March 26, 2025 • 34 mins
This week on the Daly Dose, we are attending to some business, but never fear because we are playing a few clips from past Daly Dose episodes to get you ready for the NCAA Tournament!
We play a few past Daly Dose Top 5’s including the Top 5 biggest college basketball scandals, the Top 5 college basketball programs that are actually developing NBA players and the Top 5 college basketball teams that were supposed to be unbeatable but then got upset in the Big Dance!
Get a heavy dose of March Madness this week on the Daly Dose!
We play a few past Daly Dose Top 5’s including the Top 5 biggest college basketball scandals, the Top 5 college basketball programs that are actually developing NBA players and the Top 5 college basketball teams that were supposed to be unbeatable but then got upset in the Big Dance!
Get a heavy dose of March Madness this week on the Daly Dose!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Wednesday in March twenty six, twenty twenty five. You are
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I know we're a weekend, like I said, but you
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on the Dose. I've actually got a few things I've
got to attend to. But never fear because I've compiled
a few Daily Dose Top five from past episodes that
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are heavily March Madness flavored. So sit back, relax, and
enjoy some of the best of the Daily Dose Sports podcast. Now,
as we do every single week, we have got to
get to our Daily Dose Top five. You know, last
week we briefly discussed the college basketball scandal that is
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currently surfacing right now. It seems, if you missed it,
that coaches at Louisville, Auburn, Arizona, Southern California, and Oklahoma
State are being charged not by the NCAA, no, no, no,
but by the FBI of things like you know, fraud
and conspiracy and the always frightening tax evasion. Yeah, you
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never want to hear that. Further investigations are still in
the works. Miami, South Carolina, and Alabama are being investigated,
and there could be more schools that come out yet.
You know, these schools were apparently taking money to steer
players to certain agents and financial advisors. Now, one of
the popular takes on sports talk shows everywhere last week was, hey,
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everyone's doing it. I know that they got busted, but
everybody's doing it. Two problems with that mentality. One, no,
they aren't. I will promise you that there are coaches
and schools that aren't doing this, And not only are
they not doing it, but they're giggling at the ones
getting caught. Because as a coach, you know or you
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at least suspect the schools that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Are doing things.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Let's say a little bit sketchy, like we knew it
at the high school level. You suddenly just got five
brand new superstar players.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Amazing coincidence.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And second, it doesn't matter if other schools were doing it.
Try spinning that with the cop that pulls you over
for speedy. Hey I clocked you at seventy one and.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
A fifty five.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well yeah, but everybody was doing it. Uh okay, well
here's your ticket. This story is still kind of taking shape.
It's still coming out. It may be a long time coming.
We could see other programs coming out, other coaches coming out,
but you know what this actually is. In the first
time we've seen a scandal take place in the world
of college basketball. College basketball officially begins practice in less
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than two weeks, so I realize it's not college basketball
season just yet, but right now we are going to
count down the top five college basketball scandals of all time.
And I'm telling you right now, they are scandalous. Number
five on our list. You know, the Kentucky Wildcats men's
basketball program, It is easily one of the most decorated
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in college hoop's history.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
But the late eighties, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
They were memorable for a little bit of a different reason. First,
it was top recruit Eric Manuel, who had an excellent
freshman season, but then the NC DOUBLEA started looking at.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
His act scores.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
He scored a passing twenty three.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That wasn't the problem.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
The problem was that Eric Manuel had the exact same
answers word for word on two hundred and eleven out
of his two hundred and nineteen answers as the guy
sitting next to him. Yeah, that probably won't set off
any alarms, will it. The NC DOUBLEA would eventually ban
Manual from competing. That wasn't all, because then there was
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Los Angeles recruit Chris Mills. He had a package from
a prominent Kentucky booster as the Wildcats were in the
process of trying to get him to sign his letter
of intent, the package broke open and twenty fifty dollar
bills spilled out, So after a solid freshman season, Mills
was deemed ineligible and would end up transferring to Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Kentuck.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Ucky would be banned from participating in the postseason for
two seasons. And you'll remember that was at the time
Rick Mattino came on the scene, had to deal with
some of that got them going and then Kentucky didn't
miss the postseason tournament for like two decades. But back
in the late eighties, yeah, Kentucky was in some serious trouble.
Number four on our list. This one has been pretty
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publicized in the ESPN thirty for thirty. Playing for the
mob And if you've ever seen the movie Goodfellas about
the mobster Henry Hill, then you're at least a little
familiar with this story. In nineteen seventy eight, Boston College
was favored to beat Providence by six or seven points.
Henry Hill and his group of mobsters got to a
few Boston College basketball players and convinced them to keep
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the score close. In return, they would get some cash,
and they would get even more cash if they actually
lived up to it and kept the games close. That
trial run against Providence, Yeah, failed miserably. Boston College won
by nineteen. The mobsters were not too pleased, and they
warned center Rick Koon and Jim Sweeney that they're not
gonna be able to play basketball with broken hands.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Man, that's just me. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
They say they also approach leading scorer Ernie Cobb, but
it looks like he never participated. Boston College was reportedly
shaving points in nine different games. It was all uncovered
when Henry Hill was arrested in nineteen eighty. He turned
evidence against his fellow gangsters in return for immunity on
a drug charge.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Center ra Kune.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, he was actually sentenced to ten years in prison,
with Sweeney and Cob both being acquitted. See, now this
is what the current dirty coaches have to worry about.
In this deal that's going on right now. Deals are
going to be made. Other coaches might be outed because
if you tell me, I'm going to give you a
little bit of immunity. If you'll tell us some other
coaches you knew were involved. Yeah, we could see some
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prison musical chairs. And who is going to end up
not having a seat. Somebody's going to turn someone else
in it's all coming. There are a number of coaches
that should be very, very nervous right now, number three
on our list.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
In February of nineteen fifty one, the Sporting News named
Long Island University guard Sherman White their national player of
the year. He averaged twenty seven points a game. And
then the very next day, White was arrested in connection
with a point shaving scandal that involved not just his school,
seven different universities. Because it seems that City College of
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New York, New York University, Long Island University, Manhattan College,
Bradley University in Illinois, the University of Toledo, and yes,
the University of Kentucky all had players involved in the
world of organized crime. They were all shaving points. In all,
thirty two players from seven different colleges admitted to taking
bribes between nineteen forty seven and nineteen fifty to fix
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eighty six games in seventeen different states. Two players went
to jail, one coach was banned. There's actually a great
HBO documentary about this scandal called City Dump, if you'd
like to learn more about it. Kentucky was forced to
cancel full season, and you might notice that none of
those other schools, they'd barely even compete in basketball anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, it's not an.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Accident, it's because of the scandal. It took place back
in the fifties. That's number three on our list.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
As big as the fifties point shaving scandal was another
one came that was actually bigger. In nineteen sixty one,
organized crime got involved again.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
This one was actually insane.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Some of the same mobsters involved in the fifties were
involved in this one, but this one was so much bigger.
