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    Prof's All-Time Tech Roster

    I needed to occupy my mind today, so I went down a rabbit hole researching the best players in Dunkin Dawgs' history. I came up with my all-time roster. It includes 13 players because NCAA rosters have 13 scholarships. I posted it all as a thread on Twitter, including some old pics I pulled. If you'd like to view that, you can click here. But I've posted the entire team below.

    Starting 5
    PG: Speedy Smith (6-3, 180). The best pure PG in Tech history, Smith holds the school’s career record for assists and steals, averaging 6.1 assists and 1.8 steals during his four-year career. He holds the school’s top two single-season assist marks, and though he wasn’t much of a scorer (6.2 ppg), he won’t have to be on this team. He can facilitate and lockdown the opponent’s best perimeter threat. His best season came as a junior, when he averaged 7.8 points and 7.7 assists and led Tech to a share of the Conference USA title in the Bulldogs’ first season in the league. He was named to the C-USA first team that year and won Player of the Year the following season.

    SG: Mike McConathy (6-3, 175). The school’s second-leading scorer and one of just two players to ever score more than 2,000 points at Tech, he was a three-time All-Southland selection and the Southland Conference Player of the Year in 1976. He led the Bulldogs to the Southland title that season as a junior, averaging 24.7 points, and he followed that up with a 27.5 scoring average as a senior. He is tied for the single-game scoring record with 47 points against Lamar his junior year, and his six career 40-point games are the most in school history. He was a 4th-round selection of the Chicago Bulls in the 1977 NBA Draft and has been the head men’s basketball coach at Northwestern State for the past 21 years.

    SF: Jackie Moreland (6-7, 215). One of three players whose jerseys have been retired, Moreland was the Bulldogs’ first All-American. He was a three-time All-American and the 1960 Gulf States Conference Player of the Year. He is perhaps the most sought-after prospect in Tech basketball history. After scoring more than 5,000 points during his high school career in Minden, he signed with North Carolina State but was ruled ineligible because of recruiting violations. He returned home to lead the Bulldogs to their second 20-win season in school history, when Moreland averaged 21.1 points to lead Tech to a 21-4 record and the Gulf South championship. Over his three-year career, Moreland averaged 21.3 points (second in school history) and is the school’s leader in rebounds with 16.0 per game. The Detroit Pistons selected Moreland 4th overall in the 1960 NBA Draft, and he went on to play five seasons in the NBA and three more in the ABA. He averaged 9.8 points and 5.9 rebounds during his eight-year career.

    PF: Karl Malone (6-9, 250). When you think of Louisiana Tech basketball, you think of The Mailman. He’s the gold standard, and it’s easy to see why. He’s a Hall of Famer, a two-time NBA MVP, a member of the “Dream Team,” and a 14-time All-Star. Malone was the Southland Conference Newcomer and Player of the Year in 1983 when he averaged 20.9 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. Malone then became the backbone for perhaps the greatest two-year run in school history. Malone averaged 18.8 points and 8.8 rebounds as a sophomore, when the Bulldogs won the Southland Conference tournament and lost to eventual national runner-up Houston in the second round of the NCAA tourney. The next year, Malone and the Bulldogs finished 29-3 and made a run to the Sweet 16 before losing to No. 1 Oklahoma by two points. Following his junior year, Malone was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 13th overall pick. He spent 19 years in the NBA, 18 with the Jazz, averaging 25 points and 10 rebounds during his career.

    C: Mike Green (6-10, 200). A three-time All-American, four-time all-conference selection, Southland Conference Player of the Year and Associated Press National Player of the Year, Mike Green stands atop Tech’s individual scoring and rebounding charts. One of just two players with more than 2,000 career points, Green averaged 22.9 points during his career, inlcuding an astonishing 30.9 points per game as a senior. He owns three of the five greatest single-season rebounding totals and finished with an average of 15.4 rebounds per game. He scored 30 or more points 23 times during his career (including a career-high 47), tops in school history, and grabbed a career-high 26 rebounds twice. The Bulldogs went 81-21 during his four years, winning two Gulf South Conference championships. Green was the fourth overall pick of the Seattle Supersonics in the 1973 NBA Draft, but instead opted to play for the Denver Rockets of the ABA. He spent three years in the ABA, where he appeared in the 1975 all-star game, before joining the NBA with Seattle. He spent three years in the NBA and averaged a combined 11.5 points and 6.9 rebounds during his six-year pro career.

    Bench
    PG Wayne Smith (6-4): Smith ran the show for two of the best teams in school history from 1983-85. He averaged 10.2 points and 5.9 assists as a sophomore, guiding the Bulldogs to a 26-7 record and the second round of the NCAA tourney. He followed that up with 10.2 points and 5.4 assists on the legendary ‘84-85 squad that finished 29-3 and lost by 2 to #1 seed Oklahoma in the Sweet 16. He was named to the All-Southland second team as a junior and again as a senior, when he averaged 9.6 points and 6.4 assists. He finished his career with averages of 9.0 points and 5.6 assists while ranking fourth in school history in steals (1.5).

    CG Lonnie Cooper (6-5, 185): A three-time All-Sun Belt selection in the late 1990s, Cooper excelled on both ends of the floor. He averaged 14 points, 5 assists and 1.5 steals for his career, ranking in the top 20 in scoring, top 10 in steals and third in assists. He also excelled from deep, connecting on 37.3% of his career 3-point attempts and ranking third in career 3-pointers made. He would be a great 3-and-D guy off the bench. Cooper played 11 seasons professionally overseas and is now the head boys basketball coach at Carroll High School in Monroe.

