Remember this name?

[X Factor]

I started watching college basketball in the mid 80's, probably around the time Villanova won it all in '85.

This will be like a blast from the past thread.

Name a player you remember. It doesn't have to be someone you liked, but just a player that you have always remembered.

How about...

Mark Macon (Temple)
Uwe Blab (Indiana)
Mike Heineman (Wisconsin)

[kmcrawfo]

God Shammgod (Providence)
Stephen Scheffler (Purdue)
Jamal Mashburn (Kentucky)

Don't know exactly why those 3 came to mind...

[MHettel]

Anthony Peeler

[picknroll]

Ed Pinckney, Villanova
Don May, UDump
Rick Mount, Purdue
Landon Turner, Indiana
Chet "the Jet" Walker, Bradley

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

Jackson Joelson (UC)
Marvin O'Connor (St. Joes)
Diego Guevera (UNCC)
Yinka Dare (GW)
Ron Rollerson(Temple)

On a side note, here are some of college basketball's best names this year:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Behold-the-best-names-in-college-basketball?urn=ncaab,199041

Bak Bak - 6'9" Forward - Cal Golden Bears

Tiny Gallon - 6'9" Forward - Oklahoma Sooners

Orion Outerbridge - 6'9" Forward - Rhode Island Rams

Alibaba Odd - 6'2" Guard - Delaware State Hornets

Just-in'love Smith - 5'11" Guard - Siena Saints

[waggy]

Earl the Pearl
Clyde the Glide

[D-West & PO-Z]

Peppy Sanchez

[X Factor]

Good ones! I forgot about some of those guys.

Scotty Thurman (Arkansas)
Gimel Martinez (Kentucky)

[D-West & PO-Z]

Michael Doleac
Ron Mercer
Scott Padgett
Tyson Wheeler
Brian Cardinal

[X Factor]

Brian Cardinal

Dude was in college forever.


Khalid El-Amin (UConn)
Donyell Marshall (UConn)

Teddy Dupay (Florida)

[D-West & PO-Z]

Dude was in college forever.


Khalid El-Amin (UConn)
Donyell Marshall (UConn)

Teddy Dupay (Florida)

No kidding. You know who else was who I will never forget:

Robert O'Kelley from Wake Forest. I swear that guy played for 8 years.

He really only was at Wake for 4 years, I would have sworn he was hurt a year or something and played 5 but I checked and only 4. He started and led Wake in scoring his freshman year though so I guess it seemed like a long time since he played such a prominent role from the start.

[Masterofreality]

Gary Brell & Dean "The Dream" Meminger- Marquette. Brell looked like a drug addict- pasty white, skinny, with ridiculously curly hair. Memimger, because of his nickname.

Derrick Chevious- Mizzou- the "band aid man" Because Lord Byron Larkin schooled him and Norm Stewart in Indianapolis in 1986.

Luther Rackley- Just because. Nice guy on my Kuhlman Hall floor with Perry Ashley.

Hank Finkle- maybe the start of the udump line of stiff pivotmen- although because he was 7 feet, he got NBA drafted.

Tom Boerwinkle- Tennessee- anybody who's last name ends in "inkle" is a putz- especially if they're 7 ft. It ryhmes with "twinkle". Yeah, I know he played in the NBA too.

Simon O-Thug-liese- Dookcane- Mr. cheap shot who broke KFrey's nose.

Bob Lanier- Beacuse of his size 22 feet. Never seen anything like that on the Schmidy Fieldhouse floor.

[ballyhoohoo]

Joey Gaw - Drake, in the Ind State student section everytime he touched the ball we yelled "GAAAAAAAAAW"

[wkrq59]

David Robinson, Navy
Larry Bird, Indiana State
Magic Johnson, Michigan State
Wally Szczerbiak, Miami University.
Michael Jordan, North Carolina
James Worthy, North Carolina
Karl Malone, One of the Louisiana East, west, north south etc
Keith Lee, Memphis
Pat Cummings, UC
Steve Alford, Indiana
Charles Barkley, Auburn
Purvis Ellison, Louisville
I was fortunate to have covered games involving all of those players. Magic was one of the most cooperative athletes I ever interviewed. Alford was the best pure shooter I have ever watched until Brad Redford came along.
Barkley was a freak of nature and a fun guy to talk to, however briefly.'
Robinson was the most respectful player I have ever talked to. When you're a lowly reporter and a guy that big keeps calling you sir, it tends to shake you.
All time favorite coaches: Pete Gillen, Charley Coles, Dale Brown, Bob Knight, Denny Crum and John Thompson. With Knight and Thompson you had to ask a question and not just toss out a "Your thoughts, coach?"
I did a feature story interview with John Wooden but never had the privilege of covering one of his games. Damn I was lucky.:D:D:D

[X-band '01]

Big Bill Robinson, An Ohio State University
Roy Marble, Iowa
Brad Millard, St. Mary's
Casey Calvary, Gonzaga
Tim Legler, La Salle

[Perma Fro]

John Pinone, Villanova
Jon Sundvold, Missouri
Granville Waiters, Ohio State

Waiters looked like he was 60 as a 22 year old senior at OSU.