Jack Molinis was a former NBA player turned bookie. He
had been banned for betting games, and he would eventually
be found guilty of bribing players to fix games. From
fifty seven to sixty one, see it seems our boy,
Jack Molinas, he was involved in a gambling scandal that
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involved thirty seven different players from twenty two different schools,
including Utah, blingeren Alabama, and College of the Pacific, who
all testified against Molina's in court. You know, the worst
part about this whole thing was that New York basketball
legend Connie Hawkins was kind of implicated because of the
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fact he had borrowed two hundred and fifty dollars from Millennis,
even though he was never convicted of anything and there
was never anything that made it look like he was
really involved in any kind of pointy shavy Hawkins was
an incredible talent. They were comparing him to Julius Irving.
But after this he always carried that tarnish. He was
blackballed from college and from the NBA. He played in
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the ABL and the ABA, and he was amazing in
each league. He finally had to sue the NBA to
get into the league. He put together a solid career,
but I mean he had been short at his best
playing years. Meanwhile, Mollinis was sentenced to ten to fifteen
years and he got out in just five. But in
nineteen seventy five, Jack Mollinis was the victim of a
bullet to the head murder in the backyard of his
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Hollywood Hills home. Widely assumed he was probably a mob hit.
What's the old saying, if you starve with the lion,
the lions starves life last. So what could be number
one on the biggest college basketball scandals of all time?
Here on our Daily Dose Top five. It's an ugly one.
I'll tell you that right now. In the summer of
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two thousand and three, Baylor basketball had one of the
most disturbing scandals in NCAA history. Let's see, you had
a coach who was paying the tuition of two players
because he was already over his scholarship limits. And then
when he was questioned as to how the players were
in school, he told investigators the kids were probably drug dealers.
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Wait wait, it gets worse because it also seems that
one of those players had been murdered by a teammate
two months prior. Baylor forward Carlton Dotson had been practicing
with firearms in the summer of two thousand and three
because he was off his medication and he thought people
were out to get him because he was, in fact
Jesus Great Odin Craven.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Not making this up. You can check.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
When he and teammate Patrick dennahe got into an argument,
Dotson shot and killed Dennihey. Dotson buried the body in
a gravel pit, and Dennehy was listed as a missing person.
Dotson would later confess to the murder and you would
be sentenced to thirty five years in prison. Then, when
head coach Dave Bliss was questioned as to why he
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had players on his roster that were having their education
paid for but not on scholarship. Dave Bliss told NC
DOUBLEA investigators that Denny he was probably selling drugs to
pay his way. Bliss would eventually resign and the NC
DOUBLEA would find Baylor guilty of everything from improper payments
to drug use, and they would place Baylor on probation
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and restriction for seven seasons. It was as close as
the death penalty as any school has been since SMU,
and it took Baylor until two thousand and eight just
to have another winning season. We're seeing another scandal take
place right now, and it's very interesting to me that
in this most recent scandal we're watching unfold, there seems
to be kind of one thing. Everyone looks at the
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kids and says, oh, these kids always have their hands out,
and you know, maybe this will lead to some sort
of major changes in the way college athletics operate. Well,
first off, these kind of scandals have been going on
since the fifties and it hasn't really changed much of
anything yet.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I know that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Everyone wants to start paying players, but that is a
huge can of worms to open, and these colleges are
making billions of dollars. They're not gonna give that away
anytime soon. Second, kids don't change. The kids today are
no different from the kids back in the fifties. They're
college kids. They're broke.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Of course, they have their hand out.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But did you notice how in every one of these scandals,
including the one today, it isn't the kids that make
these things happen. It's the adults.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The adults are the ones turning the wheels.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes, these college kids want to be paid. They're broken,
they're trying to help their families or whatever. They're trying
to get their career going. But what's Rick Betino's excuse.
He's got money, He has tons of money.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He's one of the smartest college coaches of all time.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I will say this, Rick Patino might be one of
the best exes those guys ever in college basketball. Yet
here he is involved in this mess up to his ears.
And I don't want to hear about how Rick Patino didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Know about it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
If he didn't know about it, then fire him for
not knowing because he should have known about it. Hey,
kids don't change, it's the adults. They have to put
a stop to it. It's the adults that have to
educate these kids. They are making mistakes that are gonna
haunt them for the rest of their lives. And once
again it's the adults that aren't doing their jobs. Now,
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as we do every week, we need to get to
our daily dose Top five. Yes, the college basketball season
is winding down quickly as we move toward the NCAA Tournament.
We'll see who ends up winning that tournament. But let's
all be honest. College players have other goals in mind.
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They're all hoping for one thing. As much as we
want to tell ourselves, Oh, they just want to win
a championship, that's probably not their ultimate goal is not
for most players.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They want another thing.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
They want to go to the league, to play in
the NBA, to get paid to play basketball. So today
our Daily Dose Top five is going to take a
look at a different type of success in the college
basketball world, and that is this which programs are actually
generating the most NBA players. We think of the top
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teams in college basketball, who is getting their players paid? What? No,
I'm not talking about at the university. I'm talking about
after they leave. Today we count down the top five
colleges with the most NBA players in history, starting off
at number five, and we go to a place that
might not be the birthplace of basketball, but it does
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have a very, very rich history. Because keep in mind
that James Nasmith hims Elth coached at the University of Kansas.
Later we would see fog Allen on the bench, who,
by the way, had an assistant by the name of
Dean Smith on his bench. Also, then we had Larry Brown,
we had Roy Williams, and now we have Bill Self.
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And who knows if Bill Self is going to get
that program in trouble. But the Kansas Jayhawks have produced
seventy six NBA players, and they have had some good ones,
guys like Wilt Chamberlain and Paul Pierce and Danny Manning
and Joel Embiid and Jacques Vaughn. How in the world
has that happened in the middle of like nowhere, Lawrence, Kansas. Well,
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I would think the fact that they've had some great
coaches must have a lot to do with it. And
I will say this, I have been to Kansas. That
place supports their basketball program like no other. They are
crazy back there. They might not have much in Kansas.
They have basketball and they love it. Kansas has won
three national titles. They have a great fan base. Kansas
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comes in at number five on our list with seventy
six players going on to the NBA. We move on
to number four and we get to a team that
you might have actually thought would be a little bit higher.
