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Roy Hibbert's Draft Stock Just Exploded

Mar 31, 2007 – 10:25 PM
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Tom Ziller

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The vaunted battle of the towers wasn't as good as advertised thanks to the NCAA's notoriously trigger-happy referees, but neither center's stature seems diminished in the wake.

In particular, Roy Hibbert's moderately dominating performance Saturday should knock him into the lottery's first half. Hibbert sat in the #12-13 range in Chad Ford's Top 100 prospects list this past week. But it's hard to imagine Roy falling below #5-6, and I could see him going #3 after Greg Oden and Kevin Durant after a very strong Final Four run for the Hoyas. Saer Sene and Patrick O'Bryant went top 10 last year, and Hibbert is a mile ahead of both ends of the floor and an inch taller.

Of course, no one knows for sure if Hibbert will forego his senior season. It's hard to see him rejecting a sure high lottery selection, though.

(In other Georgetown-NBA reaction, Jeff Green wasn't too assertive, was he? This draft is not short on stud wing players, and I could see Green unfairly slipping into the low end of the lottery after being mentioned in the top 10. Someone could get very lucky with uber-talented Green.)
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