Don't know if anyone was paying attention, but Adam Rittenberg is making of
list of the top 25 Big 10 players going into the 2010 season. I at least find it interesting I should have posted this yesterday or at 11 when I could've started guessing what it was going to look like. Anyway here's my guess for the final 9.
1. Cameron Heyward
2. Adrian Clayborn
3.Terrelle Pryor
4. Greg Jones
5 John Clay
6. Tyler Sash
7. Justin Boren
8. Broderick Binns
9. Evan Royster
I'm fairly certain it will be these 9 in some order. There just isn't anyone else who fits. This is only my guess and pretty close to how I rank the players. If it is these teams have the following number of players in his top 25:
Ohio State 6 (Heyward, Pryor, Boren, Homan, Posey, Rolle)
Wisconsin 6 (Clay, Carimi, Moffit, Borland, Tolzien, Watt)
Iowa 5 (Clayborn, Sash, Binns, Stanzi, Klug)
Michigan State 2 (Cousins, Jones)
Purdue 2 (Kerrigan, Smith)
Illinois 1 (Leshoure)
Northwestern 1 (Davie)
Indiana 1 (Doss)
Penn State 1 (Royster)
I think the list is pretty obvious. You could argue that Jack Crawford, Jermale Hines, Brandon Saine and maybe a few others should have consideration, but in general I think its a good list of the Big 10's best players.
What, you say?
I forgot a team? Of course not Minnesota is no good there's not much debate about that. Let me count the teams again. Hmm. I've only listed 9. Weird.