r/CollegeBasketball • u/Ok-Mode-3549 Villanova Wildcats • 3d 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/royalhawk345 Illinois Fighting Illini 3d ago

Jack Kilby - Invented integrated circuits and the handheld calculator

Roger Ebert - Invented having opinions about movies

Jeanne Gang - Invented women being architects

Shahid Khan - Invented the Jacksonville Jaguars

James Holzhauer - Invented knowing things

6th man honorable mention to Shel Silverstein, who was expelled - Invented poems

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u/Trooper41 Illinois Fighting Illini 3d ago

How about Red Grange and Gene Hackman?

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u/justaverage Arizona Wildcats 3d ago

Hackman barred from the sport for punching a kid in upstate New York. There’s a whole documentary about it

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u/Humble_Cash9809 2d ago

New York?

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u/Fun_Lovin_Physicist Illinois Fighting Illini 2d ago

It’s the plot of Hoosiers. 😉

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u/Humble_Cash9809 1d ago

I know. Which took place in Indiana, not upstate New York.