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Was just thinking about the past with the Colonials and I remembered Yinka Dare, the 7 foot Nigerian kid who played in the early 90s under Mike Jarvis. Last edited by Tejas_Duke (1/03/2021 8:05 pm) Afterward, GW had "Kuhl and the Gang". Alexander Kuhl was a 6'10" Russian who would throw everyone around the court. He was good for a few technical fouls. They had a little guard named Shontay Rodgers to compliment Kuhl. George Washington and a waste of talent? I would have thought you were talking about SirValient Brown. I can't see a GW game without thinking of our game with them in 2001. The game was on ESPN so the other students actually showed up (I've never understood that rationale, but it definitely happens). One had a SirValient "one nut" Brown sign and we got a chant going everytime he touched the ball "onnnnnne nut onnnne nut." I don't know if there's any truth to it at all, but the way he reacted I think there might be. Unfortunately he wasn't the kind of player you want to piss off. The game was back and forth and we actually led late, which was pretty unusual at the time. He hit a buzzer beater to win the game and ran off the court flipping off the student section. The best team appeared to be the 2006-07 squad that reached No. 6 in the AP rankings before finishing the season at No. 19 following a second-round loss to Duke. The catalysts for Karl Hobbs' unit were Pops Mensa-Bonsu, J.R. Pinnock and Mike Hall, all future NBA players. That was the team of teams during the Colonials' glory days. Incidentally, Carl Elliott also was a fine player who blossomed a year later.
CURRENT RECORD 9 - 14 (4-6 in the A-10)
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He was pretty much an NBA first round bust (however an ACL injury sidetracked his rookie season). In his first full season, he committed 72 turnovers and had zero assists in 58 games.
He was out of the NBA only a few years later.
Just saw that he died tragically in 2004 of a heart arythmia!
Sad to die so young
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