Looking Ahead: Ben Ball Depth Projections - Part I: Introduction & Roster

With another season of Ben Ball brand basketball just around the corner, it’s time to look at this season’s depth chart and project how our roster will look over the next two seasons.

As with the football projections, I think having this information broken down will help give us some perspective to gauge how our recruiting efforts are shaping up, see where we're going to need to get help down the line, and touch off a bit of discussion.

That said, although I have been promoted (although I'm still waiting for some of that cold hard cash), I still lack N’s chart and graph making abilities, so you’ll have to bear with me while I work out the kinks (such as SBN deleting more than half of my post not once, not twice, but three times).

Before I start, for the curious, you can read more about each of our Ben Ball warriors (including the lesser-known non-scholarship guys who work our warriors in practice day-in and day-out) in the official media guide. 

By our standards, this year's squad has some serious question marks.  Sure, it's true that 99% of the NCAA would kill to have our squad, but the fact we expect so much from this team should speak to the standard of excellence CBH has brought back to the nation's preeminent college basketball program. We’ll start with the current roster:

2008-2009 COMPLETE ROSTER 

 (^) denotes non-scholarship player

In the next segments, we'll actually get into how our depth chart projects this season and the next two, starting with our backcourt, led by veteran floor general Darren Collison, veteran swingman Josh Shipp, and exciting, highly-touted freshman Jrue Holiday.  The third segment will key in on our frontcourt depth, led by consummate Ben Ball warrior Alfred Aboya and veteran forward James Keefe.