Favorite BU Player of All-time?

[tornado]

Arthur Leroy "Buzz" Ott

http://www.hillsboroschools.net/schools/hhs/athletics/sports/halloffame/ott/ott.htm

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[Double D]

Many favorites, but as a kid....VOOIIIISEEEEE WWWWWIIIIINTERRSS!

[BRADLEY FAN 49]

Hersey is one of the obvious choices.
Here are a few of my other choices.
Joe Allen --Great game against Lew Alcinder & U.C.L.A.
Greg Smith-- Great game against Illinois. 6'-3" slow white center who couldn't jump but man did he have some great moves.
Roger Phegley -- Great game against Reggie Theus at the field house. If they would of had 3 point shots back then no would have ever broken his scoring record.
Trevr Trimpe -- What a shooter on some very good teams.
Mithell Anderson -- One of my all time favorites.

[TNel]

Squeaky. He, more than any other player, got me hooked on basketball and BU basketball, in particular. A lifelong addiction I can't shake.

[BU RICK]

Mine has to be Joe Allen, his hands were like catchers mitts and coach Stowell had line drive passes coming at him down the lane with Wes Unseld drapped all over him. And he could put it in with either hand.

Mitchell Anderson and Hersey Hawkins.

[Beninator]

I was at Bradley during the Hawkins years so that is a no brainer...

Other players I have run into who are favorites:

Joe Allen-- as a kid going to basketball camp, it was great to have Joe Allen there instructing us about the game!

Gene Melchiore--I met him once. Great guy.

Jim Les, Tom Les, Anthony Parker, Roger Phegley, Hop Houston, Willie Scott, Donald Reese-boy we could use someone like him now!) Jim Caruthers,

[Chico]

Chico, Is The Hawk nice for a basketball player (most of which are stuck up you know whats) or nice for a regular person who hasn't been spoiled and given everything their whole lives because they can put a ball in a hoop?

Don't know you from Adam, so I don't know if you were around for Hawk's playing days at BU. I'll guess you were, so that is such a dumb replyI won't even waste my time replying to it.

[southpaw nothin]

"Rocket" Ray Ramsey, who was probably the biggest omission from the centennial all-time team.

While some credit Paul Unruh for being one of the inventors of the jump hook shot (a credit he even denies, citing players such as Mikan and others 5-10 years earlier that experimented in running and jumping while shooting).

Ramsey was one of those players, and due to the interruption of his athletic career by WW II, his popularity and impact went largely unnoticed.

He not only was a multi-sport athlete, he excelled in football, basketball, and track. He was a silver medalist at the Millrose Games (the nation's most prestigious indoor track-and-field event), an all-star in the CFL although the only 3 years he played for the Hamilton Tiger Cats were the only 3 years in a 6 year span where the team did not play in the Grey Cup (they had won the year before he joined, and again the year after he retired).

He also only played 2 games of professional basketball for Baltimore.

But by all accounts, his basketball exploits were electrifying.

[tornado]

Ray Ramsey played seven years in the NFL

http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=RAMSERAY01

In 1947 he led the NFL in yards per reception, in 1949 he led the NFL in yards per
kick return, and in 1953 he led the NFL in interceptions returned for TD's
and in 1947 he was 2nd in rushing yards with 1201 & 3rd in the entire NFL in all-purpose yards with 1738!!
and don't forget, at the exact same time he was also playing NBA basketball!!

Ray is one of a dozen NFL players who have come from Bradley!

http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=RAMSERAY01

that's more than Creighton, Indiana State, Missouri State, Evansville, and a few others can boast...
not bad for a small school that hasn't had football for nearly 40 years!

[BU RICK]

"Rocket" is a great nickname. Sounds like he was quite the athlete. Thanks for sharing that

[BU RICK]

Chico, I agree with you. I read it a couple times and I can't understand why it was posted either.

[Drill]

Forgot some

Forgot about Jimmy Caruthers. He was exciting.

Another........Bobby Humbles...........never forget the game where he triple pumped with about 2 seconds left...........shot it about 30 feet out and swished it to win the game...........think it was either North Texas State or West Texas.

Also, Greg Smith IS Six Pack Smitty. Always joked that he would open a six pack in the 3 second lane. If he wasn't getting a 3 s. violation, he was making a great move to the basket. He had 1 really great year. The rest were mediocre.

[Murph]

Reggie Hall ..... fought through the scorn and boo's of some fans that for SOME reason thought that would make him play better.

Gave all he had and graduated with Degree in hand. If I was Reggie I would have been compelled to give those fans the one finger salute and walk off into the sunset...he didn't and I applaud him for that.

Good post, Reggie showed the fans that booed him who has more class.

[bluedevils1]

Jeremy Crouch. I never got to see the oldies, but I wish I would have.

[Dubl R 1]

This is tough. I don't think I can pick just one.

I really started watching BU basketball in the early 80's as a youngster. So my list is as follows.

80's---- Mitchell Anderson, Eddie Mathews, Jim Les, The Hawk, Mike Williams

90's----Funches, Chad Kleine, A.P., Deon Jackson, Roberson

Last Decade------ Cello, JJ, Cellus, Ruff, J.C., Zach Andrews, Will Franklin.

So that is my long list. So hard to pick one, or even a couple, and I wasn't even around for the early years that BU basketball on the national map. Probably Hawk and Massive Mike would top my all-time lists.