Any player worth his sneakers seeks to compete against quality, not inferior, opponents with something such as in-state bragging rights at stake rather than devouring cupcakes. But many power-conference members steer clear of competent in-state opponents in pre-conference competition.

LSU refrains from opposing Tulane in recent years but one of the greatest freshman debuts in college annals took place when Tigers forward Rudy Macklin grabbed a school-record 32 rebounds against the Green Wave to open the 1976-77 campaign. How many comparable splendid performances never had a chance to unfold on the court? Meanwhile, how many power-player schools fodder-bored torture us with age-old, one-sided arguments flapping their self-serving jaws about nothing to gain? Indiana likely will eventually somehow survive a defeat at IPFW and season-opening setback against Indiana State several years ago while many power-conference counterparts usually compete in exotic-outpost tournaments in front of disinterested algae, barnacles, crabs, mussels, sea shells, snails and handful of assorted beach creatures. Do they seek to be there just to by chance view Jay Bilas or some other ESPN personality in a bathing suit? Why don't more thin-skinned elite schools put an emphasis on what is best for the sport in general by scheduling more entertaining contests against competitive in-state foes? That was a relevant question to ask UCLA a couple of years ago as the Bruins made three's-company travel arrangements regarding low-end trip back home for three high-end Louis Vuitton freshman scholars following their three-joint play paving way to theft detention in China.

Isn't this supposed to be the era for putting an end to bullying tactics? Prior to his exit, pompous pilot Rick Pitino said Louisville played "four white guys and an Egyptian" to not embarrass lowly Savannah State in a mismatch. If that is the case, then why schedule a Savannah vacation in the first place? Giving fans half-a-peace sign and Quaaludes reminiscent of Bill Cosby's victims, the hoop haughtiness of power schools denying fans stimulating non-league games isn't funny or a new phenomenon. For instance, LSU avoided potentially attractive in-state assignments for decades by never opposing McNeese State's Joe Dumars, Tulane's Jerald Honeycutt, New Orleans' Ervin Johnson, Louisiana Tech's Karl Malone, Northeast Louisiana's Calvin Natt, Centenary's Robert Parish and Southwestern Louisiana's Kevin Brooks, Bo Lamar and Andrew Toney. Three seasons ago, the Bayou Bengals didn't bother to give freshman sensation Ben Simmons an opportunity to oppose ULL's Shawn Long, one of only six players in NCAA history to finish career with more than 2,250 points and 1,400 rebounds.

Similarly over the years, North Carolina shunned Davidson first- and second-team All-Americans Stephen Curry, Mike Maloy and Dick Snyder during the regular season. The Tar Heels did defeat Davidson in exciting back-to-back East Regional finals by a total of six points in 1968 and 1969 when Maloy averaged 21.5 ppg and 13 rpg. In 1974, South Carolina's powerhouse boasting Mike Dunleavy, Alex English and Brian Winters, couldn't keep skirting Furman and succumbed in the East Regional, 75-67, when the Padadins' Clyde Mayes collected 21 points and game-high 16 rebounds. Dick Vitale-coached Detroit was eliminated from the NCAA playoffs in the 1977 Mideast Regional semifinals by Michigan after the Wolverines avoided the Titans' terrific trio comprised of Terry Duerod, John Long and Terry Tyler in the regular season that year and the previous campaign while opposing Fordham, Kent State, La Salle, Miami (Ohio), Rhode Island, Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky.

Did we deserve to see national players of the year such as Indiana State's Larry Bird (never opposed Indiana), Princeton's Bill Bradley (Seton Hall), La Salle's Tom Gola (Villanova), Cincinnati's Kenyon Martin (Ohio State), Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson (Ohio State), Navy's David Robinson (Georgetown and Maryland), Xavier's David West (Ohio State) and Bradley's Hersey Hawkins (Illinois) strut their stuff in regular-season contests against nearby prominent programs? Shouldn't we have been entertained by mercurial Murray State guard Ja Morant competing vs. in-state foes Kentucky and Louisville several years ago rather than UK and UL both opposing Vermont?

The Terrapins only met "The Admiral" upon being forced to compete in the second round of 1985 Southeast Regional when Robinson contributed game-high figures in scoring, rebounding and blocks. Unbelievably, more than 30 All-Americans from Ohio colleges in the last 60 years never had an opportunity to oppose Ohio State during the regular season (including small-school sensation Bevo Francis of Rio Grande).

Power-conference members give appearance of parasites while playing more than 85% of their out-of-conference games at home or a neutral site. Check out the non-league parade of patsies predatory powers Kansas and Kansas State scheduled while avoiding Fred VanVleet for four years earlier this decade and Wichita State All-American Antoine Carr the first half of the 1980s. The following mid-major/non-power league All-Americans specifically and fans generally were shortchanged during the regular season by smug in-state schools since the accepted modern era of basketball commenced in early 1950s:

