All-Time Favorites Team?

[Muskie]

I've stolen this directly from @FagesMark on twitter:


Who is a team of YOUR FAVORITES NOT necessarily the all time team position by position? I thought it was a nice spin on the usualy question. Your starting five and 6th man?

[GoMuskies]

My favorite full team was the 1998 team, mostly because I was a senior, that team was really good, and I'd been around those guys enough to actually know them a bit (some, like Posey, Payne and the walkons more than others). Position by position? Tougher.

Tu
Posey
West
Massey
D. Brown

Ask me again tomorrow and Tu, Massey and Brown could be replaced by D. Williams, Lavender and Macura possibly.

[Muskie]

I went with:

Lavender
Larkin
Tu
West
Hill
Trevon (as 6th Man)

I too could swap out many of those with J.P., Posey, Love, Sato, and a host of others. I also think my lineup would require more than one basketball.

[murray87]

So many great players to choose from:

Tu
Burrell
Sato
Grant
DFW
6th Man--Jason Love

[paulxu]

Larkin
Thomas
Sato
Grant
West
6th Tu

[scoscox]

Lionel Chalmers
Darnell Williams
Tu Holloway
David West
James Posey

[noteggs]

B Lark
Lenny Brown
Grant
Hill
DWest
6th man Macura

[American X]

Lionel Chalmers (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap)
J.P. Macura (Thunderdunks + SoulCrushers)
Jason Love (defined dedication and selflessness, should be statue outside Cintas)
Stanley Burrell (The Hammer, pure heart, pure defense)
DFW (obviously)

6th - Isaiah Philmore (Rec League Champion)

[xukeith]

Tu
West
Posey
Grant
Sumner]

[IM4X]

Walker
Kimbrough
Tu
Strong
D. Brown

6th - Sato

Note: So tough- could easily have added 10 more. I went with 6 players who were not only a complete joy to watch but also showed incredible determination every second of every year they played, leaving it all on the floor.

[bobbiemcgee]

Team 03-04. I gotta go with "the run". 4 Straight in the A-10 and the wins in Orlando and Atlanta, games which I was fortunate enough to attend with somehow great seats. I remember the fans being absolutely amazed around me as we were dissecting Miss. St. and their ALL Everything big man. It was like "who are these guys". Sorry to see the season end on a couple of crappy fouls. BULLSHIT!

[IM4X]

Team 03-04. I gotta go with "the run". 4 Straight in the A-10 and the wins in Orlando and Atlanta, games which I was fortunate enough to attend with somehow great seats. I remember the fans being absolutely amazed around me as we were dissecting Miss. St. and their ALL Everything big man. It was like "who are these guys". Sorry to see the season end on a couple of crappy fouls. BULLSHIT!

Without question, it was the biggest turnaround of any X team. We so deserved a final 4 that year. Two phantom fouls kept us from it. Only with Myles out of the game, could Duke regain the lead.

I loved watching so many X teams over years- but the way Chalmers. Sato and company turned it on at the end of the season - annihilating an undefeated St. Joe’s in the A-10 championship and then torching a supposedly much superior Miss. State... and then taking down Texas and finally going toe to toe with Duke. Wow- what a fun ride it was!

Hoping this season brings the same excitement that finally takes us to the next bracket and beyond.

[Xavier]

Tu
Crawford
Sato
Dolleman
West

JP 6th man

[Jumpin_Jamal_Forever]

The 1988 team lost eleven or twelve games and only got into the Big Dance by winning three straight in the MCC season ending tournament up in U.D. arena. In the conference tournament final they beat a highly ranked Evansville team. Yeah - believe it (or not) Evansville had a helluva team that year. That wasn't a great team except they played great when it counted. Unfortunately, in the NCAA tournament, they ran into eventual NCAA Champion Michigan and got skewered by the Great Glenn Rice.

But, for the greatest X team ever, I think you have to give the nod to the 1989-1990 team which upset No. 3 seed Georgetown, led by Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Motombo advancing to Xavier's first ever Sweet Sixteen. Georgetown was heavily favored and despite appearing in March Madness for the fifth consecutive year, even the media announcers had no idea where Xavier was located. They kept talking about Xavier from Connecticut. The Muskies trashed G-town in the first half but had to hold on late for a close win. It is, arguably, the greatest win in Xavier history (even though it only advanced the Muskies to the Sweet 16) because it signaled to the rest of college basketball that X had arrived. And, the next day, newspapers all over the country had the story front and center in their sports section. Yeah-we used to have newspapers in every city and some like Cincinnati, had two.

That game was highlighted by one of the greatest clutch players in Xavier history, Jamal Walker, who hit two critical free throws in the final seconds of play to seal the win. Jamal Walker had no jumper at all, (it was really kind of a half ass set shot) although he could penetrate like no player I have ever seen. And, with a game on the line, even though he couldn't hit the ocean from the beach, he was absolute money. If you can imagine, he was the very last guy you wanted shooting the three during the game except in the final seconds of a game, he was the one guy you prayed to have the ball in his hands. He was an unbelievable clutch player-ice water ran in that guy's veins. Against UC, that year, in a fabulous shootout game at the Gardens (one where a Gillen and Huggins confrontation almost resulted in a fist fight between them) Walker buried a deep corner three, at the buzzer, to break a tie, and beat U.C. The shootouts in those days were very heated and what occurred a number of years later between Tu and Mark What's His Name, was commonplace. Those teams hated each other. While only a regular season game, that one was a classic I will take with me to the end.

[XU 23]

Tu
Crawford
Trevon
JP
Stainbrook

6th man: James Farr