It's no secret to anybody who reads this blog that we enjoy our college basketball/NBA prospects more than is probably recommended by 9 out of 10 dentists. We're still awaiting the start of the NBA and with college football quickly coming to a close, the slate of college basketball games is only to going to get better and more exciting as we move along. However, it will be tough to top today's afternoon (or early morning you west-coastians) showdown between the University of North Carolina and the nation's top ranked team, the University of Kentucky.

The amount of prospects to watch in this game alone is enough to make any NBA Draft fan as giddy as a school girl who is lucky enough to meet heartthrob Robert Pattinson (my dream). While I always recommend checking out various college games throughout the day in order to fall in love with players on the fringe of making a jump to the pros (Kim English, Tony Mitchell <3), I'm all but requiring you guys to glue your eyes to the television for this one. There will be top 10 talent, some late first round projections and, my favorite, possible second round prospects.

The game starts at noon on CBS for my eastern boys and 9:00 AM for those who are three hours behind us. Hit the jump for a list of the players to watch in this game alone. Warning; the list is absurdly long for one game.

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I'm not sure if you guys have noticed, but the NBA is as close to being as nonexistent as Cedric Diggory after the Tri-Wizard Tournament as a sports league could get. Since we're not able to whine about things such as why Lou is dribbling around for 20 seconds and throwing up a contested three at the end of the shot clock or celebrate Jrue Holiday collecting five straight triple-doubles. Instead we're stuck asking (extremely important) hypotheticals along the lines of "Which Spice Girl should the Sixers sign next season?" and "If David Stern was a vegetable, which one would he be?".

Well folks, the lack of an NBA season can't take basketball away from us forever! The 2011-2012 NCAA season started a couple weeks ago and we're in the midst of preseason tournament time. We've already seen Mississippi State capture the 2K Sports Classic title and Alabama (Tony Mitchell, JaMychal Green, Nick Jacobs, Trevor Releford <3) show how "for real" they might be winning the hardware down in Puerto Rico.

These tournaments always give fans a good look at what each program is working with for the season and, most importantly, which players they'd be interested to see in their favorite NBA jersey next year. Although those two tournaments have come to a close, the most prestige of them all begins Monday and concludes Wednesday: The EA Sports Maui Invitational.

Hit the jizzle to check out the field and which players are worth keeping an eye on.

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