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100 GREATEST COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYERS
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Unlike its college football brethren, its champion is decided on the court, not by a voting panel or computers.
As such, college basketball has always produced more than its share of heroes who become etched in our memories.
There’s North Carolina’s Michael Jordan, and his 16-foot jumper to beat Georgetown for the national title in 1982.
North Carolina State’s Lorenzo Charles, and his dunk heard ’round the world to win it all at The Pit in Albuquerque in 1983.
Indiana’s Keith Smart, and his fearless shot from the corner to beat Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA final.
Only one of those players, Jordan, will be mentioned among Street & Smith’s 100 Greatest College Basketball Players in the pages that follow, but the two who didn’t account for the reasons we love college basketball: There’s always the opportunity for a player to shine at that perfectly enduring moment.
College football can’t say that.
This book is a tribute to that spirit, a salute to the players who put everything on the line in every college basketball season’s battle to decide who’s really No. 1.
Of course, like all sports, some players stand out a bit more than others. When the final votes were tallied from our 40-person panel of college hoops experts, there were some great, four-year players left out—Bradley’s Hersey Hawkins, Arkansas’ Sidney Moncrief and Louisville’s Pervis Ellison, to name a few—and some one-year sensations who made the cut (Spencer Haywood, George McGinnis).
Giving more weight to quality than quantity, our voters made their selections, and the result is an eclectic list that includes those one-year phenoms in addition to small-college legends and four-year “program players” like Duke’s Bobby Hurley.
We’ll begin on page 6 with No. 100 and work our way down the list.
The fun—and the arguments—begin now.
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