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2022 DP World Tour Rankings format: How it works, field sizes, tournaments

The Race to Dubai playoffs format has changed several times since the concept was introduced, and the name change to the DP World Tour Rankings for the 2021-2022 season.

Explaining the DP World Tour Rankings format means detailing how players earn DP World Tour points, qualify for the final events to the DP World Tour Championship and then battle it out to see who wins the $2 million first-place prize.

2022 DP World Tour playoff format

How to qualify.

As has been the case since the start of the DP World Tour Rankings (Race to Dubai), the entire DP World Tour regular season leads to the conclusion, with each official event offering points to players who made the 36-hole cut based on a standardized system related to the purse as quoted in US dollars. For each regular European Tour event, the winner earns a certain number Race to Dubai points. The four majors, World Golf Championships and the BMW Championship offer more points. The final two events offer elevated points, with the season-ending DP World Tour Championship offering 2,000 points to the winner of the event.

All of the points from regular season events are tallied together at the conclusion of the regular season, which this year came with the completion of the Nedbank Golf Challenge. The top 50 players in the Race to Dubai standings at the end of those tournaments qualify for the Race to Dubai finale in the DP World Tour Championship. The top 110 players in points typically retain their status for the next season.

The top 50 available players qualify for the DP World Tour Championship.

The top five finishers in the Race to Dubai standings after the DP World Tour Championship claim a share of the bonus pool.

DP World Tour playoff events and cuts

In the final events of the season, the Nedbank Golf Challenge and DP World Tour Championship, points are increased. Points earned in these final events are added to a player's regular season tally. The player with the most points at the end of the DP World Tour Championship tops the DP World Tour rankings and wins the $2 million winner's share of the bonus pool .

DP World Tour Championship format

Starting in 2019, the DP World Tour Championship format is a 72-hole, stroke-play tournament with no handicaps or cut. The player who wins the event earns 2,000 Race to Dubai points, and each player completing the event earns points. At the conclusion, the points leader wins the season-long race.

However, there remains great incentive to win the season-ending tournament. The tournament features a $10 million purse, with $3 million to the winner.

Win both the season finale and the season-long race, and a player claims a huge payday.

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In August 2022, a year from now, the system used to calculate the Official World Golf Ranking will undergo significant changes.

"While the Ranking has served men’s professional golf exceptionally well," reads an explainer provided to the media from the OWGR governing board this week, "analysis has revealed that by modernizing two components of the system, the Ranking could provide significantly greater accuracy while differentiating performances [i.e., rank] of all 5,000 players included in the system."

To understand the changes, it's necessary to understand how the system works now … which, for the casual fan, is not a given.

The current form of OWGR can be summarized as follows:

1. The OWGR uses two years, or 104 weeks, worth of results. 2. Each player earns points based on how he finishes in a tournament. He earns more points for a higher finish. 3. If a tournament field is strong, total points rise. If a field is weak, total points fall. This next thought is complicated: There's a world rating chart (which takes into account the quality of players) and a home rating chart (taking into account the number of quality players from the home tour), and those numbers are combined into a "strength of field" rating. After that, the OWGR has a guide identifying exactly how many points each finisher should get. 4. The points a player earns in a tournament are counted in full for 13 weeks. After that, the value decreases by about 1.09 percent per week for the remaining 91 weeks, diminishing gradually until the 105th week, when it vanishes into the fog of time and is counted no more. 5. Each player's total points are added, divided by his total events played, and from that, you have a World Ranking list.

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What you may have noticed baked into point No. 3 is that the "value" of each tournament depends on where it's played and who is playing. In other words, your average PGA Tour event has always been more valuable than your average European Tour event, which is more valuable than an average event on any other tour. To give a recent example, from Week 30 in 2021, the winner of the 3M Open in Minnesota received 40 World Ranking points, the winner of the Cazoo Open in Europe received 24, the Korn Ferry Tour winner got 14, the Challenge Tour winner got 12, the Korean winner nine, the Canadian winner six, PGA Tour Latinoamérica six, and so on into the more obscure tours.

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The relative strength of top-tier American golf is accounted for. However, there is still a modicum of "protection" for smaller tours based on minimum point variables. Those will be gone, and if you want an overarching headline from the new OWGR changes, it's this:

Starting next summer, the tournaments with the best players in the world are going to be even more valuable from a World Ranking perspective, relative to the rest, because of the relative value of the players themselves.

How much more valuable? That's tougher to say, but we can get closer to the truth by laying out the nuts and bolts of how things will actually change:

1. This is the big one: Instead of just OWGR points, which are static and assigned based on pre-set values, players are going to be measured by a second metric called Strokes Gained World Rating (SGWR). This will be based on "actual scores in stroke-play events adjusted for the relative difficulty of each round played over a rolling two-year period."

2. Also key: The SGWR score will determine the strength of each field, because each player will have "performance points" that he brings into a tournament based on the SGWR. The total performance points in an event will be known as a "field rating." These points will be up for grabs by the entire field, and those numbers will determine World Ranking.

3. The points available for each finishing position will still be set prior to the event. In other words, you can't win more points with a 15-shot win vs. a playoff win. (Though this will increase a player's SGWR, and thus the number of performance points he brings to the next tournament.) To do otherwise would be to simply measure the World Ranking by SGWR, and the powers that be are avoiding that to ensure that a premium is still placed on winning.

Meanwhile, the current two-year system, with diminishing values for old events as time passes, remains in a similar form.

The strokes gained concept developed by Mark Broadie and eventually embraced by the PGA Tour is being adapted to measure World Ranking, and in fact, according to Billy Schroder of the PGA Tour, Broadie has personally been "integral" in the adaptive process.

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Today, rankings are determined by pre-set numbers based on assumptions about how a field would look. Under the new system, field rating is relative to recent performance. Where Cam Champ, the winner of this year's 3M Open, received 40 World Ranking points, the winner in the future could get more or less depending on whom actually shows up.

The advantage here is that you can measure performance in a more dynamic, distilled manner; no longer do you have to limit the measure of skill in a field to a set number of players, and now every player who makes the cut can earn a portion of the performance points available that week. Rather than laying out a baseline assumption that first place is X points better than second place under the old system of assigned values, you can now allot the points precisely based on the field that week. That is unquestionably good, from an accuracy perspective.

The potential disadvantage is creating, or at least exacerbating, a "rich get richer" situation, both in terms of players and tours. The case can be made that good results on an individual level will contribute to higher performance points in each event, which gives the world's best players more and more points to accumulate, to the point that they exist in a different statistical stratosphere than their counterparts in Europe and Asia. And couldn't you extrapolate from there that the same will happen on the tour level, with the PGA Tour especially benefiting?

The answer is, "maybe," but we have no idea how much, or if indeed it will be any different than the disparities we see today (which, you could argue, benefit non-American tours too much as it stands). The OWGR technical committee knows the answer, having run countless simulations, but in a press conference Tuesday they were careful to avoid answering any specific questions about the benefit to larger tours or how, in their simulations, the actual World Ranking of today would be different under the new system. The most we got in a written explainer is that they anticipate that the top 50 would be different by "2-5" players under the new system, while the top 10 would remain unchanged. But in terms of the strokes gained system benefiting the PGA Tour, this language from the explainer is interesting:

"To account for round difficulty—including differences in field, course and scoring conditions—a widely accepted statistical modeling calculation known as fixed effects regression simultaneously uses all scores in a two-year period to standardize all rounds relative to one another, providing the appropriate adjustment value necessary. A round with highly skilled players and challenging scoring conditions played on a difficult course will have scores adjusted down, while a round with lesser skilled players and more benign scoring conditions played on an easier course will have scores adjusted up."

It's easy to imagine that the highly skilled players will all cluster in one place, leading to a self-perpetuating upward spiral, perhaps leading to fewer global opportunities in the short term and further depletion of global tours in the long term. Nevertheless, the OWGR committee has anticipated that outcome and stated in its presentation that its analysis "ensured that consistent high-level play resulted in significant improvement in a player’s Ranking, regardless of which Tour he competes."

