From College to Milwaukee

by Alex Boeder on Mar 2, 2009 8:09 AM CST in News

From UCLA (Dan Gadzuric) to Villanova (Malik Allen), each Milwaukee Buck once played college basketball.

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It's March, college basketball's favorite time of the year. On that note, I noticed something interesting when looking at Milwaukee's roster on basketball-reference the other day: Everyone who has played for the Bucks this season also played college ball in the States at one point.

That includes anyone who has suited up, including the departed Tyronn Lue.

They have the Big East, Big Ten, SEC, Mountain West, Pac-10, Big Sky, Conference USA, Big 12, and the WAC covered.

Dick Vitale would be so proud (though maybe not so much that the championship favorite Lakers have suited up seven players this year who did not play college ball).

Milwaukee, of course, has plenty of internationals: Joe Alexander was born in Taiwan, Andrew Bogut plays in tournaments for Australia, Dan Gadzuric and Francisco Elson hail from the Netherlands, and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute is Cameroonian.

But they also all played college basketball in the U.S.

That's unique. Singularly unique, so it turns out. I clicked my way through every other roster, and each one had at least one player who didn't play college basketball.

As such, the Bucks are the only all-college team in the NBA this season. Who knew?

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Clippers?

What about the Clippers? Saw this on Truehoop….the clips currently have only college players….

by amb22amb on Mar 2, 2009 1:39 PM CST reply actions

Samb Chiekh Tidiane (a.k.a Cheik Samb) is the non-college-playing Clipper of the year.

BrewHoop.com

by Alex Boeder on Mar 2, 2009 1:58 PM CST up reply actions

chicago also

He’s not on the Clippers…..http://www.nba.com/clippers/roster/index.html…..You missed Chicago as well….

by amb22amb on Mar 2, 2009 1:58 PM CST reply actions

This year, the both the Clippers (Samb) and Bulls (Nocioni, Sefolosha) had guys who did not play college ball. That’s why I specified in the post:

Everyone who has played for the Bucks this season also played college ball in the States at one point.

That includes anyone who has suited up, including the departed Tyronn Lue.

Rosters change a lot, but the Bucks are the only team to have every single player this season also play college basketball.

BrewHoop.com

by Alex Boeder on Mar 2, 2009 2:03 PM CST up reply actions

Relax, I know

I was just pointing out that there are other teams currently that meet the criteria. Worth noting since Truehoop linked it as “As it happens, there is just one NBA roster made entirely of players with college experience.” — I know thats not your words, just pointing out Truehoop linked it that way which is why I noted there are two teams that currently meet the criteria though they didn’t throughout the whole season.

by amb22amb on Mar 2, 2009 2:07 PM CST reply actions