Ranking the best players that Uconn has knocked out of the tournament.

[Marat]

Wasn't Rajon Rondo on the Kentucky team we beat in the second round in 2006 (a game nobody remembers for some reason)?

Yep, I remember since I attended that game in Philly.

 

[KembaRunner]

Derrick Williams should make it somewhere on that list above - he was a high pick, dominant that year, and did everything he could to beat us in the second half that game we played him.

Had a look from the corner to win it if I remember correctly

 

[Skiblets]

Lindsay Hunter should be on this list but alas…

 

[BGesus4]

Teddy Allen

There should be a middle finger reaction

 

[KembaRunner]

There should be a middle finger reaction

Teddy Allen, in that one game, was like a hybrid KD/Melo/Bo Jackson.

I still lose sleep over it.

 

[selles]

I think the spirit of the question is guys who would go on to have distinguished careers.

So would Kim English count then?

In the 1990s we knocked out a bunch of bigs who played at least a few years in the NBA - Brian Grant, Adonal Foyle, Danny Fortson, Todd MacCullogh.

 

[Rich]

Elden Campbell
Dale Davis
Eric Piatkowski
Brian Grant

 

[Kolumbo]

Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Corey Maggette, Trajon Langdon.

That team was stacked, 5 NBA players, including William Avery. plus Chris Carrawell, Chris Burgess, Nate James. Talent-wise that has to be the best team to be sent packing. 1999 - You always remember your first time. 77-74

 

[Kolumbo]

Julius Randle was pretty solid.

I just looked up Kentucky's roster from 2014. It had 7 future NBA players, all freshmen and sophomores.
Randle, Young, Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Cauley-Stein, Poythress, Johnson. I don't remember much about that team. As far as doing less with more, Squid may be better than Coach K.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Derrick Williams should make it somewhere on that list above - he was a high pick, dominant that year, and did everything he could to beat us in the second half that game we played him.

Williams might be the best player UConn ever beat on the night UConn beat him. He had a great game against UConn, and the Huskies won that game by Arizona’s second 3 point attempt being a hair off at the buzzer.

 

[Palatine]

That guy front FDU.

 

[Five Tooles]

Rondo?