A 2012 Collegiate Men's Olympic Basketball Team Roster

With the Olympics coming up this summer and being in the wake of the NCAA Tournament, I got to thinking about who would be on the roster if the team was still made up of amateurs? I think the Coach would still be Coach K. Going on guesstimations, with using only college players I think it would have been Coack K in 1992, Rick Pitino in 1996, Coach K again in 2000, Roy Williams in 2004 and Ben Howland in 2008. As for the team?

Starters

• C Anthony Davis (Kentucky)
  
• PF Thomas Robinson (Kansas)
• SF Draymond Green (Michigan State)
  
• G Tyshawn Taylor (Kansas)
• PG Kendall Marshall (North Carolina)

Bench

• C Tyler Zeller (North Carolina)
• PF/C Mason Plumlee (Duke)
• PF Jared Sullinger (Ohio State)
• SF Robbie Hummel (Purdue)
  
• SF Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (Kentucky)
• SG Marcus Denmon (Missouri)
• SG Michael Snaer (Florida State)

The year in college basketball was ruled by the big men and this roster reflects that. Marshall and Taylor would be the only point guards and at times their probably would only be one guard on the floor. And as a Mizzou fan I'm of course biased in picking Marcus Denmon, but he's a sharp shooting senior as well as an All-American.

The big men are all self-explanatory, with the awards and accolades they've racked up this season. And with Coach K being the coach, one Duke player has to make the roster, though Ryan Kelly might be a stronger choice in a team setting, is why I have Plumlee on here.

Kidd-Gilchrist is a lock down defender and Hummel, along with Denmon, is a major shooting threat, at the small forward spots.

I might do the same for the other years since 1992, figuring out possible rosters. The hard part is that the bigger stars didn't always join the Olympic team (Alcindor, Walton) or get selected. But this is just part of the fun, of putting a roster together.