Your Top Five Basketball Players

[GAA_Admin]

Carolina is celebrating 100 years of men’s basketball and entering the new season as defending national champions. Which five players would you pick as the best during that century? Don’t worry about filling specific positions -- just pick any five and tell why they’re the tops. Share your picks on our enhanced Alumni Message Boards, where all alumni are invited to read discussions about sports, campus groups, classes, majors and more.

[sloop.robert]

Phil Ford - Best tempo control guard - before shot clock
Larry Miller - won countless games by himself - 3 final fours (had to win ACC)
James Worthy - fastest and strongest power forward - Dean's first title
Tyler Hansbrough - most intensive player ever - breaks all records
Michael Jordan - what can I say


Hard to leave out Lennie Rosenbluth and Charlie Scott

[briancox]

Tyler Hansborough- Natl Player of the Year- 2 time Natl Champion
Charles Scott- First Black UNC Basketball Player
Robert MaCadoo- First Junior College Transfer to play at UNC
Michael Jordan- Jumper Beats Georgetown
Phil Ford- Dominated ACC running the four corners offense

[carolinablue88]

Ranzino Smith-terrific and tough player/chapel hill native-my first year roommate at granville towers Curtis Hunter-durham native who was a loyal tarheel-another roommate in carrboro James Daye-great role player-another roommate for one semester in carrboro Steven Bucknall-former la laker coached by Pat Riley-another roommate during my senior year in carrboro/native of london Scott Williams-the great chicago bull and mj's teammate on 3 nba championship teams-always secured tickets for me and my mom whenever they came to dc-a loyal friend!

[andy.bagwell]

Man, this is a tough one. So many to choose from! As far as the "best", here are mine:

Tyler Hansbrough - I was lucky enough to be in the Dean Dome for many of his great games from scoring 40 against Georgia Tech as a freshman to breaking Phil's record vs. Evansville as a Senior. What a competitor.
Antawn Jamison - I still have a pit in my stomach about that 1998 loss to Utah in the Final Four. Jamison, Carter, Cota et. al. should have hung a banner that year. Jamison still is one of the most unique players I've ever watched at Carolina. I can't remember the specifics but Antawn scored something like 33 points against Duke one year and only had the ball in his hand for less than 1 minute.
Michael Jordan - what else needs to be said?
Phil Ford - He was before my time but Ford is an icon of UNC basketaball.

and for the 5th, I'll go a little off the board and pick....

Ed Cota - If UNC basketball is all about teamwork and playing the right way, how can you leave off the guy that has more assists than any other UNC player?

[tsrand]

top five ro senbluth jordan ford worthy and scott Rqsenbluth the star of the undefeated 57 national champs.unforgetable experience as a sophmore at Carolina. Jordan the best.Ford great scoring point guard not to be surpassed worthy leader of Deans first national champ and Scott a pathbeaker to be dmirred. A personal favorite of mine was bobby jones So many great memories Tom

[ecstasy426]

Tyler - unwavering determination, finding the 16th way to get the ball in the basket when most players stop at the fourth, and my 4-year-old daughter is in love with him

Rasheed - "If I could dunk like that, I'd scream too" - Dean Smith

David Noel - made 2006 my favorite team, and was a total inspiration

Warren Martin - was a 5th-year senior when I was a freshman, the last member of MJ's championship team still playing, and scored the first basket for UNC in the 1st game at the Dean Dome en route to beating Dook, and was the nicest guy on campus

George Glamack - the Blind Bomber, 1941, shot by looking at the hashmarks on the court and led us in FG% for decades? Come on!

-IW

[tarheel73]

Michael Jordan - "The shot" against Georgetown, "the steal" against Virginia, "the block" against Maryland." He must be at the top of everyone's list.
Tyler "Psycho T" Hansbrough - The fact that he manhandled the Dookies at Cameron (aka Hansbrough) Indoor 4 straight years puts him on this list. The National Championship is just baby blue icing on the cake.
James Worthy - "Big Game James" was the real hero of the '82 Championship. He had the ability to just take over a game.
Phil Ford - The consummate point guard. After 30 years he is still the face of Carolina basketball.
Lenny Rosenbluth - PERFECTION. What else needs to be said.

Mike Stonnell
Class of '73
Go Heels!!

[Comely1]

M Jordan
J Worthy
B Cunningham
L Miller
C Scott

[nshively]

Jordan
Ford
Worthy
McAdoo
Hansbrough

6th place: Jamison