The 2017 NBA Draft is in the books.

The 2018 NBA Draft is less than a year away.

Matt Norlander and I talked about both in this episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast and detailed how most mock drafts -- including mine that's posted here -- did a pretty decent job of accurately projecting how the night would unfold. I had the first five picks exactly right. The first 13 players off the board were the first 13 players I projected to come off the board. Twenty-six of the 30 players who were picked in the first round are players I projected as first-round picks. And 52 of the 60 players selected were players I projected to be selected. All in all, not bad. So we discussed that and then put labels -- future All-Star, future starter, future rotation player, future irrelevant player, etc., -- on some of the top picks. I love what Fultz could become. Norlander, not so much.

Then we looked ahead to the 2018 NBA Draft -- where I think Missouri's Michael Porter Jr. will go No. 1. And I though I know that's still a long ways off, it's worth noting that the 2017 mock draft I did a year in advance of the 2017 NBA Draft had three of the top-four picks, and six of the top-10 picks, projected accurately -- point being it's not too difficult to look that far ahead. At this point in the process, wild as it might seem, we, for the most part, already know which players will likely go at the top of any draft -- meaning the top 10 of my 2018 mock draft likely won't look much different next June than it looks right now. That's just the nature of the deal.

We closed by touching on the so-called one-and-done rule, which has been back in the news recently. Norlander and I agree that some change is probably coming. Exactly what, who knows? But I'm personally for going back to the old way of doing things -- where prospects could enter the NBA Draft after high school, if they wanted, or leave after any year of college, if they wanted.

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