But the Duke Blue Devils don't always have the most
NBA players, as proven right here. The Blue Devils come
in fourth with eighty one NBA players, a ton of
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whom have come under current coach and resident grumpy old
man Mike Krzyzewski. But Duke does have quite the illustrious history,
which is pretty amazing when you think about this. When
you think about college enrollment, Duke's is only about fifteen
thousand students.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Compare that to.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Say Kansas They're at almost thirty thousand. Compare that to
say Texas A and M, who is at almost seventy
thousand students. Duke has a pretty small pool to pull from.
But Duke has had some greats as well. Think back
to guys like Shane Battier and Johnny Dawkins, Danny Ferry,
Mike Jaminski, Art Hayman, Grant Hill, Christian Ladner, Elton brand Irving,
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I guess has to go on this list, JJ Reddick,
and of course the latest Zion Williamson. Not bad for
a small school that only has about fifteen thousand students
in their current enrollment. Duke comes in at number four.
We move on to number three, and we move on
to a program that annoys our number four entry more
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than anyone, because while Duke may have swept the series
this year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
has sent more players to the professional level. They come
in third with ninety four players. And hey, not only
does North Carolina have quantity, but wow, they have quality too.
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You think back to guys like Michael Jordan, who yes,
Phil Ford, James Worthy, Charlie Scott, Sam Perkins, Vince Carter,
Bob McAdoo, Bobby Jones, Jerry Stackhouse, Antoine Jamison. The tar
Heels have had some greats on their list. North Carolina
comes in at number three. We jump up to number two,
and yes, we realize that their prime is probably behind them,
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but you just know the UCLA Bruins had to be
on this list. The run that UCLA went on from
about sixty three until about seventy five. It's never going
to be matched. John Wooden ran off ten championships in
that era. Yes, I know it was a different era,
but the Bruins have also had some monsters that went
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on to great success in the NBA. UCLA has sent
ninety eight players to the pros, including, of course, Kareem
Abdul Jabbar, Bill Walton, Jamal Wilkes, Aaron Aflalo. What about
Russell Westbrook, Reggie Miller, Baron Davis, Marcus Johnson, Lonzo Ball,
Gail Goodrich, Henry Bibby, Walt Hazzard, Kevin Love, and Sidney Wicks.
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That's a pretty good collection.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Of talent there.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
UCLA comes in at number two. So which college basketball
program has sent the most players from its hauls to
the NBA court? And we've already touched on some big
time programs, but this one tops them all. And you
know the crazy thing is this school is still doing
it every single year because the Kentucky Wildcats have sent
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one hundred and eleven players to the NBA and I'm
telling you they're going to be doing it again this summer.
In fact, these days, head coach John Calipari. He actually
goes to the NBA Draft to celebrate with his players
well and also to be seen by all of the
recruits that he's trying to pull to Lexington. But the
Kentucky Wildcats have an impressive list. Louis Dampier, Cliff Hagen,
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dan Issel, Kenny Walker, Sam Buie, DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis,
Tony delk, Jamal Mashburn, Ron Mercer, Tayshawn Prince, Mel Turpin,
Carl Anthony Towns, Jon Rondo, and Twine Walker John Wall.
There are a ton of talented players that have come
out of Kentucky. Kentucky Tops are list of colleges sending
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players onto the NBA. Like I said, I know people
are down on this year's class of college players going
to the NBA, But I just bet that after March Madness,
we're going to start hearing more hype for a few
of these players with the NBA Draft coming up, Because
every single year in March Madness, not only do we
see upsets, not only do we see buzzer beaters, we
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also find stars in this tournament every year, guys that
we didn't know that all of a sudden we're going
the guy's going to be a.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Top five pick. It's going to happen again this year.
It happens every year.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now as we do so many weeks, not every week,
but like a lot of weeks. We need to get
over to our daily nose. Top five. Hey, selection Sunday
for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is this Sunday, And
recently we have actually seen some of the top teams
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begin to stumble. It's a little bit tough because you
start playing teams in your own conference, they know you
really well, they call out your plays before you do,
and it just makes it tough to get wins late.
I mean, Michigan got blown out by Illinois, they got
beat by Michigan State. Baylor lost to Kansas, Illinois lost
to Michigan State too, Iowa lost to Michigan. A lot
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of this is just teams beating each other up. West
Virginia lost to Oklahoma State, Ohio State lost four games
in a row recently, and even Alabama lost to Arkansas.
There is a ton of shuffling going on right now
in the top ten recently, but there's one team that
is not stumbling, and that is the number one Gonzaga Bulldogs.
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The Zags are cruising. They should make it through the
West Coast Tournament and into March Madness undefeated, and they
should do it relatively easily. The Gonzaga Bulldogs are without
a doubt going to be the team to be this
year in March Madness. But hey, we know, crazy things
happen in March Madness. And having a favorite, having a
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top seed stumble in the tournament, yeah, it happens. In fact,
it happens often. Today our day with those top five
is counting down the top five times we had a
heavy favorite that slipped up and didn't get the championship
that we all thought they would. Let's see what five
teams could be on our list today. We start off
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at number five, and we start off with a team
that ended up getting a reputation for kind of coming
up short in these big games. But remember this team
didn't just have two future NBA players on it. It
had two future NBA Hall of Fame players on it.
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Because in nineteen eighty three, the Houston Cougars were absolutely loaded.
Five Slama Jama had a chem Olajuan. They also had
Clyde Drexler. They had Benny Anders. They had Michael Young,
they had Rob Williams, they had Eric Davis. Fi Slama
Jama was absolutely loaded, and the Cougars were making the
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second of their three straight Final four appearances in nineteen
eighty three. Now, most experts agreed when Houston made it
to the Final four and they beat Louisville in that
Final four, well, that was basically the national championship game.
I mean the other national semifinal that was between North
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Carolina State and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Who cares.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That was like a battle for third because we all
know Louisville and Houston were really the two big dogs
of the year. Yeah, except North Carolina State and head
coach Jim Valvano.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
They had other ideas.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
The wolf Pack would steal a fifty to four to
fifty two win in the championship game as Lorenzo Charles
grabbed Derrek Wittenberg shot and flushed it through the rim
at the buzzer. And I will always believe that Houston
head coach Guy Lewis kind of just got out coached
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by Jimmy v He kind of out coached himself a
little bit too, because Guy Lewis always preached that we
go out and we play this high flying style. We press,
we have wide open attack. We just score and score
and score. But then if a game ever got tight,
he would kind of panic and he would kind of
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try to slow things down and take a ton of
time off the clock. And as a result, Houston got
beat by a North Carolina State team that probably shouldn't
have beat him. Houston went down and came up short.
