All-time "If he could have only done it again. . . " team.

[source?]

Ah, you beat me to Jared against Loserville his junior year.

Only by 7 years, though.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Jean Felix

[JTBMU7]

Dameon Mason, Louisville, 2004. Game winner from the baseline. Thought he could be the next great one for MU. Next thing we know he's transferring and playing pickup ball at the rec center.... Think I D'd him up once or twice, it did not end well. For me....

[Dawson Rental]

Only by 7 years, though.

Busted, f'ing bumped threads.

RJax55 talking about Dwight Burke in the present tense should have been a clue...

[rocky_warrior]

.... coach?

It was posted from a Milwaukee IP address, so if you can prove Wojo was in mke that day, then you're onto something.

[patso]

Terry Reason v Iona

[alexius23]

I think the ultimate "What if?" has to be if Jim Chones wouldn't have gone pro with less than 1 month before the end of the season/start of NCAA tournament. He made all American that year. I can understand why he went pro but...sigh

[Fullodds]

Michael 'Pops' Sims v. NC.  No three point line back then or he would have had 30.

[tower912]

2003 Crean.

[bilsu]

I know this is really about players that did not play much, but almost every player has an outlier. Kaminsky last year when he scored 40+points, Wade's triple double against #1 Kentucky, Novak's two big games against UConn & Louisville. Almost every player has a career game.

[HouWarrior]

I am going to add one many might consider odd.

At the pro level only-- Dean Meminger

He had a huge game in the 1973 NBA Eastern Finals shutting down JoJo White of Boston, and scoring 13 late points  to send the Knicks to the finals. Willis Reed called it the "Dream" game.

What could have been? After being drafted by the hometown Knicks.... he rode the bench behind maybe the best guard combo in NBA history: Walt "Clyde" Frazier and Earl "the Pearl" Monroe

I recall thinking during that 1973 game about what if he'd been first drafted by any number of other NBA teams where he would have started and been able to  better showcase his talent ---what if, based on one starring game.

Of Course, we all later learned his arc never went as far as hoped also due to a nagging cocaine addiction

RIP Dean, ....one my favorite all time MU ballers

[dgies9156]

I think the ultimate "What if?" has to be if Jim Chones wouldn't have gone pro with less than 1 month before the end of the season/start of NCAA tournament. He made all American that year. I can understand why he went pro but...sigh

Amen.

Probably the biggest "what if..." in Marquette history. If Jimmy Chones could have finished his college basketball career at Marquette -- rather than turning pro -- one could legitimately argue that with the team we had, both then and coming in, we would have been one of the all-time best in college basketball.

We'll never know. Jimmy did what was right for him and his family. That matters far more than all the national championships that never were.

[KenoshaWarrior]

Wasn't a great offensive game by any means, but how about Brian Barone leading MU in scoring with about 10 or so points in a win over Cincinnati in about 2000?

I'd throw Chris Grimm in here for his defensive contributions at the end of his senior season a couple years back against Hibbert and Georgetown, and Gray and Pittsburgh.

Yes; Barones game against Kenny Satterfield Inc.    He played great d against Satterfield

[radome]

Mayo vs. Wisconsin in 2011.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

2003 Crean.

Bahahaha, this was great.