ESPN Doing Top 10 BE Players

[UCFBfan]

On SC right now they announced numbers 6-10 and so far UConn has two players listed, Ray Allen at 6 and Rip at 9. I bet there's another UConn player in the Top 5 (Kemba??). Funny how UConn is the one being left behind yet they might have the most memorable players (according to this list)

 

[alexd]

Emeka.

 

[upstater]

Emeka, Rip, Ray Allen and Kemba woud be the 4 from UConn
Ewing, Mourning and Iverson from G'town
Pearl Washington and Carmelo from Cuse
Chris Mullin from St. John's

DONE

 

[upstater]

Maybe Walter Berry and Derrick Coleman too. Although Kerry Kittles was a high scorer, I wouldn't put him in the same league with the other 12.

 

[UConn5]

Surprised Rip isn't higher. He was 2 time player of the year, his team won the big east tournament twice and the big east regular season twice.

Edit: Did anyone happen to catch the entire list?

 

[alexd]

Ewing was #1, Derrick Coleman 2,

3 thru 5 were Pearl, Iverson and Mullin. Can't remember the exact order.

 

[upstater]

Very surprised at the Cuse-centric poll.

Oh wait, this was on ESPN?

 

[ChrisSmithsPart]

Carmelo in the top 10 for one season is a joke & a marketing gimmick... they must be taking his pro career & the olympics into account? and I don't want to here the championship arguement either. He definitely was the man but he had a very good team that year too no Danny Manning one-man show...Hakim Warwick is still playing in the league.

BE BBall history is too strong for any one & doner to be top 10 period. No diss to Melo but I would rate Khalid El-Amin ahead of him maybe even players like Lawrence Moten, Terry Dehere, Kerry Kittles, Duan Blair, Alonzo Mourning, Eric Murdock, Ben Gordon, Donyell, etc. just because they put excellent YEARS in the BE.

 

[uconNYC]

Kemba > Melo. Kemba won a Big East title and NCAA title. Funny thing was he didn't even win BEPOY in 2011.

 

[UCFBfan]

It all depends on how they look at it as well. Was it best Big East player in college or best Big East player including NBA career? In the end, it was a dumb ESPN thing

 

[HooperScooper]

If Carmelo Anthony is on there for his one year then Donyell should be on there. His junior year might have been better than any one year anyone ever put up in the Big East. He also wasn't too shabby as a sophomore and freshman.

Was Kemba on there? Where's Ben Hansbrough?

 

[UConn5]

Yea...I mean UConn is pretty clearly the most successful program in the history of the Big East. Tied w/GTown for tourney titles, tied with Syracuse for most regular season titles, and 3 times as many national titles as anyone else. I think UConn should have the most players on that list.

 

[Kitaman]

Impossible list to make, BC had a couple of real good players, Bagley and I can't think of the other. They should have just picked 20 and called it a day. Nova had Kittles, we had Emeka, Kemba, Ben and others.

Was Ernie D, PC's best player? Kid could throw some passes I'll say that. Not sure about Seton Hall and Pittsburgh and the other teams not represented.

As for Cuse; JC would have won 10 titles with their roster back in those days.

Actually thinking about this is depressing. As a huge BE fan its now history and nothing more.

 

[ChrisSmithsPart]

Impossible list to make, BC had a couple of real good players, Bagley and I can't think of the other. They should have just picked 20 and called it a day. Nova had Kittles, we had Emeka, Kemba, Ben and others.

Was Ernie D, PC's best player? Kid could throw some passes I'll say that. Not sure about Seton Hall and Pittsburgh and the other teams not represented.

As for Cuse; JC would have won 10 titles with their roster back in those days.

Actually thinking about this is depressing. As a huge BE fan its now history and nothing more.

Danya Abrams from BC...Dehere from SHU (finished as BE all-time leading scorer at the time)...Blair from Pitt...Michael Smith from Prov (Finished as BE all-time leading rebounder).

 

[mauconnfan]

On SC right now they announced numbers 6-10 and so far UConn has two players listed, Ray Allen at 6 and Rip at 9. I bet there's another UConn player in the Top 5 (Kemba??). Funny how UConn is the one being left behind yet they might have the most memorable players (according to this list)

What was the complete Top 10?

 

[upstater]

I have to apologize to everyone.

Those were my top 10.

I have no idea who ESPN's were. I was just surprised at Derrick Coleman.

 

[caw]

Ray Allen
Allen Iverson
Kerry Kittles
John Wallace
Austin Croshere...
Oops that was the start of my 1996 top ten. God there were some sick players in the BE.

 

[seanmc94]

Smith was all time rebounder playing only 3 yrs(prop 48)