The Best Frontcourts

Sports Illustrated put together a great slideshow showcasing the nation’s top frontcourts. What is a frontcourt, you ask? Well, typically a frontcourt refers to the players on your team in the center, power forward and small forward positions, the 5, 4, and 3, in basketball lingo. Sometimes, especially in college basketball when taller, post-oriented players are at a premium, a team will play with an uneven amount of guards and small forwards. Take Duke from last season. They didn’t have a very good “frontcourt” in the typical sense of the word, but smallish players got in the mix when they had to. The Stanford Cardinal, on the other hand, used two centers, the Lopez twins, as their frontcourt. So frontcourts could consist of one, two, three, or even some bench players.

According to Sports Illustrated, Louisville has the best frontcourt by far, consisting of no fewer than three future NBA first rounders. If you are a fan of North Carolina, Tennessee, Xavier, Pitt, or some of the other traditionally good basketball programs, you might want to see where your team ranks. This list tends to favor teams with good returning frontcourt players, as the froshkies have yet to prove themselves.

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