All-time favorite Non-UConn Big East starting 5

[Kitaman]

Great suggestions.....Question: Is the all-time favorite based on how they played in general, or against UConn especially?

Yes

 

[Kitaman]

Remember John Lineham Providence?

 

[6xChamps]

Levance Fields is my all time favorite non UConn player

 

[mauconnfan]

Winner.....by a lot. W Billy Owens as 6th man

Yeah Owens or Walter Berry as 6th!

 

[storrsroars]

I'm just putting up a list of heartbreak with no particular concern as to whether these guys did what they did to us against the other BE squads:

DeJuan Blair
Peyton Siva
John Lenehan
Preston Schumpert
Darius Rice/Kerry Kittles

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

No love for this guy?

 

[joober jones]

John Wallace was fairly talented.

 

[jayteeman]

For some crazy reason, I want Michael Graham on that bench to go to

 

[dennismenace]

Hard to put the list together because of how p,,,,,,,,, off they used to get me but for some reason Jared Dudley and Craig Smith were both admired and despised (worthy opponent list?) for their rebounding against us. Dudley because he always seemed to just slip into the right place (through speed, IQ and hustle) and Smith was just such a brute force. I bet they would make great tape for teaching rebounding. Definitions of tenacity.

 

[Scottzer]

This is pretty darn tough - especially when you think of how many NBA Hall of Famers Georgetown has had.

C) Ewing
PF) Coleman or Mourning (Mourning played some PF with Mutombo back then)
SF) Mullin
SG) Kittles
PG) Iverson

 

[Inyatkin]

No love for this guy?

Didn't Miami go 0-18 one of those early years? Good times

 

[Chin Diesel]

All my picks are pre Dream Season players.

Mostly because there was the BE GOTW with Tom Gorman and that's who you watched for the week.

Pearl
David Wingate
Reggie Williams
Clyde Vaughn
Patrick Ewing

Walter Berry, Michael Adams and Willie Glass are very close contenders.

I couldn't stand Villanova. I can't think of any PC or SHU player worth a damn.

 

[mauconnfan]

All my picks are pre Dream Season players.

Mostly because there was the BE GOTW with Tom Gorman and that's who you watched for the week.

Pearl
David Wingate
Reggie Williams
Clyde Vaughn
Patrick Ewing

Walter Berry, Michael Adams and Willie Glass are very close contenders.

I couldn't stand Villanova. I can't think of any PC or SHU player worth a damn.

Otis Thorpe/Billy Donovan - Ramon Ramos/John Morton/Danny Calindrillo

 

[HuskyHawk]

Yeah Owens or Walter Berry as 6th!

Walter Berry is so underrated. His NBA career was short, but he was amazing at St. Johns.

 

[mauconnfan]

Walter Berry is so underrated. His NBA career was short, but he was amazing at St. Johns.

Really fun to watch in college. Unfortunately he was a bit of a tweener at the next level, but truly an all time great Big East player.

 

[Palatine]

5- Pat Ewing
4-Charles Smith
3-Malik Sealy
2-Chris Mullen
1-Alllen Iverson

 

[dennismenace]

Walter Berry is so underrated. His NBA career was short, but he was amazing at St. Johns.

That's "The Truth"

 

[superjohn]

Otis Thorpe/Billy Donovan - Ramon Ramos/John Morton/Danny Calindrillo

Michael Smith, Eric Murdoch, Austin Croshere, Dickie "Hot like fire" Simpkins, Shammgodd Wells, Eric Williams. Ryan Gomes, Ernie Digregorio, Marvin Barnes, Johnny "Spaceman" Egan. Terry Dehere, Jerry Walker, Andrew Gaze, Arturas Karnisovas, Shaheen Holloway, Mark Bryant, Richie Regan, and Walter Dukes.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Otis Thorpe/Billy Donovan - Ramon Ramos/John Morton/Danny Calindrillo

Good catch on Thorpe. Really liked him.

The rest of your list? Meh.

 

[KembaStepback]

Wow interesting. I don't know that I "LIKED" guys that would typically beat up on UConn. Guys I guess I liked would be

PG. God Shamgod
SG. Allan Ray (sounded like Ray Allen so yeah)
SF. Steve Novak
PF. Troy Murphy
C. Constantine Popa

Most Hated

PGs McNamara, Reynolds, Iverson, Krauser, Hansborough
SG Devendorf, Bell, Gansey
SF Shumpert, Jeff Green, Moten
PF Blair, Sumpter, Cunningham, Harangody
C Pittsnogle, Hibbert, Samuels

 

[kcc1442]

Some of my favorites from the mid to late 90's and on. Dont know about a starting 5 though.

Allen Iverson
Kevin Pittsnogle
Kerry Kittles
Darius Lane
Scottie Reynolds
Carl Krauser
Ryan Gomes
God Shamgod
Dominic James
Chris Thomas
Boubacar Aw
Zach Auguste
Darius Rice
Chevon Troutman
Randy Foye
DaJuan Summers
Mike Sweetney
Wesley Matthews
Lazar Hayward
Peyton Siva
Luke Harangody

 

[TheChamps990411]

I'm just putting up a list of heartbreak with no particular concern as to whether these guys did what they did to us against the other BE squads:

DeJuan Blair
Peyton Siva
John Lenehan
Preston Schumpert
Darius Rice/Kerry Kittles

I just remember BLair making Hasheem his btch! I knew then Sheem was not NBA material. I really lost faith in him after those beatdowns where he nearly lost an arm.

 

[Chief00]

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Moten
Kittles
Sealy
Joe Alexander

*The entire St. John's Mike Jarvis / Eric Barkley era ( loved our games against them)

Sham god had his best games against us. Kittles did too. Siva is another good one. My friend Ryan Gomes - of course with a little add in JC presser for entertainment.