Here's the short answer for those worried about removing the World Ranking crutch that has propped up non-American golf under the existing system: We'll have to wait and see, but it will probably be fine.

There are nods to tradition here. Majors will still follow a baseline of 100 points awarded to the top finisher, and while "flagship events" are allegedly eliminated, the Players Championship keeps its status as the best of the rest, with 80 points going to the winner. Again, winning is at a premium, so you're not going to see a series of top-five finishes taking on greater value than more erratic play that results in an occasional win. (i.e., Tony Finau shouldn't be doing cartwheels right now.) Finally, because this is a rolling two-year system, even after implementation next August, there will be two years before rankings are entirely determined by the new method. There will be plenty of time to adust.

In short, this is a step forward from a mathematical perspective, and the only potential pitfall—which some would not consider a pitfall at all—is that in the noble quest for relativity, the slight bias toward non-PGA Tour golf may be eliminated, with whatever consequences that entails to world golf. We don't know for sure that this will happen, or how extreme it will be, but it's hard to imagine that the OWGR would implement any system that (for instance) significantly cut off paths to WGC events for foreign players.

They've run the numbers, everything they say makes a lot of sense, and until proven otherwise, the appropriate response here seems to be, sit back and trust the math.

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The Masters 2024: Thunderstorms predicted to affect first round

The first round of the 88th Masters Tournament could be affected by inclement weather as heavy rain and thunderstorms are predicted on Thursday.

After dry conditions over the three tournament practice days, including for the start of the family-friendly Par 3 Contest on the eve of the first men’s Major of the year, the weather is set to change overnight and into the early morning.

There is a 90% chance of showers and thunderstorms prior to 1 pm, with wind gusts of 40-45 mph between 8am and noon (all local times).

Adverse weather delay has forced at least one suspension in play in each of the past five editions of The Masters, with last year’s winner Jon Rahm required to play 30 holes on the final day due to earlier disruptions.  

This year’s tournament is due to get underway around 7.45am, with honorary starters Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson hitting the ceremonial tee shots, before the first group is scheduled to go off at 8am.

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A Masters Tournament weather update published on Wednesday read: “A cold front is forecast to bring a band of rain and scattered thunderstorms through the region between 6 a.m.-1 p.m. ET Thursday. Heavy rainfall and occasional wind gusts of 40-45 mph are anticipated over this period.

"A lull in precipitation should occur behind the cold front between 1-4 p.m. ET before scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms drift back into the region for the late afternoon and evening hours.

“Windy conditions persist Friday under mostly sunny skies as a dry and stable airmass settles into the area. Mostly sunny skies can be expected through the weekend with west to southwesterly winds in the 7-15 mph range.”

Thursday is expected to be the only day which could be affected with drier and less humid conditions set to arrive on Friday.

The weather over the weekend is predicted to be sunny and warm.

Here is a day-by-day breakdown of the official Masters Tournament weather forecast:

Thursday: Mostly cloudy with a 90% chance of showers and thunderstorms prior to 1PM. Partly cloudy with a 40% chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms after 4PM.

Forecast rainfall: 1.25-1.75”. Wind gusts of 40-45 mph between 8AM-12PM. Low: 65F High: 77F Winds: S shifting SW 15-25 G 30-35 mph

Friday: Mostly sunny and windy. Noticeably less humid. Low: 54F High: 72F Winds: W 15-20 G 30 mph

Saturday: Mostly sunny and warm. Low: 49F High: 78F Winds: WNW turning W 7-15 mph

Sunday: Mostly sunny and warm. Low: 53F High: 84F Winds: W turning SW 7-15 mph

UAE Challenge Tour double-header helping develop homegrown players

Akram Skaik, Director General at the Emirates Golf Federation (EGF), has expressed the importance of the partnership between the European Tour group and the EGF in helping develop UAE players, with the EGF set to receive 60 invites across two Challenge Tour events in Abu Dhabi this month.

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2023 Ryder Cup Standings & Qualification: How Are Europe & Team USA Shaping Up?

Current European and American Ryder Cup standings & current rankings for qualification for the event in Rome

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Let’s look at how the teams currently look in the 2023 Ryder Cup standings, the pinnacle of team golf, being held in Italy at Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome.

Team Europe, captained by Luke Donald , will host Zach Johnson’s Team USA in the showpiece event from September 29 – October 1, 2023, as the visitors defend the trophy they won so convincingly at Whistling Straits in 2021.

Let’s see how the Ryder Cup teams are lining up and how players can book their place on the 12-man teams for the 44th edition of golf’s biggest team event.

European team Ryder Cup standings & qualification

Qualification for the European team for the 2023 Ryder Cup started after the 2022 BMW PGA Championship on September 11, and runs until September 3, 2023.

The big change for this year is that skipper Donald will have six Captain’s Picks to make instead of the three Padraig Harrington had for the last Ryder Cup in Wisconsin.

Automatic Ryder Cup qualification will still come from two points lists, but this time just three players will qualify from the European Points List, with a further three qualifiers being the top three on the World Points List that aren’t already qualified.

Current Team Europe Ryder Cup standings

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European Points List: 1. Rory McIlroy (4033.5) Q 2. Jon Rahm (3417.23) Q 3. Robert MacIntyre (1743.57) 4. Yannik Paul (1652.9) 5. Adrian Meronk (1614.21) 6. Tommy Fleetwood (1534.37) 7. Victor Perez (1527.95) 8. Rasmus Hojgaard (1516.86) 9. Adrian Otaegui (1430.01) 10. Shane Lowry (1290.23)

World Points List: 1. Rory McIlroy (399.29) 2. Jon Rahm (392.72) 3. Viktor Hovland (321.67) Q 4. Tyrrell Hatton (199.17) 5. Tommy Fleetwood (180.52) 6. Matt Fitzpatrick (178.62) 7. Sepp Straka (144.46) 8. Shane Lowry (105.21) 9. Justin Rose (100.32) 10. Robert MacIntyre (92.32)

Team USA 2023 Ryder Cup standings & qualification

Team USA had six Captain’s Picks for the last Ryder Cup, which worked out rather well, so Johnson will have the same option this time around.

The American Ryder Cup qualification system comprises of just one qualifying list, with points allocated over a longer stretch of golf – with seven big events in 2022 including the four Majors having points attached to them.

Ryder Cup qualification points are then awarded at all PGA Tour events from January 2023 with double points awarded for winners of the four Majors.

Current Team USA Ryder Cup standings

(Players in bold qualify automatically)

1. Scottie Scheffler (27,617.735) Q 2. Wyndham Clark (13,738.920) Q 3. Brian Harman (11,100.539) Q 4. Patrick Cantlay (10,946.750) Q 5 . Max Homa (9,638.764) Q 6. Xander Schauffele (9,450.269) Q 7. Brooks Koepka (9,421.145) 8. Jordan Spieth (8,188.332) 9. Cameron Young (8,127.308) 10. Collin Morikawa (7,683.230) 11. Keegan Bradley (7,642.974) 12. Sam Burns (7,334.703) 13. Rickie Fowler (7,116.241) 14. Denny McCarthy (6,761.272) 15. Justin Thomas (6,539.195) 16. Lucas Glover (6,341.609) 17. Kurt Kitayama (5,918.269) 18. Russell Henley (5,551.880) 19. Will Zalatoris (5,529.134) 20. Harris English (5,456.686)

Qualifying will end after the second FedEx Cup play-off event on the 2023 PGA Tour schedule , the BMW Championship, on August 20, 2023, with the top six eligible players on the points list securing spots on Team USA.

Johnson will then announce his six Captain's Picks after the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.