And they come in today on our list at number five.
We move next to number four and we reach a
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team that has won the Big Game a few times.
But for a few years there, they really had a
street going of always losing. It seemed like they always
lose to like a lesser opponent in the tournament. They
had a great coach and Roy Williams. They had a
ton of talented players. So what kept tripping up the
Kansas Jayhawks. We go back to nineteen ninety seven for
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our number four entry, and the Kansas Jayhawks were loaded.
It looked like they were finally going to win it
all for old Roy Hey. They had all of the talent,
Paul Pierce, rayf La France, Jared Hass, Scott Pollard, Jacques Vaughn.
Show me a weakness on this Jayhawks team, it didn't
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have one. They rolled through the season and into the
tournament they had a thirty four and one record. Next
up for Kansas was another team that always seemed to
fall short in the dance, But in nineteen ninety seven,
the Arizona Wildcats were a little different because Miles Simon
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and Mike Bibbie and Jason Terry and Michael Dickerson, they
just kind of seemed like a team that would not
be denied. They would find a way to beat you.
The Arizona Wildcats scraped past Kansas eighty five to eighty
two in the Final four to send the Jayhawks home.
Even though the Jayhawks might have been the most talented
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team in nineteen ninety seven, Kansas would have to wait
another thirty years to win a title. And today, the
ninety seven Kansas Jayhawks come in on our list at
number four. We move on to number three, and we
get to a team that we actually have our choice
between two different years. But I believe the squad that
I'm gonna pick here at number three was actually a
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little bit better. Imagine a little Catholic school from Washington,
DC becoming a household name and having the coolest gear
you could own on the street. You want street cred,
you wore something that said Georgetown Hoyas on it back
in the eighties because Big John Thompson found tough kids
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that showed no emotions and fight you as soon as
play you and play tough defense. They would beat you
up physically and they dared you to fight back. And
in nineteen eighty five, Hoya paranoia was in full effect.
Georgetown had Patrick Ewing, they had David Wingate and Reggie
Williams and Michael Jackson, and they had just won the
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championship the previous season.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
No way anyone is going to hang.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
With Georgetown in eighty five. So Georgetown rolled to a
thirty five and two record, while I might add playing
in the Big East Conference, the nastiest conference in the
country at the time. But here's the problem for Georgetown.
In the final, they ran into a team that just
knew them so well. Because the Hoyas had already played
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Villanova in conference play twice. They had beaten them both times,
one time by seven, one time by two. But here's
the thing, Villanova knew Georgetown. Other teams might have been
afraid of Georgetown. Leanova wasn't afraid of them. But Villanova
also didn't have the talent that Georgetown had. I mean,
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it would take a perfect game to beat Georgetown in
eighty five, right, So Villanova went out and played about
as close to a perfect game as you could. Villanova
made twenty two of twenty eight shots from the field.
They shot twenty two of twenty seven at the free
throw line. It took almost a perfect game to beat
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the Georgetown Hoys in nineteen eighty five, and somehow the
Villanova Wildcats played one and took them out and sent
them home. Next up at number two. We go clear
back to nineteen seventy five, and this team coming in
at number two was great. They had kind of a
tough break, literally, and they would prove how great they were. Eventually.
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Head coach Bob Knight led the Indiana Hoosiers that had
Quinn Buckner and Scott May and Kent Ben's and Steve
Green and Bobby Wilkerson to a thirty one to oh record,
and they plowed through the Big Ten undefeated. But then
in the final game of the season against Purdue, Scott
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May broke his arm and the Hoosiers hit the Big
Dance and everyone was saying, well, maybe they won't be
quite as good. But then they played their first two
games and they beat Texas al Paso and Oregon State
by a combined thirty five points. Okay, well, maybe Indiana's
still gonna be good. But then they ran into Kentucky
and the loss of Scott May turned out to be
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a major problem. Kentucky shot almost fifty percent from the
field and Indiana got sent home early as they get
knocked out by Kentucky. Now give Indiana this, they would
come back the following season and they would go thirty
two and h on their way to a title. And
they are the last team to win it all going undefeated.
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That was in seventy six. But in seventy five, the
Indiana Hoosiers come up a little short, and they come
in today at our list at number two. We reached
our number one team on our list of heavy favorites
that came up a little short in March Madness, and
I mean, who else could beat It is one of
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the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history, but it does
have some disturbing similarities to this year. In nineteen ninety one,
the UNLV running Rebels had won the title the year
before by blowing out Duke in the championship game by
thirty and now they returned pretty much everyone, Larry Johnson,
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Stacy Agman, Greg Anthony Anderson Hunt. They were all back
and they were going to win again. They blasted through
the regular season. They were pounding on teams in their conference.
Then they got to the tournament and they just kept
beating up on people. They beat Montana by thirty four,
They scraped by Georgetown by eight, but they beat Utah
by seventeen. They beat Seaton Hall by twelve, and now
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UNLV found themselves facing the same Duke squad in the
final four. Well, this would just be another thirty point blowout, right,
UNLV head coach Jerry Tarkanian. He knew in ninety one. Hey,
this Duke team is different. For one, Duke has heard
for the past year, how you got blown out in
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the championship. It wasn't even close. But Duke returned to
everyone too, Christian Lightner, Bobby Hurley, Thomas Hill, Brian Davis.
Oh and by the way, they also had a young,
really really talented freshman by the name of Grant Hill.
And Duke had gotten much much tougher over the past year.
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They got UNLV into a dogfight, and late in the
game it would be the run and Rebels that didn't
quite know what to do in the clutch. Am I
gonna shoot it? Are you gonna shoot it?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
We drive? Do we take the three? What do we do?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We haven't been in this situation. Duke escapes with a
seventy nine to seventy seven win and ended the run
of the Rebels. Now, the Gonzaga Bulldogs are going to
be the big favorite in the tournament this year. They
will most likely be undefeated and the top overall seed.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So when we.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Look at our list today, could any of us apply
to Gonzaga? I mean, could they get out coached like
Houston did in eighty three?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Mark Few is as good a coach as anyone in
the country, so I don't see that happening. Could they
face maybe a little bit tougher team like Kansas did
in ninety seven? Well, I mean that's possible. Gonzaga's pretty
tough themselves, though. Could they be a victim of a
perfect game like Georgetown was in eighty five? Again, it's possible,
but perfect games are tough to come by.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Two.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Could Gonzaga suffer an injury that would change them drastically
like Indiana did in seventy five?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Man, I hope not. I really hope not.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I hate seeing injuries that would be absolutely terrible. But
could Gonzaga be the victim of playing in a less
competitive conference like UNLV did in ninety one and then
not quite know what to do when they get in
a tight game, which, by the way, they haven't been
in since like December. Yeah, I mean Gonzaga hasn't been
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in a tight game recently. The Zags are going to
be the team to beat, but we also know anything
can happen in March Madness. And I absolutely can't wait
to get to March Madness since we missed it last year,
I am absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Looking forward to the tournament this year.
