Top 1-and-done NBA prospects have made a big impact in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll
Chris Carrawell started for a top-ranked Duke team that blew out just about everyone behind a roster stocked with NBA talent, including a freshman with tantalizing athleticism in a limited role. Instead, potential alone — captured in shot-out-of-a-cannon flashes that made Carrawell say “Whoa!” — made him the Blue Devils’ first one-and-done NBA player in 1999. “I was a little surprised,” Carrawell recalled.