Paul Higham is a sports journalist with over 20 years of experience in covering most major sporting events for both Sky Sports and BBC Sport. He is currently freelance and covers the golf majors on the BBC Sport website.  Highlights over the years include covering that epic Monday finish in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor and watching Rory McIlroy produce one of the most dominant Major wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional. He also writes betting previews and still feels strangely proud of backing Danny Willett when he won the Masters in 2016 - Willett also praised his putting stroke during a media event before the Open at Hoylake. Favourite interviews he's conducted have been with McIlroy, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjorn, Rickie Fowler and the enigma that is Victor Dubuisson. A big fan of watching any golf from any tour, sadly he spends more time writing about golf than playing these days with two young children, and as a big fair weather golfer claims playing in shorts is worth at least five shots. Being from Liverpool he loves the likes of Hoylake, Birkdale and the stretch of tracks along England's Golf Coast, but would say his favourite courses played are Kingsbarns and Portrush. 

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PGA DFS: European Tour DraftKings Picks & Preview for the DP World Tour Championship

Updated December 9, 2020 1:04 pm

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The last men’s professional golf tournament of the year heads across the pond to Dubai for the DP World Tour Championship or the European Tours end of season Tournament. The Top 60 golfers in the Race To Dubai standings qualified for the event, but many of those golfers, like Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy, decided not to play, so the eligibility ranking went all the way down to No. 80. Even without Rahm and McIlroy, the field is stacked with some of the game’s youngest stars set to tee it up. A lifetime member of the Euro Tour, Patrick Reed  is your odds favorite and highest-priced DraftKings golfer this week. Let’s dig into the PGA DFS picks and fantasy golf data a bit.

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• Yearly European Tour Strokes Gained
• Other European Tour Statistical rankings
• Eleven weeks of Recent Form
• Seven Years of Course History (2013-2019
• Strokes gained information from last two weeks of play (Dubai Championship/South African Open and Alfred Dunhill)
• My Projected Ratings and Rankings

The Course: Jumeriah Golf Estates, Earth Course

The beautifully manicured dessert course has been a mainstay as this tournament’s host for quite a few years running.

Viewing (Sweat) Schedule.

Golf Channel: 2-10 a.m. EST Almost every day. There is a break for Golf Central at 8:00 a.m. each day, but it’s likely they will still show coverage.

The weather looks good for at least the first two days. It will be ideal scoring conditions with little to no wind and temps in the 70s.

Fantasy Golf: PGA DFS Picks for the DP World Euro Tour

Total Player Pool: 60 Golfers

Week-Long DFS Entries

Because of the demand being undervalued again by DraftKings, I ended up missing the big $12 GPP entirely. There is a secondary one out now. 

• 3 $555 Signature Hole
• 1 $150 Driving Range
• 64 GPP Lines

Fantasy Golf Lineup Construction

Since this is a no-cut event, I’m not looking to go entirely overweight on one golfer this week, especially with how good of a field it is without that premier talent. That just means there is no clear-cut favorite. DraftKings pricing is also quite strong given that Reed is above 10-1 to win but still priced as if he’s in the single digits. That should lead to rather good ownership across the board, with no one golfer getting overly chalky. I’m going to be building rather aggressively, taking a lot of shots with golfers priced in the $6,000s and low $7,000s while adding one, two or even three golfers above $9,500 into my fantasy golf lineup. Viktor Hovland is the only guy I decided not to play in the bigger-dollar stuff who I will still have plenty in GPPs. Personally, I’d rather just play a guy I know has been on the ground for a little while and could end up a lot lower-owned in higher dollars: Tommy Fleetwood. Here are my heavy allocations above $9,500.

Top End DraftKings Picks

Patrick reed($11,500).

Reed is the only guy I think will end up being left out of the $555 signature hole this week unless I add in another lineup. If I don’t, he’ll end up on my $150 squad. Of my GPP lines I was able to secure, I’ll get him in about 20%.

Tyrell Hatton ($11,200)

The $300 mattered to me when building out my big-dollar lines, so Hatton snuck in there over Reed. He’s played well here before when he’s been in form, and I don’t think that form is too far away. Sure, he missed the cut on the big stage at Augusta, but back on the Euro Tour, this should feel more his speed. I don’t mind playing him as one of the highest-priced golfers on the slate.

Tommy Fleetwood ($10,900)

I’m going for game theory here as a pivot against Hovland. It doesn’t feel great, as Hovland has already proven to be more successful on the PGA Tour in his short time than Fleetwood has, but this is not the PGA Tour. Fleetwood has also been a mainstay on leaderboards here quite a few times in the past six years.

Collin Morikawa ($10,500 and Sungjae Im $10,300)

I decided to use this stack here, thinking not many gamers will want to play Morikawa at this price in the form he’s been in recently. I’m fine with it, and I know I’m getting four rounds out of him, so he’ll catch fire at least one. As for Im, I think he’ll be pretty highly owned, but pairing him with Morikawa should provide the higher-end differentiation.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout ($10,100)

Don’t call it a win streak, but Bezuidenhout has won two straight weeks and now heads into the DP World as one of the hottest golfers on the planet. An amazing putter, the young South African has been getting it done with his irons the last two weeks, gaining almost 20 strokes with them in two weeks. Obviously, his putter has been hot, but I’m not going to fade this win streak. This likely will come back to bite me when Hovland goes on a winning streak of his own.

Robert MacIntyre and Matt Wallace

If you haven’t caught the podcast with Ben Rasa and I, then you might not have heard my disdain for Matthew Fitzpatrick. I just don’t buy his attitude right now, and I think it’s because he knows he’s not in great form. The next two guys below him, the two listed here, are both in very good form and are cheaper.

Value DraftKings Picks

Thomas pieters ($8,900).

The price is right here for Pieters, who can light up a scoreboard in a hurry. He doesn’t need a top-five to pay off his salary this week, so he’s an easy roster but likely is chalky. I’m OK playing chalk in a few spots.

Wilco Nienaber ($8,000)

Don’t say he’s the Cameron Champ of the Euro Tour. An absolute bomber of the ball, the 20-year-old from South Africa has ridden his recent play all the way to the Tour Championship, likely his biggest stage yet in his young career. I’m rostering him on DraftKings for the same reason I am Pieters: His ability to outscore his finishing position.

Aaron Rai and Rasmus Hojgaard ($7,700)

There has been a spot of regression for Hojgaard since his torrid restart. Now his price is down, but only his short game is off, as the ball striking seemed to be there in his two rounds last week in Dubai. Now with a guaranteed four rounds, he should be able to figure out the short game, at least for a couple of rounds.

As for Rai, he’s had an emergence over the past 11 weeks, with three top-fives, including a win. That type of form doesn’t just disappear overnight, even with a bit of a regression in his last start, where he came in 50th. I like his upside here at these price levels, and he’s played the course a couple of times already.

Cheap PGA DFS Picks

Marcus armitage ($7,400).

I am going with the Model pick here, as he ranks as the top guy under $7,500 on DraftKings in both sets. His recent form is very good, so it makes sense. I’ll roll with it this week.

Renato Paratore ($7,200)

The young Italian took a bit of a break but came back for last week’s Dubai Championship and was top five heading into Sunday. A rather sub-par performance on Sunday pushed him outside of the top 10. It shows that his form isn’t far behind. He’s only played here once back — four years ago — but did come in 30th, so there should be some familiarity with the course.

Ross Fisher ($7,200)

In the same boat as Paratore, while not having a great Sunday, Fisher still was able to finish seventh at last week’s Dubai Championship. He himself said that he loves to play here in the desert for whatever reason, and it shows. He’s been here plenty of times and has a plethora of top-25s, and at $7,200, with his ability to score, that’s all we need from him this week to pay off his salary.

Golfers Below $7,000 in My Big-Dollar Fantasy Golf Lineups

• Marcus Kinhult
• Jorge Campillo
• Marc Warren
• Connor Syme
• Grant Forrest

Fringe (DraftKings PGA DFS GPP Targets)

• Bernd Wiesberger
• Andy Sullivan
• Martin Kaymer
• Lee Westwood
• Thomas Detry
• Antoine Rozner
• Adrian Otaegui
• Adri Arnaus
• Dean Burmester
• Joost Luiten
• Brandon Stone
• Jamie Donaldson
• Joachim Hansen
• Branden Grace
• Justin Harding
• Callum Shinkwin
• Sam Horsfield
• Sean Crocker
• Jazz Janewattananond
• Garrick Higgo
• Graeme McDowell

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Masters 2024 props, golf odds: Expert reveals top PGA Tour prop bets, parlay picks for Augusta National

Mike mcclure locked in his expert pga golf prop picks and parlay for the masters 2024 at augusta national.

