Collison and Love on CBS’ pre-season All-American team

CBSSports.com senior writer Gary Parrish hasn’t been shy about his enthusiasm for the Bruin basketball team for this upcoming season. And his pre-season All-American picks confirm it, with UCLA’s Darren Collison and Kevin Love on his third team.

Parrish’s first team include Roy Hibbert (Georgetown) at center, North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough and Kansas’ Brandon Rush at forward with Derrick Rose of Memphis and Chris Lofton of Tennessee at guard. The second team has Ty Lawson (North Carolina), Drew Neitzel (Michigan State), Eric Gordon (Indiana), Michael Beasley (Kansas State) and Brook Lopez of Stanford (even though he is ineligible until late December).

Collison and Love are on the third team with Sean Singletary of Virginia, Chris Douglas-Roberts of Memphis and D.J. White of Indiana.

Parrish has UCLA ranked No. 2 in his pre-season Top 25, writing: "Every report coming from workouts is that Kevin Love is as good as advertised and Russell Westbrook is better than anybody realizes. Assuming both are true, the Bruins are about as safe a pick as possible for a third consecutive Final Four."

He has Memphis at No. 1, with North Carolina, Kansas and Tennessee in positions 3-5. He has Washington State at No. 7, Oregon at No. 14, USC at 17 and Arizona at 20.

Comments

[Craig]

I've never seen Kevin Love play, but someone sent me this link www.fromcourtside.com and said this scouting report is right on.

Any thoughts?

Craig