Who is the best team in College Hoops? Sorting Out the Top 3

This season there are three teams left that seem to be on everyone's Final Four radar: Memphis (15-0), Kansas (17-0) and North Carolina (17-0). Everyone, it seems, has a different opinion of who is the best team of the country. I'll break it down as well.

First, the team easiest to dismiss: North Carolina. The Tar Heels are 5th in the country in offensive efficiency and 29th in defensive efficiency. They have a legitimate trio in forward Tyler Hansbrough and guards Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington, but each can be neutralized. Hansbrough is the only big man on the Heels roster, and teams with more front court depth can contain him. Ellington is extremely streaky and if his shooting is off he regresses to just an average player. Lawson is the key to the Tar Heels, since as you will hear millions of times come March, guard play wins championships.

Memphis right now is the hot pick to win it all. For once, the Tigers played a tough non-conference schedule and now they get to coast through Conference USA play like they do seemingly every year. Chris Douglas-Roberts leads the Tigers in scoring at 16.3 ppg, but I think their best player is Freshman point guard Derrick Rose. Rose is 2nd in scoring at 14. ppg and also has 69 assists on the year. However, he is just still a Freshman, and that has shown to the tune of his 49 turnovers. With Rose being the only true point guard on the team, plus the fact he is only a Freshman, I think the Tigers are perhaps a team that will get upset early in March.

Now the best team in the country. Granted I am a Kansas fan, but I think they are the best team in the country. They don't have any really exceptional wins, but they way they have beat teams is impressive to watch. They are first in Ken Pomeroy's rating system. For those of you who don't know who Ken Pomeroy is, he is a writer for Basketball Prospectus, and one of the best writers out there for any sport. Kansas not only has a great offensive team, with balanced scoring that reminds people of the recent Florida Gators, but they also have a great defensive team. Brandon Rush, who guarded the other team's best player last year, is the 3rd best defensive player on the team. Russell Robinson and Mario Chalmers are called the best defensive backcourt in the game. Not only that, I think they are the best two defensive guards in the country period. If Bill Self doesn't screw it up, this could be the year for Jayhawk fans.

Well do you all agree? Or do you think UNC or Memphis is the best team? Or perhaps you UCLA fans want to chime in....