The 100 BEST College Basketball players

[tornado]

There will be some dispute, but this is a pretty good compilation...

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/752191-100-best-players-in-college-basketball-history

The few I disagree with --
#96 Rick Mount was way better in college than plenty of the 95 guys ahead of him
#93 Andrew Bogut was good but he stayed in college just two years and has a career 16 ppg average
#81 Chet "The Jet" Walker - nice to see they included Chet but he was way better than half the 80 guys ahead of him in the listing
(AND OUTSIDE OF LARRY BIRD is the only MVC player -- among current MVC teams)
#70 Artis Gilmore - serious -- this guy was a ton in college averaging 20+ in BOTH scoring and rebounding and carried a team of absolute nobodies to within a few points of the National Championship-- how can he be #70?
#61 JJ Redick -- sorry -- too uni-dimensional -- needed a whole team of other McD All-Americans in order to get anywhere -- Chet would have eaten him for lunch and had him fouled out in under 5 minutes of play.
#56 Julius Erving - great player but played in relative obscurity in college and stayed only two years

Bobby Hurley just one notch behind Tyler Hansbrough at #51 -- ??
I also think Shaq, a couple of the IU guys (Alford & May) and even Wilt (#9) are rated higher than they deserve for their college accomplishments..

In contrast - Mikan at #29 and David Robinson at #25 are rated way, way too low for how much they dominated the opposition and even changed the game.

And Bird (#8 ) would be my #1,
Maravich (#6) would be my #4
and Oscar Robertson (#4) would be my #3


in contrast to their top four of Alcindor (#1), David Thompson (#2), Bill Walton (#3)

[sousaman2089]

I, obviously, wasn't around for most of these guys, but I would find it difficult to rank Lew and Walton so high when they were playing in the greatest basketball system since the Princeton offense, and amongst some of the best players in the nation, with the best coach ever.

From what I know, Oscar, Bird and Pistol Pete played with A LOT less talent (but the reason Pistol did was the fact the LSU coach was his dad and he pretty much only recruited guys who could set screens, play pick and roll and rebound )

And the huge difference between James Worthy and Michael Jordan surprises me. James Worthy was the leader of that Sam Perkins, MJ team. But then again, people aren't use to seeing MJ being beat by anyone