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1983-84 College 🏀 Preseason All-America Team

galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 18, 2024 5:50PM in Sports Talk

How many can you name?

I knew the 7 in the back + the coach

(Looked up the front 3)

If you can't name at least 2 we need to have a talk

you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,845 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm not a basketball guy

    Michael Jordan #23 NC

    Guess we need to chat brother cuz that's all I got lol

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,845 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unless Patrick Ewing is in the back for the Hoyas I got 2 😂😂😂

  • erikthredderikthredd Posts: 9,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

    6 of the 7 standing were pretty easy right off the bat and I knew of the coach in his later years. 2 of the remaining 4 (back left corner/bottom center) I've definitely heard of before but the final two are complete unknowns to me. I was just 9yrs old at this time and the only basketball I was watching then that I remember was mostly Celtics games.

  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 18, 2024 6:30PM

    5 for sure… the two Tar Heels, Houston, Oklahoma, and loved watching that St. John’s dude play.

    6…. I remember the Kentucky guy now

  • erikthredderikthredd Posts: 9,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

    7 of the 10 were all in the top 10 picks of the 1984 NBA draft.

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:

    I'm not a basketball guy

    Michael Jordan #23 NC

    Guess we need to chat brother cuz that's all I got lol

    you may not recognize them but i guarantee you know more than Jordan

    we'll give it a day or so to let everyone play then we'll post the names

    you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 18, 2024 6:57PM

    basketball was my jam in the early/mid 80s, but i couldn't name the front 3.

    the guy from Louisville was on the tip of my tongue but never rolled off, the guy front center (Cal St Fullerton) i remembered from his NBA days, and the dude from Georgia i had never heard of before

    if anyone can name any of those 3 i'll be highly impressed

    you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1983-84 College 🏀 Preseason All-America Team

    How many can you name?

    why can't this be a football question...
    🏈😭🏈😂🏈🤣🏈🙃

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I got one. 😆

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:
    I got one. 😆

    Do I at least get a trophy for competing? 😂

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Who is the St. John's dude ???
    That one is Making Me Crazy...
    😂🤣🙃

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,171 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 18, 2024 10:05PM

    MJ, Chris Mullin, Sam Bowie, Sam Perkins, Leon Wood, Hakeem Olajuwon, off the top of my head.

    The others I will have to think about.

    Alvin Robertson and Waymon Tisdale.

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 19, 2024 1:15PM

    4 guys in the back, L to R: Melvin Turpin (committed suicide), Hakeem Olajuwon, Sam Bowie (infamously drafted ahead of Michael Jordan), Sam Perkins

    3 guys in front of them, L to R: Jordan, Wayman Tisdale (died 15 years ago), Chris Mullin

    Coach: Lou Carnesecca (will turn 100 on January 5)

    3 in front of him, L to R: James Banks, Leon Wood (NBA ref for 28 years), Lancaster Gordon

    you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,209 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 19, 2024 2:53PM

    @galaxy27 said:
    4 guys in the back, L to R: Melvin Turpin (committed suicide), Hakeem Olajuwon, Sam Bowie (infamously drafted ahead of Michael Jordan), Sam Perkins

    3 guys in front of them, L to R: Jordan, Wayman Tisdale (died 15 years ago), Chris Mullin

    Coach: Lou Carnesecca (will turn 100 on January 5)

    3 in front of him, L to R: James Banks, Leon Wood (NBA ref for 28 years), Lancaster Gordon

    Thanks Galaxy….. being a KU fan I’ll never forget Tisdale, he was a beast at OU even as a freshman. Maybe the two best college freshmen I’ve ever seen were him and Carmelo Anthony.
    Oh and Danny Manning! 😆

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