The Corners returns after a week’s hiatus to offer thoughts on Arizona’s most important player, the Overlooked Senior Citizens Making A Difference Team, an updated Naismith Watch, SMU’s too-good-to-be-true turnaround and a common theme in this year’s North Carolina team and the 2005 and 2009 title-winning teams. But first, a Big 12 player making the most of his final season in Ames:1 Watching Iowa State systematically pick apart a not-too-shabby Akron team on a neutral court Monday night, one distinct thought kept popping into my head: Just how overlooked is Melvin Ejim on the national scene? The word underrated gets tossed around quite often in sports, right alongside its counterpart (overrated) and “elite” and all sorts of other oft-used cliches that help describe a sport’s state of affairs and/or power structure.Still, Ejim seems to fit the bill. In terms of his NBA Draft stock, he’s ranked as the 89th-best senior on the board by the website Draft Express. Translation for the modern landscape of college basketball: Ejim isn’t projected to be drafted at all. Similar reports come back from various draft experts. The Toronto native isn’t likely to follow the same incentives-laden path that some other highly-touted Canadians have or… Read full this story
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