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Organizational strategy plays a large role in the draft, and more and more teams are using advanced metrics to guide their selections. Chad Ford gets access to three teams' metric-based top-10 lists and unveils those rankings, in addition to other notes.

Blog | Conversation | June 08, 2010

The biggest story of Day 1 at the Chicago combine was the number of no-shows. However, some prospects made strong impressions, a couple of highly regarded players had rough interviews with teams and an International Man of Mystery emerged.

Blog | Conversation | May 21, 2010

Chad Ford examines prospects in the South Regional of the NCAA tournament and finds that this quarter of the bracket is devoid of elite talent. There are a few players who could rise with solid tourney runs, though.

Blog | Conversation | March 17, 2010

Chad Ford analyzes the trade-deadline deals that could impact the draft. Plus news from potential first-round prospects at Georgia Tech and Texas, a look at Willie Warren's future, and a lesser-known version of Duke's Jon Scheyer.

Blog | Conversation | February 22, 2010