Top Connecticut players never to play at UCONN

[Waquoit]

Donny Lewis Cromwell. Ernie D's running mate at PC. 3rd leading scorer behind Ernie and Barnes.

Wasn't that Kevin Stacom?

 

[bjc42]

Oh man, that is sad. New Haven can be a tough place to escape from.

Yeah it really stinks.

 

[Lafayette]

This list goes back to the 1950s - does NOT give where they went, but it's pretty cool to see Pikiell, Burrell, etc.

https://www.ctinsider.com/gametimect/boys-basketball/article/All-Time-New-Haven-Register-All-State-boys-17098685.php

And being from Newington, good to see 2 dudes made the list like 60 years apart.

 

[JB75]

Yeah man. I went to umass during those camby/lou roe mike Williams days. Uzi was liquid. What a time to be up there. My UConn boys were battling back and forth with umass as top 2 teams in country. Umass lost to Kentucky in 1996 to what could’ve been the best college team assembled —-Crazy. Plus you had Boston College (Curley bros), URI( cuttino Mobley and tyson wheeler) Providence (Austin croshere and shammgod ). 1993-1998 were insane for southern New England basketball. Sorry to go a bit off topic.

 

[Jimdish255]

Long thread to sift but was Jeff Allen mentioned?
Norwalk > St. Johns then Europe I believe.

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[Duncan Idaho]

Wasn't that Kevin Stacom?

Stacom was a transfer from Holy Cross that started to play at PC in Ernie's senior year IIRC Got two years with Barnes?

 

[olehead]

Providence had a thing for Ct. players back in the day, including Chris Watts '87 and Marvin Saddler '88.

 

[UCONNOLOGIST]

Bobby Moore (HILLHOUSE)-Top 50 recruit
Donnell Allick (HILLHOUSE)-Providence-LATech
Terrell Myers (HILLHOUSE)- ST. JOES
Shamon Antrum (HILLHOUSE)- WASHINGTON ST
Ty Sullivan -(HILLHOUSE)Rhode Island
Chazz MCCarter (HILLHOUSE) Top 100 recruit
Theron Mayes- (HILLHOUSE )Florida St
Toby Carrberry (HILLHOUSE) Bluechip (Vermont)

 

[Huskee11]

Jack Phelan has not been mentioned. He was a star at Northwest Catholic, leading them to a State title in 1972. I believe that team beat Kolbe Cathedral and Walt Luckett in the finals.

Jack went on to star at Saint Francis PA. He was drafted by the San Francisco Warriors, and was also signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Steelers even though he had stopped playing football after his sophomore year in High School. If you ever saw him play basketball, you would understand why the Steelers were interested.

He went into coaching, most notably as the head coach for the University of Hartford for eleven years, where he coached Vin Baker among others.

 

[willie99]

One player frequently mentioned in these conversations was still illiterate after 3 years of college

I mean, I know we're not Yale, but we're also not Memphis or UNLV or UMass either

And he was an incredible talent, belongs on this list.