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College basketball season is still many moons away, so while fans sit and wait—watching highlights from previous seasons, incoming recruits, or portal additions—the mind starts to wander.
When that happens, as is the case for many sports fans, lists start to form. Then, after being typed out a few times, those lists eventually find their way to the internet. There, you’ll find a long line of criticism, trolls, a few quality counterpoints, and, if you’re lucky, one or two comments agreeing with you.
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But sports aren’t here to end all wars. In fact, there are times when it seems like a simple sports debate or ranking can start another one.
Recently, a few lists have circulated across social media with drastically different opinions on who the top returning players in college basketball are.
Instead of dissecting every fan-made ranking created to drive engagement, I’ll admit that they accomplished exactly what they set out to do. They threw the hook into the water, and like a pike swimming in Vineyard Lake, I bit. I grabbed onto that hook so deep you’d need pliers to pull it out of my throat.
It all started when Michael Cohen, a college football and college basketball writer for FOX Sports and executive producer of A Deadly Football Hit on HBO Max, posted his list of the top 10 returning players in college basketball.
Cohen made a daring choice by placing Michigan’s Elliot Cadeau at No. 1 among all returning players in the sport. That’s certainly a bold take, but rankings are subjective and everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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As I continued reading through the list, the names kept stacking up until I reached No. 10, where Michigan State’s Jeremy Fears appeared.
So who in the world is so out of tune with college basketball that they believe Fears is only the 10th-best returning player in the country?
Then it clicked.
Cohen previously worked as the University of Michigan football and men’s basketball beat writer for the Detroit Free Press.
Suddenly,…
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Publish date : 2026-06-05 03:20:00
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