VISUALIZATION: How the top-5 picks have changed since the start of the season

Back at the start of the college basketball season, Marcus Smart and Julius Randle were considered top-three picks. Meanwhile, Joel Embiid was barely inside the top-10.

Fast forward nine months and Smart and Randle are still well-regarded but are now firmly outside of the top-five, while Embiid could hear his name called first on June 26. It's a testament to how much things can change over the course of a season, and even just the pre-draft process itself.

To get a look at how the landscape at the top of the 2014 NBA draft has changed since college basketball tipped off, we took each of Chad Ford's seven mock drafts from this season and plotted the top-five picks on each mock, displaying the fluidity of the "consensus" throughout the course of the season.

So to Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker and Dante Exum, congratulations, you've been the models of consistency. There's something to be said for that kind of long-term, repetitive confirmation in a player's evaluation. Of course, there's also something to be said for improving as the process goes along.