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Wednesday, April 06, 2005
SI's greatest college basketball players of all time
At SI.com, sportswriters are submitting nominees for the best college basketball player ever. Each nominee has a writeup on why he or she should be considered the best; these summaries do a good job of providing the highlights of each player's career. Former Bruins Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton are included as nominees, of course. However, I guess nobody is allowed to pick a player already chosen, as there are about 30 writers, each with a different choice. This results in some very suspect suggestions like Chris Webber and Jason Kidd. Perhaps SI should call this the best 30 college players ever, as many on this list are nowhere near #1.
Comments:
Yeah, they sure are. The guy who did the Hank Gathers piece even starts out by saying Gathers was NOT the greatest college player ever. Very weird. Don't get me wrong, the Gathers and LMU story is a great one - that was my second favorite tournament to watch besides 1995 - but the decision to include his story and some of the others as part of a feature on history's best college basketball player makes very little sense.
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