NBA: Top 10 Active Players From Mid-Majors

NBA stars don’t just come from major schools. Who are the Top 10 active players who attended mid-major college basketball programs?

When a team is looking for the next NBA star, the safest bet is often to study and evaluate the power conferences. The top recruits in the country attend the top schools, and that’s been the case for years on end.

Through all of the power conference hype, however, mid-major programs have turned out high-quality NBA players at a fairly common rate.

Conference realignment has complicated mid-major discussions, but this point remains true. Some of the best players on the planet have emerged from schools that haven’t traditionally produced top-flight talent.

As is reiterated every year at the NBA Draft: it’s not about the name on the front of the jersey, but the name on the back.

That may not be true for any setting other than the NBA Draft, but it is at the annual selection process. Thus, while it’s fair to evaluate the best you’d already heard of, it’d be wrong to ignore those who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds.

The question is: who is the best NBA player from a mid-major program?

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