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a few Daily Dose Top five from past episodes that
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are heavily March Madness flavored. So sit back, relax, and
enjoy some of the best of the Daily Dose Sports podcast. Now,
as we do every single week, we have got to
get to our Daily Dose Top five. You know, last
week we briefly discussed the college basketball scandal that is
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currently surfacing right now. It seems, if you missed it,
that coaches at Louisville, Auburn, Arizona, Southern California, and Oklahoma
State are being charged not by the NCAA, no, no, no,
but by the FBI of things like you know, fraud
and conspiracy and the always frightening tax evasion. Yeah, you
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never want to hear that. Further investigations are still in
the works. Miami, South Carolina, and Alabama are being investigated,
and there could be more schools that come out yet.
You know, these schools were apparently taking money to steer
players to certain agents and financial advisors. Now, one of
the popular takes on sports talk shows everywhere last week was, hey,
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everyone's doing it. I know that they got busted, but
everybody's doing it. Two problems with that mentality. One, no,
they aren't. I will promise you that there are coaches
and schools that aren't doing this, And not only are
they not doing it, but they're giggling at the ones
getting caught. Because as a coach, you know or you
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at least suspect the schools that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Are doing things.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Let's say a little bit sketchy, like we knew it
at the high school level. You suddenly just got five
brand new superstar players.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Amazing coincidence.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And second, it doesn't matter if other schools were doing it.
Try spinning that with the cop that pulls you over
for speedy. Hey I clocked you at seventy one and.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
A fifty five.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well yeah, but everybody was doing it. Uh okay, well
here's your ticket. This story is still kind of taking shape.
It's still coming out. It may be a long time coming.
We could see other programs coming out, other coaches coming out,
but you know what this actually is. In the first
time we've seen a scandal take place in the world
of college basketball. College basketball officially begins practice in less
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than two weeks, so I realize it's not college basketball
season just yet, but right now we are going to
count down the top five college basketball scandals of all time.
And I'm telling you right now, they are scandalous. Number
five on our list. You know, the Kentucky Wildcats men's
basketball program, It is easily one of the most decorated
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in college hoop's history.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
But the late eighties, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
They were memorable for a little bit of a different reason. First,
it was top recruit Eric Manuel, who had an excellent
freshman season, but then the NC DOUBLEA started looking at.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
His act scores.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
He scored a passing twenty three.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That wasn't the problem.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
The problem was that Eric Manuel had the exact same
answers word for word on two hundred and eleven out
of his two hundred and nineteen answers as the guy
sitting next to him. Yeah, that probably won't set off
any alarms, will it. The NC DOUBLEA would eventually ban
Manual from competing. That wasn't all, because then there was
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Los Angeles recruit Chris Mills. He had a package from
a prominent Kentucky booster as the Wildcats were in the
process of trying to get him to sign his letter
of intent, the package broke open and twenty fifty dollar
bills spilled out, So after a solid freshman season, Mills
was deemed ineligible and would end up transferring to Arizona.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Kentuck.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Ucky would be banned from participating in the postseason for
two seasons. And you'll remember that was at the time
Rick Mattino came on the scene, had to deal with
some of that got them going and then Kentucky didn't
miss the postseason tournament for like two decades. But back
in the late eighties, yeah, Kentucky was in some serious trouble.
Number four on our list. This one has been pretty
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publicized in the ESPN thirty for thirty. Playing for the
mob And if you've ever seen the movie Goodfellas about
the mobster Henry Hill, then you're at least a little
familiar with this story. In nineteen seventy eight, Boston College
was favored to beat Providence by six or seven points.
Henry Hill and his group of mobsters got to a
few Boston College basketball players and convinced them to keep
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the score close. In return, they would get some cash,
and they would get even more cash if they actually
lived up to it and kept the games close. That
trial run against Providence, Yeah, failed miserably. Boston College won
by nineteen. The mobsters were not too pleased, and they
warned center Rick Koon and Jim Sweeney that they're not
gonna be able to play basketball with broken hands.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Man, that's just me. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
They say they also approach leading scorer Ernie Cobb, but
it looks like he never participated. Boston College was reportedly
shaving points in nine different games. It was all uncovered
when Henry Hill was arrested in nineteen eighty. He turned
evidence against his fellow gangsters in return for immunity on
a drug charge.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Center ra Kune.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, he was actually sentenced to ten years in prison,
with Sweeney and Cob both being acquitted. See, now this
is what the current dirty coaches have to worry about.
In this deal that's going on right now. Deals are
going to be made. Other coaches might be outed because
if you tell me, I'm going to give you a
little bit of immunity. If you'll tell us some other
coaches you knew were involved. Yeah, we could see some
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prison musical chairs. And who is going to end up
not having a seat. Somebody's going to turn someone else
in it's all coming. There are a number of coaches
that should be very, very nervous right now, number three
on our list.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
In February of nineteen fifty one, the Sporting News named
Long Island University guard Sherman White their national player of
the year. He averaged twenty seven points a game. And
then the very next day, White was arrested in connection
with a point shaving scandal that involved not just his school,
seven different universities. Because it seems that City College of
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New York, New York University, Long Island University, Manhattan College,
Bradley University in Illinois, the University of Toledo, and yes,
the University of Kentucky all had players involved in the
world of organized crime. They were all shaving points. In all,
thirty two players from seven different colleges admitted to taking
bribes between nineteen forty seven and nineteen fifty to fix
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eighty six games in seventeen different states. Two players went
to jail, one coach was banned. There's actually a great
HBO documentary about this scandal called City Dump, if you'd
like to learn more about it. Kentucky was forced to
cancel full season, and you might notice that none of
those other schools, they'd barely even compete in basketball anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, it's not an.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Accident, it's because of the scandal. It took place back
in the fifties. That's number three on our list.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
As big as the fifties point shaving scandal was another
one came that was actually bigger. In nineteen sixty one,
organized crime got involved again.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
This one was actually insane.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Some of the same mobsters involved in the fifties were
involved in this one, but this one was so much bigger.
