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Favorite BU Player of All-time?

What memories !!!

What memories !!!

Seymour Reed - My first Bradley BB game - why I attended Bradley

Harold McMath - A great rebounder

Roger Phegley - Perfect shot to get fouled every time

David Thirdkill - The fastest dunk in town

Robert Jenkins - Tough as nails - never forget the game at Tulsa

Hersey Hawkins and Jim Les - What a team !!!!! Knew how to win
 
Favorite player of my lifetime - Hawkins (can still remember some of it, though I was very young)

Favorite player of my years on campus - Probably Gilbert or Dye.

Favorite player since college (and since I became a bigtime Braves fan) - Ruffin

Favorite player on the team now - Warren or Theron, man that's a tough one.
 
Jimmy Caruthers
Roger Phegley
Chet Walker

I have to add Theron Wilson-- I think this guy is great. I love his athletic ability and his will. Too bad we didn't have him longer. I think he would have been a real super star here and a possible NBA talent
 
J.J. Tauai ... even though I groaned every time he came into a game his sophomore year (my freshman year). The player and leader he turned into his last two seasons is unforgettable.
 
Hawkins...but mainly for how hard he worked to get open. Going along the baseline all the time and getting beat up as he went through and still came off the screen with great energy.

Jimmy Caruthers...it was when I was in high school but he was fun to watch.

JJ Tauai...fot sticking it out when many were not high on him.

Pollard....alot of grunt work without alot of glory

Funches...see above

and hard not to like Willie Scott and Anthony Manual.....
 
There are many favorites over the years- and by the way- a great topic!

Harold McMath , Hop Houston and Robert Jenkins were favorites of my mom and dad- who had seats under the basket in the Fieldhouse...

From my time there at BU- Barney Mines, JL, Hawk, Trevor Trimpe, Big Mike, Anthony Manual and Voise Winters

But they all had something that made them stand out... Mike Cash was one of nicest kids I ever met, as was Keith "Rock" Berry... even Danny Secli back in the day- and Pierre Cooper- shame he never made it on the court for BU!

BUt one of my all-time faves- because he was undersized in stature- but was a warrior- was Rosey Davison- a 6'4 center who was a man's man- probably he and Big MIke were best rebounders I ever saw!
 
Hersey is one of the obvious choices.
Here are a few of my other choices.
Joe Allen --Great game against Lew Alcinder & U.C.L.A.
Greg Smith-- Great game against Illinois. 6'-3" slow white center who couldn't jump but man did he have some great moves.
Roger Phegley -- Great game against Reggie Theus at the field house. If they would of had 3 point shots back then no would have ever broken his scoring record.
Trevr Trimpe -- What a shooter on some very good teams.
Mithell Anderson -- One of my all time favorites.
 
Squeaky. He, more than any other player, got me hooked on basketball and BU basketball, in particular. A lifelong addiction I can't shake.
 
Mine has to be Joe Allen, his hands were like catchers mitts and coach Stowell had line drive passes coming at him down the lane with Wes Unseld drapped all over him. And he could put it in with either hand.

Mitchell Anderson and Hersey Hawkins.
 
I was at Bradley during the Hawkins years so that is a no brainer...

Other players I have run into who are favorites:

Joe Allen-- as a kid going to basketball camp, it was great to have Joe Allen there instructing us about the game!

Gene Melchiore--I met him once. Great guy.

Jim Les, Tom Les, Anthony Parker, Roger Phegley, Hop Houston, Willie Scott, Donald Reese-boy we could use someone like him now!) Jim Caruthers,
 
georgethedog said:
Chico, Is The Hawk nice for a basketball player (most of which are stuck up you know whats) or nice for a regular person who hasn't been spoiled and given everything their whole lives because they can put a ball in a hoop?
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Don't know you from Adam, so I don't know if you were around for Hawk's playing days at BU. I'll guess you were, so that is such a dumb replyI won't even waste my time replying to it.
 
"Rocket" Ray Ramsey, who was probably the biggest omission from the centennial all-time team.

While some credit Paul Unruh for being one of the inventors of the jump hook shot (a credit he even denies, citing players such as Mikan and others 5-10 years earlier that experimented in running and jumping while shooting).

Ramsey was one of those players, and due to the interruption of his athletic career by WW II, his popularity and impact went largely unnoticed.

He not only was a multi-sport athlete, he excelled in football, basketball, and track. He was a silver medalist at the Millrose Games (the nation's most prestigious indoor track-and-field event), an all-star in the CFL although the only 3 years he played for the Hamilton Tiger Cats were the only 3 years in a 6 year span where the team did not play in the Grey Cup (they had won the year before he joined, and again the year after he retired).

He also only played 2 games of professional basketball for Baltimore.

But by all accounts, his basketball exploits were electrifying.
 
Ray Ramsey played seven years in the NFL
http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=RAMSERAY01

In 1947 he led the NFL in yards per reception, in 1949 he led the NFL in yards per
kick return, and in 1953 he led the NFL in interceptions returned for TD's
and in 1947 he was 2nd in rushing yards with 1201 & 3rd in the entire NFL in all-purpose yards with 1738!!
and don't forget, at the exact same time he was also playing NBA basketball!!

Ray is one of a dozen NFL players who have come from Bradley!
http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=RAMSERAY01

that's more than Creighton, Indiana State, Missouri State, Evansville, and a few others can boast...
not bad for a small school that hasn't had football for nearly 40 years!
 
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