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[QUOTE="721Comstock, post: 2841241, member: 5429"]
AO - another guy who (while I'm a big fan) gets far too much love on these "all time" lists.

He was a serviceable college center, and while a key cog on an AWESOME team (for my $, one of the best TEAMs we've ever had), he himself was just...  ok. 
Not really a rim-protector, just OK at rebounding, and barely averaged 10 a game his last 2 years.
Plus absolutely abysmal at the FT line, so he was unplayable late in a close game.

He wasn't even the best C on the '10 team - that was RickJack. 
Our best lineup that year was C - Rick,  - Wes,  - KrisJo, G - Rautins, G- Scoop

Here are best year season stats for 5 SU bigs of recent (2010 and later) vintage:
(points, rebounds, blocked shots)

Player A - 7.8, 5.8, [B]2.9[/B]
Player B - [B]17.5[/B], 9.1, 2.5
Player C - 10.3, 7.3, 1.4
Player D - 13.2, 8.6, 1.4
Player E - 13.1, [B]10.3[/B], 2.5

2 of these players were voted Conference Defensive POY. 
1 player was All Conference 1st team, another 2nd team.
(AO was none of those things - and spoiler alert! - was one of the 1 players here with the [B]worst [/B]stats)

There are 2 guys here that are pretty clearly head & shoulders better across the board than the other contenders - Player B and Player E. 
Scoring, rebounding, and rim protection - exactly what you need from a C.

Players A & C were also black holes, averaging a paltry 0.3 & 0.6 assists/game.  
The other 3 averaged 1.5, 2.1, and 2.2 respectively.
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