For those of you who might not be as long in the tooth as we are, Bryce Drew was the Valparaiso guard who hit a miraculious shot to beat Ole Miss in the 1998 NCAA Tournament.
Drew was selected by the Houston Rockets in the First Round of the NBA Draft and was waived by the New Orleans Hornets after bouncing around for 6 years. This All-Star Team is named after those like Drew who raised their game to great heights and became temporary household names during the NCAA Tournament and seemingly were never heard of again. The leading 2010 candidate poised to add his name to the list is BYU’s Jimmer Fredette (great name, great game, Great White Hope)
Without further ado, Ladies and gentlemen, your starting five for the Bryce Drew All-Stars:
G-Bryce Drew
This is one of the best devised and executed plays in basketball history:
G-Donald Williams
Williams was the shooting guard for the 1993 NCAA National Championship North Carolina team. He was red hot for the entire tournament (including a Sweet 16 win over emerging potential dynasty, Arkansas) and won the Most Outstanding Player award after putting up 25 points in the title game (the infamous Chris Webber time out game) while hitting 5 of 8 three pointers. Williams never played in the NBA.
F-Scotty Thurman
It pains us to include Scotty on this list. Scotty’s shot no doubt sealed the National Championship for the Hogs in 1994. Scotty and Corliss Williamson led the Hogs back to the title game in… Ok, we’re just going to stop. It’s depressing.
F-John Wallace
Wallace led a vastly undermanned Syracuse team (“The Cuse is in Da House, Oh My God, Oh My God, team) to the 1996 National Championship game (a loss to Kentucky). Wallace is one of only a few players in NCAA history to have 2000 career points and 1000 career rebounds. He played 7 years in the NBA before retiring averaging 7 ppg and 2 rpg for his career.
C-Pervis Ellison
Ellison was the second freshman to ever lead its team to a National Championship while earning Most Valuable Player honors. “Never Nervous Pervis” had one of the greatest nicknames in College Basketball History, although if I were him, after getting those braces, I would have been a bit nervous every time I heard the word ‘orthodontist’. He joins John Wallace in the 2k point/1k rebound club. Various injuries prevented Ellison prom playing in more than 80% of his NBA games.
Bench:
Cameron Dollar–UCLA
Ed O’Bannon–UCLA
Charles O’Bannon–UCLA
Tyus Edney–UCLA
Toby Bailey–UCLA
George Zidek–UCLA
Steve Alford–Indiana
Bobby Hurley–Duke
Alaa Abdelnaby–Duke
U.S. Reed–Arkansas
(Thanks to KB for submitting most of this–it’s a fun angle)
The Hogs open SEC play tonight at LSU. Just a few reasons why this is huge:
LSU is #1 in the nation, Hogs #15 (depending on which poll you look at.)
LSU knocked Arkansas out of the CWS last season in Omaha.
LSU is the defending national champion.
This is the opening SEC series at LSU’s new $30M Alex Box Stadium.
The whole series is being televised on CST.
OK, I’m no sports fanatic like my brother, AB but this is going to be awesome. Because of this series and because my Hawkeyes are dominating the NCAA
I dare you to tell even the 120 pounder on this team that wrestling is fake.
wrestling tournament (again) I just added the sports and info tier to my already ridiculously expensive Cox Bundle. The finals are on ESPN-U.
Back to baseball. Apparently LSU’s ace is out for the series with an injury. Good news for Hog fans but LSU is deep. And they have a beautiful new stadium to defend from invading Hogs.
Go Hogs. Go Hawks.
(Oh and I hear there’s some other NCAA tournament happening this weekend too. How’s your bracket look? I called one upset. Notre Dame. Never take a football school in the basketball tourney. Other than that, I’m in bad, bad shape.)
Oh I miss Larry…
BlogHawgs.com NCAA Tourney “Bryce Drew All-Star” Team
Posted by Adam Butler on March 19, 2010
For those of you who might not be as long in the tooth as we are, Bryce Drew was the Valparaiso guard who hit a miraculious shot to beat Ole Miss in the 1998 NCAA Tournament.
Drew was selected by the Houston Rockets in the First Round of the NBA Draft and was waived by the New Orleans Hornets after bouncing around for 6 years. This All-Star Team is named after those like Drew who raised their game to great heights and became temporary household names during the NCAA Tournament and seemingly were never heard of again. The leading 2010 candidate poised to add his name to the list is BYU’s Jimmer Fredette (great name, great game, Great White Hope)
Without further ado, Ladies and gentlemen, your starting five for the Bryce Drew All-Stars:
G-Bryce Drew
This is one of the best devised and executed plays in basketball history:
G-Donald Williams
Williams was the shooting guard for the 1993 NCAA National Championship North Carolina team. He was red hot for the entire tournament (including a Sweet 16 win over emerging potential dynasty, Arkansas) and won the Most Outstanding Player award after putting up 25 points in the title game (the infamous Chris Webber time out game) while hitting 5 of 8 three pointers. Williams never played in the NBA.
F-Scotty Thurman
It pains us to include Scotty on this list. Scotty’s shot no doubt sealed the National Championship for the Hogs in 1994. Scotty and Corliss Williamson led the Hogs back to the title game in… Ok, we’re just going to stop. It’s depressing.
F-John Wallace
Wallace led a vastly undermanned Syracuse team (“The Cuse is in Da House, Oh My God, Oh My God, team) to the 1996 National Championship game (a loss to Kentucky). Wallace is one of only a few players in NCAA history to have 2000 career points and 1000 career rebounds. He played 7 years in the NBA before retiring averaging 7 ppg and 2 rpg for his career.
C-Pervis Ellison
Ellison was the second freshman to ever lead its team to a National Championship while earning Most Valuable Player honors. “Never Nervous Pervis” had one of the greatest nicknames in College Basketball History, although if I were him, after getting those braces, I would have been a bit nervous every time I heard the word ‘orthodontist’. He joins John Wallace in the 2k point/1k rebound club. Various injuries prevented Ellison prom playing in more than 80% of his NBA games.
Bench:
Cameron Dollar–UCLA
Ed O’Bannon–UCLA
Charles O’Bannon–UCLA
Tyus Edney–UCLA
Toby Bailey–UCLA
George Zidek–UCLA
Steve Alford–Indiana
Bobby Hurley–Duke
Alaa Abdelnaby–Duke
U.S. Reed–Arkansas
(Thanks to KB for submitting most of this–it’s a fun angle)
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