Who is your all-time Ute basketball starting five?

[Tony (admin)]

Offseason discussion topic.  Who is your all-time Utah basketball starting five?  Here’s mine:

Guard: Andre Miller
Guard: Jimmy Soto
Forward: Danny Vranes
Forward: Keith Van Horn
Center: Andrew Bogut

[Texasute]

Trade Manny Hendrix for Jimmy Soto and you have my list……

[harryute]

Trade Mike Newlin for Soto and Billy McGill for Bogut.

[Milton Vanderslice]

How good was Tom Chambers? His number hasn’t been retired, but I have memories of him being great. Where would he rank all time in the Utah Centers list?

He was drafted #8 in the NBA so I take it that he was really good, and I’d say he had a better NBA career than Bogut so far.

Chambers is the only NBA player to score 20,000+ points and not make it to the Hall of Fame.

[Milton Vanderslice]

[Tony (admin)]

His number was retired by the Phoenix Suns.  He was a stud.  The Vranes, Chambers, Bankowski group was awesome.

[utefansince79]

For an all time list, you certainly have to include Arnie Ferrin (4 time All American and helped lead the Utes to NCAA and NIT titles.)

 

[Great1Ute]

Good list.   I might replace Jimmy Soto with Delon Wright or Pace Mannion.

[Mano]

I can only really comment on players I have watched, which would start in the Jerry Pimm era.

Starters:
G – Jeff Jonas
G – Andre Miller
F – Danny Vranes
F – Keith Van Horn
C – Andrew Bogut

Second team
G – Delon Wright
G – Jeff Judkins
F – Josh Grant
F – Tom Chambers
C – Mike Doleac

[ironman1315]

I’d put Ninja Poetl on the second team.

[Newbomb Turk]

I would replace Soto with Ticky Burden and Bogut with Billy McGill.

[javadave]

No Kelvin Upshaw?

[homer]

Kelvin was a nice player. Not in Newlin’s, Ticky’s, or several others league.  

[Uterider]

Who on this list would have been a PAC 12 POY as a sophomore? Well Poetel was.

I don’t know where you put him but you can’t leave him off a two deep roster.

[Ute Dub]

Is it weird that Utah went further, to the title game, without Van Horn?

[EagleMountainUte]

Andre Miller he is the GOAT Ute basketball player to me always and forever. He also was a class act and great person all around.

[Jim Vanderhoof]

G- Miller
G- Ticky Burden (pre 3 pt shot still averaged 28)
F- VanHorn
F- Vranes
C- Bogut

[Rick]

I’ve loved reading this thread. There are so many others that were terrific or had memorable moments.
-Mike Doleac
-Jeff Jonas
-Earl Williams
-Greg Deane
-Buster Matheney
-Angelo Robinson
-Mitch Smith
-Jerry Stroman
-Walter Williams
-Paul Afeaki
I could keep going. So many memories.