nbadraft.net has him going 45th and draftexpress has him ranked 84th.
I gotta wonder why pass this guy up with our second round pick? He seems like he has the ideal skills for what we need.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400870150
Found a couple of articles about him...
In true Big East fashion, Madison Square Garden was rocking on Thursday afternoon. But through the voices of almost 15,000 people, Providence forward Ben Bentil's biggest fan was shouting to him from mere feet away.
Bentil enjoyed one of the finest games of his collegiate career in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday, and his head coach could only stand in awe.
"I was a fan today," Providence coach Ed Cooley said following the Friars' 74-60 win over Butler. "To see the ball going in the net like that, and he scored it every imaginable way -- drives, step-backs."
It's outbursts like this that make it easy to forget Bentil is sometimes overlooked. That's through no fault of his own -- it's just that he shares the court with two-time Big East Player of the Year Kris Dunn.
Dunn at guard and Bentil as a do-it-all forward have created a combo that make the Friars tough to beat when they're both locked in. Provided the duo stays consistent, the Friars will be a tough matchup, even against all-around better competition.
At least one of them has scored in double figures in every game this season and they have combined for 14 double-doubles (including a triple-double from Dunn back in December). They each play north of 33 minutes per game and are the Friars' top players in points per game and field goal percentage.
On Thursday, Dunn's greatest asset was his ability to share the ball, specifically to his fellow first-team All-Big East teammate. Of his seven assists, six of them went to Bentil.
"As a point guard you have to know when to score and when to get the ball to your guys," Dunn said.
Dunn seemed to have little trouble figuring that out.
"Kris came into the huddle and said, ‘where do we get him the ball next?'" Cooley said. "Give him the ball. He'll figure it out."
Bentil, though soft-spoken, found no problem heaping praise on his teammate in return.
"Playing with a great teammate like Kris, he will get you the ball in the right spot," Bentil said. "When you have a hot hand, he'll make sure the ball is in your hand."
In a single-elimination tournament, sometimes it's best to ride the hot hand, especially when the opponent just can't match up.
"We were trying to double our traps," Butler coach Chris Holtmann said in the aftermath of Bentil's outburst. "We weren't early enough on some of our traps. But he scored through our traps some too."
In fact, he scored pretty much any way he wanted to: through double teams, off the catch or off the dribble. It didn't matter.
Bentil's performance Thursday stacks up among the greatest in the Big East's storied history. His 38 points tied Jamine "Greedy" Peterson for a team tournament record. That mark was only four points behind Donyell Marshall for the most ever scored in a Big East Tournament game.
Bentil's 16 made field goals were also a tournament single-game best.
Providence, a team thought to be falling toward the NCAA Tournament bubble just a few weeks ago, has now won five straight games. During the Friars' recent winning streak, Bentil is averaging 29.4 points per game. He's shooting 50 percent from the floor in that span and 40 percent from three.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/3/11/11206252/ben-bentil-providence-kris-dunn-ncaa-tournament
And this second one is from late January
NBA Draft Stock Watch: Providence's Ben Bentil rising while Kentucky's Skal Labissière falling
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Ben Bentil, 6-9, 235 PF, Providence
When this lithe big man out of the African nation of Ghana via the Saint Andrews School in Middletown, Del., was seriously recruited his junior and senior years, he was considered a 3-star prospect – by no means a bona fide star in the making or even necessarily a starter. He was a bit raw and mechanical and his offers were a mix of high- and mid-majors.
Who knew he'd be rocketing up the NBA Draft lists as a mere sophomore? But that's what's happening. Scouts have come around to watch 2015 Big East player of the year Kris Dunn, a do-it-all combo guard, and have been blown out of their seats by Bentil, a kid who scored in double figures only seven times all last season as a freshman. He has almost overnight turned into a dangerous player, adept at scoring in all sorts of ways, a big man as adept at getting fouled and hitting free throws as he is scoring in the mid-range and rebounding.
There are certain metrics that make the NBA guys' eyes pop and alert them to someone with not only present skill but growth potential. One of them is the combination of rebounding and free throw percentage. Together, those two stats are indicators of hands both strong and dexterous, able to both clamp a board securely but also deliver a 15-foot shot with touch.
Find another guy in college basketball player who has hit 118 free throws already at an .814 clip but also is averaging 8 rebounds. I'll save you the work; it's a very short list. Add in his 20.0 scoring average and you have one of the most productive players in the college game.
Bentil runs the floor well, has a soft, fluid mid-range face-up jumper and is beginning to perfect a baby hook that's been lethal this season. You may have seen it during his 31-point, 13-board output in the overtime upset of Villanova on Sunday or his 25 points in hard-fought home loss to Xavier on Tuesday night. He was terrific in both games.
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Skal Labissière, 6-11, 225 PF, Kentucky
Skal Labissiere, Josh Henderson
Kentucky's Skal Labissiere (1) misses his only shot of the game, a 3-point attempt, as Vanderbilt's Josh Henderson (40) defends during the second half of Wildcats' 76-57 win on Saturday in Lexington, Ky. It's the only 3-point shot Labissiere has attempted this season.
AP/James Crisp
This kid is a tremendous human story, a Haitian immigrant whose home was demolished in the 2010 earthquake and came to the United States about as destitute a case as one could be.
But after a high school career in Memphis, the expectations of his skills seem outsized relative to reality. The hype began three years ago when people saw a very tall kid with fluid dribbling skills and a face-up jumper and automatically began the Kevin Durant comparisons. He was signed to Kentucky as a consensus 5-star.
Trouble is, Labissière's outside shot is not that dependable and he's not nearly quick enough to warrant playing on the perimeter at the major-college level. And his interior game has proven powder-soft. He has no place to play so far even in college, let alone in the lottery section of the NBA Draft where many mock selections still have him going this June. That is a notion for suckers but, hey, there are those in the NBA front offices.
Even John Calipari can't afford to play him much anymore. After starting throughout Kentucky's non-con season, Labissière has been riding the bench a lot in the SEC. He's gotten only single-digit run the in three of UK's last six games and didn't score in 4 minutes against Vanderbilt on Saturday at Rupp. He did break out a bit last night in a home rout of dysfunctional Missouri with 12 points and 5 blocks in 18 mostly mop-up time. That sort of performance has to become a trend and be replicated in more important minutes.
Best advice for this kid: Stay in school another year at least, get stronger and tougher. I have my doubts, frankly, if Labissière will ever be quick enough off the floor to play inside in The League, so the perimeter jumper will have to come together.
http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2016/01/nba_draft_stock_watch_college_1.html