Jack Molinis was a former NBA player turned bookie. He
had been banned for betting games, and he would eventually
be found guilty of bribing players to fix games. From
fifty seven to sixty one, see it seems our boy,
Jack Molinas, he was involved in a gambling scandal that
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involved thirty seven different players from twenty two different schools,
including Utah, blingeren Alabama, and College of the Pacific, who
all testified against Molina's in court. You know, the worst
part about this whole thing was that New York basketball
legend Connie Hawkins was kind of implicated because of the
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fact he had borrowed two hundred and fifty dollars from Millennis,
even though he was never convicted of anything and there
was never anything that made it look like he was
really involved in any kind of pointy shavy Hawkins was
an incredible talent. They were comparing him to Julius Irving.
But after this he always carried that tarnish. He was
blackballed from college and from the NBA. He played in
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the ABL and the ABA, and he was amazing in
each league. He finally had to sue the NBA to
get into the league. He put together a solid career,
but I mean he had been short at his best
playing years. Meanwhile, Mollinis was sentenced to ten to fifteen
years and he got out in just five. But in
nineteen seventy five, Jack Mollinis was the victim of a
bullet to the head murder in the backyard of his
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Hollywood Hills home. Widely assumed he was probably a mob hit.
What's the old saying, if you starve with the lion,
the lions starves life last. So what could be number
one on the biggest college basketball scandals of all time?
Here on our Daily Dose Top five. It's an ugly one.
I'll tell you that right now. In the summer of
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two thousand and three, Baylor basketball had one of the
most disturbing scandals in NCAA history. Let's see, you had
a coach who was paying the tuition of two players
because he was already over his scholarship limits. And then
when he was questioned as to how the players were
in school, he told investigators the kids were probably drug dealers.
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Wait wait, it gets worse because it also seems that
one of those players had been murdered by a teammate
two months prior. Baylor forward Carlton Dotson had been practicing
with firearms in the summer of two thousand and three
because he was off his medication and he thought people
were out to get him because he was, in fact
Jesus Great Odin Craven.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Not making this up. You can check.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
When he and teammate Patrick dennahe got into an argument,
Dotson shot and killed Dennihey. Dotson buried the body in
a gravel pit, and Dennehy was listed as a missing person.
Dotson would later confess to the murder and you would
be sentenced to thirty five years in prison. Then, when
head coach Dave Bliss was questioned as to why he
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had players on his roster that were having their education
paid for but not on scholarship. Dave Bliss told NC
DOUBLEA investigators that Denny he was probably selling drugs to
pay his way. Bliss would eventually resign and the NC
DOUBLEA would find Baylor guilty of everything from improper payments
to drug use, and they would place Baylor on probation
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and restriction for seven seasons. It was as close as
the death penalty as any school has been since SMU,
and it took Baylor until two thousand and eight just
to have another winning season. We're seeing another scandal take
place right now, and it's very interesting to me that
in this most recent scandal we're watching unfold, there seems
to be kind of one thing. Everyone looks at the
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kids and says, oh, these kids always have their hands out,
and you know, maybe this will lead to some sort
of major changes in the way college athletics operate. Well,
first off, these kind of scandals have been going on
since the fifties and it hasn't really changed much of
anything yet.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I know that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Everyone wants to start paying players, but that is a
huge can of worms to open, and these colleges are
making billions of dollars. They're not gonna give that away
anytime soon. Second, kids don't change. The kids today are
no different from the kids back in the fifties. They're
college kids. They're broke.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Of course, they have their hand out.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But did you notice how in every one of these scandals,
including the one today, it isn't the kids that make
these things happen. It's the adults.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The adults are the ones turning the wheels.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yes, these college kids want to be paid. They're broken,
they're trying to help their families or whatever. They're trying
to get their career going. But what's Rick Betino's excuse.
He's got money, He has tons of money.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He's one of the smartest college coaches of all time.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I will say this, Rick Patino might be one of
the best exes those guys ever in college basketball. Yet
here he is involved in this mess up to his ears.
And I don't want to hear about how Rick Patino didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Know about it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
If he didn't know about it, then fire him for
not knowing because he should have known about it. Hey,
kids don't change, it's the adults. They have to put
a stop to it. It's the adults that have to
educate these kids. They are making mistakes that are gonna
haunt them for the rest of their lives. And once
again it's the adults that aren't doing their jobs. Now,
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as we do every week, we need to get to
our daily dose Top five. Yes, the college basketball season
is winding down quickly as we move toward the NCAA Tournament.
We'll see who ends up winning that tournament. But let's
all be honest. College players have other goals in mind.
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They're all hoping for one thing. As much as we
want to tell ourselves, Oh, they just want to win
a championship, that's probably not their ultimate goal is not
for most players.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They want another thing.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
They want to go to the league, to play in
the NBA, to get paid to play basketball. So today
our Daily Dose Top five is going to take a
look at a different type of success in the college
basketball world, and that is this which programs are actually
generating the most NBA players. We think of the top
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teams in college basketball, who is getting their players paid? What? No,
I'm not talking about at the university. I'm talking about
after they leave. Today we count down the top five
colleges with the most NBA players in history, starting off
at number five, and we go to a place that
might not be the birthplace of basketball, but it does
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have a very, very rich history. Because keep in mind
that James Nasmith hims Elth coached at the University of Kansas.
Later we would see fog Allen on the bench, who,
by the way, had an assistant by the name of
Dean Smith on his bench. Also, then we had Larry Brown,
we had Roy Williams, and now we have Bill Self.
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And who knows if Bill Self is going to get
that program in trouble. But the Kansas Jayhawks have produced
seventy six NBA players, and they have had some good ones,
guys like Wilt Chamberlain and Paul Pierce and Danny Manning
and Joel Embiid and Jacques Vaughn. How in the world
has that happened in the middle of like nowhere, Lawrence, Kansas. Well,
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I would think the fact that they've had some great
coaches must have a lot to do with it. And
I will say this, I have been to Kansas. That
place supports their basketball program like no other. They are
crazy back there. They might not have much in Kansas.
They have basketball and they love it. Kansas has won
three national titles. They have a great fan base. Kansas
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comes in at number five on our list with seventy
six players going on to the NBA. We move on
to number four and we get to a team that
you might have actually thought would be a little bit higher.
But the Duke Blue Devils don't always have the most
NBA players, as proven right here. The Blue Devils come
in fourth with eighty one NBA players, a ton of
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whom have come under current coach and resident grumpy old
man Mike Krzyzewski. But Duke does have quite the illustrious history,
which is pretty amazing when you think about this. When
you think about college enrollment, Duke's is only about fifteen
thousand students.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Compare that to.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Say Kansas They're at almost thirty thousand. Compare that to
say Texas A and M, who is at almost seventy
thousand students. Duke has a pretty small pool to pull from.
