Dissecting the 2009-2010 Basketball Roster

I’ve put together a little excel spreadsheet that analyzing this upcoming UK basketball team.  When you look at the talent on this team you will see why so many analysts have us picked as a preseason top 10 team.  If you were to look at last year’s team and analyze the average star ranking compared to this year’s team you would see a huge improvement when it comes to talent.   This year’s team star rating is 4.25 compared to last years team of 3.45.  4.25 was actually the average star rating for North Carolina’s 2008-2009 National Championship team.  Not sure we have the experience that the 2008-2009 UNC team had, but we sure have the talent!

UK’s 2009-2010 Men’s Basketball Roster

Rankings out of High School

Top 10 Players	2
Top 25 Players	5
Top 50 Players	8
Top 75 Players	9
Ave Star Ranking	4.25
Player	Ranking	Recruiting Class	Star
John Wall	1	2009	5
Demarcus Cousins	2	2009	5
Daniel Orton	22	2009	5
Eric Bledsoe	23	2009	5
Jon Hood	40	2009	4
Patrick Patterson	17	2007	5
Perry Stevenson	63	2006	4
Deandre Liggins	28	2008	4
Darius Miller	42	2008	4
Ramon Harris		2006	3
Josh Harrelson		2007	3
Darnell Dodson	129	2008	4