apparently I didn't clearly state the desired guidelines in which to form your list. My bad.
Now, back to the lists...
Now, back to the lists...
All-time ISU All-Star Team
- Thread starter madcityCY
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Great thread! It was hard for me to come up with all of the players who could have merited a spot on this "Dream Team".
Anyway, I grew up in Ames in the '80's going to games at Hilton, so my list consists of players I either watched growing up or saw on tv when I moved out of Iowa. I broke it down by giving out "scholarships" for 13 guys and then added 3 "walk-on" spots for guys I thought deserved a spot.
Starting five;
C - Cato....great defensive presence, don't really need much offense out of him considering who else is on the team.
PF - Fizer...enough said
SF - Grayer.....just a ridicoulously talented player. Averaged 25 points and 9 rebounds a game his senior season
SG - Hoiberg
PG - Jamaal Tinsley gets the slight nod over Hornacek, if nothing else because I think he is a better athlete.
Bench;
C; Victor Alexander
Anyway, I grew up in Ames in the '80's going to games at Hilton, so my list consists of players I either watched growing up or saw on tv when I moved out of Iowa. I broke it down by giving out "scholarships" for 13 guys and then added 3 "walk-on" spots for guys I thought deserved a spot.
Starting five;
C - Cato....great defensive presence, don't really need much offense out of him considering who else is on the team.
PF - Fizer...enough said
SF - Grayer.....just a ridicoulously talented player. Averaged 25 points and 9 rebounds a game his senior season
SG - Hoiberg
PG - Jamaal Tinsley gets the slight nod over Hornacek, if nothing else because I think he is a better athlete.
Bench;
C; Victor Alexander
Finishing the post from above...
Bench;
C; Loren Meyer...only a train accident prevented him from having a MONSTER junior season
PF;
Tom Schafer...could be a 3 as well, but very good player for us. He hit a buzzer beater back in the day to beat a Top 10 Oklahoma team in Hilton one year.
Jackson Vroman....quintessential scrapper and rebounder
SF;
Barry Stephens...May God rest his soul
SG;
Dedric Willoughby....LOVE Willoughby, I had the chance to meet him once and a heck of a nice guy, great shooter too.
Jake Sullivan....designated long-range shooter
PG;
Hornacek
Walk-ons;
PG; Gary Thompkins...gets the slight edge over Blaylock. He missed 7 games his senior season due to pneumonia or something like that, and not coincidentally we had a seven-game losing streak that really hurt our season that year at the mid-point.
SF; Elmer Robinson...don't really know if he belongs here or not, but he was a student of my dad's back in the day, and he was a great athlete. My dad just informed me he was drafted by the Yankees right out of high school.
PF/C...Jared Homan
High honorable mention....Blaylock, Stinson, Justis Thigpen, Ron Bayless, Mike Born, Kantrail Horton, Jacy Holloway.
Bench;
C; Loren Meyer...only a train accident prevented him from having a MONSTER junior season
PF;
Tom Schafer...could be a 3 as well, but very good player for us. He hit a buzzer beater back in the day to beat a Top 10 Oklahoma team in Hilton one year.
Jackson Vroman....quintessential scrapper and rebounder
SF;
Barry Stephens...May God rest his soul
SG;
Dedric Willoughby....LOVE Willoughby, I had the chance to meet him once and a heck of a nice guy, great shooter too.
Jake Sullivan....designated long-range shooter
PG;
Hornacek
Walk-ons;
PG; Gary Thompkins...gets the slight edge over Blaylock. He missed 7 games his senior season due to pneumonia or something like that, and not coincidentally we had a seven-game losing streak that really hurt our season that year at the mid-point.
SF; Elmer Robinson...don't really know if he belongs here or not, but he was a student of my dad's back in the day, and he was a great athlete. My dad just informed me he was drafted by the Yankees right out of high school.
PF/C...Jared Homan
High honorable mention....Blaylock, Stinson, Justis Thigpen, Ron Bayless, Mike Born, Kantrail Horton, Jacy Holloway.
Just to add a thought....this team above would absolutely have contended for a national championship.
It's great to see Fred Hoiberg's name on here so much. I was in English 105 with him our freshman year and got to know him on a personal level...GREAT guy with an incredible personlity...and so down to earth and approachable. Man does he have a gift in his shooting ability!
Also got to hang around Loren Meyer and Julius Mikalik (sp?) at different times...both were a lot of fun to talk to and fun to watch on the court. Man do I miss those days!
Also got to hang around Loren Meyer and Julius Mikalik (sp?) at different times...both were a lot of fun to talk to and fun to watch on the court. Man do I miss those days!
I realize you are almost all young guys on this site, but if anyone here was around in the 70's there was a guy named Hercle "Poison" Ivy, (from St. Louis if I remember right), that was an absolutely unstoppable scorer when he was feeling it back in those days. Had the huge Afro...lol. He was a hell of a shooter. Not worth a lick on defense, of course.
C-Cato
PF-Fizer
SG-Hoiberg
SG-Thigpen
PG-Tinsley
Bench-
Vroman
Blalock
Sullivan(maybe)
Grayer
Stevens
PF-Fizer
SG-Hoiberg
SG-Thigpen
PG-Tinsley
Bench-
Vroman
Blalock
Sullivan(maybe)
Grayer
Stevens
I've said to my friends before that I would love to see a team with both Pratt and Stevie Johnson on it.
I do remember Herle Ivy and Dean Uthoff. Uthoff was a man on the boards. Hercle could really get to the basket. I miss the old days at the top of old section 22.
