NBA Draft profiles: Davion Mitchell was the star of Baylor's national title run. Is his NBA stock overvalued because of that?
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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We hope you had a safe-but-lively Fourth of July weekend. Fear not, another draft-profile episode awaits you. This week's appetizer-portioned podcast on a prospect focuses on Davion Mitchell, last seen leading Baylor's men's team to its first national championship. He was the best defender in the sport last season. He could be an immediate role player of impact on a good team. But is his value overstated at this point? Stats and cases for, and against, therein.
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| 0:43.3 | Hey there. It's scary parachute's Monday July 5th 2021. Welcome back to the CBS Sports eye on college basketball podcast |
| 0:50.5 | Where we sometimes discuss camel fighting |
| 0:52.5 | Dodo birds and leaky black mat nori and it is here with me and as previously noted at least once a week in advance of the |
| 0:58.7 | 2021 NBA draft the schedule for July 29th we will be dedicating an episode of the our college basketball podcast to a notable prospect |
| 1:06.3 | Today we turn our attention to another likely lottery pick |
| 1:11.0 | National champion Davian Mitchell is a six foot two guard from high in full Georgia |
| 1:15.7 | Who was ranked as the 33rd best prospect in the class of 2017 according to 24 seven sports started his college career at |
| 1:24.2 | Auburn help Bruce Pearl when an SEC regular season title in 2018 then transferred to Baylor sat out |
| 1:30.7 | 2018-19 season per stupid former NCAA rules then he was the big 12 newcomer of the year in the |
| 1:37.3 | 2019-20 season that was of course cut short by the dumbest pandemic of my lifetime |
| 1:42.3 | Then he helped Baylor win the 2021 national title by averaging 14 points 5.5 assists in |
| 1:47.8 | 33 minutes per game. He shot 51.1 percent from the field |
| 1:52.6 | 44.7 percent from three and that was on 4.7 3.10 per contest beyond that |
| 1:58.6 | He was the nascent defense of player the year so Davian Mitchell is |
| 2:02.2 | Efficient offensively incredible defensively and that's among the reasons I have him going |
| 2:07.6 | 7th to the Golden State Warriors in the 2021 NBA draft deadleg |
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