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Best BU players by local schools/towns-a list

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capecod

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Best ever BU player (one selection per school or town)

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Peoria High Schools (I'm an old MS-9 guy, so Pekin is on this list)

Central: Marcellus Sommerville 03-06
Manual: Eddie Jackson 63-66 (over Al Smith-it's my list)
E. Peoria: Roger Phegley 74-78
Pekin: Jeremy Crouch 04-08
Richwoods: Steve Day 61-64 (best I could come up with)
Limestone: Donivine Stewart/Scott Behrends 90-92 (your pick)
Notre Dame: Brian Lavin (played BB w/ his dad in grade school)

the 'no longer around' schools
Spalding: Bob Swigris 65-68
Bergan: Bill Ricca 76-77 (could have been Willie Pearson, but that's another story...
Woodruff: Zach Monroe 50-51(pitched in WS for Yankees, that's enough for me

Local Area Towns:
Bloomington Dodie Dunson
Canton Aaron Preece 48-51
Chillicothe Randy Crady 69-71
Farmington Ron Patterson 62-65
Galesburg Mike Owen 57-60
Havana Trevor Trimpe 84-88 over Gene Morse 56-59
Kewanee Mickey Tieman 59-62
Lewistown Harry Wilcoxen 45-48
Lincoln Seymour Reed 71-74
Metamora Aaron Zobrist 93-97
Morton Major Darst 41-43 (pulled this one out my a##)
Peru Doug Pomatto 71-74 ( played against in grade school)
Pontiac Harvey Corbin 32-34 (see Morton comment above)
Springfield Ray 'Rocket' Ramsey
Streator Billy Rohlman 67-70
Table Grove Mark Dohner 72-75
Toulon Paul Unruh 46-50 (my dad's alma mater)
Washington Dyricus Simms-Edwards

I have another list (or two) for the rest of the state + top 10 Chicago + best from each State (see posts below in this thread)
 
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Best ever BB player from old MS-9 High Schools

Best ever BB player from old MS-9 High Schools

Best ever BB player (college)

Manual: Frank Williams (Illinois)
Central: Shaun Livingston (NBA over Duke)
Richwoods: Derek Holcombe (Indiana/Illinois) over Mike Robinson X2
Pekin: Dave Golden (Duke) over Fred Miller (Illinois)
E. Peoria Roger Phegley (Bradley)
Limestone: Ron Wendelin (Duke)
Notre Dame: Max Bielfeldt (Michigan)

Spalding: Alvin O'Neal (Illinois/Morgan St)
Bergan: need help with this one: some 6'7 guy on State tourney team in 1980...McCabe
Woodruff: I'm going with Bingo Lilly (although I guess he transferred to Central) over DC Purifoy
 
I would pick Rob Dye over Ray Ramsey for Springfield. Just my two cents! Rob Scored over 500 more points for BU than Rocket Ray. Although Ray was quite accomplished in athletics as a basketballer, Rob gets my nod.
 
BU best -towns in the rest of the State of Illinois

BU best -towns in the rest of the State of Illinois

Best BU player from:

Aurora: Bob Carney
Cario: Anthony Webster
Centralia: Bobby Joe Mason
Decator: Lee Utt
Deerfield: Chuck Orsborn
Granite City: Rich Williams
Harvey: Dar Hutchins
Highland Park: Gene Melchoirre
Joliet: Barnes Mines
Kankakee: Marello Robinson
Moline: Steve Kuberski
Morris: Ted Panish
Naperville Anthony Parker
Niles Jim Les
Paris: Dave Hmerickhouse
Quincy: Jack Gower
Rock Island Dick Peterson

Chicago top 10
1 Hershey Hawkins
2 Mitchell Anderson
3 Joe Allen
4 Tim Robinson
5 Shellie McMillon
6 Mack Herndon
7 Billy Mann
8 Voise Winters
9 Anthony Manual
10 Alphra Saunders
 
