One month of action in the college basketball season has netted us some small, some medium and some big changes across the NBA Draft landscape for the 2025 cycle. Cooper Flagg remains entrenched as the No. 1 prospect, though it’s an increasingly tight race for No. 1 with Dylan Harper Jr. and Egor Demin emerging in the discussion. Fellow five-stars Ian Jackson and Jalil Bethea have yet to pop like the no-doubt one-and-dones many expected. And college vets — among them Kam Jones and Ryan Kalkbrenner — have played their way into the first round conversation with big seasons.
My latest mock draft below is an update to the first of the season filed in early November just ahead of the 2024-25 season. Those projections initially. came from preseason hopes and hype but are now comprised of a mix of tape analysis and data.
As you’ll see, Flagg indeed remains at No. 1 — as he was in July in my first mock and as he was last month — but behind him and Harper Jr. is BYU fast-rising frosh Egor Demin in what looks like a clear top three that have begun to separate themselves. Harper Jr.’s freshman teammate, Ace Bailey, remained in the top five while Illinois freshman Kasparas Jakucionis moved up — again — this time to round out the top five.
The mock below has NBA teams in positions based on SportsLine projections, however, team needs are not taken into account in the mock given how early it is in the NBA season. You can think of the below as a hybrid prospect rankings with projected team landing spots. Teams are likely to change over the next few months, as are pick protections and eventually trades.
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