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There are a couple of Missouri Valley guys mentioned.
There are a couple of Missouri Valley guys mentioned.
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Bradley 72 - Illini 68 Final
???It??™s awful hard,??™??™ said Illini freshman guard D.J. Richardson, the former Central High School guard who played prep school ball a few miles from here and fought back tears outside the locker room. ???It??™s a hometown thing. It??™s bragging rights.??™ -
The Missouri Valley guys were, of course, Larry Bird, and Oscar Robertson, both from the state of Indiana (though Robertson was born in Tennessee, he grew up in Indianapolis).Originally posted by Beninator View Post
Amazing that 3 of the 10 guys on Katz's list are from the state of Indiana. Clyde Lovellette was the Lew Alcindor of his day.
But a glaring omission-- by Katz's criteria, the Top 10 Individual Seasons, it is impossible not to include Wilt Chamberlain's season as a sophomore in 1956-1957..
In his 2 seasons playing varsity at Kansas--
1956-57-- he averaged 29.6 ppg and 18.9 rpg and shot 62.7%, and played against some of the best teams of that day. He almost singlehandedly lead Kansas to the championship of the Big 7, and then to the NCAA title game against North Carolina, where Kansas lost in triple overtime. Wilt, who was triple-teamed by UNC the entire game, as he was by nearly every team Kansas played, was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four despite being on the runner-up team.
1957-58-- he averaged 30.1 ppg and 17.5 rpg.
He left Kansas after his junior year to play professionally for the Harlem Globetrotters.
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