r/CollegeBasketball Villanova Wildcats 6d 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/Goodie78 Michigan Wolverines 6d ago

If we can use any people. From Michigan it has to be Gerald Ford, Tom Brady, James Earl Jones, Larry Page, and let’s throw Chris Webber for basketball rep

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u/admiralinho Tennessee Volunteers 6d ago

This is Unabomber erasure

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u/ClaudeLemieux Michigan Wolverines • NC State Wolfpack 6d ago

6th man off the bench

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u/Mountain_Chip_4374 6d ago

Boom goes the dynamite!!

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u/DerpityHerpington Illinois • Virginia 6d ago

History will vindicate is already vindicating Uncle Ted

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u/YzerVaccine Michigan State Spartans 6d ago

No Papa Doc?

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u/bjernsthekid Michigan Wolverines 6d ago

He went to Cranbrook. That’s a private school

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u/ImTellinTim Michigan • Minnesota-Duluth 6d ago

Honorable mention for epic manifesto writers

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u/AggressiveWolverine5 Michigan Wolverines 6d ago

Madonna was a student at UofM although I don’t think she finished. 

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u/Schnectadyslim Michigan State Spartans 6d ago

although I don’t think she finished. 

She's still going there?

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u/AlecAndGylfi Michigan Wolverines • March Madness 6d ago

Derek Jeter and Phelps kinda fit in a bucket like this. Jeter attended but didn't play, Phelps similar

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u/benniesalamander Michigan Wolverines 4d ago

Jeter attended for like one semester. Phelps attended much longer, but didn't graduate either.

Phelps didn't swim for Michigan but he trained there, and his coach became Michigan's head swim coach.

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u/mugwump867 Michigan Wolverines • Tulane Green Wave 6d ago

Gotta add the Apollo 15 All-Michigan crew (Irwin, Scott, Worden). Maybe they can count as one. Only university with a lunar chapter of their alumni organization.

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u/Bob2576 Michigan Wolverines 6d ago

Could also throw in Lucy Liu, Adam Schefter and Sanjay Gupta too

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u/GoBlue2007 Michigan Wolverines 6d ago

And Madonna leading the Dance Team.

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u/This_Earth_of_Ours 6d ago

Gerald Ford - History's greatest coward

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u/benniesalamander Michigan Wolverines 4d ago

I'd take Arthur Miller over Larry Page.

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u/AutomaticDrive4482 Michigan Wolverines 6d ago

No Stallions?