Best ever BU player by State

Best ever BU player by State

BU players by State

Alabama: Marcus Pollard
Alaska: Will Egolf
Arizona: -
Arkansas: -
California: Cal Criddle
Colorado:
Connecticut:
Delaware:
Florida: Lavern Tart over Joe Strawder (wish Walt Wesley honored his BU LOI)
Georgia: Taylor Brown
Hawaii: -
Idaho: -
Illinois: Hersey Hawkins
Indiana: Andrew Warren
Iowa: Alex Mazeika (missed Alex on transfer list-from Iowa St)
Kansas: Jim Caruthers over Theron Wilson
Kentucky: Lawrence Bentley (wish Tom Payne's parents signed his LOI to BU)
Louisiana: Danny Granger
Maine: -
Maryland: Nolan Gibson
Massachusetts: -
Michigan: Chet Walker
Minnesota: Patrick O'Bryant
Mississippi: -
Missouri: David Thirdkill
Montana:
Nebraska:
Nevada: Milos Knezevic
New Hampshire: -
New Jersey: Tyshon Pickett
New Mexico: Roman Beach
New York: Dan Smith
North Carolina: Matt Salley
North Dakota: -
Ohio: Deon Jackson
Oklahoma: Donald Powell
Oregon: -
Pennsylvania: Barney Cable
Rhode Island: -
South Carolina: Gene Gathers
South Dakota: -
Tennessee:Booker Johnson
Texas: Joe Billy McDade over Will Franklin
Utah: -
Vermont: -
Virginia: Jake Eastman
Washington: -
West Virginia: -
Wisconsin: Tom Campbell
Wyoming: -

Foreign Countries:
Canada James Gillingham
Australia Cameron Rigby
France Aba Koita
Brazil Marcel deSouza
Bahamas Franz Smith
 
Buesch N Chips said:
Eureka: Mike Chianakas/Jordan Prosser
Manlius: Steve Doty
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I can't agree with Steve Doty being the best from Manlius.
Greg Berry was a teammate of Steve Doty at Manlius HS. Greg scored 187 career points and had 127 career rebounds for Bradley in 50 games from 1965-68, compared with Doty's career totals of just 10 points and 7 rebounds in 11 games (1966-69).
 
capecod said:
Best ever BB player (college)

Manual: Frank Williams (Illinois)
Central: Shaun Livingston (NBA over Duke)
Richwoods: Derek Holcombe (Indiana/Illinois) over Mike Robinson X2
Pekin: Dave Golden (Duke) over Fred Miller (Illinois)
E. Peoria Roger Phegley (Bradley)
Limestone: Ron Wendelin (Duke)
Notre Dame: Max Bielfeldt (Michigan)

Spalding: Alvin O'Neal (Illinois/Morgan St)
Bergan: need help with this one: some 6'7 guy on State tourney team in 1980...McCabe
Woodruff: I'm going with Bingo Lilly (although I guess he transferred to Central) over DC Purifoy
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are you forgetting Brian Randle went to Notre Dame or do you really think Max Bielfeldt is better?
 
Da Coach said:
I can't agree with Steve Doty being the best from Manlius.
Greg Berry was a teammate of Steve Doty at Manlius HS. Greg scored 187 career points and had 127 career rebounds for Bradley in 50 games from 1965-68, compared with Doty's career totals of just 10 points and 7 rebounds in 11 games (1966-69).
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You're right.
 
capecod said:
Best ever BB player (college)

Manual: Frank Williams (Illinois)
Central: Shaun Livingston (NBA over Duke)
Richwoods: Derek Holcombe (Indiana/Illinois) over Mike Robinson X2
Pekin: Dave Golden (Duke) over Fred Miller (Illinois)
E. Peoria Roger Phegley (Bradley)
Limestone: Ron Wendelin (Duke)
Notre Dame: Max Bielfeldt (Michigan)

Spalding: Alvin O'Neal (Illinois/Morgan St)
Bergan: need help with this one: some 6'7 guy on State tourney team in 1980...McCabe
Woodruff: I'm going with Bingo Lilly (although I guess he transferred to Central) over DC Purifoy
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Scott McCabe.

Washington: Doug Lee was the best college player to come out of the school, in my opinion.

I loved to watch Derek Holcomb, but I'd probably pick Robinson, Mark Smith, and Altenberger over him.

And I would agree with FWO that Randle was better than Bielfeldt will be.
 
Buesch N Chips said:
Scott McCabe.

Washington: Doug Lee was the best college player to come out of the school, in my opinion.

I loved to watch Derek Holcomb, but I'd probably pick Robinson, Mark Smith, and Altenberger over him.

And I would agree with FWO that Randle was better than Bielfeldt will be.
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Some of us old timers would put Tom Adams near or at the top of the list for Washington.
Thanks for interesting thread Capecod. Lot of names I haven't heard in awhile.
 
capecod said:
Best BU player from:

Centralia: Bobby Joe Mason...
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ran across this picture of the Centralia intersection dedicated to Bobby Joe Mason...
btw Warren Jones is from Centralia area...


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capecod said:
BU players by State....
Florida: Lavern Tart over Joe Strawder (wish Walt Wesley honored his BU LOI)....
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This site rates the best basketball players ever from South Carolina and they list
Bradley's Levern Tart as the TOP shooting guard ever to come out of South Carolina
since that's where he was born & grew up...
http://hooptrends.com/hoop-trends-all-state-team-south-carolina/

Tart passed away five years ago
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20100624/NEWS/306249848
 
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