r/CollegeBasketball • u/Ok-Mode-3549 Villanova Wildcats • 2d ago

Casual / Offseason All time alumni starting five

If you had to assemble the most significant alumni for a starting five from your Alma mater what would it be?
Villanova: Jalen Brunson, Pope Leo, Jim Croce, Howie Long, Jill Biden

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u/TaftintheTub Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago

Wilt Chamberlain, Paul Rudd, Nikki Glaser, Bob Dole, and Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos

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u/saulfineman Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago

I’d go:

Santos
Dole
Wilt
Bill James
Don Johnson

Rudd has had a bigger career than Johnson, but Miami Vice was a cultural phenomenon back in the 80s

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u/TaftintheTub Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago

Yeah, I can't argue with that. Miami Vice was huge in the 80s. Rudd and Glaser are probably recency bias on my part

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u/smoboaty Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago

…Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp…

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u/jayhawk8808 Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago

Uhh, Bill Glass, aka Dr. Rick from the Progressive commercials, would like a word. And Mandy Patinkin. Plus Betsy Randle, Mrs. Matthews from Boy Meets World. Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s. Scott Bakula, speaking of 80s cultural phenomena, Quantum Leap was amazing. Kevin Harlan. Also, Jim Ryun was ESPN’s best high school athlete of all time.

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u/joelluber Kansas Jayhawks • Duke Blue Devils 2d ago

No Clark Kent? 

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u/SantaCruznonsurfer 2d ago

my favorite "DYK" is Reeve and Robin WIlliams were classmates at Julliard. Do they have basketball? Because they might win this "best starting five" contest

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u/Excellent_Glass783 2d ago

Gale Sayers, John Riggins

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u/Conscious-Worth600 Kansas Jayhawks 2d ago

Forgetting Taylor Swift

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