As a matter of fact, Khalid El-Amin might have been a better college player than Mark Jackson
El Amin didn't go up against comparable players day in day out. Jackson had to face Georgetown, Nova, Syracuse when they weren't tourney hopefuls, they were easily top 10. And play them twice. We have to remember that when Mark Jackson played, for the most part, you didn't see kids pull a one and done.
Jackson, Pearl, Ewing, Mullin, many of the top players in those years, stayed.