IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Since it's the off season, and there's not a whole lot to talk about, I got bored and put together my All Time Team for each Big 10 school (save Indiana...that's been done ad nauseum). This might not draw much interest, but curious who I might have omitted or who others think should have made the list...Partially based on my own opinion, and partially based on stats (You try digging up an all time team for Northwestern!)...Enjoy... Illinois Nick Weatherspoon Deon Thomas Eddie Johnson Deron Williams Derek Harper Iowa Luka Garza Roy Marble Kevin Kunnert BJ Armstrong Ronnie Lester Maryland Len Elmore Len Bias Albert King John Lucas Juan Dixon Michigan Roy Tarpley Chris Webber Glenn Rice Cazzie Russell Gary Grant Jamal Crawford Michigan State Jay Vincent Greg Kelser Steve Smith Shawn Respert Magic Johnson Minnesota Mychael Thompson Kevin McHale Willie Burton Lou Hudson Ray Williams Northwestern Evan Eschmeyer John Shurna Shon Morris Drew Crawford Bryant McIntosh Nebraska Dave Hoppen Andre Smith Shavon Shields Eric Piatkowski Tyronn Lue Ohio State Jerry Lucas Deshaun Thomas Jim Jackson Kelvin Ransey Dennis Hopson Penn State Calvin Booth Lamar Stevens Jamelle Cornley Joe Crispin Talor Battle Purdue Joe Barry Carroll Dave Schellhase E’Twaun Moore Glenn Robinson Rick Mount Bruce Parkinson Rutgers Myles Johnson Phil Sellers James Bailey Eddie Jordan Quincy Douby Wisconsin Frank Kaminsky Ethan Happ Sam Dekker Alondo Tucker Michael Findley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobSaccamanno Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Interesting. Fun discussion. What about Otis Birdsong for Rutgers or Cassie Russell for Michigan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jv1972iu Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, BobSaccamanno said: Interesting. Fun discussion. What about Otis Birdsong for Rutgers or Cassie Russell for Michigan? Gotta go with Cazzie Russell and how about John Havlicek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, BobSaccamanno said: Interesting. Fun discussion. What about Otis Birdsong for Rutgers or Cassie Russell for Michigan? There's an excellent case for Cazzie...I tried to remain true to Center, 2 forwards and 2 guards, and Michigan is pretty stacked there... Birdsong played at the University of Houston... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, jv1972iu said: Gotta go with Cazzie Russell and how about John Havlicek. I tried to go more off of their college game...Hondo was pretty good in college, but Ohio State has had a lot of great college players... And Michigan and OSU were two of the more difficult ones... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jv1972iu Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 1 minute ago, IUFLA said: There's an excellent case for Cazzie...I tried to remain true to Center, 2 forwards and 2 guards, and Michigan is pretty stacked there... Birdsong played at the University of Houston... Good job! Appreciate the older guys you included. 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jv1972iu Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Just now, IUFLA said: I tried to go more off of their college game...Hondo was pretty good in college, but Ohio State has had a lot of great college players... That's fair. 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 I envisioned this exercise as fluid, counting on the members to help get it right... So Cazzie Russell it is...Who does he replace? Webber or Rice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stlboiler23 Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 40 minutes ago, IUFLA said: Since it's the off season, and there's not a whole lot to talk about, I got bored and put together my All Time Team for each Big 10 school (save Indiana...that's been done ad nauseum). This might not draw much interest, but curious who I might have omitted or who others think should have made the list...Partially based on my own opinion, and partially based on stats (You try digging up an all time team for Northwestern!)...Enjoy... Illinois Nick Weatherspoon Deon Thomas Eddie Johnson Deron Williams Derek Harper Iowa Luka Garza Roy Marble Kevin Kunnert BJ Armstrong Ronnie Lester Maryland Len Elmore Len Bias Albert King John Lucas Juan Dixon Michigan Roy Tarpley Chris Webber Glenn Rice Gary Grant Jamal Crawford Michigan State Jay Vincent Greg Kelser Steve Smith Shawn Respert Magic Johnson Minnesota Mychael Thompson Kevin McHale Willie Burton Lou Hudson Ray Williams Northwestern Evan Eschmeyer John Shurna Shon Morris Drew Crawford Bryant McIntosh Nebraska Dave Hoppen Andre Smith Shavon Shields Eric Piatkowski Tyronn Lue Ohio State Jerry Lucas Deshaun Thomas Jim Jackson Kelvin Ransey Dennis Hopson Penn State Calvin Booth Lamar Stevens Jamelle Cornley Joe Crispin Talor Battle Purdue Joe Barry Carroll Dave Schellhase E’Twaun Moore Rick Mount Bruce Parkinson Rutgers Myles Johnson Phil Sellers James Bailey Eddie Jordan Quincy Douby Wisconsin Frank Kaminski Ethan Happ Sam Dekker Alondo Tucker Michael Findley No Big Dog?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, Stlboiler23 said: No Big Dog?! Yeah, over Moore...Not Schellhase... I tend not to put too much effort into anything Purdue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jv1972iu Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 22 minutes ago, IUFLA said: I envisioned this exercise as fluid, counting on the members to help get it right... So Cazzie Russell it is...Who does he replace? Webber or Rice? Over Rice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jv1972iu Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 16 minutes ago, IUFLA said: Yeah, over Moore...Not Schellhase... I tend not to put too much effort into anything Purdue... What about Terry Dischinger? 