It’s not like your weekly sports slate isn’t already filled up enough with college football, NBA, and NFL games. Now you’ve got to make time for college basketball! The Top 25 is littered with the usual suspects like Kansas @ 1, North Carolina @ 6, Duke is ranked 9th, and UCONN @ 12. We all know none of this matters until March Madness, but that doesn’t stop us from sitting a the bar on a Tuesday night screaming at the TV for our favorite college team.

AP Division I Top 25

As always with a new season comes new stars. Here is some young guns that you should be keeping you eyes on this year.

Sherron Collins: G/Kansas

Collins is a preseason All-American by many outlets… Has been Kansas’ leading returning scorer each of the last two seasons with 18.9 ppg in 2008-09 and 9.3 ppg in 2007-08… Enters his senior season No. 25 on the KU career scoring list with 1,330 points… Also ranks in the KU career Top 10 in three-point field goals (8th at 162) and three-point field goals attempted (9th at 426)… Has made a huge impact in his first three seasons at KU – the 2008 national title, three Big 12 regular-season championships, two league tourney titles and two NCAA  Tournament Elite Eight appearances… Kansas is 91-16 (85 percent) in games Collins has played in while at KU.

Willie Warren/G Oklahoma

Unanimous choice as Big 12 Freshman of the Year … A second-team All-Big 12 selection … A consensus first-team freshman All-American … Named national freshman of the year by Athlon Sports … Seven-time Big 12 Rookie of the Week (one shy of league record) … Ranked second on team in scoring (14.6 ppg) and in assists (3.1 apg) … Also averaged 2.2 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 31.3 minutes per contest … Shot .473 from the field, .372 from 3-point range and .781 from the free throw line … Set school freshman records for games started (34) and 3-pointers (67) … Finished year ranked third in OU freshman history in scoring (525 points), fourth in free throws made (114) and attempted (146), fifth in assists (113) and steals (41) and sixth in points per game … His seven games of at least 20 points were the most by an OU freshman since Tim McCalister had nine such outings in 1983-84.

Ed Davis: PF/North Carolina

Shared honors with Wayne Ellington as co-most improved players on the Tar Heels • Scored 11 points and grabbed eight rebounds in 14 minutes against Michigan State in the 2009 NCAA championship game • Had seven points and five boards in the first half as the Tar Heels raced to a 55-34 lead over the Spartans • Selected to the ACC’s All-Freshman Team, the 15th Tar Heel to make that team since 1994 • Averaged 6.7 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game • Played in all 38 games and made two early-season starts • Second on the Tar Heels and tied for 12th in the ACC in rebounding • Led the Tar Heels in rebounding 12 times, including eight boards in the national championship game.

Evan Turner/G Ohio State

Evan Turner, a four star recruit, had a solid freshman campaign, averaging 8.4 points and 4.4 rebounds in 27 minutes per game. However, as a sophomore, Turner made great strides, upping his production to nearly 17 points and 7 rebounds while flashing his shooting ability, shooting over 50% from the field this year and over 40% from three-point range. Turner was a 2009 First Team All-Big 10 selection and would likely have been a first round selection, but chose to return for his junior year to tear up the league…again!

John Wall/PG Kentucky

Wall was the No. 1 recruited point guard in the country last year and with his explosive athleticism he will give John Calipari’s Kentucky team a star point guard from the start of the season. Wall’s playmaking ability include sharpshooting juco recruit Darnell Dodson, incoming freshman big man Daniel Orton and athletic sophomore wings DeAndre Liggins and Darius Miller. Long story short, don’t be surprised if you catch a case of deja vu when you watch Big Blue play next season–Wall will remind you a lot of Derrick Rose and with him on the team, Calipari could have another team back in the Finals this year.