But Duke has had some greats as well. Think back
to guys like Shane Battier and Johnny Dawkins, Danny Ferry,
Mike Jaminski, Art Hayman, Grant Hill, Christian Ladner, Elton brand Irving,
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I guess has to go on this list, JJ Reddick,
and of course the latest Zion Williamson. Not bad for
a small school that only has about fifteen thousand students
in their current enrollment. Duke comes in at number four.
We move on to number three, and we move on
to a program that annoys our number four entry more
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than anyone, because while Duke may have swept the series
this year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
has sent more players to the professional level. They come
in third with ninety four players. And hey, not only
does North Carolina have quantity, but wow, they have quality too.
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You think back to guys like Michael Jordan, who yes,
Phil Ford, James Worthy, Charlie Scott, Sam Perkins, Vince Carter,
Bob McAdoo, Bobby Jones, Jerry Stackhouse, Antoine Jamison. The tar
Heels have had some greats on their list. North Carolina
comes in at number three. We jump up to number two,
and yes, we realize that their prime is probably behind them,
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but you just know the UCLA Bruins had to be
on this list. The run that UCLA went on from
about sixty three until about seventy five. It's never going
to be matched. John Wooden ran off ten championships in
that era. Yes, I know it was a different era,
but the Bruins have also had some monsters that went
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on to great success in the NBA. UCLA has sent
ninety eight players to the pros, including, of course, Kareem
Abdul Jabbar, Bill Walton, Jamal Wilkes, Aaron Aflalo. What about
Russell Westbrook, Reggie Miller, Baron Davis, Marcus Johnson, Lonzo Ball,
Gail Goodrich, Henry Bibby, Walt Hazzard, Kevin Love, and Sidney Wicks.
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That's a pretty good collection.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Of talent there.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
UCLA comes in at number two. So which college basketball
program has sent the most players from its hauls to
the NBA court? And we've already touched on some big
time programs, but this one tops them all. And you
know the crazy thing is this school is still doing
it every single year because the Kentucky Wildcats have sent
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one hundred and eleven players to the NBA and I'm
telling you they're going to be doing it again this summer.
In fact, these days, head coach John Calipari. He actually
goes to the NBA Draft to celebrate with his players
well and also to be seen by all of the
recruits that he's trying to pull to Lexington. But the
Kentucky Wildcats have an impressive list. Louis Dampier, Cliff Hagen,
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dan Issel, Kenny Walker, Sam Buie, DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis,
Tony delk, Jamal Mashburn, Ron Mercer, Tayshawn Prince, Mel Turpin,
Carl Anthony Towns, Jon Rondo, and Twine Walker John Wall.
There are a ton of talented players that have come
out of Kentucky. Kentucky Tops are list of colleges sending
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players onto the NBA. Like I said, I know people
are down on this year's class of college players going
to the NBA, But I just bet that after March Madness,
we're going to start hearing more hype for a few
of these players with the NBA Draft coming up, Because
every single year in March Madness, not only do we
see upsets, not only do we see buzzer beaters, we
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also find stars in this tournament every year, guys that
we didn't know that all of a sudden we're going
the guy's going to be a.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Top five pick. It's going to happen again this year.
It happens every year.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now as we do so many weeks, not every week,
but like a lot of weeks. We need to get
over to our daily nose. Top five. Hey, selection Sunday
for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is this Sunday, And
recently we have actually seen some of the top teams
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begin to stumble. It's a little bit tough because you
start playing teams in your own conference, they know you
really well, they call out your plays before you do,
and it just makes it tough to get wins late.
I mean, Michigan got blown out by Illinois, they got
beat by Michigan State. Baylor lost to Kansas, Illinois lost
to Michigan State too, Iowa lost to Michigan. A lot
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of this is just teams beating each other up. West
Virginia lost to Oklahoma State, Ohio State lost four games
in a row recently, and even Alabama lost to Arkansas.
There is a ton of shuffling going on right now
in the top ten recently, but there's one team that
is not stumbling, and that is the number one Gonzaga Bulldogs.
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The Zags are cruising. They should make it through the
West Coast Tournament and into March Madness undefeated, and they
should do it relatively easily. The Gonzaga Bulldogs are without
a doubt going to be the team to be this
year in March Madness. But hey, we know, crazy things
happen in March Madness. And having a favorite, having a
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top seed stumble in the tournament, yeah, it happens. In fact,
it happens often. Today our day with those top five
is counting down the top five times we had a
heavy favorite that slipped up and didn't get the championship
that we all thought they would. Let's see what five
teams could be on our list today. We start off
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at number five, and we start off with a team
that ended up getting a reputation for kind of coming
up short in these big games. But remember this team
didn't just have two future NBA players on it. It
had two future NBA Hall of Fame players on it.
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Because in nineteen eighty three, the Houston Cougars were absolutely loaded.
Five Slama Jama had a chem Olajuan. They also had
Clyde Drexler. They had Benny Anders. They had Michael Young,
they had Rob Williams, they had Eric Davis. Fi Slama
Jama was absolutely loaded, and the Cougars were making the
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second of their three straight Final four appearances in nineteen
eighty three. Now, most experts agreed when Houston made it
to the Final four and they beat Louisville in that
Final four, well, that was basically the national championship game.
I mean the other national semifinal that was between North
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Carolina State and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Who cares.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That was like a battle for third because we all
know Louisville and Houston were really the two big dogs
of the year. Yeah, except North Carolina State and head
coach Jim Valvano.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
They had other ideas.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
The wolf Pack would steal a fifty to four to
fifty two win in the championship game as Lorenzo Charles
grabbed Derrek Wittenberg shot and flushed it through the rim
at the buzzer. And I will always believe that Houston
head coach Guy Lewis kind of just got out coached
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by Jimmy v He kind of out coached himself a
little bit too, because Guy Lewis always preached that we
go out and we play this high flying style. We press,
we have wide open attack. We just score and score
and score. But then if a game ever got tight,
he would kind of panic and he would kind of
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try to slow things down and take a ton of
time off the clock. And as a result, Houston got
beat by a North Carolina State team that probably shouldn't
have beat him. Houston went down and came up short.
And they come in today on our list at number five.
We move next to number four and we reach a
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team that has won the Big Game a few times.
But for a few years there, they really had a
street going of always losing. It seemed like they always
lose to like a lesser opponent in the tournament. They
had a great coach and Roy Williams. They had a
ton of talented players. So what kept tripping up the
Kansas Jayhawks. We go back to nineteen ninety seven for
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our number four entry, and the Kansas Jayhawks were loaded.
It looked like they were finally going to win it
all for old Roy Hey. They had all of the talent,
Paul Pierce, rayf La France, Jared Hass, Scott Pollard, Jacques Vaughn.
