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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 

What Might've Been...

Posted by: Bradley McDonald

David Schoenfield, of ESPN's Page 2 (one of my favorite sites, if you haven't noticed), takes a light-hearted look at what the NCAA tourney might've been like if some of the players who jumped to the NBA had stayed in, or started, college.

In an alternate universe, Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon returned to Connecticut for their senior years.

In an alternate universe, Carmelo Anthony is a junior All-American at Syracuse.

In an alternate universe, Amare Stoudemire and Dajuan Wagner are a lethal one-two scoring punch for Memphis.

In an alternate universe, Luol Deng is still at Duke and he's been joined by freshmen Dwight Howard and Shaun Livingston.

In an alternate universe, the NBA has an age restriction and all high school phenoms go to college – and stay for four years.

In an alternate universe, this is what happens ...

He goes on to break down the actual matchups in the games. It's amazing to see how many names there are to pull from.