Favorite College player that never made it

[Dread-Eye]

Ed Cota, enough said
Ricky Moore, lead UCONN over Duke in the Championship
Anderson Hunt, from that sick UNLV team 90 & 91
Adrian Autry, Syracuse 6'4" point guard
Lawrence Moten, Syrascuse, he did get a sniff in the NBA

[vincecarter4pres]

Scotty Thurman, Dionte Christmas, John Gilchrist and Mikhail Torrance for me.

David Lighty may soon be added to this list, Jeff Pendergraph as well.

Ed Cota and Lawrence Moten are great honorable mentions as well.

Maybe Shaheen Holloway too.

[Dr Positivity]

I dug Omar Samhan's game from a few years ago. Has to be one of the most gifted post players of the last 10 years, he just wasn't NBA caliber physically

[CR Reina]

Miles Simon and Hollis Price.

[enuggz]

Len Bias Maryland
Jay Williams Duke
Jimmy King Michigan
Hank Gathers LMU

[Grits n Gravy]

kirk penney - wisconsin....i'm just a new zealander homer but he was and still is a beast

[miltk]

wayne estes

ed o'bannon

[Cal_Bears]

Cal:
Jerome Randle
Theo Robertson

UConn:
Denham Brown

[Brovva Blaqq]

ed o'bannon

A shame how his career went down. I thought he would become a superstar for sure. Dont know why it did not happen tho.

[CBB_Fan]

Danny Manning. Sure, he had a long, productive career. But consistent ACL injuries (including one time with both ACLs torn) stopped him from being a perennial All-Star. He was Greg Oden before Greg Oden, a #1 draft pick with injury problems.

[joseph mamah]

tractor traylor he bounced around the league for a while but he never did nothin, he could never put the cheeseburger down.

[crgreen]

wayne estes

ed o'bannon

Wow - my EXACT two.

Most folks know Ed's story - with a dead man's tendon replacing his destroyed ACL before his freshman, at 2 games a week and limited practice time in college he was one of the greatest of all time; at 4 games a week in the pros, the leg couldn't hold up, and he was a 3 season journeyman.

But Estes? HE died almost 50 years ago - so a lot of folks don't know the story. His accidental electrocution on his way home from his last college game (stopped at the site of a traffic accident to see if he could help, and brushed a downed power line) might have changed the face of the NBA for a decade, as with territorial drafts, he likely would have joined Jerry West and Elgin Baylor in their primes in the Lakers lineup in the mid 60's. 33.7pts, 13.7 rebs as a senior at Utah State.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

My votes go to Shaheen Holloway, Dedric Willoughby, AJ Guyton (personal favorite), Dee Brown (illinois) and Tyson Wheeler. Electric players in college but never got it going in the NBA.

[nolang1]

A lot of Big 10 guys on this list; how about Shawn Respert? Talk about a lights out shooter. The fact that he was able to hang on in the NBA for that long even while dealing with stomach cancer is pretty remarkable.

[joseph mamah]

yeah even though im a UM fan I liked respert a lot. Another guy i always liked was wojo from duke. He was never going to be an NBA player but he was a great college player.