    SG Gerrod Henderson (6-4, 205): A three-time first-team all-conference performer, Henderson was the Sun Belt Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2000 after leading the Bulldogs to a 21-8 record. He scored a career-high 18.4 points per game while also leading the team with 3.6 assists while shooting .432-.393-.813 on the season. One of the best pure scorers in school history, Henderson ranks in the top 10 in scoring (15.9 ppg), 3-pointers made (209) and steals (1.7 per game). He led the team in scoring against as a junior (18.4) and senior (17.3), when the Bulldogs finished third in their first season in the Western Athletic Conference. He spent 12 seasons playing professionally overseas.

    SG Alex Hamilton (6-4, 190): One of the most underrated players in Tech history, Hamilton was a three-time All-Conference USA selection, including C-USA Player of the Year as a senior in 2016, when he became the Bulldogs’ ninth (and latest so far) All-American. That season, he scored 19.8 points per game while also leading C-USA with 6.2 assists. Hamilton ranks second in school history in steals with 215, averaging 1.5 per game. He had seven career 30-point games, including a career-high 33 against Western Kentucky as a senior. Hamilton played three seasons in the NBA G League before moving overseas, where he became an Israeli League all-star in 2019.

    SF Anthony Dade (6-6, 235): A local standout at Ruston High, “Bear” joined the Bulldogs for the 1988-89 season and made a huge impact on an NCAA tourney team. Dade finished second on the team in scoring (14.0) and rebounding (7.3) as the Bulldogs won the American South Conference tournament and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament before losing to #1 seed Oklahoma. Dade had his best season as a sophomore with 18.1 points and 7.4 rebounds as the Bulldogs won the American South regular-season title but missed out on the NCAA tourney. They were back the following year with Dade leading the way with averages of 14.4 points and 5.9 rebounds. During his career, he averaged 15.4 points (ranking him as the No. 5 scorer in school history) and 7.0 rebounds as the Bulldogs won 86 games and won either the regular-season or tournament title every year.

    PF Paul Millsap (6-8, 245): There aren’t many places where a guy who led the NCAA in rebounding for three straight seasons and went on to become a four-time NBA all-star would be coming off the bench, but that’s the depth of Tech’s frontcourt. Millsap was a legend in his three seasons in Ruston after choosing to stay home in Lincoln Parish after a standout prep career at Grambling Lab. During his career, he averaged 18.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game — all numbers that rank in the top five in school history. A top-100 national recruit, Millsap made an immediate presence for the Bulldogs, earning WAC Freshman of the Year in 2004 after scoring 15.6 points and grabbing 12.5 rebounds per game. He led the team in scoring all three seasons, averaging 20.4 points and 12.4 rebounds as a sophomore and 19.6 points and 13.3 rebounds as a junior, earning All-WAC first team both of those seasons. A second-round pick of the Utah Jazz in the NBA Draft, Millsap has played 14 seasons in the NBA with the Jazz, Atlanta Hawks and Denver Nuggets. He’s averaged 14 points and 7.3 rebounds per game during his career and made the Eastern Conference All-Star Team all four years he played with the Hawks.

    PF Randy White (6-8, 240): White was the leading scorer (21.2) and rebounder (10.5) on the Bulldogs’ 1988-89 team that went 23-9 and advanced to the 2nd round of the NCAA tourney. He was the America South Player of the Year in 1989 and an All-America honorable mention. He ranks in the top 10 in career scoring (15.3) and rebounding (8.3). He was the 8th overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft and played five seasons with the Dallas Mavs, averaging 7.4 points and 4.6 rebounds, before becoming a Euro All-Star and winning titles in Russia and Israel.

    C P.J. Brown (6-11, 225): A towering presence in the lane, Brown might be known more for his lengthy NBA career than what he did with the Bulldogs. He was a key cog on two NCAA tourney teams, as a freshman role player (4.7 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 1.6 bpg) on the 1988-89 team that made the second round and as a star junior (14.4 ppg, 9.7 rpg, 2.5 bpg) on the 1990-91 team that is the last Bulldog to make the NCAAs. He was a second-team All-America South selection as a junior and then made the All-Sun Belt first team as a senior after averaging 12.7 points and 9.9 rebounds per game. The Bulldogs won the Sun Belt regular season title that season but fell in the title game of the conference tournament and missed out on their sixth tourney appearance in nine years. Brown was a second-round pick of the New Jersey Nets in the 1992 NBA Draft and went on to average 9.1 points and 7.7 rebounds in 15 seasons with six different teams. He was named to the NBA’s All-Defensive Second Team three times and won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics.
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    Re: Prof's All-Time Tech Roster

    With the right coach that is an NCAA championship team. My all-time roster has most of yours on it, with only a few differences. But truthfully, we are splitting hairs. Guard play is crucial to being a championship caliber team. Tech has had great big guys, enough to build a powerful lineup of "bigs." No question about it. And as great as they were, a championship team depends on its guards.

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    Re: Prof's All-Time Tech Roster

    Very impressive. Well done, Prof.

    But this is truly hard to believe:

    Green averaged 22.9 points during his career, including an astonishing 30.9 points per game as a senior.


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    Re: Prof's All-Time Tech Roster

    Davis went "big" when he did this a few years ago.

    http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showt...-Starting-Five...

    But y'all weren't far off from each other.

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