Hype is one of those words that gets thrown around in sports to describe any extra attention a player or team might be getting before having the chance to prove worthy. It's the fuel that keeps the firing going during the offseason, particularly so with college basketball since there's more than seven months between the end of one season and the beginning of the next.

With all that idle time, hype helps fill the void and keep names relevant. But when the actual season begins, not everyone can actually meet those lofty expectations that were created during the down time.

With a little more than a month's worth of the 2016-17 college basketball season in the books, here are the players who earned quite a bit of praise yet hav...

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