Best player to step on Hilton floor

[everyyard]

Royce white

 

[stevefrench]

Paul Pierce
Chauncey Billups
Mitch Richmond
Fred
Hornacek
Tinsley
Blake Griffen
IDK if KD played at Hilton?

You’d have to define best college player or best player NBA player. Different answers there.

 

[kcbob79clone]

Bridget Carlton

 

[aauummm]

The guy I'm thinking of played for Southwestern Louisiana U. in 1972. SW Louisiana played in the 1972 NCAA Midwest Regional that was held in Hilton Coliseum. Must have been Dwight "Bo" Lamar.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Need a break from the drama

Who.is.the.greatest player to play at Hilton

Durant

Danny Manning

Blake Griffin


Old.school Wayman Tisdale

3 of those 4 (didn’t have Griffin) came to mind for opposing players).

 

[Final42b]

Freddie Gillespie

 

[Cat Stevens]

I'm old enough that I was able to watch Wayman Tisdale. As a freshman, he was amazing. Johnny Orr put Ronny Harris on him, and amazingly he held him to 12 points (if my memory is correct, this was quite a few years ago).

Remember Ronnie Harris guarding him at 6’3.

That was David moss’s coming out party.

 

[Cat Stevens]

Jarrod Uthoff. For one half.

LaFester for 45 then

 

[Cat Stevens]

Aaron Agnew

Darryl Spinks was better.

Anthony Peeler made a lot of free throws in Hilton, so did Derrick Chevious.

Maybe the best performance I ever saw in Hilton was Steve Henson from k state. We had them beat and he went nuts. Think he had 41, but that day he was steph curry.

 

[CYdTracked]

Easy. Jonathan Bender. McDonald's All-American game MVP 1999. Beat Michael Jordan's record for most points in a McD's game.

I went to that game, there were a lot of guys that wound up playing in the NBA in that game. Carlos Boozer was undecided at the time but you could tell we was going to be a beast. Jay Williams, Mike Dunleavy Jr., Jason Richardson, Nick Collison. The 1 thing I do remember about that game was they had to take a cheerleader off on stretcher after she fell when 2 girls dropped her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_McDonald's_All-American_Boys_Game

 

[Cypwr]

Nick Collison

 

[CloneGuy8]

Nick Collison

Raef was better, in my opinion.

 

[deadeyededric]

Paul Pierce although I don't recall how his college career was vs. NBA career for expectations.

That '96-97 Kansas team may have been one of the best opponents to play there.

One of the best teams ever that didn't win it all.

 

[nfrine]

Georges or Monte...

 

[madguy30]

One of the best teams ever that didn't win it all.

One of the last absolute true shockers for NCAA upsets on a national level.

Although Duke 98-99 getting beat by UConn was too but at least that was in the title game.

 

[Knownothing]

Michael Jordan got his McDonald’s all American jersey retired in Hilton for the 1999 Micky D’s all star game. So Jordan is the best player to step on the floor at hilton

 

[Cypwr]

Raef was better, in my opinion.

I actually kind of lean that way too but googled to jog the memory on some of the older player and the KC star had an article in 2016 The best players in the 20 years of Big 12 Men's Basketball and they list Collison=1st and Fizer=2nd ahead of LaFrentz, as the KU homer paper I took their word for it.

 

[CloneGuy8]

I actually kind of lean that way too but googled to jog the memory on some of the older player and the KC star had an article in 2016 The best players in the 20 years of Big 12 Men's Basketball and they list Collison=1st and Fizer=2nd ahead of LaFrentz, as the KU homer paper I took their word for it.

Lets ask our resident Kansas fan. @randomfan44 who was better; Raef or Collison?

 

[Macloney]

I actually kind of lean that way too but googled to jog the memory on some of the older player and the KC star had an article in 2016 The best players in the 20 years of Big 12 Men's Basketball and they list Collison=1st and Fizer=2nd ahead of LaFrentz, as the KU homer paper I took their word for it.

I hate them both for not going to ISU, but Raef was Big 12 POY twice. Nick was once. I think that is the tiebreaker.

 

[IASTATE07]

Giannis played on the Iowa Wolves floor, so technically no.

Unless Giannis was floating around, I'll assume he walked on the floor of Hilton on his way to the court.