CATS - BY THE NUMBERS: WHO IS THE VERY BEST? - #25

In sports one of the highest honors a player can recieve is to have his number retired, never to be used again. In Chicago there will be no more #23 for the Bulls, no #3 in New York for the Yankees, or #13 in Miami for the Dolphins. Just mentioning these sacred numbers and people will know exactly who is being discussed.

But what about at UK? Here at the University of Kentucky they don't retire the numbers, but the jersey's of the greats who wear them. But what if the they did retire the numbers? Who would be the very best? Would #24 be Mashburn or Walker? Would #10 be Dampier, Minniefield, or Bogans?

Here are the voting results so far:

#00: Tony Delk Vote for #00
#1: Cliff Hawkins Vote for #1
#2: Ravi Moss Vote for #2
#3: Rex Chapman Vote for #3
#4: Kyle Macy Vote for #4
#5: Wayne Turner Vote for #5
#6 Cliff Hagan Vote for #6
#7 Guy Strong Vote for #7
#8 Marvin Akers Vote for #8
#9 Bill Spicer Vote for #9
#10 Louie Dampier Vote for #10
#11 Sean Woods Vote for #11
#12 Ralph Beard Vote for #12
#13 Nazr Mohammed Vote for #13
#14 Eric Daniels Vote for #14
#15 Alex Groza Vote for #15
#16 Lou Tsioropoulos Vote for #16
#17 Al Reynolds Vote for #17
#18 Dale Barnstable Vote for #18
#19 Walter Hirsch Vote for #19
#20 Jimmy Dan Conner Vote for #20
#21 Jack Givens Vote for #21
#22 Mike PrattVote for #22
#23 Jodie Meeks Vote for #23
#24 Jamal MashburnVote for #24

CATS BY THE NUMBERS: WHO IS THE VERY BEST ?

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Comment by Blue Blood 00 on June 19, 2009 at 3:33pm: I love Winston, but Epps gets my vote. Not flashy, but maybe the most under control cool level headed floor generals that I have seen. He never done anything to hurt you, and wasn't afraid of the big shots. Ala two ft's against Arkansas in epic overtime battle for SEC tourney title, and last sec. 3 against Arizona to force overtimme in 97' final. Best performence probably came in 96' tourney when he only commited 2 or 3 turnovers for the whole tournament in way to lead us to title. I can;t remeber exact number of turnovers, but it was really low.

Comment by Nathan Brooks on June 9, 2009 at 1:32pm: C Dogg, I agree with your assessment. Edwards was a hell of a player. It looks like Jim Line was also very good.

Comment by C Dogg on June 9, 2009 at 12:59pm: Adolph Rupp called Edwards one of the greatest players he ever coached. Bennett, Epps, Shidler and Steele were nice players but not in the same league with Edwards.

Comment by UKYCat on June 9, 2009 at 12:41pm: I was going to vote for Bennett until I read CDogg's link on Edwards! I didn't realize all of that about Edwards. He left UK after his first varsity year to turn pro in the 1930's.
Leroy Edwards from Jon Scott's Big Blue History

Comment by The Krystal Ball on June 9, 2009 at 10:29am: I wanted to vote for the "others" in this one just for fun, but even though Jay Shilder was one of my favorite players growing up, I had to pick Bennett.

Agree totally about Anthony Epps

Comment by Stephen on June 9, 2009 at 9:06am: I went w/ White Lightning, However, I do believe Anthony Epps may be the most underrated player to ever put on a U.K. uniform.

Comment by C Dogg on June 9, 2009 at 9:01am: Sorry, bad link. Here is the correct link on Edwards:

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Edwards/index.html

Comment by C Dogg on June 9, 2009 at 8:59am: Leroy Edwards should win this vote going away. He was one of the first dominating centers (at 6'5") and he helped usher in the three second rule. Here is a link:

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Edwards/index.htm

The rest of the players on this list were never even the best player on their respective teams.