Mid-Major School	All-American	In-State Power League Member(s) A-A Didn't Oppose During Regular Season/Cupcakes Devoured While Avoiding Mid-Major A-A
Texas Western	Jim Barnes	SWC members except Texas in 1962-63 and 1963-64
Seattle	Elgin Baylor	Washington and Washington State in 1956-57 and 1957-58/Huskies opposed Yale while Cougars met Eastern Washington, Idaho State, Montana and Whitworth during that span
Penn	Ernie Beck	Villanova from 1950-51 through 1952-53/Wildcats opposed Army, Delaware, Geneva, Iona, King's, LeMoyne, Loyola (Md.), Millersville State, Mount St. Mary's, Muhlenberg, Rider, Saint Francis (Pa.), Saint Peter's, Scranton, Siena, Tampa, Texas Wesleyan, Valparaiso and William & Mary
Cincinnati	Ron Bonham	Ohio State from 1961-62 through 1963-64/Buckeyes opposed Butler, UC Davis and TCU
Gonzaga	Frank Burgess	Washington from 1958-59 through 1960-61/Huskies opposed Hawaii
Marshall	Leo Byrd	West Virginia from 1956-57 through 1958-59/Mountaineers opposed Mississippi Southern and Yale
Wichita State	Antoine Carr	Kansas and Kansas State from 1979-80 through 1982-83/Jayhawks opposed Alcorn State, Birmingham Southern, Bowling Green, Cal State Bakersfield, Maine, Mississippi Valley State, Morehead State, Nevada-Reno, Rollins, Texas Southern, U.S. International and Wisconsin-Oshkosh while Wildcats met Abilene Christian, Auburn-Montgomery, UC Davis, Cal State Bakersfield, Eastern Illinois, Northern Iowa, Portland State, South Dakota, Southern Colorado, U.S. International, Western Illinois and Wisconsin-Parkside
East Tennessee State	Tom Chilton	Memphis State and Vanderbilt from 1958-59 through 1960-61/Tigers opposed Birmingham Southern, UC Davis, Hardin-Simmons, Lamar, Louisiana College, Louisiana-Monroe, Loyola (New Orleans), Missouri-Rolla, Montana State, North Texas, Rollins, Southern Mississippi, Spring Hill, Tampa, Texas Wesleyan and Toronto while Commodores met Arkansas State, Dartmouth, Hardin-Simmons, Navy and Yale
Dayton	Bill Chmielewski	Ohio State in 1961-62
Gonzaga	Brandon Clarke	Washington State in 2018-19/Cougars opposed Cal Poly, Cal State Northridge, Delaware State, Idaho, Montana State, New Mexico State, Nicholls State, Rider, San Diego and SIU Edwardsville
Campbell	Chris Clemons	Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Wake Forest from 2015-16 through 2018-19/Blue Devils opposed Army, Bryant, Buffalo, Eastern Michigan, Evansville, Furman, Georgia Southern, Grand Canyon, Hartford, Long Beach State, Maine, Marist, Portland State, Princeton, Rhode Island, Saint Francis (Pa.), Siena, South Dakota, Southern (La.), Stetson, Tennessee State, Utah State, Utah Valley, VCU, William & Mary and Yale; Tar Heels met Bucknell, Chattanooga, Fairfield, Harvard, Long Beach State, Monmouth, Northern Iowa, Portland, Radford, Saint Francis (Pa.), Tennessee Tech, Tulane and Wofford; Wolfpack tackled Boston University, Bryant, Bucknell, Charleston Southern, Fairfield, Georgia Southern, IUPUI, Jacksonville, Loyola of Chicago, Loyola (Md.), Maine, Maryland-Eastern Shore, McNeese State, Mercer, Montana, Mount St. Mary's, Northeastern, Northern Iowa, Presbyterian, Rider, Robert Morris, Saint Francis (N.Y.), Saint Peter's, South Alabama, South Carolina State, USC Upstate, South Florida, Tennessee State, UMKC, Virginia Military, William & Mary and Winthrop, while Demon Deacons played against Army, Bucknell, Cal State Fullerton, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Cornell, Drake, Georgia Southern, Houston Baptist, Liberty, Maryland-Baltimore County, Quinnipiac, Radford, Richmond, Texas-El Paso and Valparaiso
Illinois State	Doug Collins	DePaul, Illinois and Northwestern at DI level in 1971-72 and 1972-73/Blue Demons opposed Dubuque, Lewis, Parsons, Rocky Mountain, Saint Joseph's (Ind.), St. Mary's (Minn.), Westmont, Winona State, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Illini met DePauw, Furman, Loyola (New Orleans), South Dakota and Valparaiso, plus Wildcats tackled Ohio University, TCU and Valparaiso
San Francisco	Quintin Dailey	Stanford from 1979-80 through 1981-82/Cardinal opposed Air Force, UC Davis, Furman, Harvard, Penn, Portland, Rice, Seattle Pacific and U.S. International
Bowling Green	Jim Darrow	Ohio State from 1957-58 through 1959-60/Butler, Delaware, Princeton and Yale
Cincinnati	Ralph Davis	Ohio State from 1957-58 through 1959-60/Butler, Delaware, Princeton and Yale
Detroit	Dave DeBusschere	Michigan and Michigan State from 1959-60 through 1961-62/Wolverines opposed Ball State, Bowling Green, Brown, Butler, Denver, Drake, Idaho, Miami (Ohio), Penn, Portland, Washington (Mo.) and Western Ontario while Spartans met Bowling Green, Butler, Northern Michigan, Portland and Tulsa
Wichita State	Cleanthony Early	Kansas and Kansas State in 2012-13 and 2013-14/Jayhawks opposed American University, Belmont, Chattanooga, Iona, Louisiana-Monroe, Richmond, San Jose State, Southeast Missouri State, Toledo and Towson while Wildcats met Charlotte, Delaware, George Washington, Lamar, Long Beach State, North Dakota, North Florida, Northern Colorado, Oral Roberts, USC Upstate, South Dakota, Texas Southern, Troy, Tulane and UMKC
Detroit	Bill Ebben	Michigan from 1954-55 through 1956-57/Wolverines opposed Butler, Delaware, Denver, Kent State, Los Angeles State, Valparaiso, Washington (Mo.) and Yale
Oakland	Kay Felder	Michigan from 2013-14 through 2015-16/Wolverines opposed Bryant, Bucknell, Coppin State, Delaware State, Elon, Hillsdale, Holy Cross, Houston Baptist, Massachusetts-Lowell, Nicholls State, Northern Kentucky, Northern Michigan, South Carolina State and Youngstown State
St. Louis	Bob Ferry	Missouri from 1956-57 through 1958-59/Mizzou opposed North Dakota, Rice, South Dakota and UTEP
Dayton	Henry Finkel	Ohio State from 1963-64 through 1965-66/Buckeyes opposed Butler, UC Davis, South Dakota, TCU and West Texas
Columbia	Chet Forte	St. John's from 1954-55 through 1956-57/Redmen opposed Fairfield, Hofstra, Roanoke, Siena and Wagner
Cincinnati	Danny Fortson	Ohio State from 1994-95 through 1996-97/Buckeyes opposed Alabama State, Central Connecticut, Cleveland State, Drexel, George Mason, Kent State, LIU, Morgan State, Penn and Southwestern Louisiana
Oral Roberts	Richie Fuqua	Oklahoma and Oklahoma State at DI level in 1971-72 and 1972-73/Sooners opposed Charlotte, Indiana State, Samford, Stetson and Washburn while Cowboys met Arkansas State, Cal Poly-Pomona, Cal State Fullerton, Northwest Missouri State and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Loyola Marymount	Hank Gathers	USC and UCLA from 1987-88 through 1989-90/Trojans opposed Boston University, Central Connecticut State, Delaware, Duquesne, Howard, Northern Arizona, Portland, Prairie View A&M, St. Francis, Seattle, UALR, U.S. International, Western Kentucky and Yale while Bruins met American University, Boston University, East Tennessee State, North Texas, Oral Roberts and Penn
Jacksonville	Artis Gilmore	Florida in 1969-70 and 1970-71/Gators opposed East Tennessee State, Fordham, Harvard, Morehead State and Samford
Oklahoma City	Gary Gray	Oklahoma State from 1964-65 through 1966-67/Cowboys opposed Abilene Christian, UC Santa Barbara, Creighton, Lamar, Regis and South Dakota State
Colorado State	Bill Green	Colorado from 1960-61 through 1962-63/Buffaloes opposed Creighton, Pepperdine and Texas Tech
Gonzaga	Rui Hachimura	Washington State from 2016-17 through 2018-19/Cougars opposed Bethune-Cookman, UC Davis, Cal Poly, Cal State Northridge, Cal State Sacramento, Central Washington, Delaware State, Idaho, Idaho State, IUPUI, Loyola of Chicago, Montana, Montana State, New Mexico State, New Orleans, Nicholls State, Rider, San Diego, San Jose State, Santa Clara, SIU Edwardsville, Texas-El Paso, Texas Southern and Utah Valley
Tennessee Tech	Jimmy Hagan	Tennessee and Vanderbilt from 1957-58 through 1959-60/Volunteers opposed Bucknell, Butler, Furman, Louisiana Tech, Sewanee, William & Mary, Wyoming and Yale while Commodores met Arkansas State, The Citadel, Dartmouth, Hardin-Simmons, Loyola (New Orleans), Navy, Rice, Sewanee, Southwestern, VMI, Wyoming and Yale
Loyola of Chicago	Jerry Harkness	DePaul, Illinois and Northwestern from 1960-61 through 1962-63/Blue Demons opposed Aquinas, Baldwin-Wallace, Bowling Green, Christian Brothers, Denver, Gannon, Illinois Wesleyan, Lawrence Tech, North Dakota, NE State College, St. Bonaventure, Tampa, Western Michigan, Western Ontario and Youngstown State; Illini met Butler, Colgate, Cornell, Creighton, Manhattan, Penn, San Jose State and Washington (Mo.), and Wildcats tackled Brown, Colorado State, Creighton, Dartmouth, Manhattan, Princeton, SMU and Western Michigan
Miami (Ohio)	Ron Harper	Ohio State from 1982-83 through 1985-86/Buckeyes opposed Brooklyn, Central Florida, Chattanooga, Chico State, Eastern Michigan, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Santa Clara, South Alabama, Stetson and Tulane
Western Kentucky	Clem Haskins	Kentucky and Louisville from 1964-65 through 1966-67/Wildcats opposed Air Force, Cornell Dartmouth and Hardin-Simmons while Cardinals met Army, Bellarmine, Central Missouri, Georgetown College, La Salle, Niagara, Princeton, Southern Illinois, Southwestern Louisiana and Tampa
Detroit	Spencer Haywood	Michigan and Michigan State in 1968-69/Wolverines opposed Bradley, Butler, Northern Illinois and Toledo while Spartans met Butler, Southwestern Louisiana, Toledo and Western Kentucky
Cincinnati	Paul Hogue	Ohio State from 1959-60 through 1961-62/Buckeyes opposed Army, Butler, Delaware and Evansville
Xavier	Tu Holloway	Ohio State from 2008-09 through 2011-12/Buckeyes opposed Alcorn State, Butler, Delaware State, Eastern Michigan, Florida Gulf Coast, Houston Baptist, IUPUI, Iona, Jackson State, Jacksonville, James Madison, Lamar, Lipscomb, Morehead State, UNC Asheville, North Carolina A&T, UNC Wilmington, North Florida, Oakland, Presbyterian, Saint Francis (Pa.), Samford, USC Upstate, Tennessee-Martin, Texas-Pan American, Valparaiso, VMI, Western Carolina and Wright State
Dayton	John Horan	Ohio State from 1951-52 through 1954-55/Buckeyes opposed Butler, Denver and Oklahoma City
Army	Kevin Houston	St. John's and Syracuse from 1983-84 through 1986-87/Redmen opposed Davidson, Fairleigh Dickinson, James Madison, Lafayette, Monmouth, Navy, Old Dominion, Southern, U.S. International, Wagner and Youngstown State while Orangemen met Boston University, C.W. Post, Duquesne, Fairfield, George Washington, Hawaii Loa, Lamar, La Salle, Loyola of Chicago, Maine, Navy and Northeastern
East Tennessee State	Mister Jennings	Vanderbilt from 1987-88 through 1990-91/Commodores opposed Alaska-Anchorage, Chaminade, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, East Carolina, Fordham, George Washington, Hawaii, Lehigh, Morehead State, Murray State, UNC Asheville, Rice, Samford, SMU and UAB
Memphis State	Larry Kenon	Tennessee and Vanderbilt in 1972-73/Volunteers opposed Niagara while Commodores met Columbia, SMU and Western Kentucky
Cincinnati	Sean Kilpatrick	Ohio State from 2010-11 through 2013-14/Buckeyes opposed Albany, American University, Bryant, Central Connecticut State, Chicago State, Delaware, Florida Gulf Coast, IUPUI, Jackson State, Lamar, Louisiana-Monroe, Morehead State, Morgan State, UNC Asheville, North Carolina A&T, UNC Wilmington, North Dakota State, North Florida, Northern Kentucky, Oakland, Savannah State, USC Upstate, Tennessee-Martin, Texas-Pan American, UMKC, Valparaiso, VMI, Western Carolina, Winthrop, Wright State and Wyoming
Loyola Marymount	Bo Kimble	USC and UCLA from 1987-88 through 1989-90/Trojans opposed Boston University, Central Connecticut State, Delaware, Duquesne, Howard, Northern Arizona, Portland, Prairie View A&M, St. Francis, Seattle, UALR, U.S. International, Western Kentucky and Yale while Bruins met American University, Boston University, East Tennessee State, North Texas, Oral Roberts and Penn
Bowling Green	Butch Komives	Ohio State from 1961-62 through 1963-64/Buckeyes opposed Butler, UC Davis, Detroit, Houston, TCU and Utah State
Oklahoma City	Bud Koper	Oklahoma and Oklahoma State from 1961-62 through 1963-64/Sooners opposed Colorado State, South Dakota and Southern Illinois while Cowboys met Abilene Christian, Colorado State, Drake, Hardin-Simmons, Lamar, Long Beach State, Los Angeles State, Montana and Regis
St. Bonaventure	Bob Lanier	St. John's and Syracuse from 1967-68 through 1969-70/Redmen opposed Davidson, Duquesne, Harvard, Holy Cross, Massachusetts, Princeton, Rhode Island, Roanoke, St. Mary's and Westminster while Orangemen met American University, Bowling Green, George Washington, Holy Cross, Lafayette, La Salle, Navy, Rochester and Yale
Xavier	Byron Larkin	Ohio State from 1984-85 through 1987-88/Buckeyes opposed Ball State, Brooklyn, Bucknell, Central Florida, Central Michigan, Chattanooga, Howard, Jacksonville, Lafayette, UMBC, UMSL, Siena, Stetson, Tulane and Western Michigan
Texas-El Paso	David "Big Daddy" Lattin	SWC members except SMU in 1965-66 and 1966-67
Memphis State	Keith Lee	Tennessee and Vanderbilt from 1981-82 through 1984-85/Volunteers opposed American University, Biscayne, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Cleveland State, Eastern Kentucky, Georgia State, Hardin-Simmons, Hawaii, Idaho State, Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, Miami (Ohio), Montana State, Morehead State, Navy, New Orleans, Ohio Northern, Oklahoma City, Portland, Richmond, St. Francis (N.Y.), San Jose State, Southern Mississippi, UAB and Vermont while Commodores met Air Force, Alaska-Anchorage, Columbia, Eastern Kentucky, Indiana State, Long Beach State, Manhattan, North Alabama, Princeton, Samford, South Florida, Vermont, Western Carolina and Yale
Marshall	Russell Lee	West Virginia from 1969-70 through 1971-72/Mountaineers opposed Army, Bucknell, UC Irvine, Colgate, Columbia, East Carolina, Hawaii, New Mexico and Saint Francis (Pa.).
Wichita	Cleo Littleton	Kansas and Kansas State from 1951-52 through 1954-55/Jayhawks opposed Creighton, Denver, Rice, SMU, Tulane and Tulsa while Wildcats met Denver, Drake, Hamline, Wyoming and Yale
Cincinnati	Steve Logan	Ohio State from 1998-99 through 2001-02/Buckeyes opposed Albany, American University, Army, Coastal Carolina, Coppin State, Denver, Duquesne, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Kentucky, Florida A&M, Florida Atlantic, IUPUI, Massachusetts, Morehead State, UNC Greensboro, UNC Wilmington, Oakland, Robert Morris, Santa Clara, Tennessee-Martin, Tennessee Tech, Valparaiso, Vermont, Winthrop and Yale
UC Irvine	Kevin Magee	USC and UCLA in 1980-81 and 1981-82/Trojans opposed Doane, Idaho State, New Mexico, Oral Roberts, Portland, Richmond and Wyoming while Bruins met Boston University, Evansville and VMI
Western Kentucky	Tom Marshall	Kentucky in 1951-52 and 1953-54/Wildcats opposed La Salle, Washington & Lee and Xavier
Bradley	Bobby Joe Mason	DePaul, Illinois and Northwestern from 1957-58 through 1959-60/Blue Demons opposed Army, Baldwin-Wallace, Bowling Green, Canisius, Christian Brothers, Creighton, Evansville, Illinois Wesleyan, Miami (Ohio), Nebraska Wesleyan, North Dakota, Ohio University, Western Kentucky and Western Michigan; Illinois met Butler, Ohio University, Pacific, Rice and Western Kentucky, while Wildcats tackled Boston University, Duquesne, South Dakota, South Dakota State and Western Michigan
UNC Charlotte	Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell	Duke and North Carolina from 1973-74 through 1976-77/Blue Devils opposed Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Kent State, Lafayette, Princeton, Rice, Richmond, South Florida, Tulane, Vermont, Western Kentucky, William & Mary and Yale while Tar Heels met East Tennessee State, Furman, Howard, Marshall, Oral Roberts, St. Thomas (Fla.), South Florida, Vermont, Weber State and Yale
Dayton	Don May	Ohio State from 1965-66 through 1967-68/Buckeyes opposed Army, Butler, UC Davis, Cornell, Hardin-Simmons, Northern Michigan, South Dakota and TCU
Furman	Clyde Mayes	South Carolina from 1972-73 through 1974-75/Gamecocks opposed Assumption (Mass.), Bucknell, Canisius, Creighton, Davidson, DePauw, Drake, Eastern Kentucky, Fairfield, Fordham, Georgia Southern, Lafayette, Manhattan, Marshall, Niagara, St. Bonaventure, St. Joseph's, Stetson and Toledo
Richmond	Bob McCurdy	Virginia in 1973-74 and 1974-75/Cavaliers opposed Davidson, Denver, George Washington, Kent State, Lehigh, Navy, Stetson and Washington & Lee
Wichita State	Xavier McDaniel	Kansas State from 1981-82 through 1984-85/Wildcats opposed Abilene Christian, Auburn-Montgomery, UC Davis, Centenary, Eastern Washington, Morgan State, North Texas, Northern Iowa, Northridge State, South Dakota, Southern Colorado, Truman State, U.S. International, Western Illinois and Wisconsin-Parkside
Western Kentucky	Jim McDaniels	Kentucky and Louisville from 1968-69 through 1970-71/Wildcats opposed Miami (Ohio), Navy, Penn and Xavier while Cardinals met Bellarmine, UC Riverside, Furman, Georgetown College, SMU, Southern Mississippi and Stetson
Dayton	Don Meineke	Ohio State from 1949-50 through 1951-52/Buckeyes opposed Butler, Cornell, Denver, Harvard and Princeton
Bradley	Gene Melchiorre	Illinois and Northwestern from 1947-48 through 1950-51/Illini opposed Butler, Coe (Iowa), Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Toledo while Wildcats met Butler, Dartmouth, Navy, Princeton, Rice, Ripon (Wis.), Tulane, Western Michigan and Yale
Southern Illinois	Joe C. Meriweather	DePaul, Illinois and Northwestern from 1972-73 through 1974-75/Blue Demons opposed Brown, Charlotte, Duquesne, Gonzaga, Indiana State, Lewis, LIU, Manhattan, Marshall, Massachusetts, Niagara, Rocky Mountain, St. Bonaventure, St. Joseph's (Ind.), Saint Mary's (Calif.), St. Mary's (Minn.), San Jose State, Toledo, Westmont, Winona State and Wisconsin-Green Bay; Illini met Army, DePauw, Detroit, Duquesne, Furman, Northern Michigan, Tulane and Valparaiso, while Wildcats tackled Butler, Marshall, Miami (Ohio), Ohio University, Rollins and Valparaiso
Seattle	Eddie Miles	Washington from 1960-61 through 1962-63/Huskies opposed Air Force, Army, Colorado State and Hawaii
Murray State	Ja Morant	Kentucky and Louisville in 2017-18 and 2018-19/Wildcats opposed East Tennessee State, Fort Wayne, Harvard, Illinois-Chicago, Monmouth, UNC Greensboro, North Dakota, Tennessee State, Troy, Utah Valley, Vermont, VMI and Winthrop while Cardinals met Albany, Bryant, Central Arkansas, George Mason, Grand Canyon, Kent State, Lipscomb, Nebraska-Omaha, Robert Morris, Saint Francis (Pa.), Siena, Southern (La.) and Vermont
Drake	Red Murrell	Iowa from 1955-56 through 1957-58/Hawkeyes opposed Cornell, Denver, Loyola Marymount, Loyola (New Orleans) and SMU
Seattle	Twins Eddie O'Brien and Johnny O'Brien	Washington from 1950-51 through 1952-53/Huskies opposed Santa Clara
Lamar	Mike Olliver	Texas from 1977-78 through 1980-81/Longhorns opposed Alaska-Anchorage, Arkansas State, Army, Biscayne, Centenary, Hardin-Simmons, Harvard, Long Beach State, Murray State, New Mexico State, Northern Montana, Northwestern State, Oklahoma City, Pacific, San Francisco and Vermont
Gonzaga	Kelly Olynyk	Washington in 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2012-13/Huskies opposed Albany, Belmont, Cal Poly, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, Colorado State, Eastern Washington, Jackson State, Long Beach State, Loyola (Md.), McNeese State, Montana, Nevada, Northern Illinois, Portland, Portland State, San Francisco, San Jose State and Wright State
Tulsa	Bob Patterson	Oklahoma from 1952-53 through 1954-55/Sooners opposed SMU
Dayton	Jim Paxson	Ohio State from 1975-76 through 1978-79/Buckeyes opposed Ball State, Butler, Cal Poly-Pomona, Cal State-Hayward, Davidson, Evansville, Loyola Marymount, Marshall, Penn, Princeton, Rochester, Stetson, Toledo, Tulane and Vermont
Valparaiso	Alec Peters	Indiana, Notre Dame and Purdue from 2013-14 through 2016-17/Hoosiers opposed Alcorn State, Austin Peay, Chicago State, Delaware State, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Washington, Grand Canyon, Houston Baptist, IPFW, Kennesaw State, Lamar, Liberty, LIU, UMass Lowell, McNeese State, Mississippi Valley State, Morehead State, New Orleans, Nicholls State, UNC Greensboro, North Florida, Samford, Savannah State, Southeast Missouri State, SIU Edwardsville, Stony Brook and Texas Southern; Irish met Army, Binghamton, Bryant, Canisius, Chicago State, Colgate, Coppin State, Cornell, Delaware, Fairleigh Dickinson, Fort Wayne, Grambling State, Hartford, Liberty, Loyola of Chicago, Loyola (Md.), UMass Lowell, Miami (Ohio), Milwaukee, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary's, Navy, North Carolina A&T, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, Saint Francis (Pa.), Saint Peter's, Santa Clara, Seattle, Stetson, Stony Brook and Youngstown State, while Boilermakers tackled Arkansas State, Central Connecticut State, Cleveland State, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Gardner-Webb, Georgia State, Grambling State, Howard University, IPFW, IUPUI, Incarnate Word, Lehigh, Maryland-Eastern Shore, McNeese State, Morehead State, NJIT, Norfolk State, North Carolina A&T, North Florida, Northern Kentucky, Old Dominion, Rider, Samford, Siena, Utah State, Vermont, Western Illinois and Youngstown State
Bradley	Roger Phegley	Illinois and Northwestern from 1974-75 through 1977-78/Illini opposed Army, Cal Poly, Charlotte, DePauw, Furman, Kent State, Long Beach State, Missouri-Rolla, North Dakota State, Rice, San Jose State, Valparaiso and William & Mary while Wildcats met Brown, Butler, Duquesne, Fairfield, Miami (Ohio), Ohio University, Texas-El Paso and Valparaiso
Murray State	Bennie Purcell	Kentucky from 1948-49 through 1951-52/Wildcats opposed Bowling Green, Bradley, Holy Cross, Indiana Central, Tulsa, Washington & Lee, West Texas State, Western Ontario and Xavier
Western Kentucky	Bobby Rascoe	Kentucky from 1959-60 through 1961-62/Wildcats opposed Miami (Ohio), Northern Colorado, VMI and Yale
Long Beach State	Ed Ratleff	USC and UCLA from 1970-71 through 1972-73/Trojans opposed Fordham, Hardin-Simmons, La Salle, Penn, Princeton, Rochester and Texas-El Paso while Bruins met Baylor, Bradley, The Citadel, Dayton, Denver, Drake, TCU, Tulsa and William & Mary
Memphis State	Dexter Reed	Tennessee from 1973-74 through 1976-77/Volunteers opposed Army, Biscayne, Charlotte, Columbia, Harvard, La Salle, Navy, North Texas State, Penn, San Francisco, Santa Clara, South Florida, Tulane, Vermont and Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Oklahoma City	Hub Reed	Oklahoma from 1955-56 through 1957-58/Sooners opposed Baylor and Rice
Massachusetts	Lou Roe	Boston College from 1991-92 through 1994-95/Eagles opposed Brooklyn, Brown, Buffalo, Cal Poly, Chaminade, Coastal Carolina, Coppin State, Dartmouth, Fairleigh Dickinson, Fordham, LIU, New Hampshire, Hofstra and Santa Clara
Tennessee State	Carlos Rogers	Tennessee and Vanderbilt in 1992-93 and 1993-94/Volunteers opposed Charlotte, Furman, Mercer, Radford, UALR and Western Carolina while Commodores met Air Force, Bowling Green, Harvard, Illinois State, North Carolina A&T, Princeton and SMU
Drexel	Malik Rose	Villanova from 1992-93 through 1995-96/Wildcats opposed Alaska-Anchorage, American University, Bradley, Columbia, Delaware, Hofstra, Marist, New Orleans, Richmond, Rider, St. Mary's and Vermont
Bowling Green	Charlie Share	Ohio State from 1946-47 through 1949-50/Buckeyes opposed Butler, Cornell, Denver and Harvard
Oklahoma City	Arnold Short	Oklahoma from 1951-52 through 1953-54/Sooners opposed SMU
Creighton	Paul Silas	Nebraska from 1961-62 through 1963-64/Huskers opposed Air Force, Denver, Miami (Ohio), Northern Iowa, Ohio University, SMU and Wyoming
Tulsa	Bingo Smith	Oklahoma and Oklahoma State from 1966-67 through 1968-69/Sooners opposed Bradley, Butler, Centenary, Loyola (New Orleans), Nevada Southern, North Texas State, Southwest Missouri State and TCU while Cowboys met Cal State Fullerton, Creighton, Lamar, MacMurray (Ill.), Pan American, South Dakota State, Trinity (Tex.) and Wyoming
Weber State	Willie Sojourner	BYU and Utah from 1968-69 through 1970-71/Cougars opposed Cornell, Denver, Hawaii, New Mexico State, San Jose State, Santa Clara and Seattle while Utes met Army, Denver, Kent State, Loyola Marymount, Montana, NYU, Northern Michigan, Penn, Saint Joseph's, San Jose State, Seattle, VMI and West Texas State
Wichita	Dave Stallworth	Kansas and Kansas State from 1962-63 through 1964-65/Jayhawks opposed Denver and Montana while Wildcats met Denver and South Dakota State
Xavier	Hank Stein	Ohio State from 1956-57 through 1958-59/Buckeyes opposed Butler, Manhattan, Princeton, Tulane and Yale
St. Louis	Ray Steiner	Missouri in 1950-51 and 1951-52/Tigers opposed Central Methodist, CCNY, Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri Valley, New Mexico State and Washington (Mo.)
St. Bonaventure	Tom Stith	Syracuse from 1958-59 through 1960-61/Orangemen opposed Alfred, Boston University, Clarkson, Columbia, Holy Cross, La Salle, Massachusetts and Utica
Saint Francis (Pa.)	Maurice Stokes	Penn State and Pittsburgh from 1951-52 through 1954-55/Nittany Lions opposed Alfred, American University, Bowling Green, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Dickinson, Gettysburg, Ithaca, Navy, Toledo, Washington & Jefferson, Wayne State and Western Kentucky while Panthers met Carnegie Tech, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Geneva, George Washington, Loyola (New Orleans), Miami (Ohio), Navy, Ohio University, Princeton, Puerto Rico, Westminster, William & Mary and Yale
Pacific	Keith Swagerty	California and Stanford from 1964-65 through 1966-67/Bears opposed Air Force, Hawaii, Tulane and Wyoming while Cardinal met Air Force, Denver, Tulane, Utah State and Wyoming
Morehead State	Dan Swartz	Kentucky from 1953-54 through 1955-56/Wildcats opposed Dayton, Idaho, La Salle and Xavier
Miami (Ohio)	Wally Szczerbiak	Ohio State from 1995-96 through 1998-99/Buckeyes opposed Alabama State, Army, Cal State Northridge, Central Connecticut, Chattanooga, Eastern Kentucky, Florida Atlantic, George Mason, Kent State, LIU, Oakland, Rider, Robert Morris, South Florida, Southwestern Louisiana, Tennessee-Martin, Tennessee Tech and Wyoming
Princeton	Brian Taylor	Seton Hall in 1970-71 and 1971-72/Pirates opposed Army, Biscayne, UC Irvine, Colgate, Dartmouth, Fairfield, Fordham, Harvard, Holy Cross, Iona, Lafayette, LIU, Loyola (Md.), Morehead State, Pepperdine and Stetson
Cincinnati	Tom Thacker	Ohio State from 1960-61 through 1962-63/Buckeyes opposed Army, Butler, Creighton, Detroit, Evansville, St. Bonaventure and TCU
Princeton	Chris Thomforde	Seton Hall from 1966-67 through 1968-69/Pirates opposed American University, Army, Boston University, Canisius, Fordham, Hofstra, Iona, LIU, Loyola (Md.), Loyola (New Orleans), NYU, Niagara, Rice, Saint Francis (N.Y.) and Scranton
Bowling Green	Nate Thurmond	Ohio State from 1960-61 through 1962-63/Buckeyes opposed Army, Butler, Creighton, Detroit, Evansville, St. Bonaventure and TCU
Cincinnati	Jack Twyman	Ohio State from 1951-52 through 1954-55/Buckeyes opposed Butler, Denver and Oklahoma City
Dayton	Bill Uhl	Ohio State from 1953-54 through 1955-56/Buckeyes opposed Butler, Denver, Oklahoma City and Tulane
Bradley	Paul Unruh	Illinois and Northwestern from 1946-47 through 1949-50/Illini opposed Butler, Coe (Iowa), Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, University of Mexico, Penn, Princeton and Toledo while Wildcats met Butler, Dartmouth, Navy, Princeton, Ripon (Wis.), Western Michigan and Yale
Cincinnati	Nick Van Exel	Ohio State in 1991-92 and 1992-93/Buckeyes opposed American University, UC Santa Barbara, Chicago State, Howard and Illinois-Chicago
Wichita State	Fred VanVleet	Kansas and Kansas State from 2012-13 through 2015-16/Jayhawks opposed American, Belmont, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, Chaminade, Chattanooga, Holy Cross, Iona, Kent State, Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Loyola (Md.), Montana, Northern Colorado, Rider, San Jose State, Southeast Missouri State, Toledo and Towson while Wildcats met Alabama-Huntsville, Columbia, Coppin State, Delaware, Lamar, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota, North Florida, Northern Colorado, Savannah State, South Carolina State, USC Upstate, South Dakota, Southern Utah, Texas Southern, Troy and UMKC
Bradley	Chet Walker	DePaul, Illinois and Northwestern from 1959-60 through 1961-62/Blue Demons opposed Army, Baldwin-Wallace, Bowling Green, Creighton, Illinois Wesleyan, Miami (Ohio), North Dakota, Valparaiso and Western Kentucky; Illini met Butler, Colgate, Cornell, Creighton, Manhattan, Ohio University and Western Kentucky, while Wildcats tackled Boston University, Brown, Creighton, Dartmouth, Manhattan, Princeton and Western Michigan
American University	Kermit Washington	Maryland from 1970-71 through 1972-73/Terrapins opposed Brown, Buffalo, Canisius, Delaware, Fordham, Holy Cross, Kent State, Lehigh, LIU, Loyola (Md.), Navy, Richmond, Tampa and Western Kentucky
Southern Mississippi	Clarence Weatherspoon	Mississippi and Mississippi State from 1988-89 through 1991-92/Rebels opposed Arkansas State, Austin Peay State, Bethune-Cookman, Christian Brothers, Hofstra, Indiana State, McNeese State, Metro State (Colo.), Nicholls State, Northeast Louisiana, Northwestern State, Oral Roberts, Prairie View A&M, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern (La.), Stetson and Tulsa while Bulldogs met Austin Peay State, Ball State, Centenary, Chattanooga, Christian Brothers, Delaware, Drake, East Carolina, East Tennessee State, Eastern Kentucky, Jacksonville, Mercer, New Orleans, Northeast Louisiana, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Southeastern Louisiana, Tennessee-Martin and Tennessee Tech
Ball State	Bonzi Wells	Indiana, Notre Dame and Purdue from 1994-95 through 1997-98/Hoosiers opposed Alaska-Anchorage, Appalachian State, Bowling Green, Chaminade, Colgate, Delaware, Eastern Kentucky, Louisiana Tech, Miami (Ohio), Morehead State, Princeton, Saint Louis, Santa Clara, Tulane, UALR and Weber State; Fighting Irish met Akron, The Citadel, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Drexel, Duquesne, Florida International, Fordham, Hofstra, Iona, Lehigh, Loyola of Chicago, Loyola (Md.), Loyola Marymount, Manhattan, Monmouth, New Hampshire, Nicholls State, Northeastern, St. Bonaventure, Sam Houston State, San Diego and Youngstown State, while Boilermakers tackled Austin Peay State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Cornell, Florida A&M, Houston, Idaho, Illinois-Chicago, James Madison, Long Beach State, LIU, Massachusetts, Murray State, New Orleans, Niagara, Northeast Louisiana, Tennessee-Martin, UAB, Weber State and Western Michigan
LIU	Sherman White	St. John's and Syracuse from 1948-49 through 1950-51/Redmen opposed Bowling Green, Denver, John Marshall, Pratt, Rhode Island and Wagner while Orangemen met Baldwin-Wallace, Boston University, Bradley, Creighton, Denver, John Carroll, Lawrence Tech, Loyola of Chicago, Penn, Princeton, Queens, Rider and Toronto
Cincinnati	Bob Wiesenhahn	Ohio State from 1958-59 through 1960-61/Buckeyes opposed Army, Butler, Delaware, Detroit, Evansville, Princeton and St. Bonaventure
Memphis State	Win Wilfong	Tennessee and Vanderbilt in 1955-56 and 1956-57/Volunteers opposed Boston University, Colgate, Davidson, Furman, Kentucky Wesleyan, New Mexico State, Sewanee, Springfield, VMI and William & Mary while Commodores met New Mexico, New Mexico State, Sewanee and William & Mary
Portland State	Freeman Williams	Oregon from 1974-75 through 1977-78/Ducks opposed Air Force, Boise State, Bowling Green, UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Sacramento, Colorado State, Creighton, Doane, Duquesne, Grambling, Hawaii, Montana State, Pepperdine, Rice, Saint Mary's, San Jose State, Seattle Pacific and Vermont
Austin Peay	James "Fly" Williams	Tennessee and Vanderbilt in 1972-73 and 1973-74/Volunteers opposed Niagara, North Texas State, Santa Clara and South Florida while Commodores met Columbia, Rice, Samford, SMU, Vermont and Western Kentucky
Gonzaga	Nigel Williams-Goss	Washington State in 2016-17/Cougars opposed Central Washington, Loyola of Chicago, Montana, New Orleans, Sacramento State, San Jose State, Santa Clara and Utah Valley
Cincinnati	George Wilson	Ohio State from 1961-62 through 1963-64/Buckeyes opposed Butler, UC Davis, Detroit, Houston, TCU and Utah State
Cal State Fullerton	Leon Wood	USC and UCLA from 1981-82 through 1983-84/Trojans opposed American University, Colorado State, Fordham, New Mexico, Oral Roberts, Penn, Portland, Richmond, Texas-San Antonio and Wyoming while Bruins met Boston University, Howard, Idaho State and New Mexico
Cincinnati	Tony Yates	Ohio State from 1960-61 through 1962-63/Buckeyes opposed Army, Butler, Creighton, Detroit, Evansville, St. Bonaventure and TCU