The 2024 Masters has arrived, with play beginning at Augusta National Golf Club on Thursday at 8 a.m. ET. Scottie Scheffler is the 13-4 favorite, while Rory McIlroy is 10-1 to complete the career grand slam. However, outright betting is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Masters betting and there are plenty of 2024 Masters props you can play to add variety to your tickets. There are 18 past champions in the 2024 Masters field and one of the 2024 Masters prop bets being offered is for a former green jacket winner to win again at +180.

Will anyone add to their Masters legacy, or will one of the other 71 players competing at Augusta break through for their first green jacket? Before locking in your 2024 Masters prop picks or entering Masters pool picks, you need to see what SportsLine DFS pro and PGA expert Mike McClure has to say . 

McClure is a DFS legend with over $2 million in career winnings, and he's been red-hot on his PGA picks dating back to the PGA Tour restart in June of 2020. McClure uses his proprietary simulation model to analyze the field and crush his  golf picks . He is up almost $9,500 on his best bets since the restart.  

McClure's model predicted Jon Rahm would finish on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model was all over Rahm's second career major victory heading into the weekend. It was the second straight Masters win for the model, which also nailed Scheffler winning in 2022. 

This same model has also nailed a whopping 10 majors entering the weekend. Anyone who has followed McClure's picks has seen massive returns.  

Now, McClure has dialed in on the Masters golf tournament and just locked in his top prop picks and PGA predictions. You can only see McClure's Masters 2024 prop picks at SportsLine .

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We can tell you that one of McClure's favorite Masters prop picks is Ludvig Aberg to be the top debutant at +275. Aberg will be one of 20 players making their debut at Augusta National this week and the list includes talents who figure to be regulars at Augusta like Wyndham Clark, Nick Dunlap, Akshay Bhatia, Nicolai Hojgaard and Jake Knapp.

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Too-early men’s college basketball Top 25: Duke, Gonzaga, Houston start in front

Those in the industry have always called this exercise the way-too-early Top 25. A more appropriate title in this transfer portal era of college basketball would be the almost-impossible Top 25.

We realize this is a tough task, trying to speculate on who might return and who might leave and who might even be the coach. (Thanks, John Calipari.) We have done our best to make those projections. If we anticipate that you’ll leave for the NBA Draft based on our projections, then you are not included. There are probably some players listed here who think right now that they are leaving for the NBA but will ultimately return when they receive their feedback. This will be a lot easier in a few months when we have clarity on the rosters but, hey, the national champion has been crowned. We are starting to think about next year. And it’s always fun to project ahead. With that, here is your don’t-hold-us-to-it-super-early Top 25.

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Projected starters: Jeremy Roach, Tyrese Proctor, Caleb Foster, Cooper Flagg (freshman), Khaman Maluach (freshman)

Notable returners: Mark Mitchell, Sean Stewart, T.J. Power, Jaden Schutt, Jaylen Blakes

Other newcomers: Kon Knueppel, Isaiah Evans, Darren Harris, Patrick Ngongba II

As you might notice by the fact that we have 14 players listed here when Duke only has 13 scholarships to play with, we can expect a level of attrition in the coming days on this roster. At the very least, someone has got to go. Having said that, this is the deepest team in college basketball as presently constructed at the time of recording, and projects extremely well in terms of upside.

This Duke team kind of has everything. You want extreme upside freshmen? Flagg and Maluach in the frontcourt are projected top-three picks. Flagg, particularly, projects to be a high-impact, winning basketball player as a freshman due to his improved offensive skill set and elite defensive traits. Want older backcourt guys? Roach and Proctor are upperclassmen who have been through it before, helping to lead Duke to the Elite Eight this year. Proctor still has some NBA upside, and Roach is the kind of steady scorer every team wants. A gritty upper-class glue guy? Mark Mitchell is a fantastic defender who has started all but one game of his Duke career to this point, and we don’t even currently have him projected as a starter because we like the fit of having shooters next to Flagg and Maluach a bit better. How about some potential post-hype, breakout sophomores? Foster had flashes of fantastic play this season. Stewart and Power are former top-20 recruits with real upside.

We haven’t even gotten to the rest of the freshman class, which includes three more top-20 players in the 2024 class in Evans, Knueppel, and Ngongba. Evans is skinny but has immense upside long-term, and Knueppel is a ready-to-go college scorer with a strong build and real skills to match. This is an absurd collection of talent. There aren’t enough minutes to go around. In the coming weeks, we’ll see where exactly this roster falls. But as of the time of publishing, there is absolutely no better collection of talent in college basketball for next season. It is a ridiculous group of players.

Projected starters: Ryan Nembhard, Nolan Hickman, Steele Venters, Ben Gregg, Graham Ike

Notable returners: Braden Huff, Dusty Stromer

Other newcomers: Michael Ajayi

Gonzaga was about as good as anybody to close this season. They were one of the 10 best teams in the country from Jan. 15 onward after a rough start, as a lot of newcomers adjusted to Mark Few’s offense and tried to get settled into a different environment. But by the time that Jan. 15 mark hit, it was all systems go. The Zags were No. 4 in offensive efficiency according to Bart Torvik over that time, and went 16-3 with their only losses coming to Saint Mary’s and Purdue. They made their ninth consecutive Sweet 16, which is truly just an absurd degree of sustained success.

And here’s the thing about the Zags next year: They get nearly everyone back from this year’s team. The only projected departure is program stalwart Anton Watson, and the team has already gone into the transfer portal and at least replaced him positionally with Pepperdine forward Ajayi, a first-team All-WCC member who averaged 17 points and nine rebounds. The keys here come at the pivot points, though. Nembhard was one of the best point guards in the country from the start of February onward, dishing out 8.4 assists versus only 2.4 turnovers. Then Ike, a dominant post player, averaged 18.4 points and 7.2 rebounds from Jan. 25 onward.

Throw in that they’ll also get back Venters, the 2023 Big Sky Player of the Year who tore his ACL in the preseason and left the Zags with a hole on the wing this season that they couldn’t fill. Yeah, Gonzaga is very well-positioned to succeed, and that’s before even getting to Huff, who we believe has legitimate star potential in college basketball. Gonzaga has another real chance to cut down the nets next season.

Projected starters: Portal Player TBD, L.J. Cryer, Emanuel Sharp, J’Wan Roberts, Ja’Vier Francis

Notable returners: Joseph Tugler, Terrance Arceneaux, Mylik Wilson, Ramon Walker

Other newcomers: Chase McCarty, Mercy Miller

Houston’s roster as currently constructed could arguably be the Big 12 favorite. Add a quality point guard out of the portal and it’ll be the clearcut Big 12 favorite and a preseason national title contender. Considering Kelvin Sampson’s hit rate in the portal, we’re going to assume that happens. The Cougars have had teams good enough to get to a Final Four the last three years and been crushed by injuries late. At some point you’d think their injury luck will change. This could be one of Sampson’s deepest teams. If Tugler and Arceneaux really do come off the bench, it’ll be one of those scenarios where a coach can say “We have seven starters” and it’s not just something he says to make his bench guys feel good about themselves. Tugler and Arceneaux are two players NBA scouts have had their eyes on.

Obviously, Big 12 Player of the Year/All-American Jamal Shead is a huge loss, but Cryer has the potential to be an All-American and we know the defense is going to continue to be awesome.

