KANSAS CITY -- Last season might always be remembered for what a freshman did at Duke , specifically the way Cooper Flagg produced a historically unprecedented one-and-only season of college basketball while becoming the youngest-ever Wooden Award winner. But, broadly speaking, it wasn't a great freshman class filled with elite prospects accomplishing much.
Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey both missed the NCAA Tournament at Rutgers . VJ Edgecombe played for a Baylor team that spent most of the season unranked. Tre Johnson played for a Texas team that was never ranked again after a season-opening loss to Ohio State . Jalil Bathea was whatever on a bad team at Miami . Ian Jackson and Drake Powell played for an underachieving team at North Carolina . Jayden Quaintance played for