Top 1-and-done NBA prospects have made a big impact in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll
Chris Carrawell started for a top-ranked Duke team that blew out just about every opponent behind a roster stocked with NBA talent, including a freshman reserve capable of flashing high-flying potential in limited minutes.
Back then, the norm would’ve been for Corey Maggette to return for a starring role on a title contender. Instead he became the Blue Devils’ first one-and-done NBA player in 1999.
“I was a little surprised,” Carrawell recalled.
It was quite a change two decades later as Carrawell returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach just in time for the spectacle of Zion Williamson’s lone season of Duke superstardom. By then, for Carrawell and the