4. Iowa State

Projected starters: Tamin Lipsey, Keshon Gilbert, Curtis Jones, Milan Momcilovic, Dishon Jackson (transfer)

Notable returners: Demarion Watson

Other newcomers: Nate Heise (transfer), Nojus Indrusaitis, Dwayne Pierce

Depending on who else Iowa State adds in the portal, this could end up being an even better team than the 2024 Big 12 tournament champs. The Cyclones return their four leading scorers in  Gilbert, Lipsey, Jones and Momcilovic and already have landed an offensive upgrade at center in Charlotte transfer Jackson, who averaged 11.4 points and 6.1 rebounds per game this season. Northern Iowa transfer  Heise, who averaged 13.5 points per game, could become a starter or sixth man, depending on whether T.J. Otzelberger wants to keep Jones in the role of microwave man off the bench. Otzelberger and his staff have done an excellent job at identifying under-the-radar guys in the portal who fit their culture. So it’s almost at the point that anyone he signs from the portal you just assume they’ll outperform expectations. Defensively, the Cyclones should once again be one of the best in the country, especially if they land at least one more athletic big.

5. Connecticut

Projected starters: Hassan Diarra, Solomon Ball, Jaylin Stewart, Alex Karaban, Samson Johnson

Notable returners: Jayden Ross

Other newcomers: Ahmad Nowell, Isaiah Abraham

We’re projecting that Karaban returns, with Stephon Castle and Donovan Clingan going pro. That still leaves the Huskies with some experience as well as a bevy of talent from a loaded rising sophomore class that projects to be terrific for the Huskies in 2024-25. But the key returner here is indeed Karaban, who would project as a first-team All-Big East player next season as a knockdown shooter who has improved as a driver and is solid on defense.

Beyond them, Diarra projects to step into the starting guard role after spending two seasons as a change-of-pace defender. Stewart is an athletic scorer who should step up into being a more primary player, and complements Karaban at the four well. Johnson isn’t quite the defender that Clingan is, but he’s an elite rim-runner who plays at high speed in transition and out of ball screens. Ross and Ball are different, but Ross can really shoot it on the wing, and Ball is a strong combo guard with length. Beyond that though, Connecticut will have at least three scholarships to work with in the portal to add to their team. We guess that given the last two seasons, the Huskies will be an extremely popular destination.

Projected starters: Latrell Wrightsill Jr., Rylan Griffen, Derrion Reid (freshman), Jarin Stevenson, Grant Nelson

Notable returners: Nick Pringle, Sam Walters, Mohamed Wague, Mouhamed Dioubate, Kris Parker, Davin Cosby

Other newcomers: Aidan Sherrell, Naas Cunningham, Houston Mallette

Much like with Duke above, we’re listing 14 players here — and that’s including a projected departure from Mark Sears cashing in on his outstanding NCAA Tournament to turn professional. So there will obviously be some roster attrition in the coming days. But, man, is this roster so incredibly deep coming back.

The big returners here are Nelson and Griffen, both of whom project to have monster upperclass seasons for the Tide if they go back to school. Nelson really started to figure out SEC play later in the year and in the NCAA Tournament, using his athletic tools and skills off the bounce to take centers away from the rim. Griffen is a 3-and-D wing with potential for more. But the team is also just straight-up loaded with wing and forward talent. Stevenson and Walters had good freshman seasons that should allow them to grow into even more important roles as sophomores. Pringle played a terrific bruiser role this year. Wague and Dioubate were good in limited roles.

GRANT NELSON OH MY GOODNESS 😱 #MarchMadness @AlabamaMBB pic.twitter.com/6qi24R5ZBm — NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) April 7, 2024

Then to top it off, the Tide have a top-five recruiting class led by Reid and Sherrell. Reid is a big-time scorer who is a more physical driver than a skilled wing, but he would work nicely in lineups with Stevenson and Nelson pulling rim protectors away from the basket. Sherrell is best right now as an enormous rim-runner who can defend, and should be able to get early minutes next year as a complement to a skilled big like Nelson. Cunningham is a top-50 recruit who was at one time considered one of the best players in his class before leveling off a bit late during his prep years. They’ve also already brought in a lights-out shooter from Pepperdine in  Mallette who is a good fit for their scheme.

The only place that the Tide could stand to upgrade the depth at is point guard, where Wrightsell is a bit on his own right now. If they find that answer in the portal, watch out.

Projected starters: Dajuan Harris Jr., Zeke Mayo (transfer), Riley Kugel (transfer), KJ Adams, Hunter Dickinson

Notable returners: Elmarko Jackson, Zach Clemence, Jamari McDowell

Other newcomers: Flory Bidunga, Labaron Philon, Rakease Passmore

Kansas arguably has a better roster now than this past season’s team that opened the year ranked No. 1. Bill Self has addressed the depth issue by grabbing two transfers already and also signing one of the top freshman classes, headlined by five-star big man Flory Bidunga. The Jayhawks also badly needed to add some shooting, and Zeke Mayo helps there. The Summit League Player of the Year was one of the best shooters available in the portal. He made 92 3s this season at a 39.1 percent clip. It’s also possible that Johnny Furphy returns for his sophomore season, but we’re projecting him as a loss right now considering he’s a potential first-round pick.

Shooting and floor-spacing are still a concern, but this is definitely a deeper and more athletic team. Also, a relevant stat: This season marked the fourth time Bill Self did not win the Big 12; he followed those first three seasons up by winning the Big 12 each year. The last two times it happened were 2019 and 2021. In 2020, KU was the favorite to win the national title until the pandemic shut down the tournament, and in 2022 KU won the national title. A motivated Self is a dangerous man.

8. Tennessee

Projected starters: Zakai Zeigler, Jahmai Mashack, Jordan Gainey, Tobe Awaka, Jonas Aidoo

Notable returners: JP Estrella, Cameron Carr, Cade Phillips, D.J. Jefferson

Other newcomers: Bishop Boswell

The Volunteers will lose first-team All-American Dalton Knecht, and that is a significant loss. Knecht is what made Tennessee different this season, allowing them to score bail-out buckets when the offensive execution got tough. Next year, they’ll need to find that answer — potentially in the portal again, given that they still project to have three open scholarship slots.

But the backbone of this recent Tennessee run has been elite defense, and all of the pieces from this past season’s No. 3 defense in the country, per KenPom, are back. Zeigler and Mashack on the perimeter as well as Aidoo on the interior are the important players there, as Rick Barnes has created a terrific high-pressure defense that also protects the rim at an elite level. The big thing this current group will need is some of the rising sophomores to step up, including dynamic offensive player Carr, a former top-50 recruit who was just quite skinny this past season and needed a bit of time to develop his frame.

9. North Carolina

Projected starters: Elliot Cadeau, RJ Davis, Ian Jackson (freshman), Harrison Ingram, Jalen Washington

Notable returners: Jae’Lyn Withers, Seth Trimble

Other newcomers: Drake Powell, James Brown

This all hinges on the return of Davis and Ingram. They could elect to go pro, but we’re speculating that based on their draft stock they will eventually decide to return to North Carolina, where the guaranteed money should be better than what they’ll get next season as professionals. The very small sample size of a Davis-Cadeau- Ingram-Washington lineup that did not include Armando Bacot on the floor was promising. That group with a fifth non-Bacot player was plus-39 in 78 minutes, per CBB Analytics. This team should be more athletic with five-stars Jackson and Powell replacing Cormac Ryan and Paxson Wojcik in the rotation. Defensively, it’s also promising with the Heels coming off a year finishing eighth in adjusted defensive efficiency and Washington providing better rim protection than Bacot.

Projected starters: Tahaad Pettiford, Denver Jones, Chad Baker-Mazara, Johni Broome, Dylan Cardwell

Notable returners: Chaney Johnson, Chris Moore

Other newcomers: Jahki Howard

This high ranking is under the assumption that Broome, one of the most underrated stars in college basketball, returns to school. Auburn was a metrics darling this year because of the way it ran teams off the floor. Out of its 27 wins, 26 were by double digits. The Tigers struggled in close games, and their bugaboo was guard play, which proved costly in the season-ending loss to Yale when Aden Holloway, Tre Donaldson and KD Johnson all struggled. Both Donaldson and Johnson have hit the transfer portal; Holloway is still on the roster, but we’re not projecting he returns.