[Jumpy]

SirValiant Brown- GW

and of course his brother,

SirLancelot Brown- GW

[JimCoker]

Alfredrick Hughes and Carl Go Go Golston of Loyola. They had epic battles with X in the 80s, and it seemed like Byron put in 45 every game against them.

Fly Williams of Austin Peay. The fans would chant "Fly's open, Fly's open, let's go Peay"

[A10fan]

Fennis Dembo (Wyoming)

Baskerville Holmes (Memphis)

[drudy23]

Mookie Blaylock
Stacey King

For some reason, I like the Sooners hoops team back in the day.

[LutherRackleyRulez]

Luther Rackley- Just because. Nice guy on my Kuhlman Hall floor with Perry Ashley.




Master,

Werd!!!!!:D




How about.....

Pembrook Burroughs - Jacksonville

Russell "Boo" Bowers - American

World B. Free - Guilford College

Tony "Red" Bruin - Syracuse

Maurice "Bo" Ellis - Marquette

Monte Towe - NC State

Billy "The Whopper" Paultz - St. Johns

Larry "Dr. K" Kenon - Memphis State

[XUdenver]

How about Alla Abdelnaby? Strange that the first player popping into my head came from Duke, but so be it.

[SkyWalker]

Fly Williams - Austin Peay "The Fly is open, let's go Peay"

Dean "the Dream" Meminger - Marquette

Artis Gilmore - Jacksonville

[Lamont Sanford]

Stacey Augmon (UNLV)
Miles Simon (Arizona)
Ronnie Stokes (OSU)
Jake Voskuhl (UConn)
Roy Tarpley (Michigan)
Hank Gathers (LMU)

[XU 87]

Fly Williams - Austin Peay "The Fly is open, let's go Peay"



Fly Williams- now there's a name from the past. Now could anyone explain how he ended up at Austin Peay? my recollection is that he was a pretty big recruit.

P.S. After writing the above, I did a little internet reading on Fly. He was recruited by a young Austin Peay assistant named Leonard Hamilton.

[ChicagoX]

Harold Miner aka Baby Jordan (USC)
Eddie House (ASU) - I remember watching a game where he dropped something like 60 points on his opponent.
Laettner/Hurley (Duke) - Hated them but respected the way they played the game
Larry Johnson (UNLV) - Just remember how dominant that team was and how they seemed to win every game by 30.
Lenny Brown (Xavier) - I had just started my college search process and had Xavier on my list, even though I still didn't know much about the university. I'll never forget watching him drop that shot on #1 UC to win the game. A year and a half later I would enroll as a freshman at X.
Tyus Edny/Ed O'Bannon (UCLA) - Just remember them playing so well winning a national championship in the mid-90s

[powerofX]

Jamal Ball (Akron) ...crazy 44 point game in a 3OT loss against the muskies in 96.

and his teammate Ali Kart...not kidding...who also missed a jumper from the free throw line to win it for the Zips at the end of the 2nd OT.

[XUglow]

Bay Area dudes -

Mark Madsen - Stanford
Steve Nash - Santa Clara
Jason Kidd - Cal

[ballyhoohoo]

Mookie Blaylock
Stacey King

For some reason, I like the Sooners hoops team back in the day.

does a little bit of eduardo najera do anything for you?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Eduardo_Najera.jpg

[X Factor]

Wow, these names are bringing back memories. I had forgotten a lot these players.

Marcus Liberty (Illinois)
James Forrest (Ga Tech)
Jay Burson (OSU)

[powerofX]

Wow, these names are bringing back memories. I had forgotten a lot these players.

Marcus Liberty (Illinois)
James Forrest (Ga Tech)
Jay Burson (OSU)

Speaking of OSU guys, while in High School I tried to model my play after OSU nutjob (in a good way) Chris Jent.

