NBA prospects to watch during March Madness

[Lighthouse 84]

From an SI.com article:

Player with the most at stake: SF Jae Crowder, Marquette

Had Iona held its 25-point lead over BYU, the prospect with the most to gain would have been point guard Scott Machado. The 6-foot-1 senior led the NCAA in assists (9.9 per game) and tallied 10 in the first half of Tuesday's play-in game before Iona's swift and unprecedented demise. With Weber State's Damian Lillard and Washington's Tony Wroten Jr., both absent from the tournament, Machado could have made a case as one of the nation's premier point guards.
"Especially because the point guard position is so weak this year," said an NBA scout, "I thought he could've played himself up into a higher position if he was able to win a game or two and be a big part of it."
Following his exit, however, the torch gets passed to Crowder, who would've been Machado's second-round opponent. After climbing onto the NBA radar late in the season -- he's averaged 18.8 points and 9.1 rebounds since Jan. 16 -- the undersized 6-6 forward could solidify a spot in June's draft with a head-turning March. That's particularly true if the Golden Eagles can earn an Elite Eight meeting with top-seeded Michigan State, pitting Crowder against a similarly bruising Draymond Green.
"I don't think [Crowder] is a first-round pick," the other scout clarified. "But if you're not on a draft board and get picked in the second round, then obviously you've helped yourself."


Hopefully, this fires Jae up and gives him extra incentive (as if he needed it) to have a balls out tournament.

The entire article:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/ben_glicksman/03/14/ncaa.tournament.prospects/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_sports