The Tigers add to their backcourt depth by adding four-star guards Pettiford and Howard, but adding at least one guard out of the portal has to be a priority. A replacement for Jaylin Williams could also be a need. Broome and Cardwell played only 12 minutes together this season, per CBB Analytics. It could maybe work because Broome can play some on the perimeter. Purdue and NC State have proven you can play more traditional frontlines and win in March. The given is this team should be elite on defense. Auburn had the top effective field-goal percentage defense in the country and returns great positional size. And not many return as strong a core as the Tigers.

11. Arizona

Projected starters: Kylan Boswell, Jaden Bradley, KJ Lewis, Carter Bryant (freshman), Motiejus Krivas

Other newcomers: Jamari Phillips, Emmanuel Stephen, Joson Sanon

The Wildcats need to add some shooting and frontcourt depth out of the portal, but the next wave of talent is strong. Krivas averaged 17.7 points and 13.9 rebounds per 40 minutes as a freshman, and Arizona’s defense was at its best with him at center. The Cats were 8.2 points per 100 possessions defensively better with Krivas than when Oumar Ballo was on the floor. The trio of Boswell, Bradley and Lewis allows them to continue playing at their preferred up-tempo pace. If Bradley can improve his perimeter jumper — he shot it well in limited attempts (13-of-28 from 3) — he has the potential to slide into the Caleb Love role as the primary scorer.

Bryant is the prototypical small-ball four. He’ll pair well with Krivas. He has a strong reputation as a passer and has good feel. Then defensively, he has the kind of instincts and versatility to replace what Arizona had in Keshad Johnson. Of course, he’s a freshman, so not fair to expect he’ll be as good as Johnson on that end. But the Cats made a big leap defensively this past year and with Krivas starting now and the quickness they have on the perimeter, they should be strong there again. Tommy Lloyd has fared well in the portal, so it’s not a leap to expect Arizona will add several impact transfers.

Projected starters: Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer, Camden Heide, Trey Kaufman-Renn, Caleb Furst

Notable returners: Myles Colvin, Will Berg, Brian Waddell

Other newcomers: Kanon Catchings, Gicarri Harris, Raleigh Burgess, Daniel Jacobsen, CJ Cox, Jack Benter

Purdue loses Zach Edey and Lance Jones but returns every other relevant piece, and it will now be time for Kaufman-Renn to become the featured low-post scorer. The Boilermakers got a preview of that last summer when Edey was off with Team Canada and Kaufman-Renn led the Boilers in scoring during a foreign tour. Smith is already one of the best point guards in college hoops and could elevate himself to All-America status when he takes on more of a scoring role. It’s rare to have so much experience and production returning. It’s going to be difficult to replace Edey, but Matt Painter has two giants lined up to possibly be next. Berg, a 7-2 freshman this season, shot 75 percent from the field in limited minutes, and Painter signed a 7-foot-3 center in Jacobsen. He’s got a type!

Projected starters: Dallin Hall, Dawson Baker, Richie Saunders, Noah Waterman, Aly Khalifa

Notable returners: Trevin Knell, Fousseyni Traore, , Atiki Ally Atiki, Trey Stewart

Other newcomers: Collin Chandler, Isaac Davis

BYU has as much roster continuity as anyone in this Top 25, and the much-awaited arrival of Chandler is finally here. Chandler, a four-star prospect from the 2022 class who has been on a two-year mission, was the highest-rated recruit to ever sign with the Cougars. Chandler could become the instant offense off the bench that leading scorer Jaxson Robinson provided this season. Robinson still has one year of eligibility remaining, but we’re projecting him to leave.

This team was already incredibly fun to watch, playing up-tempo, shooting a bunch of 3s and moving and cutting around Aly Khalifa, one of the best passing centers in college basketball. Getting Baker back also adds to the fun. The UC Irvine transfer played only four games before a foot injury ended his season, but he averaged 15.3 points his final season at UC Irvine and is a terrific passer. BYU’s defense gets a boost from the return of Waterman, who got a medical redshirt approved and an extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA. The Cougars will have one of the best benches in college hoops. This is a dream scenario for Mark Pope. He has an old team with awesome chemistry, and he adds a guard with pro potential.

14. Marquette

Projected starters: Stevie Mitchell, Kam Jones, Chase Ross, David Joplin, Ben Gold

Notable returners: Sean Jones, Tre Norman, Zaire Lowery

Other newcomers: Damarius Owens, Royce Parham

We’re projecting here that Tyler Kolek and Oso Ighodaro leave to go pro following two consecutive tremendous seasons. That still leaves Marquette with the backbone of an awesome team led by Jones, who projects as a preseason All-American after averaging 17.2 points per game while shooting 50 percent from the field and 40 percent from 3. Look for him to take on more of an on-ball role following Kolek’s departure, something that might unlock an even more dynamic part of his game.

Beyond him, Joplin averaged double-figures last year and Mitchell is a tremendous defender in the backcourt. Ross was also a part-time starter as a sophomore, showcasing high-level athleticism in the open court as well as shooting ability. The big key to their season will be how Gold holds up as a starter. Gold can really step away and shoot, but needs to get stronger and become more of a factor on the interior and on the boards. Jones and Norman should be comfortable in their roles again, and they also have one more scholarship available if Ighodaro doesn’t return.

Projected starters: Jayden Nunn, V.J. Edgecombe (freshman), Langston Love, Jason Asemota (freshman), Josh Ojianwuna

Notable returners: Miro Little, Caleb Lohner

Other newcomers: Robert Wright III, Noah Boyed

Baylor is set to roll on under Scott Drew, with another loaded perimeter group that should continue to find success. We’re projecting that Ja’Kobe Walter, Yves Missi and Jalen Bridges all depart, but there’s still plenty left. The main key here is the addition of Edgecombe, an athletic marvel at 6-foot-4 who is as explosive and creative with the ball as any player you’re going to find in the country next year. He projects as a top-five pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, and would have been the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft.

More importantly though, he’s surrounded by veteran guards. Nunn and Love were two of six players for the Bears to average double-figures this year, and both particularly came on late in the year with terrific scoring and shooting. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see either end up as a borderline All-Big 12 selection next year. The questions about Baylor, though, start in the frontcourt. Ojianwuna was a 15-minute-per-game backup this year, and Lohner is a solid bench piece. We’ve projected incoming top-50 freshman Jason Asemota as the starter, but the frontcourt as a whole is the most likely upgrade spot for the Bears in the portal given that they still have three available slots.

16. Rutgers

Projected starters: Jeremiah Williams, Tyson Acuff (transfer), Dylan Harper (freshman), Ace Bailey (freshman), Zach Martini (transfer)

Notable returners: Jamichael Davis, Oskar Palmquist, Emmanuel Ogbole

Other newcomers: Lathan Sommerville, Dylan Grant, Bryce Dortch

This is all about who is coming in as opposed to who is returning. The Scarlet Knights have one of the best recruiting classes in the country, led by potential top-five picks Bailey and Harper. Harper, the son of former NBA guard Ron Harper Sr., is a dynamic scoring threat from all three levels who profiles as the team’s key perimeter offensive shot creator. Then as a forward, Bailey is a mismatch nightmare. He’s too athletic and quick for bigs and wings, but too strong for opposing wings and guards. He’s a serious contender for the No. 1 overall pick in 2025.

There is a good group of older players that will surround them, too, after Steve Pikiell has done some smart work early in the transfer portal. He went out and got a terrific scoring guard from Eastern Michigan in Acuff who averaged 21.7 points and was an All-MAC selection. Then, he went and got Martini from Princeton as a floor-spacing forward who will help space the floor for Harper and Bailey. Williams was strong late in the season, too, at the lead guard position. He wasn’t eligible until February after being suspended due to gambling while at Iowa State, but once he played, he seriously upgraded the Rutgers offense. The Scarlet Knights still can upgrade in the portal with a couple of scholarships, too. We’d expect one more true big man.

