Sports Connections
College Basketball Connections
Sixteen college basketball names. The program is the clue.
Yesterday’s answers
- Jimmy Nichols
- Josh Banks
- Phillip Russell
- Zeb Jackson
- Corey Kispert
- Ja Morant
- Kingston Flemings
- Sean Kilpatrick
- Andrew Carr
- Christian Shumate
- Justin Vander Baan
- Oumar Ballo
- Aanen Moody
- Collin Holloway
- Justin Neely
- Tegra Izay
College Basketball board questions
What categories are on the college basketball board?
The program a player represented is the base, and scoring is the other pillar: four players who each passed the same career points threshold as students. Because so many modern players leave early, a big college scoring total is itself a signal about what kind of career a player had.
What is the player-of-the-year group?
The national player-of-the-year honours, by the body that voted them. One award per season means a group of four winners is usually four different years, and often four different decades.
Are there wordplay groups?
Yes — surnames that are also something else entirely, shared with presidents or with common nouns. They cut clean across programs and eras, which is why they hide behind three perfectly sensible basketball groups until those are gone.
Does the board only use players who turned professional?
No. A college career is the whole subject here, so a player remembered for what he did at school can anchor a group without having had a long professional career at all.
Which leagues besides college basketball have a Connections board?
Ten more: college football, the AFL, the WNBA, the NBA, soccer, golf, the NFL, cricket, the NHL and MLB. More college basketball games: College Basketball Grid, Build a College Basketball Player and CBB Career Simulator.