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

Keith Van Horn (Utah)
Nehemiah Ingram (The Goon - Temple)
Travis Diener (Marquette)
Drake Diener (Depaul)
Kirk Snyder (Nevada)
Mateen Cleves (MSU)
Loren Woods(Arizona)
Speedy Claxton(Hofstra)
Chris Mihm(Texas)
Marcus Fizer (Iowa State)
Eric Dampier(Miss State)

COACH:
Homer Drew (Valparaiso)
Jim Harrick (Pepperdine, UCLA, URI, and Georgia)
Branch McCracken (IU)
Denny Crum(UL)

[xunorm]

Growing up in St. Louis, I remember rooting for:

Mizzou: Melvin Booker, Kelly Thames, Derrick Grimm


SLU: H Waldman, Erwin Claggett, Scott Highmark, and the infamous Chris Heinrich

Other favorite players of mine included Corliss Williamson (Ark), Serge Zwicker (UNC), and Keith Van Horn (Utah)

I also forgot Big Country Bryant Reeves from Ok St.

[powerofX]

Growing up in St. Louis, I remember rooting for:



I also forgot Big Country Bryant Reeves from Ok St.

What about the dude from Florida around the same time "Da Meat Hook" Dimitrius Somehting?

[muskienick]

Going back a bit farther:

UD's Billy Uhl and Arlen "Bucky" Bockhorn
XU's Corny Freeman and Hank Stein
UC's Big O and Bill Wiesenhahn
MU's Wayne Embry and Charlie Coles
U of L's Charlie Tyra and Ron Rooks (Mt. Healthy)
Evansville's Parrish Casbier (sp?) and Chris Mack

I also liked Hal Greer, Leo Byrd, Ralph Crosswaite, Joe Viviano, Steve Thomas, Bob Pelkington, the St. John's lefty (Chris Mullen?), Tom and Sam Stith, Bob Petit, The phenom from Rio Grande College (Bevo Francis), etc.

Coaches: UD's Tom Blackburn, St. John's Louie Carneseca, Marquette's Al McGuire, Detroit's Dick Vitale, U of L's Peck Hickman, Western KY's 50-year coach Eddie Diddle, UCLA's John Wooden, and Texas Western's Don Haskins for his guts and wiles.

My two favorite all-time Muskies' coaches were Ned Wulk and Bob Staak (Wulk for doing the most with the least and Staak for being the right guy at the right time for Xavier).

[X Factor]

What about the dude from Florida around the same time "Da Meat Hook" Dimitrius Somehting?

Are you talking about this dude? Great mullet!

http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/25/schintzius1.jpg

Dwayne Schintzius!

[X Factor]

A few more:

Billy Owens (Syracuse)
J.R. Reid (UNC)
Cameron Dollar (UCLA)

[xuwin]

Hot Rod Hundley
Frank Selvy
Tom Gola
Bevo Francis
Robin Freeman

[XUBT]

Ennis Whatley - Alabama
Gary Trent - The Shaq of the MAC - Ohio U
Derek Harper - Illinois
Anthony Bonner - St. Louis
Keith Lee - Memphis St.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Some A10 players:

Shawnta Rogers (GW) The only non XU player on the All A10 tournament team in 1998
Lynn Greer (Temple)
Rasual Butler (LaSalle)
Eddie Jones (Temple)
Aaron McKie (Temple)

[JimmyTwoTimes37]

Jason Kidd - Cal
http://www.jasonkidd.com/files/images/jk2/jk_cal_300.jpg
His smoking hot wife
http://www.iconsportsmedia.com/image_dir/album26235/md_94210497_Joumana_Kidd.jpg

And how can we forget Dick Vitale's man crush:

Bobby Brannen - UC
http://www.club-champions.com/bobby%20brannen.jpg

[DART87]

Adrian Dantley
Orlando Woolridge
John Shumate

Mark Aguirre

Kyle Macy

Chris Mullin

[williet78]

Terry Dehere(Seton Hall), Chris Smith(LSU later known as Mahammad Abdoul Ralf), Lionel L. Train Simmons(La. Tech)

[waggy]

Lou Banks :D

He did have one of the nicest gorilla jams I ever saw though. I believe it was against the Gamecocks when both they and Cincy were in the Metro?

[chico]

Sidney Moncrief - best SI cover ever.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/1978/0213_large.jpg

Some others from that era.

Cornbread Maxwell - UNCC
Larry Moffett - UNLV
Goose Givens - UK
Robert Miller - UC
Bill Hanzlik - ND

[powerofX]

Are you talking about this dude? Great mullet!

http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/25/schintzius1.jpg

Dwayne Schintzius!

Wow. I wish I was after seeing the hair.