Tagging along with new head coaches Craig Smith and Ryan Odom, transfers are striving to help Utah and Utah State generate headlines. They joined the following alphabetical list of prominent players who transferred from one major college to another with the same head coach although he wasn't his biological father (including three at BYU after leaving Utah Valley):

*Erdmann played for a junior college between four-year school stints.

NOTES: Aaman committed to Wagner before choosing to enroll with Hurley at Rhode Island, Fisher signed with Pepperdine but never played there before choosing to follow Romar to SLU, Kilgore never played for EMU after transferring there from Central Michigan, Lyons was an academic partial qualifier in 2008-09 and Pendleton signed with Iowa but never played for the Hawkeyes because of scholastic shortcomings. . . . Anthony originally played for Virginia. . . . Mitchell played two seasons at Fresno State under Grant's successor (Ron Adams). . . . Varner went on an LDS Mormon mission for two years between stints at Pepperdine and Saint Louis.

More than 20,000 thank yous can't begin to express infinite appreciation for setting the stage regarding procedure in Texas saving life of a grandson when he was only two days old. The gratitude beyond measure is for world-famous heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley, who performed well in excess of 20,000 open-heart operations before passing away several years ago at the age of 96. He was a three-year letterman (1938-39 through 1940-41) on Texas basketball teams combining for a 51-21 record. The 6-3 Cooley, named the 32nd most influential student-athlete in 2006 when the NCAA celebrated its centennial anniversary, saw action in both of the Longhorns' games in the inaugural NCAA Tournament in 1939 after they captured the Southwest Conference championship.

"I've always had the opinion that my training in athletics equipped me for a life in medicine," Houston-based Dr. Cooley said, "and particularly in surgery because there's so much of the physical part involved. Surgery is a specialty in which a person must have vigor and a healthy body to perform at his peak. It requires a certain amount of physical training as well as mental training. In surgery, operations are accomplished by teams. As in athletics, a strong individual effort is possible only with the support of a good team. The morale of the team must be maintained by the captain. And these are the things individuals learn in a program of competitive sports. We learn to accept defeat but not to be satisfied with defeat; that there is no alternative for winning. Extra effort and determination and hard work and practice are what lead to accomplishment and victory."

Again, thank you Dr. Cooley for your extra effort and determination and hard work. A Thanksgiving holiday week absolutely should include the time-honored tradition of a smorgasbord mulling over a mixture of heartfelt Thank Yous while also chewing on tasteless Turkeys. The list of candidates in college basketball is extensive stemming from issues and individuals your most grateful for and those of dubious distinction. Following is a healthy serving of food-for-thought Thanksgiving tributes and tongue-lashings for hoop observers to gobble-gobble up:

THANK YOUS

• Cheers to mid-major players deserving post-season recognition this season if A-A voters are paying attention.

• Cheers to multiple players carrying the torch for their father at the same school dear old dad attended or playing under their father at the same university.

• Cheers to this season's crop of entertaining freshmen although they pale in comparison to the depth exhibited by gifted group in 1979-80.

• Cheers to ex-college hoopers dominating as NFL tight ends as long as they don't #KneelWithJemele or #ColonKrapernick.

• Cheers to Canada, which could again provide a north-of-the-border All-American.

• Cheers to the Big East Conference, which appears to be continuing a renaissance after losing prominent members to supposedly superior leagues.

• Cheers to "old-school" seniors for not abandoning college hoops early and giving the sport at least some modicum of veteran leadership by attending the same school their entire career.

• Cheers to pristine playmakers who show again and again that "pass" is not a dirty four-letter word amid the obsession with individualistic one-on-one moves by self-absorbed one-and-done scholars.

• Cheers to model coaches who have their egos in check and carry their personal profiles in school media guides after, not before, the player bios.

• Cheers to upstanding schools having their academic priorities in order although it is getting increasingly difficult not to accept the stereotype that universities need to be one-dimensional sports factories to assemble successful NCAA Division I basketball programs.

• Cheers to entertaining little big men (players 5-10 or shorter) who inspire us with their self-confidence and mental toughness in the Land of the Giants.

• Cheers to women's hoops, which has improved immeasurably while the men's game has suffered somewhat from inattention to fundamentals such as competent free-throw shooting. The team-oriented women look for passing angles to teammates "flashing" into the lane while far too many one-dimensional men seek camera angles to trigger a "flash-dance" routine. Some of the self-centered men haven't quite comprehended it isn't platform diving or figure skating they're participating in and you don't secure extra points for degree of difficulty.

• Cheers to junior college players and foreigners who overcome perceptions in some misguided quarters that they are the rogues of recruiting.

• Cheers to the numerous promising first-year coaches assuming control of programs this season. They need to remember the fortitude exhibited by many of the biggest names in coaching who rebounded from embarrassing defeats in their first season as a head coach. An active luminary who lost multiple games to non-Division I colleges in his initial campaign before ascending to stardom as the all-time winningest coach is Duke's Mike Krzyzewski (lost to SUNY-Buffalo, Scranton and King's College in 1975-76 while coaching Army).

TURKEYS

• Jeers to Hall of Fame coaches Jim Boeheim (Syracuse), Tom Izzo, Rick Pitino, Bill Self and Roy Williams (North Carolina) for respective Eeyore-like analysis after their schools became immersed in assorted Hall of Shame scandals. How close did Mike "Let's Move On" Krzyzewski come to joining this negative ACC-heavy list in aftermath of reasons for recruiting player paid by AAU coach/convicted felon, Reggie Love's profane party photographs, mediocre starter having $100G in jewelry, Rasheed Sulaimon's "Title IX" departure from Duke and one-and-done rental player Jahlil Okafor's infatuation with clubbing before the then NBA rookie center acquired a baby-sitting security guard before ever helping the Philadelphia 76ers win a game?

• Jeers to Division I schools in a chaotic restructuring of conferences forsaking tradition although the quest for mega-leagues could be delusional because they're vying for television revenue that might not exist as network sports divisions operate at ample deficits in pandemic era.

• Jeers to the striking number of power conference members who've provided a long list of players on their rosters participating in an authentic "War on Women."

• Jeers to recruiting services incapable of discerning who should have been a Top 100 recruit coming out of high school. Ditto to announcers who infect the sport by spreading this virus without ever seeing any of the players enough to properly evaluate them.

• Jeers to marquee coaches such as Bruce Pearl (Auburn) who've served up assistants as sacrificial lambs when the heat of an investigation of their program intensifies. Let's hope Pearl recognizes his current residence and has lower percentage of his latest SEC roster run afoul of the law than he did with Tennessee.

• Jeers to anyone who incessantly castigates the majority of undergraduates declaring early for the NBA draft. Before accepting the party line that many of the players are making monumental mistakes by forgoing their remaining college eligibility, remember that more than half of the NBA's All-Pro selections in the last several decades left college early or never attended a university.

• Jeers to any school for not promptly granting a recruit seeking to enroll elsewhere a release from its letter-of-intent when he wants to attend another institution for legitimate reasons.

• Jeers to "Me Generation" showmen who've failed to comprehend their respective teams don't benefit on the court from a trash-talking Harlem Globetrotter routine.

• Jeers to self-absorbed players who spend more time getting tattoos and practicing macho dunks than team beneficial free throws. It all hinges on dedication. There is a reason they're supposed to be "free" throws instead of Shaq-like "foul" shots.

• Jeers to high-profile coaches who take off for greener pastures despite having multiple years remaining on their contract or don sweaters and workout gear with a logo of a sneaker manufacturer instead of their school during TV games and interviews. Where is their allegiance?

• Jeers to network analysts when they serve as apologists for the coaching community. When their familiar refrain echoes throughout hoopdom, they become nothing more than the big mouths that bore.

• Jeers to marquee schools forsaking entertaining non-conference games with natural rivals while scheduling a half-dozen or more meaningless "rout-a-matics" at home.

• Jeers to several colleges that hired tainted coaches, showing winning is still more important than dignity at some schools of lower learning. The crass-act enablers of academic anemia know who they are!

• Jeers to defrauding coaches who manipulate junior colleges and high schools into giving phony grades to regal recruits even before encouraging them to take lame courses at their day-care facilities to keep the team GPA out of danger zone. Ditto coaches who steer prize high-school prospects to third parties toying with standardized test results.

• Jeers to "fatherly-advice" coaches who don't mandate that any player with pro potential take multiple financial literacy courses. Did they notice in recent years that products from Alabama, Georgia Tech, Georgetown, Kentucky and Syracuse filed for bankruptcy after combining for more than half a billion dollars in salaries over their NBA careers? What contrived classes such as Afro Studies at North Carolina are taken in college anyway if a staggering 60% of NBA players file for bankruptcy five years after retirement?

• Jeers to overzealous fans who seek to flog freshmen for not living up to their high school press clippings right away. The impatient onlookers need to get a grip on themselves.

• Jeers to the excessive number of small schools thinking they can compete at the Division I level. There are far too many examples of dreamy-eyed small schools that believe competing with the big boys will get them national recognition, make big bucks from the NCAA Tournament and put the institutions on the map. They don't know how unrealistic that goal is until most of the HBCU and hyphenated/directional schools barnstorm the country during their non-conference schedules in college basketball versions of Bataan Death Marches.

• Jeers to lap-dog media embarrassed looking the other way at Louisville when stripped naked by lap-dancing Katina the Escort keeping copious copulation comments to assemble one of the biggest stories of the decade (Get Your Fill in the Ville) while the press passed out from Pitino Personality or his bourbon. How many other Pitino Places are out there such as Bo Knows Affairs at Wisconsin?

• Jeers to coaches who weigh in on political issues thinking anyone cares about their self-serving views. They sound dumb as a doorknob (a/k/a rooftop-dancing bartender AOC).

• Jeers to ESPN (Extra Sensitive Pious Network) for rejecting a charity hospital ad promoting Jesus several years ago while giving forums to individuals who either lie to NCAA investigators as a head coach, lose new coaching job due to drunkenness, become a recruiting guru for the network after shady dealings at the highest level, specialize in man-check motivation, practice reprehensible race-baiting with the intellectually-bankrupt "Uncle Tom" bomb (Jalen Rose), damage our ears with Screamin' A. Stiff or spew journalistic-junk spin over the years with lunatic liberal propagandists Howard Bryant, LZ Granderson, Jemelle Hill and Bomani Jones.

Sky-is-the-limit expectations face 7-4 Canadian center Zach Edey of Purdue. It will be a tall order, but Toronto tower Edey's development likely will determine whether or not the Boilermakers win their first NCAA tourney title. Believe it or not, there has previously been a striking number of towering players with higher points of view.

Who have been the tallest players in major-college history? Seven of 11 NCAA Division I players taller than 7-4 have impacted major-college hoops this century and could literally look down upon national Player of Year winners Lew Alcindor (7-2/UCLA), Anthony Davis (7-0/Kentucky), Patrick Ewing (7-0/Georgetown) and Shaquille O'Neal (7-1/Louisiana State) plus two-time All-Americans Artis Gilmore (7-2/Jacksonville) and Hakeem Olajuwon (7-0/Houston). Nearly half of the players 7-4 or taller were layup line sideshows, averaging no more than 3 ppg in their major-college careers. Edey and juco recruit Jamarion Sharp, an emerging impact player at Western Kentucky, are among the following list of skyscrapers:

Tallest DI Players	Ht.	School(s)	Summary of NCAA Division I Career
Neil Fingleton	7-7 1/2	North Carolina/Holy Cross	Missed both of his field-goal attempts in one game with Carolina in 2001-02 before averaging 2.7 ppg, 1.6 rpg, 0.7 bpg and 45.2 FG% for Holy Cross in 2002-03 and 2003-04
Tacko Fall	7-7	UCF	10.1 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 2.4 bpg and 74 FG% from 2015-16 through 2018-19
Kenny George	7-7	UNC Asheville	9.3 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 2.7 bpg and 71.6 FG% in 2006-07 and 2007-08 before having part of his right foot amputated because of staph infection
Shawn Bradley	7-6	Brigham Young	14.8 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 5.2 bpg and 51.8 FG% in 1990-91
John Hollinden	7-6	Oral Roberts	1.2 ppg and 1.1 rpg in 1976-77 and 1977-78 before transferring to Indiana State-Evansville
Mike Lanier	7-6	Hardin-Simmons/UCLA	Averaged 5.1 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 0.8 bpg and 45.2 FG% for Hardin-Simmons in 1988-89 and 1989-90 before averaging 1.3 ppg, 1.1 rpg, 0.1 bpg and 32.4 FG% with UCLA in 1991-92 and 1992-93.
Mamadou Ndiaye	7-6	UC Irvine	10.2 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 2.5 bpg and 67.6 FG% from 2013-14 through 2015-16
Sim Bhullar	7-5	New Mexico State	10.2 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 2.9 bpg and 63.3 FG% in 2012-13 and 2013-14
Chuck Nevitt	7-5	North Carolina State	3 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 1 bpg and 58 FG% from 1978-79 through 1981-82
Jamarion Sharp	7-5	Western Kentucky	juco recruit was averaging 7.6 ppg, 7.8 rpg and 4.9 bpg by mid-season in 2021-22
Riley Sorn	7-5	Washington	3 ppg and 2.4 rpg in 2019-20 and 2020-21
Alan Bannister	7-4	Oklahoma State/Arkansas State	6.7 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 1.6 bpg and 45.9 FG% with OSU in 1985-86 and 1987-88 before averaging 2 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 0.8 bpg and 45.2 FG% with ASU in 1989-90
Lonnie Boeckman	7-4	Oklahoma State	1.8 ppg, 1.4 rpg and 35.8 FG% from 1973-74 through 1976-77
Tom Burleson	7-4	North Carolina State	19 ppg, 12.7 rpg and 51.6 FG% from 1971-72 through 1973-74
Mark Eaton	7-4	UCLA	1.8 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 0.9 bpg and 44.9 FG% in 1980-81 and 1981-82
Zach Edey	7-4	Purdue	Canadian will be instrumental in whether Boilers reach Final Four and capture their first-ever NCAA championship
Christ Koumadje	7-4	Florida State	4.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.2 bpg and 62.2 FG% from 2015-16 through 2018-19
Rolf Mayr	7-4	Duquesne	1.2 ppg, 1.2 rpg and 42.9 FG% in 1987-88
Chase Metheney	7-4	Virginia	2.2 ppg, 2.6 rpg and 1 bpg from 1995-96 through 1997-98
Ralph Sampson	7-4	Virginia	16.9 ppg, 11.4 rpg, 3.5 bpg and 56.8 FG% from 1979-80 through 1982-83
Rik Smits	7-4	Marist	18.2 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 3.2 bpg and 60.9 FG% from 1984-85 through 1987-88
Steve Turner	7-4	Vanderbilt	8.1 ppg, 6.7 rpg and 50.2 FG% from 1969-70 through 1972-73
Matt Van Komen	7-4	Utah/Saint Mary's	played sparingly for Utes in 2019-20 and Gaels in 2020-21

NOTES: George Bell (7-8/Morris Brown GA, UC Riverside and Biola CA), Paul Sturgess (7-7/Florida Tech and Mountain State WV), Manute Bol (7-6/Bridgeport CT) and Priest Lauderdale (7-4/Central State OH) played for non-DI colleges. . . . Homesick Gunther Behnke (7-4/Kentucky) left UK before start of 1984-85 season to return to his native West Germany.

"Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions." - Alexander the Great

The best back-to-back non-conference games of two of the previous six seasons may have been when Maryland came from behind to upend Georgetown both times. Where was this rivalry for more than three decades and why aren't they dueling again this campaign? We missed out on Patrick Ewing and David Wingate vs. Adrian Branch in the early 1980s, Reggie Williams vs. Len Bias in mid-1980s, Alonzo Mourning vs. Tony Massenburg and Walt Williams in late 1980s and early 1990s, Allen Iverson vs. Joe Smith in mid-1990s and Mike Sweetney vs. Juan Dixon at the turn of 21st Century. Instead of grand games giving us a shot of adrenalin, we got to overdose on cupcakes with the Hoyas and Terrapins combining to win all 66 of their mismatches against in-state weaklings UMBC, UMES, Morgan State and Towson from the early 1980s through 2003-04. It is time for both schools to commit to opposing each other like they did from 1946-47 to 1979-80. If so, the "Duel in D.C." immediately becomes annual must-see TV in pre-conference competition comparable to "Greatest Shows on Earth" such as Kentucky/Louisville, Illinois/Missouri and Cincinnati/Xavier.

Elsewhere, after 105 years steeped in history amid off-the-chart contempt, the rivalry between Kansas and Missouri came to a halt when Mizzou departed the Big 12 Conference for the SEC prior to common sense prevailing as a six-year series was negotiated beginning next season (2020-21). KU has a commanding edge in nearly every category (winning percentage, victories away from home and close games decided by single digits), but the Tigers have been enough of a tormentor to make the series as energetic and entertaining as you can find anywhere. Their border war stacks right up there with the more nationally-acclaimed "Clash of the Titans" between Duke and North Carolina.

Making about as much sense as creepy Plagiarist Bidumb securing 12 million votes than #AudacityOfHype (Obama) or hideous Hunter's artistry, it was shortsighted of KU and Mizzou to let their rivalry end for any length of time. Other great natural non-league match-ups their fans previously weren't able to enjoy on a regular basis needing to be extended include DePaul/Illini, Pitt/West Virginia, Texas/Texas A&M and Cincinnati/Ohio State.

We nearly required self-absorbed former Secretary of State John Kerry to bring James Taylor for a "You've Got a Friend" sing-along to ease the stress after Utah cancelled its game against BYU for a year before re-engaging. After bruised egos were healed, Mizzou will oppose KU in Kansas City much like it does in St. Louis against Illinois. But Mizzou couldn't complain when the Jayhawks acted like a jilted lover because the self-centered Tigers, hit-and-running away from problem akin to Beto O'Rourke DWI episode, fail to oppose competent in-state foes such as Missouri State and Saint Louis.

By almost any measure including Alexander the Great's perspective, KU has a superior program to Mizzou, which is at its lowest ebb in more than 50 years after mess-maker Frank Haith left the Tigers' program in tatters. But Jayhawks coach Bill Self should have reined in his rhetoric as the divorce dialogue intensified or at least take a crash course in college basketball history. When comparing the significance of the Kentucky/Louisville rivalry to the termination of KU's home-and-home conference conflicts with the Tigers, Self said: "Well, they've always played every year (out of league). That's all they know."

Well, Self needs to "always know" that UK and Louisville went 61 years from 1923 through 1983 without a regular-season matchup before they came to their senses and saw the light. Speaking of light, KU and Mizzou simply had to shed one lightweight apiece to keep a good thing going for the sport in general and for their fans specifically like the entertaining Philly Big 5. The two schools combined to raise $1.75 million for hurricane victims by playing an exhibition game in the fall of 2017. KU shouldn't also deny hoop fans a Top 20 match-up with Wichita State. But Self-less seems more interested in "scheduling" jobs for family members of prize prospects.

By toning down picking on patsies, there is plenty of room on their respective non-league schedules to keep playing each other. Ditto for Indiana and Kentucky duplicating Memphis and Tennessee resuming their rivalries this year. If consistent, they would definitely be among the top 10 such confrontations in the country. When the century-old KU/Mizzou spectacle returns, it could immediately surpass Kentucky/Louisville and go atop the following list of the nation's top 25 non-conference rivalries if only because of longevity:

1. Kentucky/Louisville
2. Illinois/Missouri
3. Cincinnati/Xavier
4. Iowa/Iowa State
5. Indiana/Notre Dame
6. Brigham Young/Utah
7. St. Joseph's/Villanova
8. Georgia/Georgia Tech
9. Florida/Florida State
10. Marquette/Wisconsin
11. Clemson/South Carolina
12. New Mexico/New Mexico State
13. Marshall/West Virginia
14. Utah/Utah State
15. Temple/Villanova
16. La Salle/Villanova
17. Florida/Miami (FL)
18. Iowa/Northern Iowa
19. Colorado/Colorado State
20. Drake/Iowa
21. Penn/Villanova
22. Providence/Rhode Island
23. Creighton/Nebraska
24. La Salle/Temple
25. Idaho/Idaho State

North Carolina, striving to return to huff-and-puff status, aspires to avoid losing more than 10 games three straight seasons for first time in 70 years. Rechon "Leaky" Black will do all he can to plug up the defeat dike this campaign. Black and teammate Donovan "Puff" Johnson are among the latest NCAA Division I players with entertaining nicknames. Bo and Mo, Buck and Duck, Butch and Dutch, Bud and Skip plus Red and Whitey are too commonplace. Black and Johnson joined the following long list of collegians over the years with the most distinctive monikers:

