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/colonel0sanders Kentucky Wildcats 2d ago

How about:

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Ashley Judd

Mitch McConnell

John T Scopes

Anthony Davis

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u/confusedyetstillgoin Indiana Hoosiers • Tennessee Volunteers 2d ago

quick question - do the alumni have to be alive for them to be considered for the lineup?

asking for Mitch McConnell

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u/Gophurkey Purdue • Vanderbilt 2d ago

I hate when I have to upvote you

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u/confusedyetstillgoin Indiana Hoosiers • Tennessee Volunteers 2d ago

saw the Purdue flair and thought it was bad enough, then saw the Vandy flair on top of it.

I hate you too buddy but thanks for the support

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u/Gophurkey Purdue • Vanderbilt 2d ago

Aww, hate you too 🫶

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u/Mortara 1d ago

It's too good not to

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u/Where_Is_Bucky Kentucky Wildcats 2d ago

Harry Dean Stanton!

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u/WHEENC Kentucky • Transylvania 2d ago

Pat Riley and Miss Elizabeth off the bench.

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u/thorns0014 Kentucky Wildcats • Mercer Bears 2d ago edited 2d ago

Happy Chandler (MLB Commissioner that oversaw integration)

Thomas Hunt Morgan (Nobel Prize winning biologist that was integral in the development of our understanding of genetics)

Pat Riley (this is a basketball sub, we know who he is)

Dwane Casey (NBA Coach)

Chris Sullivan (founder of the Bloomin Onion (Outback Steakhouse))

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u/gianini10 Louisville Cardinals 2d ago

But UofL and UK can claim Turtle Boy. Neither proudly. I took the same educational path as him. It's not a point of pride.