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, jv1972iu said: What about Terry Dischinger? 😊 I did consider him (all Terre Haute guys get a little extra from me as well as Martinsville guys...hard for me to leave Jerry Sichting off) but the call was him or Schellhase... We'll leave it to our resident Boilermaker...what say thee, @Stlboiler23? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stlboiler23 Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 23 minutes ago, IUFLA said: I did consider him (all Terre Haute guys get a little extra from me as well as Martinsville guys...hard for me to leave Jerry Sichting off) but the call was him or Schellhase... We'll leave it to our resident Boilermaker...what say thee, @Stlboiler23? I’ll go Schellhase but it’s close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steubenhoosier Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 John Wooden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 8 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said: John Wooden Another Martinsville guy, but I wanted to keep it semi current...If I had gone back that far, I'd have put Charles "Stretch" Murphy in there too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OGIUAndy Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Crawford was good at UM, but I don't think he would sniff the top 5 tbh. Rudy T has to be discussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 9 minutes ago, OGIUAndy said: Crawford was good at UM, but I don't think he would sniff the top 5 tbh. Rudy T has to be discussed. I tried to think through the Michigan guards...Joubert, Green, Robinson, Burke, and Rose all had good careers there...Definitely one of the tougher calls... And I did consider Tomjanovich...I just thought Tarpley had a better career...Who knows what he could have been without the addiction problems... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgambill Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 2 hours ago, IUFLA said: Since it's the off season, and there's not a whole lot to talk about, I got bored and put together my All Time Team for each Big 10 school (save Indiana...that's been done ad nauseum). This might not draw much interest, but curious who I might have omitted or who others think should have made the list...Partially based on my own opinion, and partially based on stats (You try digging up an all time team for Northwestern!)...Enjoy... Illinois Nick Weatherspoon Deon Thomas Eddie Johnson Deron Williams Derek Harper Iowa Luka Garza Roy Marble Kevin Kunnert BJ Armstrong Ronnie Lester Maryland Len Elmore Len Bias Albert King John Lucas Juan Dixon Michigan Roy Tarpley Chris Webber Glenn Rice Cazzie Russell Gary Grant Jamal Crawford Michigan State Jay Vincent Greg Kelser Steve Smith Shawn Respert Magic Johnson Minnesota Mychael Thompson Kevin McHale Willie Burton Lou Hudson Ray Williams Northwestern Evan Eschmeyer John Shurna Shon Morris Drew Crawford Bryant McIntosh Nebraska Dave Hoppen Andre Smith Shavon Shields Eric Piatkowski Tyronn Lue Ohio State Jerry Lucas Deshaun Thomas Jim Jackson Kelvin Ransey Dennis Hopson Penn State Calvin Booth Lamar Stevens Jamelle Cornley Joe Crispin Talor Battle Purdue Joe Barry Carroll Dave Schellhase E’Twaun Moore Glenn Robinson Rick Mount Bruce Parkinson Rutgers Myles Johnson Phil Sellers James Bailey Eddie Jordan Quincy Douby Wisconsin Frank Kaminski Ethan Happ Sam Dekker Alondo Tucker Michael Findley So many great B1G players it's almost impossible to get a consensus for sure. I'd probably have to add Veshon Lenard from Minnesota and Devin Harris from Wisconsin. Makes it tougher is today's players leave so early....I'd also favor players that won or led teams to final 4's and NCs as well giving them the nod. Probably would have Glen Rice on that Michigan squad but that is just me....25ppg and a NC....wow..don't get me wrong great players but that is pretty special player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 I overlooked one of my own all time favorite players...the late Jack Moore of Nebraska (Muncie Central)... 5'9 but boy could he play... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 Scott Skiles has to be on my Sparty list. He's one of my favorite college players of all time. On a personal note...Tony Wysinger was our camp coach back in the day and he signed his autograph with Alford in it for me because all I wanted to be was Steve Alford at the time. Fun topic and will think of others as the slow season hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 @IUFLA Your Maryland team: Maryland Len Elmore Len Bias Albert King John Lucas Juan Dixon I am thinking I replace Juan Dixon(I know he won a title) with Adrian Branch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, rico said: @IUFLA Your Maryland team: Maryland Len Elmore Len Bias Albert King John Lucas Juan Dixon I am thinking I replace Juan Dixon(I know he won a title) with Adrian Branch. I struggled between Dixon, Branch, and Steve Francis...Tom McMillan was hard to leave off too... Also considered Steve Blake at PG, but Lucas was just too good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, IUFLA said: I struggled between Dixon, Branch, and Steve Francis...Tom McMillan was hard to leave off too... Also considered Steve Blake at PG, but Lucas was just too good... Buck Williams? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted May 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 12 minutes ago, rico said: Buck Williams? Considered him as well...I just thought Bias was a better PF pick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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