State with the Best ever College Basketball Starting 5 Revised Version

I need to change the criteria. If you read the previous blog about which state has the best ever college basketball starting 5, you'll notice that the criteria I chose was that in order for those players to be eligible, they had to play at least High School ball in that particular state and not necessarily college in that state. My friend's idea when he suggested this topic was that the criteria would be that the players would represent the state they played COLLEGE BASKETBALL in, not high school.

He made a case for Louisiana being the state with the best all-time CB starting 5: Shaquille Oneal, Bob Petit, Karl Malone, Pete Maravich and Chris Jackson. All 5 of these players play college ball in the state of Louisiana. They were not all from Louisiana and they didn't all play high school ball there. By the way, his sixth man was Joe Dumars. So, if you still want to come up with the state with the best all-time starting five based on the players being from that state, or at least playing high school ball there, then go read the previous blog at kgussports.blogspot.com and post your comment. However, as far as I'm concerned, I'm changing the criteria to it being the state where they played college basketball.

OK, in that light, North Carolina would be my candidate for the state with the best all-time college basketball starting 5. Here they are: Phil Ford, Michael Jordan, Bobby Jones, Tyler Hansbrough and David Thompson. Chris Paul is my sixth man. This was a tough one. I had to leave out several Dukies like Johny Dawkins, Christian Laetner and Jason Williams, not to mention Jerry Stackhouse and Donald Williams from UNC, as well as Rodney Monroe (NC. St.) and Stephan Curry from Davidson.

As a Georgian, I have to throw in Georgia's case as being the state with the best college basketball starting 5. If they have to have played college ball in the state of Georgia, then here they are: Kenny Anderson, Mark Price, Dominique Wilkins, Jarvis Hayes and Dwayne Ferrell with Tommy Hammonds as the sixth man. Make your case for your state being the one with the best all-time college basketball starting 5. They have to have played college ball in that particular state! Post your comment below.