• Forest (Frosty) Able, Western Kentucky
• Edrice (Bam) Adebayo, Kentucky
• Greg (Cadillac) Anderson, Houston
• Nate (Tiny) Archibald, Texas-El Paso
• Paul (Curly) Armstrong, Indiana
• Raymond (Peanut) Arrington, Radford
• William (Bird) Averitt, Pepperdine
• Anthony (Cat) Barber, North Carolina State
• Norwood (Pee Wee) Barber, Florida State
• Jim (Bad News) Barnes, Texas Western
• Amadou (Coco) Barry, Maine
• Segado (Cookie) Belcher, Nebraska
• Charles (Buzz) Bennett, Minnesota
• Paul (Polly) Birch, Duquesne
• Ralph (Stork) Bishop, Washington
• Rechon (Leaky) Black, North Carolina
• William (Floppy) Blackmon, Texas Christian
• Roderick (Moo Moo) Blakney, South Carolina State
• Daron (Mookie) Blaylock, Oklahoma
• Tyrone (Muggsy) Bogues, Wake Forest
• Jermaine (Itchy) Bolden, Morgan State
• Roylin (Boot) Bond, Pepperdine
• Fred (Buzz) Borries, Navy
• Russell (Boo) Bowers, American
• Clayton (Bub) Bowling, Stanford
• Charles (Tub) Bradley, Wyoming
• Frank (Flash) Brian, Louisiana State
• Fred (Downtown) Brown, Iowa
• Murray (Mule) Brown, Florida State
• Simpson (Skip) Brown, Wake Forest
• Joe (Jellybean) Bryant, La Salle
• Luther (Ticky) Burden, Utah
• Michael (Spiderman) Burns, UNLV
• George (Chink) Busch, Creighton
• Claude (Muff) Butler, New Orleans
• (Pogo) Joe Caldwell, Arizona State
• David (Corky) Calhoun, Penn
• Bruce (Soup) Campbell, Providence
• Deltorio (Bam) Campbell, Georgia State
• John (Moose) Campbell, Clemson
• Earl (Kit) Carson, Washington & Lee
• Demond (Tweety) Carter, Baylor
• Bowyer (Ducky) Castelle, Xavier
• John (Happy) Chambers, San Francisco
• Sam (The Bam) Clancy, Pittsburgh
• Orrin (Tuffy) Clark, New Hampshire
• Craig (Speedy) Claxton, Hofstra
• Nathaniel (Sweetwater) Clifton, Xavier (La.)
• Shavon (Sugar) Coleman, Louisiana State
• Vernell (Bimbo) Coles, Virginia Tech
• Derwin (Tank) Collins, New Orleans
• John (Chubby) Cox, Villanova/San Francisco
• Earl (The Twirl) Cureton, Robert Morris/Detroit
• Adrian (Ace) Custis, Virginia Tech
• Wesley (Bing) Dahl, Washington State
• Edwin (Greedy) Daniels, UNLV/Mississippi State
• E.B. (Ox) Darby, Texas A&M
• Anthony (Amp) Davis, George Mason
• Arthur (Yah) Davis, St. Joseph's
• Glen (Big Baby) Davis, Louisiana State
• McKinley (Deacon) Davis, Iowa
• Ronald (Boo) Davis, Milwaukee
• Lewis (Pick) Dehner, Illinois
• Paul (Shorty) des Jardien, University of Chicago
• Alfred (Dusty) DeStefano, St. John's
• Walter (Corky) Devlin, George Washington
• John (Hook) Dillon, North Carolina
• Julius (Daddy) Dolnics, Texas Christian
• Clyde (The Glide) Drexler, Houston
• Dwight (Dike) Eddleman, Illinois
• A.R. (Monk) Edwards, Kansas State
• LeRoy (Cowboy) Edwards, Kentucky
• Theodore (Blue) Edwards, East Carolina
• Eyo (Bubbles) Effiong, Winthrop
• Eddie (Bulbs) Ehlers, Purdue
• Emil (Box) Englebretson, Creighton
• Julius (Dr. J) Erving, Massachusetts
• J.P. (Bubber) Farish, Auburn
• Kevin (Yogi) Ferrell, Indiana
• Ed (Fuzzy) Fine, Montana
• James (Bruiser) Flint, St. Joseph's
• Kevin (Ice) Florent, Southern
• Eric (Sleepy) Floyd, Georgetown
• Jackie (The Shot) Foley, Holy Cross
• Sylvester (Deuce) Ford, Memphis State/Louisiana State
• Clarence (Bevo) Francis, Rio Grande (Ohio)
• Maurice (Kojak) Fuller, Southern LA
• Arnold (Clyde) Gaines, Wisconsin
• Lauren (Laddie) Gale, Oregon
• Harry (The Horse) Gallatin, Northeast Missouri
• Erin (Helicopter) Galloway, Hawaii
• George (Iceman) Gervin, Long Beach State/Eastern Michigan
• Carlos (Bunny) Gibson, Marshall
• Ward (Hoot) Gibson, Creighton
• Merlin (Boody) Gilbertson, Washington
• Amory (Slats) Gill, Oregon State
• Maurice (Wilky) Gilmore, Colorado
• Elnardo (Chip) Givens, Cincinnati
• Jack (Goose) Givens, Kentucky
• Bob (Snake) Grace, Vanderbilt
• Arthur (Stretch) Graham, Oral Roberts/San Jose State
• Bonnie (Country) Graham, Mississippi
• Paul (Snoopy) Graham, Ohio University
• Roland (Tree) Grant, New Mexico State
• Phil (Cookie) Grawemeyer, Kentucky
• Mike (Fly) Gray, Nevada-Reno
• Ken (Tree) Green, Nevada-Reno
• Kenneth (Apple) Green, Pan American
• James (Stretch) Gregory, Wisconsin
• Thomas (Ice) Griffis, North Carolina A&T
• Rodell (House) Guest, Colorado
• Lucious (Buck) Hailey, Middle Tennessee State
• Harold (Happy) Hairston, New York University
• Lindsay (Spider) Hairston, Michigan State
• Charles (Chick) Halbert, West Texas
• Wade (Swede) Halbrook, Oregon State
• Bill (Biff) Hall, Montana
• Earl (Bus) Hall, Virginia Tech
• Maurice (Squeaky) Hamilton, Austin Peay State
• Tephen (Tang) Hamilton, Mississippi State
• Richard (Rip) Hamilton, Connecticut
• Anfernee (Penny) Hardaway, Memphis State
• Herbert (Hawkeye) Hargett, Mississippi State
• Chester (Chipper) Harris, Robert Morris
• Jim (Bubbles) Harris, Indiana
• William (June) Harris, North Carolina A&T
• Greg (Boo) Harvey, St. John's
• Clem (The Gem) Haskins, Western Kentucky
• Charles (Pud) Hassell, North Carolina
• John (Hondo) Havlicek, Ohio State
• E.A. (Shag) Hawkins, Auburn
• Robert (Bubbles) Hawkins, Illinois State
• Phillip (Doom) Haynes, Memphis State
• Herman (Skeeter) Henry, Oklahoma
• Clarence (Kleggie) Hermsen, Minnesota
• Eric (The Helicopter) Hicks, Cincinnati
• Jermaine (Squirt) Hicks, Weber State/Chicago State
• John (Babe) Higgins, Stanford
• James (Wimpy) Hill, Texas Tech
• Leon (Podd) Hill, Texas Tech
• Clinton (Bread Truck) Hinton, UNC Charlotte/Oral Roberts
• Anthony (Humpty) Hitchens, Akron/James Madison
• Derrel (Poncho) Hodges, Colorado
• John (Doc) Holliday, Montana
• James (Lindy) Hood, Alabama
• Tecumseh (Tee) Hooper, The Citadel
• Alfredo (Tito) Horford, Miami (Fla.)
• Gary (Spud) Hornsby, Cincinnati
• Greg (Stretch) Howard, New Mexico
• Charles (Bambi) Howland, Alabama
• Jaimie (Shoes) Huffman, Michigan State
• Bob (Cotton) Hughes, Northwestern
• (Hot) Rod Hundley, West Virginia
• Bob (Pudgy) Hunt, Oregon/Gonzaga
• Anthony (Jo Jo) Hunter, Maryland/Colorado
• Jimmy (Snap) Hunter, Memphis
• William (Tat) Hunter, Florida State
• Allen (The Answer) Iverson, Georgetown
• Hernell (Jeep) Jackson, Texas-El Paso
• Robert (Bobo) Jackson, North Carolina State/Murray State
• Willie (Hobo) Jackson, Morehead State
• Frank (Spoon) James, UNLV
• Karl (Boobie) James, UNLV/South Alabama
• Arthur (Brownie) Jaquay, Creighton
• Antonio (Scoop) Jardine, Syracuse
• Brooks (Bubba) Jennings, Texas Tech
• Keith (Mister) Jennings, East Tennessee State
• Eugene (Pooh) Jeter, Portland
• Carldell (Squeaky) Johnson, UAB
• Charles (Mandy) Johnson, Marquette
• Dana (Binky) Johnson, Canisius
• Demetrius (Meechie) Johnson Jr., Louisville
• Donovan (Puff) Johnson, North Carolina
• Earvin (Magic) Johnson, Michigan State
• Gary (Cat) Johnson, Oral Roberts
• Gus (Honeycomb) Johnson, Idaho
• Jaaziel (Jazz) Johnson, Portland/Nevada
• Julius (Juby) Johnson, Miami of Ohio
• Ken (Silk) Johnson, Alabama
• Kevin (Butter) Johnson, Charlotte
• Lynbert (Cheese) Johnson, Wichita State
• Millison (Milky) Johnson, California
• Stanley (Knot) Johnson, Baylor
• Walter (Weasel) Johnson, North Texas State
• William (Elmo) Johnson, Southern Methodist
• William (Skinny) Johnson, Kansas
• Albert (Slab) Jones, New Mexico State
• Anthony (Greyhound) Jones, Louisiana-Monroe
• Bobby (Toothpick) Jones, Dayton
• Byron (Snake) Jones, San Francisco
• Charles (Big Time) Jones, Oklahoma
• Eshaunte (Bear) Jones, Nebraska
• Gerald (Wimpy) Jones, Arizona State
• Ja'Kwan (Slinky) Jones, Quinnipiac
• Lamont (Momo) Jones, Arizona/Iona
• Lucious (Lucky) Jones, Robert Morris
• Ronald (Popeye) Jones, Murray State
• Steve (Snapper) Jones, Oregon
• Theodore (Mookie) Jones, Syracuse
• Tyrell (Turbo) Jones, Auburn
• Wallace (Wah Wah) Jones, Kentucky
• Willie (Hutch) Jones, Buffalo State/Vanderbilt
• Antoine (The Judge) Joubert, Michigan
• Wilbert (Wibs) Kautz, Loyola of Chicago
• Robert (Jeep) Kelley, UNLV/Hawaii
• Harold (Hardwood) Kelly, Mississippi
• Harry (Machine Gun) Kelly, Texas Southern
• Bill (Pickles) Kennedy, Temple
• Darryl (Choo) Kennedy, Oklahoma
• Eugene (Goo) Kennedy, Texas Christian
• Bob (Trigger) Kenney, Kansas
• Lamarr (Fresh) Kimble, Saint Joseph's/Louisville
• Bruce (Sky) King, Pan American
• Raymond (Circus) King, San Diego State/California
• William (Dolly) King, Long Island
• Irwin (King Kong) Klein, NYU
• Trantell (Tweety) Knight, Middle Tennessee
• Danrad (Chicken) Knowles, Houston
• Donald (Pinky) Knowles, Creighton
• Ed (Moose) Krause, Notre Dame
• Cletus (Goob) Kuehler, West Texas State
• Craig (Cubby) Lathen, Illinois-Chicago
• David (Big Daddy) Lattin, Texas-El Paso
• Albert (Cappy) Lavin, San Francisco
• Hal (King) Lear, Temple
• Arnold (Butz) Lehrman, Minnesota
• Bob (Slick) Leonard, Indiana
• Leroy (Axle) Leslie, Notre Dame
• Andrew (Fuzzy) Levane, St. John's
• Lafayette (Fat) Lever, Arizona State
• Ernie (Pop) Lewis, Providence
• Eugene (Junie) Lewis, Pittsburgh/South Alabama
• Brant (Pinky) Lipscomb, Vanderbilt
• Lewis (Magic) Lloyd, Drake
• (Jungle) Jim Loscutoff, Oregon
• Charles (Slim) Mabry, Texas Christian
• (Easy) Ed Macauley, St. Louis
• Theodore (Tito) Maddox, Fresno State
• John (Dub) Malaise, Texas Tech
• Karl (The Mailman) Malone, Louisiana Tech
• (Pistol) Pete Maravich, Louisiana State
• Tom (Cookie) Marsh, Detroit
• Floyd (Biggy) Marshall, Tennessee
• Ray (Dice) Martin, Notre Dame
• Slater (Dugie) Martin, Texas
• Charles (Buster) Matheney, Utah
• Bill (Moose) Matthews, Virginia Tech
• Ray (Rags) Matthews, Texas Christian
• Cedric (Cornbread) Maxwell, UNC Charlotte
• Ayome (Paco) May, Kansas State
• Miles (Deuce) McBride, West Virginia
• Charles (Smokey) McCovery, Oklahoma
• E. (Branch) McCracken, Indiana
• Marvin (Moon) McCrary, Missouri
• Angus (Monk) McDonald, North Carolina
• Ken (Mouse) McFadden, Cleveland State
• Cornelius (Scooter) McFadgon, Memphis/Tennessee
• Billy (The Hill) McGill, Utah
• Horace (Bones) McKinney, North Carolina State/North Carolina
• Eric (Cricket) McLaughlin, Akron
• Don (Monk) Meineke, Dayton
• Gene (Squeaky) Melchiorre, Bradley
• Dean (The Dream) Meminger, Marquette
• Francis (Ick) Miller, Creighton
• Josh (Cookie) Miller, Nebraska
• Ryan (Archie) Miller, North Carolina State
• Malik (Shake) Milton, Southern Methodist
• DeShon (Biggie) Minnis, Texas Tech/Rhode Island/Wright State
• Taurean (Tank) Minor, Louisiana State
• Roland (The Cat) Minson, Brigham Young
• John (Swisher) Mitchell, Rhode Island
• Jonathon (Pookie) Modica, Arkansas
• Earl (The Pearl) Monroe, Winston-Salem State
• Ed (Britches) Montgomery, Tennessee
• Bryan (Dinty) Moore, Stanford
• Harry (Moo) Moore, West Virginia
• Jonathan (Stitch) Moore, Furman
• Javone (Bam) Moore, Canisius
• Tony (Zippy) Morocco, Georgia
• Charles (Dubby) Morris, West Virginia
• Ronnie (Tuffy) Moss, Texas Christian
• Christopher (Kit) Mueller, Princeton
• Kevin (Moon) Mullin, Princeton
• Charles (Stretch) Murphy, Purdue
• Charlie (Feed) Murphy, Loyola of Chicago
• Fronze (Buzzy) Myatt, Texas A&M
• Lourawls (Tum Tum) Nairn, Michigan State
• Charles (Cotton) Nash, Kentucky
• Craig (Noodles) Neal, Georgia Tech
• Douglas (Booty) Neal, Kansas
• Sherman (Nemo) Nearman, North Carolina
• Bill (Fig) Newton, Louisiana State
• Richard (T-Bone) Nielsen, Weber State
• Lemuel (Rip) Nixon, Ohio University/St. Francis (Pa.)
• Bob (Bevo) Nordmann, St. Louis
• Ken (Snake) Norman, Illinois
• Martyn (Moochie) Norris, Auburn
• Ralph (Buckshot) O'Brien, Butler
• Don (The Ox) Ogorek, Seattle
• Garland (Mule) O'Shields, Tennessee
• Bill (Fumbo) Ouseley, William & Mary
• Carlton (Silk) Owens, Rhode Island
• Horace (Pappy) Owens, Rhode Island
• William (Smush) Parker, Fordham
• Adrian (Spanky) Parks, Eastern Kentucky
• Larry (Choppy) Patterson, Clemson
• Darryl (Cuda) Patterson, South Florida
• Charles (Tyke) Peacock, Kansas
• Herschel (Bones) Pedersen, Brigham Young
• James (Scoonie) Penn, Boston College
• Ray (Cookie) Pericola, South Carolina
• Edward (Pancakes) Perry, Middle Tennessee State
• Ron (Spider) Perry, Virginia Tech
• Frank (The Flake) Peters, Oregon State
• Jamine (Greedy) Peterson, Providence
• Philip (Pap) Peyton, Texas
• John (Squint) Phares, West Virginia
• Milton (Milky) Phelps, San Diego State
• Paul (The Truth) Pierce, Kansas
• Clarke (Pinky) Pittenger, Toledo
• Leonardo (Gyno) Pomare, San Diego
• Nathanial (Giddy) Potts, Middle Tennessee State
• DeWayne (Pooh) Powell, Tennessee-Martin
• RaShawn (Pookie) Powell, Memphis/La Salle
• Phil (Flip) Pressey, Missouri
• Charles (Bubba) Price, Auburn
• George (Tic) Price, Virginia Tech/Virginia Commonwealth
• Carl (Dusty) Pullian, UT-Chattanooga
• Cal (The Hawk) Ramsey, New York University
• Andrew (Scootie) Randall, Temple
• Earl (Shadow) Ray, Wyoming
• Bryant (Big Country) Reeves, Oklahoma State
• Richie (The Cat) Regan, Seton Hall
• Jesse (Cab) Renick, Oklahoma A&M
• Angelo (Rock) Reynolds, Penn
• Billy (The Kid) Reynolds, Northwestern State
• Jerry (Ice) Reynolds, Louisiana State
• Bob (Posey) Rhoads, Wake Forest
• Rudolph (Zip) Rhodes, Montana
• Allen (Alkie) Richards, Cincinnati
• Cornelius (Poonie) Richardson, Jacksonville State
• Jerome (Pooh) Richardson, UCLA
• Glenn (Doc) Rivers, Marquette
• James (Skeeter) Roberts, Marshall
• Oscar (Big O) Robertson, Cincinnati
• Glenn (Big Dog) Robinson Jr., Purdue
• Julius (Doc) Robinson, Auburn
• Leonard (Truck) Robinson, Tennessee State
• Wayne (Tree) Rollins, Clemson
• Elwood (Woody) Romney, Brigham Young
• Alfred (Big 'Un) Rose, Texas
• Alvin (Fats) Roth, City College of New York
• Charles (Boonie) Russell, Alabama
• Daron (Fatts) Russell, Rhode Island
• Michael (Campy) Russell, Michigan
• Kent (Rip) Ryan, Utah State
• Forest (Aggie) Sale, Kentucky
• Sebastian (Subby) Salerno, Creighton
• James (Booney) Salters, Penn
• Allen (Duffy) Samuels, Old Dominion
• Juan (Pepe) Sanchez, Temple
• Albert (Apple) Sanders, Louisiana State
• Tom (Satch) Sanders, New York University
• Frank (Pep) Saul, Seton Hall
• Philip (Flip) Saunders, Minnesota
• Adrian (Flipper) Sensabaugh, Austin Peay State
• John (Bubber) Seward, Duke
• Tom (Shotgun) Shaules, Seattle
• Northern (Doc) Shavers, Jackson State
• Nevil (The Shadow) Shed, Texas-El Paso
• Michael (Pops) Sims, Marquette
• Emilio (Zeke) Sinicola, Niagara
• Adrian (Odie) Smith, Kentucky
• Robert (Bingo) Smith, Tulsa
• Jermaine (Sunshine) Smith, UNLV
• Kenneth (Speedy) Smith, Louisiana Tech
• (Sudden) Sam Smith, UNLV
• Vernon (Catfish) Smith, Georgia
• William (Beaver) Smith, St. John's
• John (Squeaky) Spanbauer, Niagara
• Dave (Ditto) Sparks, George Washington
• Marion (Odie) Spears, Western Kentucky
• Forrest (Frosty) Sprowl, Purdue
• Dave (The Rave) Stallworth, Wichita
• Jerome (Dimp) Stenftenagel, Mississippi
• Bob (Sweeper) Stephens, Drexel
• James (Cookie) Stern, Baylor
• Lawrence (Puff) Summers, Davidson
• George (Swede) Sundstrom, Rutgers
• Harley (Skeeter) Swift, East Tennessee State
• Gilbert (Gibby) Talbot, Louisiana Tech
• Anthony (Ace) Tanner, Davidson
• Levern (Jelly) Tart, Bradley
• Clarence (Babe) Taylor, Vanderbilt
• Claude (Sleepy) Taylor, Middle Tennessee State
• Hugh (Bones) Taylor, Tulane
• Marvin (Corky) Taylor, Minnesota
• Robert (Cat-Eye) Taylor, Middle Tennessee State
• Roland (Fatty) Taylor, La Salle
• Irv (Swede) Terjesen, New York University
• Albert (Bobo) Thomas, Centenary
• Cleveland (Pancake) Thomas, New Mexico/Hartford
• Howard (Trey) Thompkins, Georgia
• Blackstone (Blackie) Thompson, Alabama
• John (Cat) Thompson, Montana State
• Walter (Pinky) Thompson, Southern California
• Marvis (Bootsy) Thornton, St. John's
• Charles (Duke) Thorpe, Virginia Tech
• Nate (The Great) Thurmond, Bowling Green
• Harland (Fats) Tolle, Morehead State
• William (Frenchy) Tomlin, Cleveland State/Rhode Island
• Gene (Bumper) Tormohlen, Tennessee
• Carlyle (Blackie) Towery, Western Kentucky
• Julius (Bunny) Townsend, Clemson
• Victor (Slick) Townsend, Oregon
• Robert (Tractor) Traylor, Michigan
• Roderick (Rocky) Trice, South Carolina
• Wilbur (Tree) Trosch, St. Francis (Pa.)
• Thomas (Tee) Trotter, Maryland-Eastern Shore
• Adolph (Fito) Trujillo, Arizona State
• James (Pop) Tubman, Loyola (Md.)
• Robert (Slip) Turner, Canisius
• Robert (Spider) Ursery, Iowa/Connecticut
• Ernest (Kiki) Vandeweghe, UCLA
• Charles (Chico) Vaughn, Southern Illinois
• Raymond (Spook) Victor, Colorado State
• Glenn (Stick) Vidnovic, Iowa
• LeTrell (Snoop) Viser, Eastern Illinois
• Mathias (Mutt) Volz, Nebraska
• Malcolm (Sparky) Wade, Louisiana State
• Brandon (Tank) Wahlmann, Rider
• Chet (The Jet) Walker, Bradley
• Jordan (Jelly) Walker, Seton Hall/Tulane/UAB
• Vincent (Spotlight) Walker, Western Carolina
• Corey (Pooh) Wallace, Clemson
• Adrian (Spike) Walters, St. Francis (Pa.)
• Ray (Shag) Warren, Texas Christian
• Dwayne (Pearl) Washington, Syracuse
• Josh (Jiggy) Watkins, Utah
• Anthony (Spud) Webb, North Carolina State
• Marvin (Human Eraser) Webster, Morgan State
• James (Poo) Welch, Houston
• Charles (Bubba) Wells, Austin Peay
• Gawen (Bonzi) Wells, Ball State
• James (Chubby) Wells, Clemson
• Lawrence (Lanky) Wells, Louisiana Tech
• Ross (Spike) Welsh, Richmond
• Byron (Whizzer) White, Colorado
• Jarming (Boozer) White, Siena
• Joseph (Jo Jo) White, Kansas
• Milton (Bus) Whitehead, Nebraska
• Charles (Hawkeye) Whitney, North Carolina State
• Leland (Pookey) Wigington, Seton Hall
• Evan (Hootie) Wiley, Oklahoma
• Keith (Silk) Wilkes, UCLA
• Richard (Buzz) Wilkinson, Virginia
• Anthony (Cricket) Williams, Jacksonville
• Anthony (Scoop) Williams, Toledo
• Earnest (Pooh) Williams, Utah State
• James (Bug) Williams, Syracuse
• James (Fly) Williams, Austin Peay State
• Jerome (Flip) Williams, Fairfield
• John (Hot Rod) Williams, Tulane
• Ken (Juice) Williams, Houston
• Marcellus (Boo) Williams, St. Joseph's
• Ron (Fritz) Williams, West Virginia
• Sylvester (Sly) Williams, Rhode Island
• Alvin (Pooh) Williamson, Tulsa
• Jim (Jiggy) Williamson, Rhode Island
• (Super) John Williamson, New Mexico State
• Javarez (Bean) Willis, Texas Tech/Ohio University
• Thomas (Bubba) Wilson, Western Carolina
• Urgel (Slim) Wintermute, Oregon
• Leslie (Skeet) Woolard, UNC Greensboro
• Willie (Woo Woo) Wong, San Francisco
• Anthony (Sweet) Wright, Delaware
• David (Poncho) Wright, Louisville
• Gerry (Sir Jamalot) Wright, Southern California/Iowa
• Joseph (Joby) Wright, Indiana
• Rodney (Pop) Wright, Drake
• Desmond (Boogie) Yates, Middle Tennessee State
• Paul (Hooks) Yesawich, Niagara
• Max (Slats) Zaslofsky, University of Chicago/St. John's
• Bob (Zeke) Zawoluk, St. John's

Whether it's keeping the polish gleaming on a pristine program or reversing the fortunes of a struggling school, new head coaches are seeking ways to surmount a series of seemingly incessant hurdles. Here is an alphabetical list by school summarizing the principal challenges facing new Division I head coaches this season:

School	New Head Coach	Goal As 2021-22 Season Unfolds
Abilene Christian	Brette Tanner	Reach 20-win plateau fourth consecutive campaign.
Albany	Dwayne Killings	Compile winning record for first time in four seasons.
Arizona	Tommy Lloyd	Avoid incurring double digits in defeats for eighth time in last 10 years.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Solomon Bozeman	End streak of eight straight losing records.
Austin Peay	Nate James	Post at least 19 victories for fourth time in last five seasons.
Bethune-Cookman	Reggie Theus	Win at least 14 games for fourth year in a row.
Binghamton	Levell Sanders (interim)	End streak of 12 consecutive losing campaigns.
Boston College	Earl Grant	Notch second winning mark in last 12 seasons.
Cal State Northridge	Trent Johnson (interim)	End streak of 12 straight losing records.
Cal State Sacramento	Brandon Laird (interim)	Assemble second winning mark in last seven years.
Central Connecticut State	Patrick Sellers	Secure first winning record in 11 seasons.
Central Michigan	Tony Barbee	Manufacture winning record for first time in three campaigns.
Chicago State	Gerald Gillion	Reach double figures in victories for first time in eight years.
Cincinnati	Wes Miller	Compile 13th consecutive winning campaign.
College of Charleston	Pat Kelsey	Return to average of 25 wins annually during three-year span from 2016-17 through 2018-19.
Delaware State	Stan Waterman	Amass first winning record in 10 seasons.
Denver	Jeff Wulbrun	Post first winning record in five years.
DePaul	Tony Stubblefield	Boost school to first winning mark in Big East Conference competition since 2006-07.
East Tennessee State	Desmond Oliver	Secure winning records overall and in Southern Conference competition for sixth straight season.
Eastern Illinois	Marty Simmons	Incur fewer than 15 defeats for first time since 2009-10.
Eastern Michigan	Stan Heath	Absorb fewer than 12 setbacks for first time in 21st Century.
Eastern Washington	David Riley	Notch at least 15 victories for eighth consecutive campaign.
Fordham	Kyle Neptune	Register first winning record in Atlantic 10 Conference competition since 2006-07.
George Mason	Kim English	Engineer fourth winning worksheet in a row.
Hofstra	Speedy Claxton	Finish with fifth straight CAA winning record.
Indiana	Mike Woodson	Incur fewer than a dozen reversals for first time since 2015-16.
IUPUI	Matt Crenshaw	Post first winning record in 11 years.
Indiana State	Josh Schertz	Assemble third straight MVC record at least four games above .500.
Iowa State	T.J. Otzelberger	Refrain from losing at least 20 games like last two seasons.
Jacksonville	Jordan Mincy	Register second winning record in last 11 years.
Lamar	Alvin Brooks	Lose fewer than 13 games for first time since 2011-12.
Loyola of Chicago	Drew Valentine	Finish at least six games above .500 in MVC competiton for fifth consecutive campaign.
Marquette	Shaka Smart	Lose fewer than 10 games for first time since 2012-13.
UMBC	Jim Ferry	Manufacture at least 14 victories for sixth straight season.
McNeese State	John Aiken	Secure first winning season in 10 years.
Minnesota	Ben Johnson	Lose fewer than 14 contests for first time in five seasons.
New Mexico	Richard Pitino	Incur fewer than 14 defeats for first time in eight campaigns.
North Carolina	Hubert Davis	Win NCAA playoff game for first time in three years.
UNC Greensboro	Mike Jones	Post more than 20 victories for sixth straight season.
Northern Illinois	Rashon Burno	Sustain fewer than 13 setbacks for first time since 2005-06.
Oklahoma	Porter Moser	Lose fewer than 11 games for first time in six seasons.
Pacific	Leonard Perry	Post second winning record in last seven years.
Penn State	Micah Shrewsberry	Provide second winning record in Big Ten Conference competition in last 12 campaigns.
Portland	Shantay Legans	Produce first winning mark in WCC competition in 12 seasons.
Portland State	Jase Coburn	Incur fewer than 13 reversals for first time since 2008-09.
Radford	Darris Nichols	Finish at least six games above .500 in Big South Conference competition for fifth consecutive campaign.
San Jose State	Tim Miles	Secure second winning record since 1993-94.
Seattle	Chris Victor (interim)	Finish more than three games above .500 for second time since returning to NCAA DI level in 2009-10.
South Carolina State	Tony Madlock	Compile second winning record in last 12 years.
UT Martin	Ryan Ridder	End streak of four straight seasons at least seven games below .500.
Texas	Chris Beard	Win an NCAA Tournament game for first time since 2015.
Texas-Arlington	Greg Young	Lose fewer than 13 games for first time in five years.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christ	Steve Lutz	Lose fewer than 18 contests for first time in five seasons.
Texas-El Paso	Joe Golding	Finish at least three games above .500 for first time in six campaigns.
UT Rio Grande Valley	Matt Figger	Register winning record for second time in last 14 years.
Texas Tech	Mark Adams	Win at least 18 games for seventh straight season.
UNLV	Kevin Kruger	Reach 20-win plateau for second time in last eight campaigns.
Utah	Craig Smith	Attain at least 20 triumphs for first time in four years.
Utah State	Ryan Odom	Accumulate at least 20 victories for fourth consecutive campaign.
Western Carolina	Justin Gray	Reach 20-win plateau for first time in 12 seasons.
Winthrop	Mark Prosser	Win at least 18 games for ninth year in a row.

