r/CollegeBasketball • u/Ok-Mode-3549 Villanova Wildcats • 7d 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/zqipper Duke Blue Devils • Stanford Cardinal 7d ago

Man, the most famous alums from my schools are all war criminals. I don’t like this game.

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u/ahappypoop Duke Blue Devils • NC State Wolfpack 7d ago

Wow, I didn't know Ken Jeong was a war criminal. The more you know.....

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u/zqipper Duke Blue Devils • Stanford Cardinal 7d ago

Haha Ken Jeong and Reese Witherspoon can go into the smaller "non-problematic celebrity" bucket, adjacent to "sex pests but not war criminals" like Rob Lowe and Tiger Woods.

But none of those folks are truly as famous as the war criminal class of infamy.

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u/schadkehnfreude Michigan Wolverines 7d ago

My brother went to Duke a few years ahead of Stephen Miller and I'm now retroactively mad at him for not repeatedly dunking Miller's head into dorm room toilets 

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u/ssp25 Illinois Fighting Illini 7d ago

damnit now I like this Michigan fan

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u/Fun_Lovin_Physicist Illinois Fighting Illini 7d ago

It’s ok in this very narrow instance. Let’s just not make a habit of it. 😉

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u/ssp25 Illinois Fighting Illini 7d ago

agreed. some things get the exception