The Case for Blake Griffin
If you have watched college basketball transform itself over the past 10 years, it should be obvious that point-guard play has become the essential ingredient in teams that achieve greatness, both in their conferences and in the NCAA tournament.
That's part of the reason I believe Blake Griffin should be the player of the year in college basketball. Griffin is not a point guard. In fact, his team's biggest weakness is its lack of solid point-guard play, and yet Griffin still so thoroughly dominates a game that Oklahoma's ongoing poor performance at the 1 seems moot.