17. Saint Mary’s

Projected starters: Augustas Marciulionis, Aidan Mahaney, Luke Barrett, Zion Sensley (freshman), Mitchell Saxen

Notable returners: Harry Wessels, Jordan Ross, Chris Howell

Other newcomers: Mikey Lewis, Josh Dent

The Gaels have some work to do in the portal, but the baseline of the team that went 26-8 and was a top-20 team in the country this season is back. Marciulionis, the reigning WCC Player of the Year,  and Mahaney make up a tremendous backcourt that can hang with just about anyone in the country, with Marciulionis setting the table and Mahaney creating shots late in the clock and scoring. Behind them on defense is Saxen, the WCC’s Defensive Player of the Year who doesn’t block a ton of shots but protects the rim at an exceedingly high level. Behind him is Wessels, a player who has played with the Australian national team and helps to crush the glass. Saint Mary’s was the best rebounding team in the country this past season, finishing top-three nationally in both offensive and defensive rebounding rate.

To keep that up, they will need to replace Alex Ducas and Joshua Jefferson on the wings. They do have a strong freshman class entering that is led by Sensley and Lewis, but don’t be surprised to see them hit the portal and look to shore up their size across the wings with a skilled three or four who can shoot. That’s the last missing piece here.

Projected starters: Nijel Pack, Wooga Poplar, Matthew Cleveland, Brandon Johnson, Lynn Kidd

Other newcomers: Jalil Bethea, Austin Swartz, Isaiah Johnson-Arigu

Miami lost its last 10 games of the season and was not particularly good throughout the early portion of the year, either. And, yes, a lot of the same pieces of that team are on this team, including its starting perimeter trio. But the Hurricanes have already added a lot in the portal, and have a monster scorer coming in as a freshman in Bethea. Bethea is a dynamic player off the dribble who can knock down shots from any angle, including pull-ups from beyond the arc. We have him coming off of the bench right now behind the experienced guys, but he’s a serious dude and a likely one-and-done.

Then on top of it, the Hurricanes’ biggest worry last year was interior depth and rebounding. Largely, that was because they played small on the wings. Cleveland and potential first-round pick Kyshawn George — who we have departing here — are tall enough, but neither is particularly strong or good enough on the glass to keep opposing teams off of it. With the Kidd and Johnson commitments coming already, we do project here that Norchad Omier moves on. Otherwise, the early Kidd commitment wouldn’t make sense, given that the two of them would struggle to play together. But Kidd and Johnson together are a very strong combination, as both can excel on the glass in a way and give real size on the interior, with Johnson — a terrific transfer from East Carolina — also being able to space it out from 3 in a big way.

The Hurricanes also still have three or four scholarships to use on the transfer portal and will out their depth, giving them a ton of flexibility to add to the roster in the coming month.

19. Florida

Projected starters: Walter Clayton Jr., Denzel Aberdeen, Will Richard, Thomas Haugh, Alex Condon

Notable returners: Micah Handlogten (injured)

Other newcomers: Isaiah Brown

This is the epitome of betting on upside. The Gators have the core of an awesome team under Todd Golden, with a potential All-American in Clayton. He averaged 17.6 points and projects as one of the best scorers in all of college basketball next season. On top of that, they have a 6-foot-11 big in Condon who made the All-Freshman team in the SEC this season and is one of the most skilled returning bigs in the country. He can step out and shoot as well as score on the interior. We would bet on him as an All-SEC player next season. Richard is also a returning starter who averaged double-figures and can really shoot.

Having said that, their offseason will tell the story of where exactly they end up in the preseason. They project to have four or five scholarships to use on transfers at a school that has had real success with them. Zyon Pullin is a prime example this past season, as he became a first-team All-SEC guard in his lone year in Gainesville. Tyrese Samuel and Handlogten also had terrific years this past year. Handlogten remains on the roster, but it feels like a tough sell that he’ll be ready for the start of SEC play after his significant injury in the SEC tournament. Look for Florida to go get a terrific two-way guard to put next to Clayton in addition to some further frontcourt depth.

20. Maryland

Projected starters: Ja’Kobi Gillespie (transfer), Rodney Rice (transfer), DeShawn Harris-Smith, Julian Reese, Derik Queen (freshman)

Notable returners: Jordan Geronimo, Jahari Long, Chance Stephens

Other newcomers: Malachi Palmer

Maryland struggled this past season, but the Terrapins bring an infusion of big-time talent to the table across the positional spectrum. The first name to know here is Queen, a high-IQ, big-bodied big man who can score on the block and pass at a really impressive level. His soft hands allow him to catch just about everything, and his footwork and touch are pristine even if he’s not overly vertical. Pairing him with Reese will give the Terps one of the best interior combinations in the league. Reese projects as an All-Big Ten forward next year after averaging 13.7 points and 9.5 rebounds this past season.

That duo will be strong enough to anchor them on the interior, but the guards also project to be better this year. Kevin Willard has done great work in the transfer portal already, getting two transfer perimeter players that will be really helpful. Gillespie was one of the better guards available — he averaged 17.2 points and 4.2 assists in the Missouri Valley last year, which has a very strong track record of sending upperclassmen to the Big Ten. They also added former Virginia Tech guard Rice, who has struggled a bit with the injury bug but is a former top-100 player who is entering his third season of college basketball. They also have three scholarships available to use as necessary to grab another wing and front court player.

21. Texas A&M

Projected starters: Wade Taylor IV, Manny Obaseki, Jace Carter, Solomon Washington, Andersson Garcia

Notable returners: Hayden Hefner, Henry Coleman III

Newcomers: Andre Mills, George Turkson

The Aggies won six of eight once  Obaseki joined the starting lineup late in the year, and they nearly upset top-seeded Houston in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Tyrece Radford is going to be difficult to replace, but Taylor IV and Obaseki make up one of the better returning backcourts. Taylor averaged 19.1 points per game this season, but his efficiency dropped. He made 92 3s but at a 32.5 percent clip. If he can bump his efficiency up, he has a chance to be an All-America level guard and Obaseki will likely take on more of an offensive role with the loss of Radford. The Aggies were the best offensive-rebounding team in the country, and that should continue with the return of Washington, Garcia and Coleman III.

22. Michigan State

Projected starters: Jeremy Fears Jr., Tre Holloman, Jaden Akins, Coen Carr, Carson Cooper

Notable returners: Jaxon Kohler, Xavier Booker

Newcomers: Kur Teng, Jase Richardson, Jesse McCulloch

Offensively there are some question marks with the loss of Tyson Walker and Malik Hall, but the Spartans should once again have one of the best defensive teams in the country. They’re coming off finishing ninth in adjusted defense, and enough of the core returns to assume the excellence on that end continues. They stay old because Izzo rarely loses anyone to the transfer portal. Izzo mostly stays out of the portal, but he may want to look for an experienced wing scorer unless he believes one of the freshmen is ready to contribute right away. Four-star guard Richardson, the son of Jason Richardson, is the best bet there.

23. San Diego State

Projected starters: Lamont Butler, Micah Parrish, Reese Waters, Miles Heide, Portal Player TBD

Notable returners: Miles Byrd, Elijah Saunders,

Newcomers: Taj Degourville, Pharaoh Compton, Thokbor David Majak

We’re assuming that Butler and Parrish will ultimately decide to use their COVID-19 year. If so, the Aztecs have a solid core returning, and the only real need in the portal will be a frontcourt scorer and some guard depth. We know that no matter who is on the roster, San Diego State will be elite defensively. The worst Brian Dutcher’s unit has finished on that end in the last five years is 21st. Dutcher and his staff have been one of the best at identifying gems in the portal, and the Aztecs have had their best two-year run when it comes to NCAA Tournament success, so they have a lot to sell.

