I liked your post, but not for your comments on UNC. That part sounds like sour grapes. Agreed that the officiating was bad in the title game, but UNC was the better team regardless IMO. That's precisely why they were in that game 2 years in a row. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I could go on and on for days how the Sacramento Kings should have beaten the Lakers back in 2002 and likely won a title if not for some of the worst officiating we've ever seen. However, it didn't happen and they don't have a title. Gotta live with that. Same applies to UNC in 2017. They are the champs and always will be.
Circling back to Justin Jackson, I agree with you that he should be safely within the top 20 -- unless he has some really bad workouts, which I've not heard of to this point. My guess is that he goes somewhere between 10 and 18.
What about at the end of the Arkansas game? and the fouls called on De'Aaron Fox in the Kentucky game (The ref got death threats over those calls)... The truth is they got a string of fortuitous calls, it was a pattern. The calls in the championship game on Gonzaga's best player were completely outrageous, let the kids play.
I agree with what you said about the champs being the champs. I'd also cite what happened in the NFC Championship game Brett Farve's Vikings squad was railroaded by the refs. It does happen, to me what happened to UNC in the tournament was a pattern. I understand thats how the cookie crumbles sometime, doesn't mean I need to pretend like that didn't happen.
Now one caveat to this is that simply the rule should be 6 fouls, not 5.. which will be changed within a few years IMO.
Yes there is some sour grapes btw, I'm a huge De'Aaron Fox and UK fan and for their season to end like that was an atrocity. Same for Zach Collins and Gonzaga.
Justin Jackson played like crap in the big game, 0-9 from 3, he scored 16 points on 19 shots, but the refs gave them all the help they needed, thats the truth.