Elvin Hayes comes to mind. They makes some reference on why he is not included in a footnote on Bill Walton's entry but my Monday morning brain is unable to figure out what the reasoning is.

John Lucas should be somewhere on that list.

Two players from rival teams come to mind-jerry Lucas from the evil empire, but probably a little closer to home-Leo Byrd from Marshall in the 50's. He was the first Marshall player to lead the MAC in scoring, averaged 29.3 points as a senior, scored over 1700 in his 3 year career, was a second team all-American and was drafted 25th overall. He never played professionally. Two things that made his story a little special was that he had polio when he was 12 and he was the go to guy on a team that also had Hal Greer- a guy who ended up on the top 50 pros of the 20th century. I lived nearby and followed him, he was something special.

This reminds me of a series ESPN did about a decade ago. They took the 64 teams with the most tourney success, fielded a starting 5 of the all-time greatest players for each school, and ran a fake tournament.

I wanna say the final four was UCLA, UNC, LSU, and Duke, of which LSU was my favorite because it was Maravich, Shaq, and 3 guys from waaaaay back when that I had never heard of.


EDIT: Found the article. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hoops/tou...

I was wrong. It was UCLA, UNC, LSU, and Georgetown in the final four, and LSU had a few more recent players than I remembered. Still, it was mainly the Maravich and Shaq show, which would have been fun to watch if it was real.

The Pistol was a reasonably good college hoops player.

For you youngsters who don't know about him, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8qUZILi8IM He'll have you wearing your socks low and loose.

The shot making in the video is terrific--but check out the passing wizardry.

Unbelievable college stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Maravich

True dat.