I found the name I was thinking of... Dametri "Da Meat Hook" Hill. A soph on the Florida team that made a run in 94. #35

http://www.gatorsports.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=GS&Date=20090531&Category=ARTICLES&ArtNo=906019993&Ref=AR&MaxW=600&border=0

http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20090531/ARTICLES/906019993?Title=Top-25-Gator-teams-25-93-94-Men-s-Basketball

[Norman Dale]

Vitaly Potapenko Wright State I also remember liking that alley oop combo of Sherman Douglas and Billy Owens at Syracuse. And going back to the old MCC days does anyone remember that little hot shot guard from Butler that tried to go toe to toe with the Chief Dwayne Wilson? I think if memory serves me Wilson got tossed but not before he got a pretty good shot in with his forearm. UMass had a pretty good Puerto Rican guard combo of Edgar Padilla and Carmello Travieso.

[pizza delivery]

Are you talking about this dude? Great mullet!

http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/25/schintzius1.jpg

Dwayne Schintzius!

LOL!!!!!Yes!!!!!

[pizza delivery]

Jim Jackson (OSU)
Gary Trent (OU)
Keith Lagree (UC)
Joel Cornette (BU)
Mike Marshall (BU)

[Fireball]

Shawnta Rogers - I always hated that little shit :)

What about Serge Zwicker from UNC? Always loved that name. Oh, and Funderburke from Ohio State. That was a cool name.

[MADXSTER]

Hartford's Vin Baker. He could run the court and block shots. I remember thinking, Man I wish Xavier had recruited him.

George Washington's Yinka Dare. I remember thinking, Man I wish Xavier had recruited him.

University of New Orleans' Ervin Johnson. After working in a Baton Rouge supermarket for almost three years, Johnson played basketball at the University of New Orleans under coach Tim Floyd. A 6'11", 245-pound center from the University of New Orleans, Johnson was selected 23rd overall by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1993 NBA Draft. I remember thinking, Man I wish Xavier had recruited him.

[jdm2000]

Terry Dehere(Seton Hall), Chris Smith(LSU later known as Mahammad Abdoul Ralf), Lionel L. Train Simmons(La. Tech)


I think the L-Train went to LaSalle, not Louisiana Tech. Back when LaSalle was pretty good.

[Roach]

George Washington's Yinka Dare. I remember thinking, Man I wish Xavier had recruited him.

Yinka Dare actually died a few years ago. After a lackluster NBA career, an undetected heart condition killed him at a young age.

Some others:

Amal McCaskill (Marquette)
Aaron Hutchins (Marquette)
Jason Sasser (Texas Tech)
DeMarco Johnson (Charlotte)
Mike King (GW)
Shea Seals (Tulsa)
Richie Frahm (Gonzaga)
Taylor Coppenrath (Vermont)
Adonal Foyle (Colgate)
Dontae Jones (Mississippi State)
Otis Hill (Syracuse)
Cookie Belcher (Nebraska)
Jerald Honeycutt (Tulane)
Ansu Sesay (Ole Miss)
Caswell Cyrus (St. Bonaventure)
Vonteego Cummings (Pitt)
Thaddeus Delaney (College of Charleston)
Dedric Willoughby (Iowa State)

[Roach]

Terry Dehere(Seton Hall), Chris Smith(LSU later known as Mahammad Abdoul Ralf), Lionel L. Train Simmons(La. Tech)

Lionel Simmons went to LaSalle.

[MHettel]

Lionel Simmons went to LaSalle.

Thanks. 5 years of waiting is now over

[ammtd34]

As a kid, my two favorite players were Calbert Cheaney, then AJ Guyton.

When I was 11, I went to Pittsburgh for the McDonald's All American game to watch Jason Collier, a family friend. He took my friend and me to a player dinner. Great class. Collier, Richard Hamilton, Kobe, Jermaine O'neal, Ed Cota, Vasil Etimov, Nate James, Loren Woods, Stephen Jackson, Corey Benjamin, Tim Thomas, Mike Bibby, Mateen Cleaves. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

For some reason, though, I'll always remember Willie Dersch (UVA) and Shaheen Holloway (Seton Hall).

Edit: I just saw the dates. Well played. I was wondering how this thread slipped by me.

[Smails]

For some reason I was a big Arizona fan and really liked thier team that bounced by Oklahoma in 88. They had some players on that squad.

Sean Elliot
Sean Rooks
Matt Muelbach
Jud Buecheler
Kenny Lofton
Steve Kerr

[Smails]

Was also a big fan of Dante calabria from UNC

[mohr5150]

SirValiant Brown- GW

and of course his brother,

SirLancelot Brown- GW

Damn, you beat me to SirValiant.

