Dave Sez

All-Time Squad Hoops Tourney

ESPN has a rare interesting article where they put together an NCAA Tournament field using schools' all-time rosters. They limited each school to just seven players, so some teams are not quite as overpowering as they could be.

They seeded the 32 teams they picked and Scoop Jackson (he's actually tolerable in this - go figure) and Eric Neel predict all of the first round matchups.

The ACC programs that made the tourney are UNC (#2 seed), Duke (#9), Maryland (#7), NC State (#23) and Georgia Tech (#28).

What's nuts is to look at Carolina. Their second squad could be about a 10 seed. My pick for their second seven:
Sam Perkins
Jerry Stackhouse
Rasheed Wallace
Donald Williams
Kenny Smith
Brad Daugherty
Antawn Jamison

And some All-Americans like J.R. Reid, Joe Forte and Vince Carter didn't even make that team (I'm looking only at college production, while the ESPN guys considered both college and pro careers).

Update: Damn, I completely forgot about the most recent Tar Heel squad. I'd be tempted to bump Rasheed and put Sean May on there instead. I'd love to work Felton in there as well, but I can't figure who to bump. Donald Williams is the weakest guy on that squad, but you need someone to hit jumpers.