Duke's Jabari Parker is now the projected number one pick on nbadraft.net's big board after Kansas's Andrew Wiggins maintained that spot for all of the preseason and early into this year's non-conference games. (Wiggins is still No. 1 on ESPN's preview). Wiggins isn't even the first Kansas player projected anymore. That spot belongs to seven-foot freshman Joel Embid, third on the team at 9.3 ppg and second at 6.8 rpg. The most hyped freshman prospect since David Stern raised the legal NBA-participation age, Wiggins has actually played pretty well this year (leading the team at 15.5 ppg), but two early season losses could be hurting his stock.

"We're not playing very good," Kansas head coach Bill Self told ESPN, referring to his team's recent losses to #10 Villanova and Colorado. "We're not playing good at all. The pieces just aren't quite fitting yet and we're trying to find ourselves."

The Duke game may end up typifying Wiggins' season. He scored 22 points that night, including some big second half slams, in the Jayhawks' win over then No. 4 Duke. (The Blue Devils have also had some issues and dropped to No. 12 since then). But those 22 points were "quiet" in the sense that most came within the flow of the game and on dunks (not necessarily bad things). Parker, on the other hand, was creating his own shots and was Duke's go-to scorer along with Rodney Hood. When the Jayhawks win, Wiggins looks like the rare star that doesn't need to dominate the ball; when they lose, he looks more like a complementary piece in the NBA -- a hardier version of Rudy Gay perhaps -- than a franchise player.

Still, Wiggins had 22 points in the loss to Colorado and perhaps he'll take on a more assertive role as the season progresses. The Jayhawks (6-2) will be a vulnerable team tonight at #19 Florida (6-2), but so will the Gators after their own buzzer-beater loss to #9 Connecticut (9-0).

"We didn't think we'd be a great team by Christmas," Self said, echoing the harsh self-critique of another preseason top-five coach, John Calipari. "That's being totally unrealistic. In the preseason ratings, they shouldn't have had us there. What we could be, we could play there to that at the end. There is too much stuff to learn and get over and grow."

Managing NBA-ready freshmen has been done before, but never have coaches had to manage this year's class, regarded as one of the best ever. They're either too good or not good enough right now.

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