Dennis Hopson, OSU. My first favorite basketball player.
Pearl Washington, 'Cuse

[Muskie]

As a kid, my two favorite players were Calbert Cheaney, then AJ Guyton.

When I was 11, I went to Pittsburgh for the McDonald's All American game to watch Jason Collier, a family friend. He took my friend and me to a player dinner. Great class. Collier, Richard Hamilton, Kobe, Jermaine O'neal, Ed Cota, Vasil Etimov, Nate James, Loren Woods, Stephen Jackson, Corey Benjamin, Tim Thomas, Mike Bibby, Mateen Cleaves. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

For some reason, though, I'll always remember Willie Dersch (UVA) and Shaheen Holloway (Seton Hall).

Edit: I just saw the dates. Well played. I was wondering how this thread slipped by me.

Calbert Cheaney is the best basketball player I ever saw play live (and that includes many of the fine players I've seen play at X). I still can't believe one of the Indiana teams he was on didn't win a National Title.

[Xtemporaneous]

Chris Smith(LSU later known as Mahammad Abdoul Ralf)

That was Chris Jackson. Played at LSU with the twin towers. A little known frosh named Shaquille O'Neal and Stanley Roberts. I saw Shaq's first SEC game at Vandy. They were incredible. They totally shut down Vandy's big Will Perdue.

I had a buddy play for UK and went to visit him at the Wildcat Lodge. While I was there UK's two guard Dale Brown played a VHS tape of him vs. Chris in the Mississippi HS State Championship game. It was incredible as those two traded buckets all night.

As for Fly Williams, there are some great stories about him at Austin Peay and their gym at the time which was called "The Little Red Barn". The late Lake Kelly took a chance on him and had Leonard recruit him from the streets of NY. There are videos of people talking about NY street ball and "The World" and Fly would take games over. He was Jordan before Jordan but didn't have a clear head on his shoulders.

Good memories. Thanks for the trip...

[bleedXblue]

Kelly Tripuka ND

My first recollection as a youngster following colege basketball.

Yes, I know this dates me.

Man the kid could shoot.

[drudy23]

Devin Davis - the dread guy from Miami

[danaandvictory]

Eugene Land once dunked on my head in a summer league game. This wouldn't be that odd except it happened when both of us were in the SEVENTH GRADE.

[THRILLHOUSE]

Calbert Cheaney is the best basketball player I ever saw play live (and that includes many of the fine players I've seen play at X). I still can't believe one of the Indiana teams he was on didn't win a National Title.

And if not for lousy officiating X could have knocked off the best Chaney led IU team in 1993.

[Cincypunk.org]

Jamal Ball (Akron) ...crazy 44 point game in a 3OT loss against the muskies in 96.

and his teammate Ali Kart...not kidding...who also missed a jumper from the free throw line to win it for the Zips at the end of the 2nd OT.

I remember that game! I was in the car listening to 700 WLW while my family was inside eating dinner and visiting family at a nursing home. Crazy game!

[Masterofreality]

Jamal Ball (Akron) ...crazy 44 point game in a 3OT loss against the muskies in 96.

and his teammate Ali Kart...not kidding...who also missed a jumper from the free throw line to win it for the Zips at the end of the 2nd OT.


I remember that game! I was in the car listening to 700 WLW while my family was inside eating dinner and visiting family at a nursing home. Crazy game!

I was AT that game. Worst thing was that my Mother was flying in for Christmas that night and with the 3 OT's I was afraid that I coudn't stay for a 4th if it went that far. What a game.

[Cheesehead]

Penny Hardaway, Butch Lee, Jimmie Binnie (traffic cone)!

[Retire33]

Penny Hardaway, Butch Lee, Jimmie Binnie (traffic cone)!

Any Jimmie Binnie reference never goes unnoticed.

Public reps

[Xman95]

I was AT that game. Worst thing was that my Mother was flying in for Christmas that night and with the 3 OT's I was afraid that I coudn't stay for a 4th if it went that far. What a game.

I was there too. Remember when Lenny Brown was taunting the Akron crowd? All I could think was, "Lenny, you're in triple-OT with freakin' Akron. Shut the f--k up!"

As for players from the past, I was always a fan of Randolph Childress from Wake Forest, as well as another Demon Deacon, Rusty LaRue.

Couple GaTech folks to remember too: Travis Best, James Forrest (hit the huge 3 at the buzzer to pull the upset against USC and Harold Miner in the 1992 Tourney)

Some great names from college bball past: Scientific Mapp and Majestic Mapp