NCAA (National Collection of Abusive Athletes). Seems as if that is what the organization's acronym should be in wake of George Mason signee Cameron Walker's arrest with a GA high school teammate by SWAT team on murder charges and criminal attempt to commit armed robbery following recent death of a man in drug-related case at parking lot (allegedly sold drugs out of apartment via social media). The Patriots' program, guided by new coach Kim English, had lauded Walker's toughness and "competitive edge." In an era when getting correct answer in mathematics is deemed racist, some edgy ill-informed GMU students exhibiting questionable priorities were concerned with wanting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh fired from a summer teaching position despite widely-discredited sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Disgruntled steamy romance novelist Stacey Abrams probably should be throwing #Dimorat diva's weight behind voting for moral compass classes in GA. Beneath its glitz and glamour, college basketball has a description-defying unruly rap sheet of human viruses appearing to include Tulane's Teshaun Hightower, who was denied bond after Georgia transfer's arrest and charge of felony murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and battery following an investigation in a fatal shooting this past spring.

The unruliness has spiked in recent years. While some selective-outrage fans might be more disappointed at Keith Appling's performance in final college game (2 points/0 rebounds/2 assists/4 turnovers/5 fouls in East Regional final vs. UConn), the former All-Big Ten Conference selection's manhunt arrest and first-degree murder charge regarding shooting death of a relative surfaced after team captain fled in newer model, tan-colored Buick Regal with girlfriend as getaway driver. Officers assisting at crime scene found a black revolver reportedly wrested from Michigan State's leader in assists from 2011-12 through 2013-14 deposited on the front lawn a few feet from green MSU ball cap. A vital question begs answering: Where's the accountability for school administration and athletic department with admittance standard allowing such a troubled individual to Dr. Larry Nassar's campus? They should have promptly known something was amiss after disturbing strip miniature basketball incident during freshman orientation in September 2010. Didn't Spartans coach Tom Izzo proclaim Appling had "whole different perspective" after visiting him in jail in mid-December 2017 before turning attention to female victims of his recruits? Izzo mistakenly thought Appling was "becoming better at dealing with the real world." Instead of arranging etiquette and ethics classes for antisocial athletes she covered or covered up for, don't be surprised if self-absorbed journalistic jackal/ESPN reject Jemelle Hill blames "supremacist" #TheDonald, WV Senator Joe "White Dude" Manchin or untrustworthy Caucasian police officer on apprehension of hallowed hooper from The Atlantic contributor's hood (alma mater). "Keith is a killer (player)," his former AAU coach said. In public-school educated misguided minds, Appling has assembled rap-sheet street cred to become next BLM martyr like career criminals Andrew Brown Jr., Jacob Blake, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd or Freddie Gray (a/k/a ambulance-chasing attorney Ben Crump's black cash cows).

In February of 2021, the hoop wickedness extended to Logan Kelley, a Rutgers walk-on in 2012-13 arrested in Tijuana, Mexico, for killing a strip club employee. Kelley pleaded guilty (sentenced to 22 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of about $40,000) to walking up behind the victim and fatally slicing her neck with a knife while she was speaking with another man in a hallway. Nightclubs and bars not serving food were supposed to be closed amid coronavirus restrictions, but the strip club/brothel enterprise apparently was operating anyway. In late summer of 2020, Romero Collier, a freshman with Niagara in 2015-16, was arrested and charged with one count each of first- and second-degree murder, first- and third-degree robbery and first-degree criminal use of a firearm. In mid-summer of 2021, Post University CT juco recruit Raekwon Drake was charged with first-degree murder after shooting a man in the head who chased him with other Hispanics and ran away with his dog in the heart of Chicago.

Entering dangerous terrain when comparing cancerous athletes to the public-at-large segment of our population, there is a seemingly congested intersection populating hot hoop prospects who become prime suspects. Rarely exposed to the rigid word "no," some of the hero worshiped think the world revolves around them and develop a sordid sense of "out-of-bounds" entitlement. Many of the misguided go from the brink of the pros to the clink with black-and-white striped (or orange) clothes.

"When you are among the high-flying adored, your view of the world becomes blurred," wrote psychologist Stanley Teitelbaum of the flouting-of-the-law behavior in the book "Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols: How Star Athletes Pursue Self-Destructive Paths and Jeopardize Their Careers."

"Off the field, some act as if they are above the rules of society; hubris and an attitude of entitlement become central to the psyche of many athletes. They may deny that they are vulnerable to reprisals and feel omnipotent and grandiose as well as entitled."

Sounds almost like lame-stream media failing to pressure authorities to get their hands dirty and clean up collegiate cesspool. In the meantime, an excessive number of depraved derelicts can't resist and make the toxic transition from game-breakers to lawbreakers when seduced by the dark side such as "looting reparations." There have been a striking number of heart-breaking stories rocking the world of sports, derailing dreams and creating miscreants who are poster boys for bad behavior. In order to try to comprehend the absence of a moral compass in some communities, Billy Moore, who participated in killing the nation's No. 1 prep prospect (Chicago's Ben Wilson) in late 1984, said "I'm not a criminal" after serving nearly 20 years in prison. In aftermath of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse's "guilty verdict" killing clown-show careers of attorneys prosecuting him, perhaps Plagiarist Bi-dumb Administration, via spokesperson Jenny Sock-it-to-me, will deem hardened hoopers as mere protesters and finally have VP Cacklin' Kamala do something for which she is competent (arrange bail money). An astonishing number of professional athletes/social scholars sounded off on the verdict with as much expertise as hideous Hunter's artistry.

Idaho professor Sharon Stoll was not surprised when sports pages occasionally read like a police blotter focusing on 15 minutes of shame such as former Minnesota guard Daquein McNeil charged with arson in Baltimore in the summer of 2017 in connection with the homicide of a man who happened to be staying at the vacant house.

"In sport, we have moved away from honorable behavior," said Stoll, who operated the Center for Ethical Theory and Honor in Competitive Sports and conducted a 17-year study during which 72,000 athletes filled out questionnaires. "The environment of athletics has not been supportive of teaching and modeling moral knowing, moral valuing and moral action. Many of these young people have no sense of what is acceptable behavior."

It's unnerving when active or former narcissistic players go from the big time breaking ankles to the big house donning ankle bracelets. Infinitely more disconcerting is when deaths are involved amid the life and crimes. Despite some of the repulsive garbage, college hoops is too great a game to be ruined by moral malfeasance including a seven-footer from Duluth, Ga., reportedly recruited by Florida Gulf Coast, North Florida and Winthrop facing serious charges (robbery and assault with intent to commit a crime) in connection to the murder of a man several years ago and a Pitt-Greensburg letterman charged with criminal homicide involving his ex-girlfriend.

Who are "reimagine" morons going to call when in dire straits or "reparations" thefts occur? Do they have emergency number for Ghostbusters? Mandated re-education camp (antithesis of "Hands Off! Don't Loot!"), including forced viewing of MSLSD's nauseating lineup soiled by Joyless Reid and tax cheat Al "Not So" Sharpton, might be on horizon for those individuals principled enough to state the obvious. But instead of "gangstas," why not support #BlueLivesMatter to avoid testing positive for stupid? Amid insane woke emphasis on defunding police rather than promoting more cooperation with law enforcement to diffuse longstanding snitches-get-stitches culture, we get former Oklahoma All-American Blake Griffin among prominent athletes and activists such as statuesque social scholar Kim Kardashian seeking clemency for Julio Jones, a black man on death row in Oklahoma stemming from crime (first-degree murder of local businessman) he claims he didn't commit. Griffin's father, Tommy, coached Jones on an undefeated state titlist in high school before he was slated to try to walk-on with the Kelvin Sampson-coached Sooners in fall of 1999. A two-hour ABC episode on "20/20" was an abridged version of the documentary series, "The Last Defense."

The accompanying "Thugs R Us" hoop-horror summaries aren't designed to defile hoopdom. Actually, if college basketball can survive such unsavory incidents and classless ambassadors, it must be a helluva sport. It's nearly the equivalent of our country surviving #Dimorat dolts pulling respective leech-like heads out of butts and "reclaiming their time" in judicial hearings. At any rate, how many schools wouldn't be tainted if they had just embraced modest academic standards rather than NABC drooling over eliminating emphasis on ACT and SAT results? How about more critical thinking about law and order than critical race theory? What went awry for the following alphabetical list of slam dunkers who wound up in the slammer after murder/manslaughter probes?

Richie Adams, UNLV (coached by Jerry Tarkanian) - A 1989 conviction for larceny and armed robbery led to a five-year prison term for the two-time Big West Conference Tournament MVP. Following his parole, Adams was convicted of manslaughter in September 1998 after being accused of stalking and killing a 14-year-old Bronx girl in a housing project where both lived. The girl's family said Adams attacked her because she rejected his advances. Adams, nicknamed "The Animal" because of his intense playing style, was considered a defensive whiz and led the Rebels in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots for their PCAA champions in 1983-84 and 1984-85. "I used drugs occasionally, when I wanted to do it," Adams said. "When I went to play basketball, if I needed a pain reliever, I would sniff some cocaine." His trouble with the law escalated in 1985, a day after he was drafted in the fourth round by the Washington Bullets, when the two-time All-PCAA first-team selection was arrested for stealing a car. In high school, Adams and several teammates allegedly stole their own coach's auto.

Clifford Allen, UNLV (Jerry Tarkanian) - November 1985 J.C. signee by the Rebels was sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading no contest to second-degree murder as part of a plea bargain in the 1989 death of a man in Milton, Fla. Allen, a native of Los Angeles, said in a recorded statement that he used a steak knife to kill a 64-year-old guidance counselor after the man allegedly made sexual advances in the counselor's trailer. Allen, driving the victim's auto when he was arrested, enrolled at several jucos and also reportedly considered an offer to play for Tim Floyd at New Orleans.

Justin "Spider" Burns, Cal State Fullerton (Bob Burton) - Two-year starter for the Titans (10.4 ppg and 6.7 rpg in 2005-06 and 2006-07; second-leading rebounder as junior and senior) was arrested in Jackson, Miss., in the spring of 2011 on a murder charge related to the strangulation slaying of his ex-girlfriend the previous fall. Her body was found by target shooters in a valley desert area under a pile of blackened rocks. According to Burns' arrest report, the brother of rapper Jason Douglas Burns (a/k/a WorldWideWebbb) was the last person to be seen with the West Covina, Calif., resident and had argued with her the night before she was killed after coming to Las Vegas to visit him. In the weeks after her burned body was found, his father (former UNLV player Michael "Spiderman" Burns) refused to cooperate with police about his son's whereabouts, the report said.

Ritchie Campbell, Hawaii commitment (Riley Wallace) - Just days after leading scorer in Western New York high school history (for 27 years) left jail following stint there stemming from involvement with alcohol and drugs (weapons charge linked to August 1993 arrest while driving stolen vehicle), he was fiddling with a gun at 3 a.m. in spring of 1994 while drunk at his girlfriend's house. The weapon went off and the bullet struck a woman he didn't know (10 years older than him) in the back of her neck. After the mother of a baby girl died two days following the shooting, J.C. recruit was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and served 17 years in prison. In July 1992, a jury acquitted him of attempted murder and other charges involving a shootout with Buffalo police during the summer of 1991.

Javaris Crittenton, Georgia Tech (Paul Hewitt) - All-ACC third-team selection as a freshman in 2006-07 was sentenced to 23 years as part of a plea deal stemming from charges of murder and gang activity. Charged in late August 2011 after a woman was a drive-by shooting victim on a Southeast Atlanta street by someone inside a dark-colored SUV. The mother of four wasn't the intended target in what appeared to be retaliation for a $50,000 robbery of jewelry in the spring when Crittenton was a victim. Crittenton, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge in late January 2010 and received probation, was suspended 38 games by the NBA after he and teammate Gilbert Arenas acknowledged bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room following an altercation stemming from a card game on a team flight. While out on bond, Crittenton was arrested in mid-January 2014 in drug sting taking down more than a dozen persons accused of selling multiple kilos of cocaine and several hundred pounds of marijuana.

Ke'Vonte Davis and Jamontae Davis, Columbia State Community College TN - Brothers were charged with criminal homicide in connection with fatal shooting outside a Nashville high school in late January 2016 (victim shot four times in torso). The altercation stemmed from a lingering dispute over a girl. At the time of shooting, Jamontae Davis (Tennessee State signee in fall of 2012) attended Odessa College (Tex.) and had been kicked off team following arrest for allegedly assaulting a woman. Kevonte Davis was sentenced to five years' probation with a split confinement sentence (already in jail for 90 days and remained there until completing six months behind bars). Jamontae Davis was sentenced to two years' probation without confinement upon conviction of criminally negligent homicide.

Howell Emanuel "Trai" Donaldson III, St. John's (Steve Lavin) - Ordered held without bond following arrest by Tampa police after four separate shooting murders in six-week period during fall of 2017 involving victims ranging in ages from 22 to 60. A McDonald's manager received $110,000 reward for helping crack the case when coworker contacted police officer doing paperwork in restaurant after Donaldson asked her to hold bag containing loaded .40 Glock firearm while alleged serial killer went to nearby business to arrange a payday loan. Police said AT&T cellphone data put him in area of each killing and a hoodie seen in released surveillance videos was found in his Ford Mustang. Sports management major walked onto St. John's team during 2011-12 season when Lavin missed majority of year recovering from cancer surgery and only had seven scholarship players available. The 6-0 guard never played in a game for the program.

Carlton Dotson, Baylor (Dave Bliss) - Junior college recruit was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering Baylor roommate/teammate Patrick Dennehy with a hand gun in the summer of 2003. Dennehy, shot twice above the right ear, was New Mexico's leading rebounder (7.5 rpg) in 2001-02 under coach Fran Fraschilla before he was dismissed from the squad when Ritchie McKay succeeded Fraschilla. Dotson was arrested upon telling FBI agents he shot Dennehy after the player tried to shoot him. Bliss was fired by Baylor, the world's largest Baptist school, before reports surfaced about his direct involvement in a Hall of Shame cover-up attempting to hide drug use and NCAA violations within his program by encouraging an assistant coach and Bears players to depict the slain Dennehy as a drug dealer.

DeAndre "Dre" Harrison, San Jacinto Junior College commitment (Scott Gernander) - Pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and received 10-year sentence in capital murder case. Brother of St. John's star D'Angelo Harrison was among seven men allegedly in a Tahoe van in drug deal gone bad in late May 2010 in parking lot outside a Dave & Buster's in Houston entertainment complex.

Parish Hickman, Michigan State (Jud Heathcote)/Liberty (Jeff Meyer) - Spartans regular for three seasons before transferring and becoming Liberty's second-leading scorer and rebounder in 1992-93 pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 3-to-15 years in prison for the January 2001 murder of a Detroit man outside a Westside gas station. Acquitted after appearing before a federal judge on cocaine charges in the spring of 1991 following his on-campus arrest at MSU.

Jerome "Lenny" Holly, Texas Tech (James Dickey)/Arizona State (Bill Frieder) - Found guilty in the fatal shooting of a man and the wounding of another outside a New Mexico nightclub in mid-September 2003 during a dispute over drugs (both victims shot in back). SWC freshman of the year in 1992-93 before attending a juco and transferring to ASU, where he was plagued by medical problems (placed on prescription medication after suffering seizure and losing consciousness while driving in Los Angeles).

Baskerville Holmes, Memphis State (Dana Kirk) - A starting forward who averaged 9.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game for the Tigers' 1985 Final Four team, he was arrested twice for domestic violence. Later, Holmes, an out-of-work truck driver, and his girlfriend were found shot to death March 18, 1997, in an apparent murder-suicide in Memphis. Three children were at home at the time of shootings. He was 32.

LaKeith Humphrey, Kansas State (Lon Kruger)/Central Missouri State (Jim Wooldridge) - Sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder in the late November 2006 death of his former girlfriend, who was shot through her bedroom window about 3:40 a.m. in his hometown of Memphis. Humphrey, a J.C. recruit, averaged 12.6 ppg and 3.6 apg for K-State's NCAA playoff team in 1988-89.

Joe Hurst, Iowa State (Glendon Anderson) - While on three-year probation for robbing CTA bus drivers, Hurst shot a Chicago patrolman to death and wounded his partner with bullet to the face in 1967 during a traffic stop. When Cyclones regular in 1963-64 was sentenced to death, self-proclaimed minister of the House of Islam told the judge, "Life and death is in God's hands. I may have been an instrument in (cop's) death, but it must have been his time to go." After the U.S. Supreme Court declared a moratorium on capital punishment in 1972, Hurst was resentenced to 100 to 300 years in prison. Controversial Cook County state's attorney Kim Foxx (remember mishandling of Jussie Smollett probe) inexplicably dropped her opposition to his parole bid, rankling police officers when 77-year-old Hurst was freed by parole board in late February 2021.

Lawrence Ingram, Murray State (Ron Greene) - Juco recruit who played in 17 games for the Racers' 1983 Ohio Valley Conference regular-season champion was sentenced to 20 years in prison for first-degree reckless homicide in early November 2017 killing at a squalid homeless encampment under a Milwaukee freeway overpass. Ingram abused cocaine and his criminal record began in 1988 with a conviction for robbery.

Joeviair Kennedy, Western Michigan (Steve Hawkins) - Convicted of armed robbery and a weapons charge but acquitted of murder, he was sentenced to at least 17 years in prison in the fatal shooting of a student at an off-campus apartment in December 2016 theft where he and a co-defendant allegedly got marijuana, a cellphone and about $25. Kennedy, a 6-4 redshirt guard who averaged 3.1 ppg in eight WMU contests, said a former Muskegon high school teammate sentenced to life in prison pulled the trigger.

William Langrum II, McLennan County Community College TX (Kevin Gill) - Starting power forward and H.S. teammate of Georgia Tech/NBA star Chris Bosh on Texas' 4A state championship club in 2002 (declared national champion by USA Today) was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole when a jury found him guilty of capital murder after a 50-year-old woman was stabbed to death with a hunting knife in a purse robbery outside her Dallas-area condominium in the fall of 2011 as she returned from church. In the aftermath of killing her, Langrum and an accomplice went to a different portion of Dallas and began stalking another potential victim before police arrested them. Coincidentally, Bosh's mother was the subject of a drug trafficking probe in December 2017.

Robert Littlejohn, Purdue (Gene Keady) - Junior college recruit who served as starting center for NCAA tourney team in 1984-85 was sentenced to 60 years in prison after conviction of chasing and stabbing a woman to death during fight in fall of 2019 in Fort Wayne, Ind. The 21-year-old female collapsed right in the middle of the street.

Leonel Marquetti, Southern California (Bob Boyd and Stan Morrison)/Hampton (Hank Ford) - Former McDonald's All-American was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being found guilty of first-degree murder in a March 25, 2010, slaying in Plant City, Fla. Prosecutors portrayed Marquetti as a hoarder who was jealous of a wrongly-assumed relationship with an ex-girlfriend, a German-born dog breeder. Marquetti shot a white handyman four times - once as he faced him and three times as his victim lay face down. Jurors also found him guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm and false imprisonment. The Los Angeles native averaged 4.8 ppg in 1978-79 and 1979-80 with USC before transferring.

