 2020 | 1 |
| Ayo Dosunmu | 3 | Illinois | 2018 | 32 |
| Marcus Zegarowski | 4 | Creighton | 2018 | 110 |
| Jared Butler | 5 | Baylor | 2018 | 97 |
| Marcus Garrett | 6 | Kansas | 2017 | 55 |
| Collin Gillespie | 7 | Villanvoa | 2017 | 200 |
| Remy Martin | 8 | Arizona St | 2017 | 84 |
| Corey Kispert | 9 | Gonzaga | 2017 | 106 |
| Evan Mobley | 10 | Southern Cal | 2020 | 3 |
| Garrison Brooks | 11 | North Carolina | 2017 | 131 |
| Sam Hauser | 12 | Virginia | 2016 | 83 |
| BJ Boston | 13 | Kentucky | 2020 | 5 |
| Trayce Jackson-Davis | 14 | Indiana | 2019 | 30 |
| Oscar Tshiebwe | 15 | West Virginia | 2019 | 31 |
| Jalen Crutcher | 16 | Dayton | 2017 | 328 |
| Kofi Cockburn | 17 | Illinois | 2019 | 46 |
| Keyontae Johnson | 18 | Florida | 2018 | 69 |
| Trendon Watford | 19 | LSU | 2019 | 18 |
| Drew Timme | 20 | Gonzaga | 2019 | 43 |
| Jeremiah Robinson Earl | 21 | Villanova | 2019 | 16 |
| Matthew Hurt | 22 | Duke | 2019 | 12 |
| Caleb Mills | 23 | Houston | 2019 | 199 |
| MaCio Teague | 24 | Baylor | 2016 | unranked |
| Oscar da Silva | 25 | Stanford | 2017 | 147 |
| McKinley Wright IV | 26 | Colorado | 2017 | 229 |
| Terrance Clark | 27 | Kentucky | 2020 | 8 |
| John Fulkerson | 28 | Tennessee | 2016 | 238 |
| Yves Pons | 29 | Tennessee | 2017 | 127 |
| Nate Reuvers | 30 | Wisconsin | 2017 | 66 |
| Fatts Russell | 31 | Rhode Island | 2017 | 198 |
| James Bouknight | 32 | UCONN | 2019 | 66 |
| Landers Nolley | 33 | Memphis | 2018 | 67 |
| Ziaire Williams | 34 | Stanford | 2020 | 6 |
| Joey Hauser | 35 | Michigan State | 2018 | 52 |
| Javonte Smart | 36 | LSU | 2018 | 35 |
| Greg Brown | 37 | Texas | 2020 | 9 |
| Isaiah Livers | 38 | Michigan | 2017 | 133 |
| Chris Smith | 39 | UCLA | 2017 | 141 |
| Joe Wieskamp | 40 | Iowa | 2018 | 60 |
| Scottie Barnes | 41 | Florida St | 2020 | 7 |
| Micah Potter | 42 | Wisconsin | 2016 | 243 |
| Brady Manek | 43 | Oklahoma | 2017 | 117 |
| Ron Harper Jr | 44 | Rutgers | 2018 | 175 |
| Neemias Queta | 45 | Utah State | 2018 | unranked |
| Matt Coleman | 46 | Texas | 2017 | 52 |
| Jalen Johnson | 47 | Duke | 2020 | 13 |
| Marcus Carr | 48 | Minnesota | 2017 | 146 |
| Kihei Clark | 49 | Virginia | 2017 | 397 |
| Kellan Grady | 50 | Davidson | 2017 | 95 |
| Carlik Jones | 51 | Louisville | 2016 | unranked |
| Ochai Agbaji | 52 | Kansas | 2018 | 132 |
| Charles Bassey | 53 | Western Kentucky | 2018 | 6 |
| Aaron Henry | 54 | Michigan State | 2018 | 140 |
| AJ Green | 55 | Northern Iowa | 2018 | 81 |
| Chris Duarte | 56 | Oregon | 2017 | 171 |
| Colbey Ross | 57 | Pepperdine | 2017 | 514 |
| Kyler Edwards | 58 | Texas Tech | 2018 | 159 |
| Scottie Lewis | 59 | Florida | 2019 | 7 |
| Jacob Gilyard | 60 | Richmond | 2017 | 367 |
| Matt Mitchell | 61 | San Diego State | 2017 | 474 |
| Austin Reaves | 62 | Oklahoma | 2016 | unranked |
| DJ Jeffries | 63 | Memphis | 2019 | 52 |
| Joel Ayayi | 64 | Gonzaga | 2017 | unranked |
| David Johnson | 65 | Louisville | 2019 | 82 |
| Mitch Ballock | 66 | Creighton | 2017 | 94 |
| Davion Mitchell | 67 | Baylor | 2017 | 59 |
| Aamir Simms | 68 | Clemson | 2017 | 115 |
| John Petty | 69 | Alabama | 2017 | 33 |
| Denzel Mahoney | 70 | Creighton | 2016 | unranked |
| Mark Vital | 71 | Baylor | 2016 | 89 |
| Justin Moore | 72 | Villanova | 2019 | 57 |
| Jhivvan Jackson | 73 | UTSA | 2017 | unranked |
| Antoine Davis | 74 | Detroit | 2018 | 313 |
| Jalen Suggs | 75 | Gonzaga | 2020 | 11 |
| Miles McBride | 76 | West Virginia | 2019 | 301 |
| Trevion Williams | 77 | Purdue | 2018 | 154 |
| Jay Huff | 78 | Virginia | 2016 | 57 |
| Herb Jones | 79 | Alabama | 2017 | 148 |
| Quentin Grimes | 80 | Houston | 2018 | 10 |
| Terry Taylor | 81 | Austin Peay | 2017 | unranked |
| Derrick Alston Jr | 82 | Boise State | 2016 | unranked |
| Terrance Shannon | 83 | Texas Tech | 2019 | 90 |
| Aaron Wiggins | 84 | Maryland | 2018 | 42 |
| Moussa Cisse | 85 | Memphis | 2020 | 10 |
| Sandro Mamukelashvili | 86 | Seton Hall | 2017 | 199 |
| Franz Wagner | 87 | Michigan | 2019 | 114 |
| MJ Walker | 88 | Florida State | 2017 | 28 |
| Wendell Moore | 89 | Duke | 2019 | 29 |
| Timmy Allen | 90 | Utah | 2018 | 129 |
| Jordan Goodwin | 91 | Saint Louis | 2017 | 54 |
| Derek Culver | 92 | West Virginia | 2018 | 84 |
| Chris Lykes | 93 | Miami | 2017 | 64 |
| Caleb Love | 94 | North Carolina | 2020 | 14 |
| James Akinjo | 95 | Arizona | 2018 | 90 |
| Armando Bacot | 96 | North Carolina | 2019 | 27 |
| DJ Carton | 97 | Marquette | 2019 | 34 |
| Will Richardson | 98 | Oregon | 2018 | 46 |
| Jalen Pickett | 99 | Siena | 2018 | unranked |
| RJ Cole | 100 | UCONN | 2017 | 479 |
| Jayden Gardner | 101 | East Carolina | 2018 | unranked |
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