Blair Kerkhoff, Sporting News Yearbooks
Leading into the college basketball season openers, Sporting News will preview each of the top 25, counting backward from our preseason power poll. For more great college basketball content, order your copy of our College Basketball 09-10 yearbook, or pick one up at a newsstand today.
Texas was going to be plenty good anyway. But two days before the NBA draft withdrawal deadline, Damion James said he’d play for Texas as a senior and upgraded the Longhorns’ expectations in the process.
This could be Rick Barnes’ best team, one so good that Barnes shrugs when asked what worries him about this bunch.
“I don’t know if I’d say I have any concerns right now,” Barnes says. “You know, I love the fact that we’re going to have great competition.”
Meaning Texas will have quality depth at nearly every position.
Under Barnes, Texas has been built around superstars (T.J. Ford, Kevin Durant) and has had spread-the-wealth teams. This one looks like his wealthiest, with superstar-breakthrough potential.
Among the returning players, James is the most established. …
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