Ivory Towers

[alexius23]

Are they the best front line duo since Jim Chones, Maurice Lucas & Larry McNeill? (Of course the 3 never played together but as duos they did)

[We R Final Four]

Mac and Key.

[brewcity77]

Hmm...tough to discount how good McIlvaine and Key were during their four years together.

[BossplayaOtto]

How quickly we forget about Otule and Gardner.

[Marqevans]

Are they the best front line duo since Jim Chones, Maurice Lucas & Larry McNeill? (Of course the 3 never played together but as duos they did)

Oh why oh why didn't happen!  If only there were no freshmen teams then and no ABA.

[kryza]

How quickly we forget about Otule and Gardner.

They didn't play together nearly as much as this duo does now. They also never really dominated while playing together like many of us hoped they would.

[warriorchick]

"Ivory Towers" is awesome.  We gotta make that stick.

[keefe]

Mac and Key...

...couldn't begin to carry any of Chones, Luke, or McNeills' jockstraps. Those guys were the very best in the nation.

[Goose]

I felt going into the season that Luke would be the most improved guy due to Henry and he is playing at a high level. Would love to an agent for those two guys for the next 15 years.

This team can end being quite good if the big guys stay healthy. Hard to guard two gifted big men at the same time.

[wadesworld]

They didn't play together nearly as much as this duo does now. They also never really dominated while playing together like many of us hoped they would.

That...and the fact that both Henry and Luke are better than either Gardner or (especially, and I liked him) OTule.  Gardner was probably the most gifted low post scorer, but that's about it.

[4everwarriors]

Big man's game, ai na?

[Dawson Rental]

Hmm...tough to discount how good McIlvaine and Key were during their four years together.

Not so hot in year one.  Mostly Key and Curry, then.

[Dawson Rental]

How quickly we forget about Otule and Gardner.

After all the effort it took me to get there, you just had to make me remember again.  Geez!

[augoman]

"Ivory Towers" is awesome.  We gotta make that stick.

IDK Chick, that "ivory towers" was used quite a bit about uw-madison's Hughes twins-as a term of derision.

[We R Final Four]

...couldn't begin to carry any of Chones, Luke, or McNeills' jockstraps. Those guys were the very best in the nation.

Are they the best front line duo since Jim Chones, Maurice Lucas & Larry McNeill? (Of course the 3 never played together but as duos they did)

Since.

[warriorchick]

IDK Chick, that "ivory towers" was used quite a bit about uw-madison's Hughes twins-as a term of derision.

Most MU fans are too young to remember the Hughes twins.

[Herman Cain]

Are they the best front line duo since Jim Chones, Maurice Lucas & Larry McNeill? (Of course the 3 never played together but as duos they did)

I would say Bo Ellis and Jerome Whitehead where quite a frontcourt duo....I am old enough to remember Hughes twins.

[MU82]

Marquardt/Nyenhuis, my friends!

[keefe]

I would say Bo Ellis and Jerome Whitehead where quite a frontcourt duo....I am old enough to remember Hughes twins.

Butrym made it an invincible triple wall of terror...

[MU82]

This from Wojo after game:

"I wouldn't trade them for any frontcourt in the country."

[RushmoreAcademy]

Speaking of Devante, he just made the All-Star team for the Nishinomiya Storks.  Go Ox!

[Galway Eagle]

This from Wojo after game:

"I wouldn't trade them for any frontcourt in the country."

Maybe Purdue's, wouldn't trade for Maryland's. Those are the only candidates if you ask me. 

[swoopem]

Maybe Purdue's, wouldn't trade for Maryland's. Those are the only candidates if you ask me.

I was having this conversation the other day. I said we have a top 5 front court and in no order I named us, Purdue, Gonzaga, Maryland, but couldn't think of a 5th...maybe Kansas? Of course all the Michigan State slapys I work with claimed I was nuts and then started drooling over Costelo

[Galway Eagle]

I was having this conversation the other day. I said we have a top 5 front court and in no order I named us, Purdue, Gonzaga, Maryland, but couldn't think of a 5th...maybe Kansas? Of course all the Michigan State slapys I work with claimed I was nuts and then started drooling over Costelo

I can't actually think of a distinct fifth either. 

[Pakuni]

Rod Grosse and Joe Nethen were the original Ivory Towers.