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Favors the favorite among POY candidates

By Ronnie Flores
ESPNRISE.com

Friday, November 21, 2008

Although nearly all of the previous boys' basketball national player-of-the-year selections have gone on to success at higher levels of the game, ESPN RISE basketball editors truly reward high school performance when it comes to selecting that one player for the nation's highest individual honor. A player's position in the ESPNU 100 has little bearing on the selection each season. In most years, our national player of the year selection, going back to 1955, has indeed been a consensus top-fiv ...

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