NCAA Basketball: Who's the Player of the Year?

Everyone who watches college basketball has an opinion on who the best player is.

This year, it is a toss-up, or so they say. The top candidates this year include Tyler Hansbrough, Michael Beasley, Kevin Love, and D.J Augustin.

These guys are good, but the best player in the country is Davidson's Stephen Curry.

Stephen Curry played incredible before the tournament, averaging 25 points a game. He started the NCAA tournament off with a 40-point performance against Gonzaga. Georgetown did not do much better giving up 30 points, and Wisconson gave up 33. Kansas held him to his average at 25 points.

That is 32 points a game in the NCAA tournament against teams all ranked above his.

Another stat for him is that in those four games, he had a total of five turnovers. He has proved he can play with the big boys, but unlike Michael Beasley (who scores 26 points a game) Curry makes his teammates better. He doesn't score all of the time, but when he gets the ball, he usually does.

He also has a 48.3 percent FG percentage, and a 43.9 percent three-point percentage. He shoots 89 percent from the free-throw line.

My second candidate for player of the year is Michael Beasley. Yes, I know, his team lost in the second round, but he is the second best player in the country. He averages 26.2 points a game and 12 rebounds a game. He has been held under 10 points once, by Xavier. 

Though Stephen Curry has not been held under 10 points this year, Beasley is still equally important. He has 29 double-doubles this year and he is a freshman. He is basically his whole team.

The other canidates are good, but not as good as Curry and Beasley. Hansbrough has Lawson and others, Love has Collison and others, Augustin has James and Abrams and Douglas-Roberts has the whole Memphis crew.

Curry and Beasley are the most talented guys on their teams, and show it often. They both can't be stopped by quality opponents, and they both do the amazing. I haven't seen the others do all of those three things.

Those guys have good crews and are good, but Curry and Beasley are great.