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Name Something Our Past or Present Players Are Known For...

SFP said:
There were some of us who were lucky to see Xavier McDaniel, the X-man play. He was truly a man among boys.
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I believe in his senior year at Carver he went for something like 40 and 20. He also might have led the country that year in both scoring and rebounding.
 
Some Choices

Some Choices

Voise Winters- I remember when we signed him was the most exiting comit I can remember. We were already loaded and got a big time signing. He was never quite as good as I expected, but was still a great player. He could leap and was a good shooter.

Harold McMath was my favorite when I was young and first started following the team. Mostly because of effort and rebounding

Luke Jackson was awesome. If he was 6-10 or 6-11 he would have been an great NBA power forward.

And since someone mentioned another team. I remember it being the most intimidating team I had seen when Carr and Levingston where freshmen at Wichita State. They about ripped the rim off and took the defenses arm on stuff after stuff.

I remember the Tulsa Paul Pressey teams and the Wichita State teams as being the most talented Valley teams I have seen. I was not watching the Valley when Cincinnati and Louisville were still in the conference( At least I don't remember it).
 
By the way I would love to know (where are they now) on our past players. I remember hearing David Thirdkill may be in St. Louis and did not want found. I think I read that Harold McMath may be running a sporting goods store in Australia. If anyone knows any of this info, I would love to have a new thread started with that or any PM's if you want.

Edit: Also I realize that I have gotten off track from the original point of the post.
So:
Aaron Zobrist-Three pointers,free throws
Dwayne Funches-Muscles
Marcus Pollard-Original version of Antonio Gates(Basketball to football) Good B-Ball player also.
Willie Scott-Beep Beep(fast)
Dion Thurman-I can't say what he reminds me of !!!
 
lake Camelot said:
And since someone mentioned another team. I remember it being the most intimidating team I had seen when Carr and Levingston where freshmen at Wichita State. They about ripped the rim off and took the defenses arm on stuff after stuff.

I remember the Tulsa Paul Pressey teams and the Wichita State teams as being the most talented Valley teams I have seen. I was not watching the Valley when Cincinnati and Louisville were still in the conference( At least I don't remember it).
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I've got to agree on both Wichita and Tulsa being two of the most talented teams BU consistently played. I saw many BU/Louisville games in the early 70's and would say both the TU and WSU compared favorably.

I'll never forget an extremely under-sized BU team (one of the guys guarding Levingston/Carr was our 6'4" leaper Ford) taking on WSU's
"Twin Towers" and holding WSU to 11 second-half points to pull off a come-from-behind win. One of the best defensive halves I've ever seen to this day! :)
 
They just keep coming to me...

James Baptist- 7'1 opera singer
Michael Collins- freshman red**** one day, starting the next day
 
my list of guys that were easy to talk to...down to earth...guys that I met at camps or just chatted with at sometime... in no particular order:

Gavin Schierer
Aaron Zobrist
Hersey Hawkins
Jim Les
SamS
Brian Lavin
Donald Powell
Billy Wright
Dwayne Funchess
Anthony Parker
Danny Adams
Will Franklin
JJ Tauai
Hassan Houston

You know I started the list thinking it would be a short one, but that is one thing about BU lots of classy players...I will add them as I remember...most of the older ones were guys that would sign an autograph and chat with my kids or players...
 
Hersey Hawkins was the nicest most relaxed player walking around campus while I was there. I lived right next to where the players lived my Sr. year and HH would be heading to class the same time I did and he would always be willing to chat it up a bit. You never saw him out and about causing any trouble. Donald Powell was generally a real nice guy. He dated one of my roomates for awhile and he would just hang out and watch games when he could.
 
I'll add to this a little... Hawk was a classy guy and as SFP stated HH was always willing to talk to anyone... A great time to be at BU.:)

a couple in addition to MRCoachdude's list ...some going back a little...

Joe Allen--Joe was always willing to work with us kids attending the Bradley Basketball camps.

Tom Les
Joe Stowell
Gene Melchiorre--talked to him once and was a very nice guy.
Bob Carney--talked to him last year for a while at the red/white game.
 
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