Show me a weakness on this Jayhawks team, it didn't
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have one. They rolled through the season and into the
tournament they had a thirty four and one record. Next
up for Kansas was another team that always seemed to
fall short in the dance, But in nineteen ninety seven,
the Arizona Wildcats were a little different because Miles Simon
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and Mike Bibbie and Jason Terry and Michael Dickerson, they
just kind of seemed like a team that would not
be denied. They would find a way to beat you.
The Arizona Wildcats scraped past Kansas eighty five to eighty
two in the Final four to send the Jayhawks home.
Even though the Jayhawks might have been the most talented
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team in nineteen ninety seven, Kansas would have to wait
another thirty years to win a title. And today, the
ninety seven Kansas Jayhawks come in on our list at
number four. We move on to number three, and we
get to a team that we actually have our choice
between two different years. But I believe the squad that
I'm gonna pick here at number three was actually a
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little bit better. Imagine a little Catholic school from Washington,
DC becoming a household name and having the coolest gear
you could own on the street. You want street cred,
you wore something that said Georgetown Hoyas on it back
in the eighties because Big John Thompson found tough kids
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that showed no emotions and fight you as soon as
play you and play tough defense. They would beat you
up physically and they dared you to fight back. And
in nineteen eighty five, Hoya paranoia was in full effect.
Georgetown had Patrick Ewing, they had David Wingate and Reggie
Williams and Michael Jackson, and they had just won the
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championship the previous season.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
No way anyone is going to hang.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
With Georgetown in eighty five. So Georgetown rolled to a
thirty five and two record, while I might add playing
in the Big East Conference, the nastiest conference in the
country at the time. But here's the problem for Georgetown.
In the final, they ran into a team that just
knew them so well. Because the Hoyas had already played
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Villanova in conference play twice. They had beaten them both times,
one time by seven, one time by two. But here's
the thing, Villanova knew Georgetown. Other teams might have been
afraid of Georgetown. Leanova wasn't afraid of them. But Villanova
also didn't have the talent that Georgetown had. I mean,
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it would take a perfect game to beat Georgetown in
eighty five, right, So Villanova went out and played about
as close to a perfect game as you could. Villanova
made twenty two of twenty eight shots from the field.
They shot twenty two of twenty seven at the free
throw line. It took almost a perfect game to beat
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the Georgetown Hoys in nineteen eighty five, and somehow the
Villanova Wildcats played one and took them out and sent
them home. Next up at number two. We go clear
back to nineteen seventy five, and this team coming in
at number two was great. They had kind of a
tough break, literally, and they would prove how great they were. Eventually.
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Head coach Bob Knight led the Indiana Hoosiers that had
Quinn Buckner and Scott May and Kent Ben's and Steve
Green and Bobby Wilkerson to a thirty one to oh record,
and they plowed through the Big Ten undefeated. But then
in the final game of the season against Purdue, Scott
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May broke his arm and the Hoosiers hit the Big
Dance and everyone was saying, well, maybe they won't be
quite as good. But then they played their first two
games and they beat Texas al Paso and Oregon State
by a combined thirty five points. Okay, well, maybe Indiana's
still gonna be good. But then they ran into Kentucky
and the loss of Scott May turned out to be
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a major problem. Kentucky shot almost fifty percent from the
field and Indiana got sent home early as they get
knocked out by Kentucky. Now give Indiana this, they would
come back the following season and they would go thirty
two and h on their way to a title. And
they are the last team to win it all going undefeated.
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That was in seventy six. But in seventy five, the
Indiana Hoosiers come up a little short, and they come
in today at our list at number two. We reached
our number one team on our list of heavy favorites
that came up a little short in March Madness, and
I mean, who else could beat It is one of
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the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history, but it does
have some disturbing similarities to this year. In nineteen ninety one,
the UNLV running Rebels had won the title the year
before by blowing out Duke in the championship game by
thirty and now they returned pretty much everyone, Larry Johnson,
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Stacy Agman, Greg Anthony Anderson Hunt. They were all back
and they were going to win again. They blasted through
the regular season. They were pounding on teams in their conference.
Then they got to the tournament and they just kept
beating up on people. They beat Montana by thirty four,
They scraped by Georgetown by eight, but they beat Utah
by seventeen. They beat Seaton Hall by twelve, and now
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UNLV found themselves facing the same Duke squad in the
final four. Well, this would just be another thirty point blowout, right,
UNLV head coach Jerry Tarkanian. He knew in ninety one. Hey,
this Duke team is different. For one, Duke has heard
for the past year, how you got blown out in
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the championship. It wasn't even close. But Duke returned to
everyone too, Christian Lightner, Bobby Hurley, Thomas Hill, Brian Davis.
Oh and by the way, they also had a young,
really really talented freshman by the name of Grant Hill.
And Duke had gotten much much tougher over the past year.
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They got UNLV into a dogfight, and late in the
game it would be the run and Rebels that didn't
quite know what to do in the clutch. Am I
gonna shoot it? Are you gonna shoot it?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
We drive? Do we take the three? What do we do?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We haven't been in this situation. Duke escapes with a
seventy nine to seventy seven win and ended the run
of the Rebels. Now, the Gonzaga Bulldogs are going to
be the big favorite in the tournament this year. They
will most likely be undefeated and the top overall seed.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So when we.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Look at our list today, could any of us apply
to Gonzaga? I mean, could they get out coached like
Houston did in eighty three?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Mark Few is as good a coach as anyone in
the country, so I don't see that happening. Could they
face maybe a little bit tougher team like Kansas did
in ninety seven? Well, I mean that's possible. Gonzaga's pretty
tough themselves, though. Could they be a victim of a
perfect game like Georgetown was in eighty five? Again, it's possible,
but perfect games are tough to come by.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Two.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Could Gonzaga suffer an injury that would change them drastically
like Indiana did in seventy five?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Man, I hope not. I really hope not.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I hate seeing injuries that would be absolutely terrible. But
could Gonzaga be the victim of playing in a less
competitive conference like UNLV did in ninety one and then
not quite know what to do when they get in
a tight game, which, by the way, they haven't been
in since like December. Yeah, I mean Gonzaga hasn't been
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in a tight game recently. The Zags are going to
be the team to beat, but we also know anything
can happen in March Madness. And I absolutely can't wait
to get to March Madness since we missed it last year,
I am absolutely.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Looking forward to the tournament this year.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Hey, next week on the Dose, we will be getting
back to our regular format and we will be breaking
down all that we have learned in the sports world
over the past week or so. You know, we're gonna
have to take a deep dive on that NCAA tournament.
So make sure you stop by the Dose and make
sure you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
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Speaker 1 (33:58):
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