Howard McNeil, Seton Hall (Bill Raftery) - Convicted at Norristown, Pa., in early February 1999 of third-degree murder in the stabbing death of a suspected prostitute. Police said the woman's skull was cracked when she was pushed into a wall before being stabbed to death. According to prosecutors, McNeil also stole a safe filled with drugs from the house. McNeil, an All-Big East Conference third-team selection as a junior in 1980-81 before being declared academically ineligible late in senior season, was found guilty of related drug and theft charges, but not convicted on more serious first- and second-degree murder charges. In 1976, he shot a friend in the head with a handgun at a Valentine's Day party, but was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and avoided jail.

Branden Miller, Montana State (Mick Durham) - Sentenced to 120 years in prison (100 for deliberate homicide, 10 for use of a weapon and 10 for tampering with evidence) after he was charged with murder in late June 2006 in the shooting death of a suspected cocaine dealer whose body was found at the school's agronomy farm. Investigators said the murder weapon was one of two .40-caliber handguns Miller bought from a pawn shop two weeks before the incident. He was the Bobcats' third-leading scorer in 2004-05 before becoming academically ineligible.

Ali Mohammed and Lavell White, Allan Hancock Community College CA (Tyson Aye) - Teammates were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole stemming from a late 2014 botched robbery of a drug dealer ending in murder. During the trial, witnesses testified that the killing occurred while Mohammed and White were in midst of a crime spree including burglarizing homes and robbing another drug dealer. They celebrated New Year's Eve by shooting off the murder weapon.

Mike Niles, Cal State Fullerton (Bobby Dye) - After playing briefly with the Phoenix Suns, the enforcer for the Titans' 1978 West Regional finalist, before booted from the squad due to academic anemia, was convicted in late January 1989 of hiring a man to murder his wife and received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. She died of a shotgun blast to the back of her skull from close range. According to the prosecution, Niles arranged to pay $5,000 to kill his wife, a prison guard, to collect $100,000 from a life insurance policy. A witness testified that Niles said he wanted his wife killed because she "messed me out" of money from basketball. The cycle of violence continued when his aspiring rapper son, Brandon, was buried at 17, the victim of a gunshot to the chest by a rival gang.

Stephen O'Reilly, North Florida (Matthew Driscoll) - Virgin Islands product who played briefly for UNF in 2009-10 was charged in the fatal stabbing of a roommate in Gwinnett County (Ga.) in late March 2013. The roommate, suffering from sickle cell anemia, was stabbed more than 18 times by assailant with a butcher knife.

Terry Pettis, Fresno State (Ray Lopes) - Sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder and armed robbery in the death of a junior college student who was behind the wheel of a car while her boyfriend sold marijuana in the seat next to her. Pettis had been arrested in his hometown of Minneapolis in May 2004 on charges of killing the woman when she tried to drive away during a botched drug robbery the previous month in Fresno, Calif., at a secluded lot near an apartment building. The crime was so grisly that the judge decided jurors couldn't see an autopsy photo showing the bullet's impact on the teenager's head. Pettis, a starting point guard for the Bulldogs in 2002-03 and 2003-04 before he was suspended for not completing a treatment program, pleaded no contest in September 2003 to misdemeanor vandalism and battery charges involving his girlfriend.

Bryan Randall, Dartmouth (Paul Cormier) - Facing a pending divorce, All-Ivy League selection in 1986-87 and 1987-88 dropped his two youngest children in the murky waters of an Orlando-area office park lake in mid-September 2003 (two-year-old girl drowned and four-year-old boy saved only by fate's hand and a passing fisherman) before loading his two older sons into the family's Dodge Durango and intentionally swerving in front of an oncoming semitrailer slicing his SUV nearly in two on the interstate (killing him and the one son bearing his name). In a suicide letter found in the wreckage, jobless-and-despondent Randall, who led Ivy League in assists as a senior, wrote he wanted to kill himself and his children because he disapproved of how his estranged wife cared for them. Randall, slapped with a restraining order hinging on sordid charges of sexual humiliation and blackmail, had discovered her infidelity by tapping their home's phone. In the late 1990s, he filed for bankruptcy and had bank foreclose on his condominium in Silver Spring, Md., prior to accepting a job with WorldCom before the telecom giant collapsed.

Derrick Riley, Fresno State (Boyd Grant)/Fresno Pacific - Part-time starter for FSU in 1984-85 was convicted of second-degree murder of his wife and unborn child and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. He was accused of suffocating his wife, who was 7 1/2 months pregnant with their second child, after her body was found floating in a Bakersfield area aqueduct in early February 1994. Court papers said there had an argument over his using drugs and theft of a church's cash box.

Aaron Smith, Wyoming (Joby Wright) - Junior college recruit who averaged 5.2 ppg in 1994-95 and 1995-96 was found guilty of first-degree murder for shooting a construction worker in back of the head in early August 2005 (victim reportedly owed him about $400 from gambling debt from late 1990s).

Andre Smith, Xavier (Skip Prosser) - Son of Tulsa All-American Bingo Smith was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence as part of a plea deal. Prosecutors say he used a survival tool that included a machete and a saw to kill his Russian teenage friend in May 2004 in his apartment complex. Andre played for the Musketeers in mid-1990s.

Brett Studdard, Wyoming (Benny Dees) - Junior college recruit who averaged 4.3 ppg for the Cowboys in 1991-92 and 1992-93 shot his former girlfriend to death (once in the back and once in head) before committing suicide in the fall of 2003 in Cobb County (Ga.). The altercation occurred two days after a permanent restraining order was issued prohibiting him from contacting the pharmacist.

Shaun Warrick, Maryland-Eastern Shore (Lawrence Lessett Jr.) - Convicted Valentine's Day killer was sentenced to two consecutive life prison terms without parole (plus 16 to 32 years for burglary and firearms charges) in late summer 2015 after a Philadelphia jury deadlocked on whether he should get the death penalty for murdering his ex-girlfriend and her cousin (each shot multiple times). Warrick did not testify in his defense and declined to speak before sentencing. The jury did not hear about Warrick featured in 2007 on America's Most Wanted after accusations of shooting two other students and stabbing a third (acquitted of attempted-murder charges in that case). He had been convicted of a misdemeanor escape charge in summer of 2004 when brought into a police barracks and ended up fleeing. In 2005, he was convicted of illegally possessing a gun on a public street (serial number obliterated) but still competed in 15 games for UMES in 2005-06. In summer of 2008, he was arraigned on charges of delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, receiving a stolen firearm and possession of marijuana.

Bobby Washington, Iowa (Sharm Scheuerman) - Paroled less than seven years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder following racially-laced pizza parlor/bar shooting in late summer 1964 using his roommate's .25-caliber handgun. The victim, a drunk father of four children barred from several taverns in town, was shot four times in the chest and neck. "I can't let people disrespect me," said Washington, who averaged 5.3 ppg in 1958-59 and 1959-60 before flunking out and serving stint in U.S. Army.

Kass Weaver, Wisconsin (Steve Yoder)/Richmond (Dick Tarrant and Bill Dooley) - Two-time All-CAA selection was charged in fall of 2021 with allegedly killing his toddler son before stashing the body in a garage freezer for at least 2 1/2 years. His wife told cops that at times he tied her up with an electrical cord and burned her with a curling iron.

Decensae White, Texas Tech (Bob Knight)/Santa Clara (Kerry Keating)/San Francisco State (Paul Trevor) - Arrested on a murder charge as part of an elaborate plot, including a Russian mobster, where a Louisiana rapper (Lil Phat) was killed in a revenge drive-by shooting the summer of 2012 in the parking deck of a hospital as his fiancee was preparing to give birth. White, extradited to Georgia in May 2013 before striking a deal with the prosecution, testified he was the one tracking Lil Phat's movements (after stealing 10 pounds of marijuana) via a GPS device installed in a rented white Audi vehicle. The vagabond hooper averaged 4.7 ppg and 2.2 rpg for Texas Tech in 2006-07 and 2007-08, 3.4 ppg and 2.4 rpg in 10 games with Santa Clara in 2008-09 and team highs of 12.5 ppg and 7.1 rpg for San Francisco State in 2012-13.

Jayson Williams, St. John's (Lou Carnesecca) - All-Big East Conference second-team selection in 1988-89 pleaded guilty in January 2010 to aggravated assault and served 18 months in prison for accidentally killing a limousine driver in his bedroom. Williams, boasting 25 stitches above his right eye after being charged with drunken driving when crashing his SUV into a tree the previous week, was awaiting retrial on a reckless manslaughter count before pleading guilty to to the lesser count. He had been cleared by jurors in the spring of 2004 of aggravated manslaughter, the most serious charge against him, but was found guilty of four lesser charges. He faced 55 years in prison if convicted on all counts stemming from a February 14, 2002, shooting with a 12-gauge shotgun of a limo driver at his mansion and an alleged attempt to make the death look like a suicide. Williams was acquitted of aggravated manslaughter, but the jury deadlocked on a reckless-manslaughter count. Williams gave the driver's relatives $2.5 million to settle a civil suit. In late April 2009 following his wife filing for divorce claiming he was abusive, adulterous and had a drug problem, Williams was zapped with a stun gun by police in a lower Manhattan hotel suite after the reportedly suicidal athlete resisted attempts by officers to take him to a hospital. The next month, he was charged with assault after allegedly punching a man in the face outside a North Carolina bar, but charges were dropped.

Oscar Williams Jr., Utah State (Dutch Belnap) - The Aggies' assists leader in multiple categories from his mid-1970s exploits was sentenced to two life prison terms without the possibility of parole for the 1982 shooting death of his wife. Prosecutors contended that he murdered her to collect $220,000 worth of life insurance benefits after he failed in an effort to hire a contract killer. Toy Williams, a 24-year-old model, was shot at least five times in an alley near the couple's Las Vegas apartment after returning from her job at a nearby shopping mall.

Roy Williams, Cleveland State (Kevin Mackey and Mike Boyd) - Junior college recruit was suspended while facing a rape charge stemming from an on-campus incident at a fraternity party involving an honor student in early November 1990. He was questioned by California authorities the previous year about the suspicious death of a Compton College female student, whose body was found in the trunk of her gray Toyota car. Williams, the last person seen with her according to police, initially told investigators the student body vice president and peer counselor overdosed at a San Diego crack house the two had visited. In the spring of 1991, he pleaded innocent to charges of killing two young women and raping and attempting to strangle a third female. An attorney defending him threatened to sue over disclosure that his client was convicted of murder in California in 1981 when he was 14 and reportedly served nearly five years in California youth institutions.

Erikk Wright Jr., Coppin State commitment (Ron "Fang" Mitchell) - Junior college wing for Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in 2013-14 was convicted of third-degree murder and sentenced to 16 to 32 years in prison as well as five years of consecutive probation following a shooting in spring of 2016 outside a popular nightclub in Chester, Pa. Video evidence reportedly depicted Wright stepping off a curb to shoot the victim in the back as he crawled away for his life.

Chris Yates, Wisconsin-Green Bay (Dick Bennett) - Forward who averaged 3.2 ppg from 1987-88 through 1991-92 was sentenced to 15 years to life behind bars for the stabbing murder of his mother in spring of 2006. Addicted to crack cocaine, he previously was sentenced to five years in prison after found guilty of armed robbery in 1992. Following release from prison, criminal record for Michigan native reportedly included domestic violence and violating a restraining order.

Mark Yavorsky, San Diego (Phil Woolpert) - Backcourtmate of Bernie Bickerstaff for two seasons averaged 8.4 ppg from 1963-64 through 1965-66. In a neighbor's living room, where his mother had sought refuge, Yavorsky stabbed her to death with a three-foot antique saber in June 1979. Found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, a judge ruled him innocent by reason of insanity. In Yavorsky's disturbed mind, the murder was a reenactment of scene from a Greek tragedy in which he had been cast. After his release from a state hospital, he was in and out of custody, at one juncture escaping from a group home in downtown San Diego, taking off on a cross-country foray. The crime inspired a movie entitled My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done.

MLB award winners for Most Valuable Player, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year were announced this week. Times have changed but it was commonplace for former college basketball players to previously claim a striking number of the awards. In a 20-year span from 1948 to 1968, a total of six MVPs were ex-college hoopers. After the St. Louis Cardinals supplied back-to-back winners in 1954 (Wally Moon) and 1955 (Bill Virdon), seven rookies of year in first nine years of award were ex-college hoopers. Subsequently, sports specialization intervened. In aftermath of both AL and NL rookie of year winners in 1974 coming from small-college hoopdom (Mike Hargrove and Bake McBride), there has been only two honorees since then in this multiple-sport athlete category - Mike Flanagan in 1979 and David Justice in 1990 (only such individual in last 42 years). Following is a summary of MLB major award winners who previously competed on the hardwood in college (listed alphabetically):

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

Ex-College Hooper	School	Summary of MVP Award With MLB Team
Lou Boudreau	Illinois	AL in 1948 with Cleveland Indians
Gordon "Mickey" Cochrane	Boston University	AL in 1928 with Philadelphia Athletics and in 1934 with Detroit Tigers
Frankie Frisch	Fordham	NL in 1931 with St. Louis Cardinals
Bob Gibson	Creighton	NL in 1968 with St. Louis Cardinals
Hyman "Hank" Greenberg	New York University	AL in 1935 and 1940 with Detroit Tigers
Dick Groat	Duke	NL in 1960 with Pittsburgh Pirates
Jim Konstanty	Syracuse	NL in 1950 with Philadelphia Phillies
Sandy Koufax	Cincinnati	NL in 1963 with Los Angeles Dodgers
Jackie Robinson	UCLA	NL in 1949 with Brooklyn Dodgers

CY YOUNG

Ex-College Hooper	School	Summary of Pitching Award With MLB Team
Mike Flanagan	Massachusetts	AL in 1979 with Baltimore Orioles
Bob Gibson	Creighton	NL in 1968 and 1970 with St. Louis Cardinals
Sandy Koufax	Cincinnati	ML in 1963-65-66 with Los Angeles Dodgers

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Ex-College Hooper	School(s)	Summary of Rookie Award With MLB Team
Joe Black	Morgan State	NL in 1952 with Brooklyn Dodgers
Al Bumbry	Virginia State	AL in 1973 with Baltimore Orioles
Alvin Dark	Louisiana State and Southwestern Louisiana	ML in 1948 with Boston Braves
Walt Dropo	Connecticut	AL in 1950 with Boston Red Sox
Mike Hargrove	Northwestern Oklahoma State	AL in 1974 with Texas Rangers
Frank Howard	Ohio State	NL in 1960 with Los Angeles Dodgers
David Justice	Thomas More KY	NL in 1990 with Atlanta Braves
Harvey Kuenn	Wisconsin	AL in 1953 with Detroit Tigers
Arnold "Bake" McBride	Westminster MO	NL in 1974 with St. Louis Cardinals
Wally Moon	Texas A&M	NL in 1954 with St. Louis Cardinals
Gary Peters	Grove City PA	AL in 1963 with Chicago White Sox
Jackie Robinson	UCLA	ML in 1947 with Brooklyn Dodgers
Don Schwall	Oklahoma	AL in 1961 with Boston Red Sox
Bill Virdon	Drury MO	NL in 1955 with St. Louis Cardinals

In Michael Jordan's heyday, the lame joke was that the only coach who could contain him was his college mentor (Dean Smith). Jordan's 17.7-point average in three seasons from 1981-82 through 1983-84 with North Carolina paled in comparison to his 15-year NBA mark (30.1). Can the wisecrack be inherited by Devin Booker and Kentucky coach John Calipari?

Booker, scoreless in his first UK game (vs. Grand Canyon), also went without a point seven contests later against Texas. In fact, one-and-done Booker tallied a grand total of 54 points in his 13 lowest-scoring outings as UK freshman in 2014-15. But two seasons later in a performance worthy of ginning up brassy-and-sassy supermodel's undivided attention, Booker erupted for 51 second-half points when finishing with 70 for the Phoenix Suns in a game at Boston, giving him the highest differential (51) between his NBA high and college high (19) among players scoring more than 60 in an NBA tilt.

Booker, who already is the Suns' franchise leader in 30-point outbursts, and boffo bubble-boy Damion Lillard are two of only seven players in NBA history with multiple games scoring 59 or more points, joining Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, Jordan, James Harden and Elgin Baylor. Booker, 25, became the fifth-youngest NBA player to reach 9,000-point plateau, joining LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Bryant in that celebrated circle. Bradley Beal, who scored 57 of his 60 points for Washington Wizards in first three quarters of game against the Philadelphia 76ers last season, tallied a modest college-career high of 22 in his lone campaign with Florida in 2011-12 (against both Wright State and Stetson in pre-conference competition).

One for the books was Pete Maravich of the New Orleans Jazz outscoring five former backcourt All-Americans with the New York Knicks (Butch Beard/Ticky Burden/Walt Frazier/Dean Meminger/Earl Monroe), 68-41, in a memorable outing during Pistol's seventh NBA season. Among former major-college players erupting for more than 60 points in an NBA game, following is a look at the difference between their career highs in the pros and college:

NCAA DI Player	Major-College Career High (Date)	NBA Career High > 60 (Date)	Difference
Devin Booker	19 with Kentucky (11-25-14 & 12-20-14)	70 with Phoenix Suns (3-24-17)	51 points
Wilt Chamberlain	52 with Kansas (12-5-56)	100 with Philadelphia 76ers (3-2-62)	48
Michael Jordan	39 with North Carolina (1-29-83)	69 with Chicago Bulls (3-28-90)	30
Carmelo Anthony	33 with Syracuse (4-5-03)	62 with New York Knicks (1-24-14)	29
Karl Malone	40 with Louisiana Tech (12-5-83)	61 with Utah Jazz (1-27-90)	21
David Robinson	50 with Navy (3-12-87)	71 with San Antonio Spurs (4-24-94)	21
James Harden	40 with Arizona State (11-30-08)	61 with Houston Rockets (1-23-19 & 3-22-19)	21
Damian Lillard	41 with Weber State (12-3-11)	61 with Portland Trail Blazers (1-20-20 & 8-11-20)	20
Jerry West	44 with West Virginia (12-1-59)	63 with Los Angeles Lakers (1-17-62)	19
Stephen Curry	44 with Davidson (11-18-08 & 12-6-08)	62 with Golden State Warriors (1-3-21)	18
David Thompson	57 with North Carolina State (12-5-74)	73 with Denver Nuggets (4-9-78)	16
Elgin Baylor	60 with Seattle (1-30-58)	71 with Los Angeles Lakers (11-15-60)	11
George Mikan	53 with DePaul (3-12-45)	61 with Minneapolis Lakers (1-20-52)	8
Shaquille O'Neal	53 with Louisiana State (12-18-90)	61 with Los Angeles Lakers (3-6-00)	8
Rick Barry	59 with Miami FL (2-23-65)	64 with Golden State Warriors (3-26-74)	5
Pete Maravich	69 with Louisiana State (2-7-70)	68 with New Orleans Jazz (2-25-77)	-1 point

NOTE: Joe Fulks (Murray State) and George Gervin (Eastern Michigan) each scored 63 points in an NBA game but their schools weren't classified as major colleges when they played for them.

