Quite a stretch of ISU basketball between Floyd's '94-95 team and the 2000-01 team. huh?
Highs and now lows.
Best Dunker in ISU History?
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Highs and now lows.
Just remember "nader ugh"
Can't believe it took until page 5 for someone to post this.
I'd say Grayer, Burton tie. Less video clips on Grayer but he was one of top players at ISU and the clips I've seen of him dunking, wow!
Here's one more clip of Burton. , 0.53"- 1'-03" especially.
Here's one more clip of Burton. , 0.53"- 1'-03" especially.
In addition to best dunks, that can also lead the way for most awkward ISU sporting moments on national TV.
Ejim could throw it down and had amazing hops. With that said there might not be a player in college basketball history who opted for the "bunny layup" over a dunk more than Ejim. Even more frustrating is that he missed a LOT of those layups.
I've maybe screamed "Just dunk the f**** ball!" once regarding another player. With Ejim? It was a nightly (every game) occurance.
This taken from a Visions magazine interview with Abdul-Aziz:
What’s something about your collegiate career that people may not know about you?
This was great for Iowa State. It’s a historical thing, and a lot of people don’t know it. The dunk shot was banned in collegiate basketball. I was involved in the banning of the dunk shot! Henry Iba, he was the Oklahoma State coach. This is what happened: I got a rebound; I threw it down to a Peruvian player named Raul Duarte. He went in to make the layup, and he missed the shot. I came down and goaltended the ball … and dunked it. Henry Iba gets up off the bench, says, “That’s goal-tending, ref! That’s goal-tending!” They gave Iba a technical. He said, “I want to make sure the dunk is banned.” He was on the NCAA rules committee, and the next year they banned it. It was banned for seven or eight years. Most historians don’t know this started at Iowa State.
[Editor’s note: An article from The Sporting News confirms this account, saying, “One spectacular play by Don Smith might have motivated Coach Henry Iba of Oklahoma State into predicting that the basketball rules makers would outlaw the dunk shot and eventually raise the basket.”]
Yes I was young...maybe a bit nostalgic...but Grayer was so damn good! And he made it look so easy!
This dunk is better than Fizer over Mihm. Throwing down a nearly half-court alley-oop over one of the best shot blockers in the country? Add in Konate nearly losing his hand trying to block it.
The answer is Deonte Burton.
I don't think Wigginton has the volume to be considered the best dunker in Iowa State history, but that one is definitely on the short list for best single dunks.
Anybody remember Jerome Harper being on campus for a few months back in '02ish? I heard he could put on a show over at West Gym.
Rahshon Clark. I was a freshman in Cyclone Alley when the Virginia dunk happened (2004). It was absolutely nuts but not because of the dunk itself but the overall play. It was straight out of AND1 but against a good ranked Virginia squad.
My actual "wtf" moment was Clark's dunk against UNI. I remember in person, the crowd was shocked. That video of his best dunks has it and the crowd is quiet..not because there was nobody there. I remember everyone thinking "wtf...did he just do?" People were legitimately confused in a good way, in almost disbelief. It seemed like his hand reached above the backboard. Not sure how many people remember that dunk, but it's truly underrated made even more underrated with the terrible quality video clip of it that doesn't do it justice. Guy straight jumped over what seemed like 5 people for the put back dunk. Insane.
Shoutout to Deonte Burton too.
My actual "wtf" moment was Clark's dunk against UNI. I remember in person, the crowd was shocked. That video of his best dunks has it and the crowd is quiet..not because there was nobody there. I remember everyone thinking "wtf...did he just do?" People were legitimately confused in a good way, in almost disbelief. It seemed like his hand reached above the backboard. Not sure how many people remember that dunk, but it's truly underrated made even more underrated with the terrible quality video clip of it that doesn't do it justice. Guy straight jumped over what seemed like 5 people for the put back dunk. Insane.
Shoutout to Deonte Burton too.
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