Fabulous Freshmen, Tank Slogans & The 2016-17 College Basketball Season

The 2016-17 college basketball season is upon is and it could well turn into the Year of the Fabulous Freshmen.

Twelve of the top 14 projected picks in the 2017 NBA Draft according to DraftExpress.com are freshmen.

Duke, Kentucky and Kansas — the top three teams in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 — all feature projected one-and-done lottery picks coming to a television near you. (Interestingly, No. 4 Villanova and No. 5 Oregon do not feature any projected one-and-dones.)

And all of the freshmen hype, of course, has engendered NBA Draft Tank Slogans such as “Lose like hell for Markelle.”

Washington’s Markelle Fultz, the 6-foot-5 guard who led the USA U18 basketball team to a gold medal this summer, is the projected No. 1 pick. Even though he plays in the Pac-12 on the West Coast, he may be worth staying up late for.