Earlier I covered the All Australian Team in the NCAA. Now we'll turn to their former occupier, the United Kingdom. The UK doesn't have the basketball reputation of Australia, nor do they have as talented an All Star team in the States. But this doesn't mean they can't put together a pretty solid team. So if you have any funny accents on your campus, they might be on this list.

Without further ado, here is the 2013 All UK Team from US colleges.

All eyes have turned to Dante Exum, the Australian point guard who is projecting as a top-10 pick whenever he enters the NBA Draft. At the Nike Hoop Summit he helped the World team win by scoring 16 points. The rumor is that he's currently deciding between Indiana, Louisville, St. Mary's, and Louisiana State.

Here are his highlights from this weekend:

Watching Australian players enter the NCAA and become stars isn't anything unusual, so hopefully Exum will stick around long enough to make his mark. Plenty of other star foreign players take routes to the NBA which don't include American colleges at all.

Regardless, it got me wondering who this year's All Australian team would have been. Here's mine.

In the past 15 years all the Zags have to show for themselves is 13 West Coast Conference regular season titles, 11 WCC tourney titles, 10 conference Player's of the Year, and 15 straight NCAA tournament appearances. But because they haven't advanced to the Sweet 16 in 5 years (even though they've been upset by a lower seed once in that span, and beat one higher seed) people tend to lose site of the remarkable run that Mark Few has going in Gonzaga.

This is a small, private school in rural Washington that had been to one NCAA tournament prior to Few's arrival.

Now they're a lock - or seemingly so - to be dancing every season.

But with heavy roster losses, especially in the front court, is that still the case?

We all want to be tall. When I discovered that my grandfather had played center at Army, despite being "only" 6-4, then I wanted to be at least 6-4. I hung from monkey bars. I stretched my neck while I was eating. I floated in the pool thinking it might make me grow faster.

Unfortunately, I topped out at 6-0 in bare feet.

With my basketball skill, 6-0 wasn't getting me anywhere. Like everything else in life, people's heights can be graphed with a bell curve, and there are exponentially more young males who are 6-0 tall than there are that are 6-9. So to play college basketball at 6-0, you have to be really really really good.

So it goes.

What I didn't know at the time is that I was really - in basketball terms - 6-1. Not that that was getting me anywhere either. My high school measured us in our socks, while colleges mostly measure student athletes in their shoes, and basketball shoes add, on average, about an inch.

Woohoo! I'm 6-1.

When the news broke that Marcus Smart was forgoing the NBA draft to return to school people were genuinely shocked. How could he do it? Why?

Sports fans typically have one filter when evaluating these types of decisions: cash. If anything besides cash enters any players mind, then he's dumb. He turned down guaranteed millions to return to school. Writers trip over themselves to write that he should have gone pro because nothing is guaranteed just sentences after stating that it was guaranteed that he'd be a top 5 pick. But why be consistent when you need to go on and describe all the things he could buy with his guaranteed money?

He was a lock to be a top 5 pick! He was rich!

From there the narrative switches to him following his heart, and how refreshing that is.

And how do we know these things? How do we know why he made the decision he made?  It's simple. It's because we know better than Marcus Smart what is best for Marcus Smart.

One of my moles is watching Mike Rice coach 12 year old girls at Holmdel High in NJ right now as crazy as ever yelling @ both refs and kids

— Brian Geltzeiler (@hoopscritic) April 14, 2013

Ricky Tarrant was a lightly recruited guard out of the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove. He signed with Tulane, and then surprised everyone by having a 1st Team All Conference season. Near the end of that year, Tulane lost their star in Kendall Timmons, and Tarrant had to take over the team down the stretch. He played well, but looked tired. By year's end he had played over 82% of the minutes for the Green Wave. For a freshman, that's a ton.

Coach Conroy promised to keep him better rested this season. The result? He played over 88% of the minutes (3rd most in the conference) and once again wore down at the end.

In the last 7 games of the season he made just 8-31 2s and turned the ball over more than 3 times a game.

Wearing down wasn't the only repeat from his freshman performance. In fact, he was largely the exact same player (not necessarily a bad thing when you're an All Conference performer). His assist rate, free throw rate, 2-pt% and 3-pt% all went slightly down. HIs turnover rate increased. There's an argument that he played worse as a sophomore but the changes in those numbers were so slight that it's hard to detect a difference (except in 2-pt%).

Now he's transferring to Alabama. So what should fans expect?

Saint Mary's hasn't had to worry about the point guard position in a long time. From Patty Mills to Mickey McConnell to Matthew Dellavedova, the Gaels have had some of the nation's best players running the show since 2008.

But now Dellavedova is gone, so what are the options for replacing him? The Gaels have a deep and talented team returning for next season, but do they have a point guard?

Cullen Neal

The national top 150 recruit out of New Mexico was seen as the natural replacement for Delly. He has a similar game - one that is steeped in fundamentals, and he plays slow to play fast. Neal signed with the Gaels during the early signing period when he was still somewhat of an obscure prospect. His profile has blown up since then, but unfortunately (for St. Mary's) his father's profile blew up as well when he took over the head coaching position at New Mexico. Now Neal has been released from his Letter of Intent to St. Mary's and will be playing for his father instead.

During Illinois's 12-0 start to the season the fans got a taste of how the offense might look with some shooters. The Illini made 39% of their 3-point attempts. They made 13-29 3s when they crushed USC. They made 10-25 in a win over Butler, and they won at Gonzaga by making 11-26.

But when your team is filled with high volume shooters who aren't necessarily good shooters, then a regression toward the mean should have been expected. Which is exactly what happened. By year's end they had fallen to 31.8%, good for 259th nationally.

On the recruiting trail John Groce was able to grab Kendrick Nunn, a consensus 4* shooting guard who is an exceptional shooter, but he whiffed on Xavier Rathan Mayes, another great shooter.

So, to add depth on the arc, Groce has turned to the transfer market and landed Aaron Cosby from Seton Hall.

Keith Jenkins, a writer for ESPN, cited "sources" today that have Andrew Wiggins committing to FSU.

Source tells me Andrew Wiggins, the No. 1 recruit in the 2013 ESPN 100, will commit to Florida State. Nothing official as of yet.

— Keith Jenkins (@KJenkins_ESPN) April 13, 2013