How every Cleveland Cavaliers player performed in the NCAA Tournament
Let’s Go Dancing!
The Cleveland Cavaliers have their eyes currently focused on securing the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Yet for many basketball fans, their eyes will shift over the next few weeks to the NCAA Tournament. College basketball is officially entering March Madness.
In a surprising twist, every single player on the Cavaliers’ main roster played college basketball. In an era of the NBA when so many of the league’s best players hail from overseas, the Cavaliers have 13 American-born players and a Canadian, Tristan Thompson, who played at Texas.
When you add in the two-way players, only Australian Luke Travers did not play college basketball. That means 16 of Cleveland’s 17 players had the chance to participate in March Madness.
How did they do? Who made it to the NCAA Tournament? Did anyone make a deep run to the Final Four? Let’s look at every player on the roster and unpack their success in March Madness, starting with some bad news.
Didn’t make the Tournament at all
Jarrett Allen: While Jarrett Allen was a 5-star freshman who joined Shaka Smart and the Texas Longhorns in 2016-17, there was not another NBA player on the roster and they had a truly abysmal season. 11-22, just 4-14 in the Big 12, and no shot at the NCAA Tournament.