24. Creighton

Projected starters: Steven Ashworth, Portal Player TBD, Mason Miller, Jasen Green, Ryan Kalbrenner

Notable returner: Isaac Traudt

Newcomers: Ty Davis, Larry Johnson, Jackson McAndrew

We are projecting that Trey Alexander will leave for the NBA Draft and Kalkbrenner will return, and there’s just no way we cannot include Creighton in this Top 25 if Kalkbrenner is back. Now that Donovan Clingan is gone, Kalkbrenner is the best defensive center in college basketball. Greg McDermott has a lot of work to do in the transfer portal, but the Jays should be a desirable location for scoring guards. They get to play with an elite big man and next to Ashworth, a floor-stretcher who is willing to be a blend guy more than an alpha. We’re betting that McDermott will bring in multiple shiny new transfer pieces, because he’s had success in the portal before — Baylor Scheierman is the latest example — and again, who wouldn’t want to play with Kalkbrenner? He protects the rim, he catches everything and he’s terrific in the pick-and-roll. It’s a pretty easy recruiting pitch.

25. Kentucky

Projected starters: Boogie Fland (freshman), D.J. Wagner, Billy Richmond (freshman), Jayden Quaintance (freshman), Zvonimir Ivisic

Notable returners: Ugonna Onyenso, Jordan Burks, Joey Hart

Other newcomers: Travis Perry, Somto Cyril

Full transparency here: We had Kentucky ranked in the top 15 before John Calipari decided to leave for Arkansas. That threw this entire thing for a loop. On the Arkansas/Cal front: The Razorbacks don’t have a roster as of the time of this publication, so we can’t in good conscience rank them. But what do we do with Kentucky, given the obvious roster uncertainty?

We decided that as of the publication of this story, No. 25 was the most fair. As of right now, with what the team has, they absolutely need to be ranked. But how many stay or go? That remains to be seen.

Fland is a tremendous scoring guard who plays like a leader out on the court and defends well for his 6-foot-2 size. Small guards aren’t exactly in vogue right now in the NBA, but he has a real chance to be a one-and-done. Quaintance is actually going to have to stay in college for two years due to his age, but he’s my favorite long-term prospect on the roster as a big playmaking forward who can create mismatches. Onyenso and Ivisic are enormous rim protectors, and Ivisic has a ton of offensive skill to spare. Cyril gives them depth as a freshman. Richmond is a strong wing athlete who will give the team a burst in transition, and I actually liked the tough minutes Jordan Burks provided for Kentucky defensively off the bench this season. We also have D.J. Wagner returning to college.

There’s also this reality: Kentucky is going to hire an elite coach . There’s no doubt about it. The resources, Rupp Arena, the fan base. All of it is going to lead to a truly great coach deciding to take that job. Now, the roster might be different, and the vibe of the program might change. But Kentucky isn’t going away any time soon.

(Top photos of Emanuel Sharp, Cooper Flagg and Dajuan Harris Jr.: Andy Hancock / NCAA Photos; Juan Ocampo and G Fiume / Getty Images)

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Stuttgart 2024: Dates, draws, prize money and everything you need to know

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The Hologic WTA Tour heads back to Europe, where the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, this year's first WTA 500 event on red clay, will take place in Stuttgart, Germany.

The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is typically full of marquee names, and this year is no exception, with nine of the world's Top 10 players expected to participate.

Here's what you need to know about Stuttgart:

When does the tournament start?

Main-draw play starts on Monday, April 15th, and continues through Sunday, April 21st. The qualifying rounds take place the preceding weekend, on Saturday, April 13th and Sunday, April 14th. The tournament will take place at Stuttgart's Porsche Arena.

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The singles main draw contains 28 players, with the top four seeds receiving first-round byes. 20 singles players are direct entries, and there will be four wild cards and four qualifiers.

The doubles main draw will have 16 teams, two of which will be wild-card teams.

Stuttgart is on Central European Summer Time (GMT+2).

This is one of two indoor-clay tournaments on the Hologic WTA Tour (the other, the inaugural WTA 250 Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole in Rouen, France, takes place during the same week).

The Wilson Roland Garros ball will be used at Stuttgart.

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When are the finals.

The singles final will take place at 1:00pm local time on Sunday, April 21st. The doubles final will follow the singles final on Sunday.

Who are the defending champions? 

Iga Swiatek won her second straight Porsche Tennis Grand Prix singles title last year, defeating Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-4 in a rematch of the 2022 final. Sabalenka has reached the last three Stuttgart finals, finishing runner-up to the World No.1 on each occasion (Ashleigh Barty defeated Sabalenka in the 2021 final).

In last year's doubles draw, Desirae Krawczyk and Demi Schuurs also went back-to-back. They defeated Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Giuliana Olmos 6-4, 6-1 to win their second straight Porsche Tennis Grand Prix doubles title.

Who is playing?

The cut-off for singles direct entry was based on the Hologic WTA Tour rankings of March 18th. No.31 Linda Noskova was the last direct entry.

Wild cards have already been awarded to two-time Stuttgart champion Angelique Kerber, her fellow Germans Laura Siegemund and Tatjana Maria, and 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu.

You can view the initial direct entries in this article.

Projected Top 8 seeds:

1. Iga Swiatek Ranking: No.1 Year-to-date win-loss record: 22-3 (2 titles) Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 63-9 Best Stuttgart result: Champion (2022, 2023) Previous tournament: Miami Round of 16 (l. Alexandrova)

2. Aryna Sabalenka  Ranking: No.2 Year-to-date win-loss record: 14-4 (1 title) Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 50-23 Best Stuttgart result: Finalist (2021, 2022, 2023) Previous tournament: Miami third round (l. Kalinina)

3. Coco Gauff Ranking: No.3 Year-to-date win-loss record: 18-5 (1 title) Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 35-14 Best Stuttgart result: Round of 16 (2023) Previous tournament: Miami Round of 16 (l. Garcia)

4. Elena Rybakina Ranking: No.4 Year-to-date win-loss record: 22-4 (2 titles) Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 37-17 Best Stuttgart result: Round of 16 (2022, 2023) Previous tournament: Miami final (l. Collins)

5. Jessica Pegula Ranking: No.5 Year-to-date win-loss record: 12-6 Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 33-21 Best Stuttgart result: Making tournament debut Previous tournament: Charleston semifinals (l. Kasatkina)

6. Zheng Qinwen Ranking: No.7 Year-to-date win-loss record: 12-6 Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 16-8 Best Stuttgart result: Round of 16 (2023) Previous tournament: Miami third round (l. Azarenka)

7. Marketa Vondrousova Ranking: No.8 Year-to-date win-loss record: 5-4 Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 34-21 Best Stuttgart result: Round of 16 (2018, 2021) Previous tournament: Indian Wells third round (gave walkover to Kostyuk)

8. Ons Jabeur Ranking: No.9 Year-to-date win-loss record: 2-6 Career clay-court win-loss record in WTA and Grand Slam main draws: 51-23 Best Stuttgart result: Semifinal (2023) Previous tournament: Charleston second round (l. Collins)

Nine Grand Slam singles champions are currently entered in the main draw -- joining seeded players Swiatek, Sabalenka, Gauff, Rybakina and Vondrousova in the field are World No.10 Jelena Ostapenko (who is just outside the projected seedings), Barbora Krejcikova, and wild cards Angelique Kerber and Emma Raducanu.

With Swiatek, Sabalenka, Gauff and Vondrousova on the entry list, this year's edition will feature all four of the reigning Grand Slam champions.

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When are the draws?

The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix singles draw will take place on site at 1:00pm on Sunday, April 14th. The doubles main draw will come out on Saturday, April 13th.

What are the points and prize money on offer in the singles main draw?

How did the rest of last year's clay-court season play out?

With WTA 500 Charleston (on green clay) and WTA 250 Bogota kicking off the clay-court season last week (won by Danielle Collins and Camila Osorio respectively), the tour events paused for Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers week. Stuttgart and Rouen will restart tour-level play on the dirt.

Here's a look at last year's champions and finalists from the upcoming clay-court events:

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Madrid (WTA 1000): Aryna Sabalenka d. Iga Swiatek Rome (WTA 1000): Elena Rybakina d. Anhelina Kalinina

Strasbourg (WTA 250): Elina Svitolina d. Anna Blinkova Rabat (WTA 250): Lucia Bronzetti d. Julia Grabher

Roland Garros (Grand Slam): Iga Swiatek d. Karolina Muchova

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