Posted on October 24, 2024
By Kyle Boone, Gary Parrish & Matt Norlander: Star power abounds in college basketball this season. We’ve got household names in spades led by vets RJ Davis at North Carolina and Hunter Dickinson at Kansas. We’ve got young talents in Cooper Flagg at Duke and a stellar duo in the Big Ten with Rutgers freshmen Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper. And we’ve got big names in new and big places via the portal — Great Osobor at Washington, Oumar Ballo at Indiana among them — to top them off.
None, though, shine quite as bright as Alabama’s Mark Sears.
Sears is the No. 1 player in our annual Top 100 and 1 player rankings for the 2024-25 season as voted on by our CBS Sports panel of experts. The CBS Sports Preseason Player of the Year is the face of a No. 2-ranked Alabama team that charged to the first Final Four in school history last season. And now he’s earned the respect, as the SEC’s leading returning scorer to be voted as the best player in the sport entering the season.
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