Can you name the Naismith College Player of the Year Winners?

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Year	Player	College
1969		UCLA
1970		LSU
1971		Notre Dame
1972		UCLA
1973		UCLA
1974		UCLA
1975		NC State
1976		Indiana
1977		UCLA
1978		Marquette
1979		Indiana State
1980		DePaul
1981		Virginia
1982		Virginia
1983		Virginia
1984		North Carolina
1985		Georgetown
1986		Duke
1987		Navy
1988		Kansas
1989		Duke

Year	Player	College
1990		La Salle
1991		UNLV
1992		Duke
1993		Indiana
1994		Purdue
1995		Maryland
1996		U Mass
1997		Wake Forest
1998		North Carolina
1999		Duke
2000		Cincinnati
2001		Duke
2002		Duke
2003		Texas
2004		St. Joseph's
2005		Utah
2006		Duke
2007		Texas
2008		North Carolina
2009		Oklahoma
2010		Ohio State

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Naismith Award Winners Quiz

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	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 05:51 GMT	1 point
	This list is littered with Duke bums. Sickening.

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	j66:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 09:44 GMT	6 points
	Most of these guys became solid pros and many were alltime greats. Looks like a higher correlation to pro success than the Heisman

	bmo1616:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 13:51 GMT	-3 points
	I thought Okafor won Player of the Year in 2004, are you sure that's right?

	bmo1616:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 13:56 GMT	9 points
	And ElDavo, if Duke is the best, then why do UCLA, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Indiana have more titles then them?

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	beckleyman:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 14:56 GMT	7 points
	It wouldn't be the Ralph Sampson of basketball instead of MJ. Sampson was a great player and one of the best all-time, but there have been alot of good centers in the NBA, and none more dominant than Wilt Chamberlain, but you don't hear Wilt's name mentioned above Jordan's. Of course, Wilt's talent wasn't really appreciated when he played, either, but it will take more than a Herculean effort to ever unseat Jordan as the best ever.

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	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 17:33 GMT	3 points
	Bryant, there are multiple basketball player of the year awards, and none of them is THE dominant award like the Heisman is for football. It's quite possible Okafor won the Wooden Award or something else...but I'm too lazy to check.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT	6 points
	I wonder if part of the reason Heisman winners aren't as successful in the pros is because there are essentially only two positions which ever win the Heisman. When 90% of the players don't even get considered, there's a much better chance an undeserving player will win.

	croppja:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 18:18 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz! got all 40. I would like to see an alumni quiz for NBA players where the quiz gives you the NBA great and you have to name what school they attended. That would be a fun one.

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	Ecliptica:	Mar 15th, 2009 at 20:30 GMT	0 points
	38/40. . .missed 1993 and 1995 and then saw the answers and felt really, really dumb. Probably the best I've done on one of these quizzes in a while.

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	Kevin:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 00:01 GMT	-3 points
	The one that is actually demonstrative of program quality, the regular season title? UNC. Oh, you meant the crap-shoot where you only need to win three games. Figures all the Dookies can hang their hats on is the little mini-playoffs that nobody outside of them cares about.

	ku_sucks:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 02:04 GMT	2 points
	try telling syracuse that no one cares about conference tournaments! this year, and in 2006, they greatly aided their tourney resumes with their deep runs in the big east tournament. you can hate on duke all you want, but have a legit comeback.

	loose_cannon:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 03:09 GMT	2 points
	Did they ever get the rest of Tyler Hansbrough's face out of Gerald Henderson's elbow?

	Kevin:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 04:13 GMT	-4 points
	Exhibit A why Dook fans are douche bags. They celebrate hitting somebody when they aren't good enough to beat them.

	Kevin:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 06:33 GMT	-2 points
	@pat - My point was that the regular-season title is more indicative of the best team in the conference. The leagues attach their auto-bids to the tourneys to make them meaningful, and while a run can certainly enhance a team's standing with the committee, 16 or 18 games tells you more about a team than 3 or 4.

	loose_cannon:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 14:45 GMT	-1 points
	Exhibit A why people with Northwestern avatars shouldn't post about college basketball.

	bludvlfan36:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 17:05 GMT	-3 points
	Excellent point Pat. Until the ACC makes the conference champion the regular season winner, Duke is the Conference Champion. Just think all you haters out there, this could be a year where K wins not only olympic gold but NCAA Gold. All the haters would be pissed then.

	ku_sucks:	Mar 18th, 2009 at 00:47 GMT	3 points
	i know the regular season is important. i was just playing devil's advocate, misguidedly hoping that it would end this silly duke argument. yes, they are good, and they have been for a while; but by all accounts, they run a clean program, so it should be no big deal. meanwhile, i think we might as well put blake griffin on the list now. when i saw him play live, he didn't look so good, but his overall season was stellar!

	Kevin:	Mar 29th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	1 point
	What was that about Dook winning it all this year? But hey, they can raise a Sweet Sixteen banner this year, it's been a while since they've made it that far.

Apr 28th, 2009 at 00:37 GMT

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What I learned from this list: I have no idea how to spell 'Hansbrough.'

	king21:	May 21st, 2009 at 04:23 GMT	1 point
	time to add blake griffin for 2009

	Jaws12185:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 21:46 GMT	3 points
	duke fans bitter that redicks record got erased in the blink of an eye

	natedogg21:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 00:52 GMT	3 points
	Haha I was just watching Blue Chips and I almost put Hurley in for 1993, then I realized he played for Duke in real life and the movie tricked my ass.

	burywmore:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 01:23 GMT	2 points
	Hilarious someone thinks Ralph Sampson was the best college player ever. That honor belongs to Lew Alcindor.......three time NCAA champion who lost a grand total of ONE game in three years playing varsity basketball. Ralph Sampson lost to freaking Chaminade. The reason players are called "soft" today is if they compare to Sampson.

	pirate6711:	Jan 16th, 2011 at 23:58 GMT	1 point
	How could I forget Pistol Pete?? Good list.

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