Textbook centers are becoming as rare as a #Dimorat politician criticizing social-distancing violations by protesters/rioters in Kenosha and elsewhere. Time will tell if Gonzaga's Chet Holmgren (14 points/13 rebounds/6 assists/7 blocked shots in debut vs. Dixie State) eventually deserves to be included among the premier pivotmen in college basketball history. Last year, Memphis celebrated center James Wiseman collected 28 points and 11 rebounds in debut vs. South Carolina State. Wiseman's brief three-game stint before declaring pro and signing with an agent didn't help build his case. He already was impacted by a 12-game NCAA suspension due to booster payment covering moving expenses from Nashville (especially when benefactor was current Tigers coach Penny Hardaway). After Wiseman's exit, USC's Evan Mobley was projected to emerge as the nation's premier big man in 2020-21. Mobley contributed 21 points/9 rebound/3 blocked shots in his debut against California Baptist. By almost any measure, centers in the last 40 years other than Kentucky's Anthony Davis don't seem to be anywhere close to duplicating feats luminaries Lew Alcindor, Wilt Chamberlain, Artis Gilmore, Bob Lanier, Jerry Lucas, Bill Russell and Bill Walton achieved in their initial varsity campaigns.

Similar to Navy's David Robinson in 1983-84, Connecticut's Andre Drummond was scoreless in his season debut six years ago against Columbia. In a forgettable debut, Wake Forest's Tim Duncan was also scoreless in a season-opening loss to NCAA Division II Alaska-Anchorage in 1993-94 before rebounding with a 12-point, 12-rebound performance in his next outing against Hawaii.

Alcindor (77: 56 points/21 rebounds) and Chamberlain (83: 52 points/31 rebounds) each totaled more points and rebounds in their college game debut than Drummond, Duncan, Patrick Ewing, Nerlens Noel, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O'Neal, Robinson and Ralph Sampson amassed collectively. Following is a look at how many of the premier centers in history fared in their varsity debut against a major college and summary of their first season of NCAA Division I competition:

Celebrated Center	School	First Varsity Season	Debut Game	PPG	RPG	W-L Mark
DeAndre Ayton	Arizona	2017-18	19 points/12 rebounds/3 blocks	20.1	11.6	27-8
Mohamed Bamba	Texas	2017-18	15 points/8 rebounds/4 blocks	12.9	10.5	19-15
Karl-Anthony Towns	Kentucky	2014-15	8 points/8 rebounds	10.3	6.7	38-1
Jahlil Okafor	Duke	2014-15	19 points/6 rebounds	17.3	8.5	35-4
Nerlens Noel	Kentucky	2012-13	4 points/9 rebounds	10.5	9.5	21-12
Anthony Davis	Kentucky	2011-12	23 points/10 rebounds	14.2	10.4	38-2
Greg Oden	Ohio State	2006-07	14 points/10 rebounds	15.7	9.6	35-4
Tim Duncan	Wake Forest	1993-94	12 points/12 rebounds	9.8	9.6	21-12
Shaquille O'Neal	Louisiana State	1989-90	10 points/5 rebounds	13.9	12.0	23-9
Alonzo Mourning	Georgetown	1988-89	10 points/10 rebounds	13.1	7.3	29-5
David Robinson	Navy	1983-84	scoreless/1 rebound	7.6	4.0	24-8
Hakeem Olajuwon	Houston	1981-82	2 points/0 rebounds	8.3	6.5	25-8
Patrick Ewing	Georgetown	1981-82	7 points/4 rebounds	12.7	8.5	30-7
Ralph Sampson	Virginia	1979-80	4 points/6 rebounds	14.9	11.2	24-10
*Bill Walton	UCLA	1971-72	19 points/14 rebounds	21.1	15.5	29-1
**Artis Gilmore	Jacksonville	1969-70	35 points/18 rebounds	26.5	22.2	17-7
*Bob Lanier	St. Bonaventure	1967-68	23 points/17 rebounds	26.2	15.6	23-2
*Lew Alcindor	UCLA	1966-67	56 points/21 rebounds	29.0	15.5	30-0
*Jerry Lucas	Ohio State	1959-60	16 points/28 rebounds	26.3	16.3	25-3
*Wilt Chamberlain	Kansas	1956-57	52 points/31 rebounds	29.6	18.9	24-3
*Bill Russell	San Francisco	1953-54	16 points/17 rebounds	19.9	19.2	14-7

*Sophomore classification.
**Junior classification after attending junior college.

Two years ago, Merrimack (2019-20) joined South Dakota (2008-09) as the only NCAA Division I newcomers in the last 34 seasons to reach the 20-win plateau in its inaugural campaign. How will newbie St. Thomas MN fare this campaign in its inaugural campaign as a Summit League member?

Only 10 of the first 44 schools moving up to compete at DI in the 21st Century posted a winning record in their debut campaign. The average first-year mark for the previous 40 newcomers was 10-18. Eight of the nine best first-year seasons occurred in the 1970s when 40 of the 70 institutions elevating their programs to DI during the decade promptly posted winning records.

In 1971-72, Southwestern Louisiana, subsequently known as Louisiana-Lafayette and University of Louisiana, became the only school ever to finish in Top 10 of final DI rankings the year after placing in Top 10 of final Division II poll. The Ragin' Cajuns were one of three schools from the Pelican State to win at least 80% of their games in inaugural campaign at DI level in the 1970s (joined by Southern and McNeese State). But it wasn't long before USL was prohibited from fielding a formal team for two seasons (1973-74 and 1974-75) as part of an NCAA probation. Larry Fogle (transferred to Canisius), Fred Saunders (Syracuse) and Robert Wilson (Iowa State) - three of USL's top four rebounders in 1972-73 - were immediately eligible at other schools the next season, combining for 59.4 ppg and 32.6 rpg in 1973-74 when Fogle became the last sophomore to lead nation in scoring in the 20th Century (Griffs-record 33.4 ppg).

Alabama State (22-6 in 1982-83) is the only school since the 1970s to win more than three-fourths of its games in its DI debut campaign. Following is a first-year summary of schools moving up to the major-college ranks after the initial season of NCAA classification in 1947-48:

School Moving Up to DI	Season	W.	L.	Pct.
Maryland-Eastern Shore	1973-74	27	2	.931
Oral Roberts (Okla.)	1971-72	26	2	.929
Southwestern Louisiana	1971-72	23	3	.885
Seattle	1952-53	29	4	.879
Old Dominion (Va.)	1976-77	25	4	.862
Long Beach State	1969-70	24	5	.828
Hawaii	1970-71	23	5	.821
Southern (La.)	1977-78	23	5	.821
McNeese State (La.)	1973-74	20	5	.800
Jackson State (Miss.)	1977-78	19	5	.792
Alabama State	1982-83	22	6	.786
Alcorn State (Miss.)	1977-78	22	7	.759
Idaho State	1958-59	21	7	.750
Memphis State	1955-56	20	7	.741
Air Force	1957-58	17	6	.739
Stephen F. Austin (Tex.)	1986-87	22	8	.733
Georgia Southern	1973-74	19	7	.731
Northeastern (Mass.)	1972-73	19	7	.731
Virginia Commonwealth	1973-74	17	7	.708
College of Charleston (S.C.)	1991-92	19	8	.704
Miami (Fla.)	1948-49	19	8	.704
New Orleans	1975-76	18	8	.692
South Dakota	2008-09	20	9	.690
George Mason (Va.)	1978-79	17	8	.680
Weber State (Utah)	1963-64	17	8	.680
American (D.C.)	1966-67	16	8	.667
Fairfield (Conn.)	1964-65	14	7	.667
Florida A&M	1978-79	18	9	.667
Mercer (Ga.)	1973-74	16	8	.667
Tennessee Tech	1955-56	14	7	.667
Morehead State (Ky.)	1955-56	19	10	.655
James Madison (Va.)	1976-77	17	9	.654
Northwestern State (La.)	1976-77	17	9	.654
UNLV	1969-70	17	9	.654
Merrimack (Mass.)	2019-20	20	11	.645
Bellarmine (Tenn.)	2020-21	14	8	.636
Abilene Christian (Tex.)	1970-71	15	9	.625
Arkansas State	1970-71	15	9	.625
Drexel (Pa.)	1973-74	15	9	.625
Lamar (Tex.)	1969-70	15	9	.625
Massachusetts	1961-62	15	9	.625
Northern Colorado	1973-74	15	9	.625
UC Santa Barbara	1963-64	18	11	.621
Incarnate Word (Tex.)	2014-15	18	11	.621
Delaware State	1973-74	18	11	.621
Illinois State	1971-72	16	10	.615
North Carolina A&T	1973-74	16	10	.615
UNC-Wilmington	1976-77	16	10	.615
Northeast Louisiana	1973-74	16	10	.615
Texas Southern	1977-78	16	10	.615
Austin Peay (Tenn.)	1963-64	14	9	.609
Southern Mississippi	1968-69	15	10	.600
Chattanooga	1977-78	16	11	.593
Chicago State	1984-85	16	11	.593
Wright State (Ohio)	1987-88	16	11	.593
Loyola New Orleans (La.)	1951-52	20	14	.588
Los Angeles State	1970-71	15	11	.577
UNC Asheville	1986-87	15	11	.577
San Jose State	1952-53	15	11	.577
UAB	1978-79	15	11	.577
New Mexico State	1950-51	19	14	.576
Kentucky Wesleyan	1956-57	16	12	.571
North Dakota	2008-09	16	12	.571
North Dakota State	2005-06	16	12	.571
Radford (Va.)	1984-85	16	12	.571
Sam Houston State (Tex.)	1986-87	16	12	.571
Utah Valley	2004-05	16	12	.571
East Tennessee State	1958-59	13	10	.565
East Carolina	1964-65	12	10	.545
Cal State Fullerton	1974-75	13	11	.542
New Mexico	1950-51	13	11	.542
Southern Illinois	1967-68	13	11	.542
Boise State (Idaho)	1971-72	14	12	.538
Central Michigan	1973-74	14	12	.538
UNC Charlotte	1972-73	14	12	.538
West Texas State	1950-51	14	12	.538
Wisconsin-Milwaukee	1973-74	14	12	.538
Oklahoma City	1950-51	16	14	.533
Iona (N.Y.)	1953-54	11	10	.524
Corpus Christi (Tex.)	1972-73	13	12	.520
Belmont (Tenn.)	1998-99	14	13	.519
Eastern Illinois	1981-82	14	13	.519
Illinois-Chicago	1981-82	14	13	.519
Southeastern Louisiana	1980-81	14	13	.519
Western Illinois	1981-82	14	13	.519
Wisconsin-Green Bay	1981-82	14	13	.519
Cal State Bakersfield	2006-07	15	14	.517
Gonzaga (Wash.)	1952-53	15	14	.517
California Baptist	2018-19	16	15	.516
Catholic (D.C.)	1976-77	13	13	.500
Centenary (La.)	1959-60	12	12	.500
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)	2013-14	15	15	.500
Saint Peter's (N.J.)	1964-65	10	10	.500
Tarleton State (Tex.)	2020-21	10	10	.500
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	1999-00	13	13	.500
Texas Tech	1950-51	14	14	.500
Vermont	1961-62	12	12	.500
Murray State (Ky.)	1953-54	15	16	.484
Troy State (Ala.)	1993-94	13	14	.481
Hofstra (N.Y.)	1966-67	12	13	.480
Tennessee State	1977-78	11	12	.478
Regis (Colo.)	1961-62	10	11	.476
Bethune-Cookman (Fla.)	1980-81	13	15	.464
Hardin-Simmons (Tex.)	1950-51	13	15	.464
South Carolina State	1973-74	13	15	.464
Southwest Missouri State	1982-83	13	15	.464
Marist (N.Y.)	1981-82	12	14	.462
San Diego State	1970-71	12	14	.462
Maine	1961-62	11	13	.458
Fairleigh Dickinson (N.J.)	1967-68	10	12	.455
Mount St. Mary's (Md.)	1988-89	12	15	.444
Oakland (Mich.)	1998-99	12	15	.444
South Florida	1973-74	11	14	.440
Coastal Carolina (S.C.)	1986-87	12	16	.429
Maryland-Baltimore County	1986-87	12	16	.429
Southeast Missouri State	1991-92	12	16	.429
Howard University (D.C.)	1973-74	11	15	.423
West Chester State (Pa.)	1973-74	11	15	.423
Grambling State (La.)	1977-78	10	14	.417
Northern Illinois	1967-68	10	14	.417
Saint Francis (Pa.)	1955-56	10	14	.417
Kennesaw State (Ga.)	2005-06	12	17	.414
UC San Diego	2020-21	7	10	.412
Elon (N.C.)	1998-99	11	16	.407
IUPUI (Ind.)	1998-99	11	16	.407
Northern Kentucky	2012-13	11	16	.407
Delaware	1957-58	8	12	.400
Texas-El Paso	1950-51	10	15	.400
Albany (N.Y.)	1999-00	11	17	.393
UC Davis	2004-05	11	17	.393
Houston	1950-51	11	17	.393
Cleveland State	1972-73	9	14	.391
High Point (N.C.)	1998-99	10	16	.385
Dixie State (Utah)	2020-21	8	13	.381
Louisiana Tech	1973-74	8	13	.381
Ball State (Ind.)	1971-72	9	15	.375
Campbell (N.C.)	1977-78	9	15	.375
Rider (N.J.)	1967-68	9	15	.375
Alabama A&M	1998-99	10	17	.370
Coppin State (Md.)	1985-86	10	17	.370
Jacksonville State (Ala.)	1995-96	10	17	.370
Liberty (Va.)	1988-89	10	17	.370
Central Florida	1984-85	10	18	.357
UMass Lowell	2013-14	10	18	.357
Southern Utah	1988-89	10	18	.357
Nebraska-Omaha	2012-13	11	20	.355
Florida State	1956-57	9	17	.346
Fresno State	1955-56	9	17	.346
Hampton (Va.)	1995-96	9	17	.346
Loyola Marymount (Calif.)	1949-50	9	17	.346
Middle Tennessee State	1958-59	9	17	.346
Pacific (Calif.)	1953-54	9	17	.346
Towson State (Md.)	1979-80	9	17	.346
Central Arkansas	2006-07	10	20	.333
Missouri-Kansas City	1987-88	9	18	.333
Quinnipiac (Conn.)	1998-99	9	18	.333
SIU-Edwardsville	2008-09	10	20	.333
U.S. International (Calif.)	1981-82	9	18	.333
Western Carolina	1976-77	8	16	.333
Florida Gulf Coast	2007-08	10	21	.323
Binghamton (N.Y.)	2001-02	9	19	.321
Florida International	1987-88	9	19	.321
Portland State	1972-73	9	19	.321
UC Irvine	1977-78	8	17	.320
UC Riverside	2000-01	8	17	.320
Jacksonville (Fla.)	1966-67	8	17	.320
Texas-Pan American	1968-69	8	17	.320
Portland	1953-54	6	13	.316
North Alabama	2018-19	10	22	.312
South Dakota State	2005-06	9	20	.310
Eastern Michigan	1973-74	8	18	.308
Texas-Arlington	1968-69	8	18	.308
Arizona State	1950-51	8	19	.296
Northern Arizona	1950-51	8	19	.296
Northern Iowa	1980-81	8	19	.296
Texas-San Antonio	1981-82	8	19	.296
South Alabama	1971-72	7	17	.292
Augusta (Ga.)	1984-85	8	20	.286
Cal State Northridge	1990-91	8	20	.286
Winthrop (S.C.)	1986-87	8	20	.286
Central Connecticut State	1986-87	8	21	.276
Bryant (R.I.)	2001-02	7	19	.269
Providence	1948-49	7	19	.269
Robert Morris (Pa.)	1976-77	7	19	.269
Tennessee-Martin	1992-93	7	19	.269
Evansville (Ind.)*	1977-78	1	3	.250
Hartford (Conn.)	1984-85	7	21	.250
IU PU-Fort Wayne (Ind.)	2001-02	7	21	.250
UNC-Greensboro	1991-92	7	21	.250
Houston Baptist	1973-74	6	19	.240
Trinity (Tex.)	1970-71	5	16	.238
South Carolina Upstate	2007-08	7	23	.233
Arkansas-Little Rock	1978-79	6	20	.231
Southwest Texas State	1984-85	6	20	.231
Stetson (Fla.)	1971-72	6	20	.231
Lipscomb (Tenn.)	2001-02	6	21	.222
Monmouth (N.J.)	1983-84	6	21	.222
Norfolk State (Va.)	1997-98	6	21	.222
Armstrong State (Ga.)	1986-87	6	22	.214
Nicholls State (La.)	1980-81	6	22	.214
North Florida	2005-06	6	22	.214
Stony Brook (N.Y.)	1999-00	6	23	.207
Appalachian State (N.C.)	1973-74	5	20	.200
Baptist (S.C.)	1974-75	4	16	.200
Buffalo	1973-74	5	20	.200
Samford (Ala.)	1972-73	5	20	.200
San Diego	1979-80	5	20	.200
Longwood (Va.)	2003-04	5	22	.185
Gardner-Webb (N.C.)	2002-03	5	24	.172
New Jersey Institute of Tech	2006-07	5	24	.172
Winston-Salem State (N.C.)	2006-07	5	24	.172
Presbyterian (S.C.)	2007-08	5	25	.167
Baltimore	1978-79	4	21	.160
Savannah State (Ga.)	2000-01	4	21	.160
Eastern Washington	1983-84	4	22	.154
Utica (N.Y.)	1981-82	4	22	.154
Wofford (S.C.)	1995-96	4	22	.154
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	1997-98	4	23	.148
Cal State Sacramento	1991-92	4	24	.143
North Texas State	1957-58	3	18	.143
North Carolina Central	2007-08	4	26	.133
New Hampshire	1961-62	3	20	.130
Wagner (N.Y.)	1976-77	3	21	.125
Florida Atlantic	1993-94	3	24	.111
Mississippi Valley State	1979-80	3	24	.111
Morgan State (Md.)	1984-85	3	25	.107
Sacred Heart (Conn.)	1999-00	3	25	.107
Prairie View A&M (Tex.)	1980-81	2	22	.083
Pepperdine (Calif.)	1955-56	2	24	.077
Northeastern Illinois	1990-91	2	25	.074
Georgia State	1973-74	1	25	.038
Cal Poly	1994-95	1	26	.037

*Evansville had an abbreviated schedule because of tragic plane crash.