College Basketball's Best Dunkers by Decade

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dave
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May 22, 2010 12:55am
Brent Petway, although he sucked so most of his good stuff is in dunk contests and practices.
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reclegend22
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May 22, 2010 3:04am
Did Petway play for Alabama?
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hoops23
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May 22, 2010 3:34am
Greg Paulus votes for Danny Green




That dunk sparked it's own shirt :)

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Laley23
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May 22, 2010 3:36am
reclegend22 wrote: Did Petway play for Alabama?
Michigan.
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BlackDog
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May 22, 2010 10:48am
Darrell "Dr. Dunkenstein" Griffith of Louisville.
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Azubuike24
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May 22, 2010 2:13pm
Antoine Pettway played for Alabama.
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swamisez
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May 22, 2010 2:23pm
Here's the Maggette collection from his limited time at Duke
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=253440251

the backstory for that backboard slap is that someone from Florida in pre-game dunked one and put a handprint on their basket. When the second half came Corey decided he would put his handprint over it.

This was ok, but his put-back dunk against Temple was much better.
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SQ_Crazies
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May 22, 2010 2:29pm
I'm not saying Maggette wasn't a good dunker, but he isn't worthy of being in the same sentence as Carter. The only reason he was is because you like to suck on a big blue dick. Just sayin'. Every post you make has to include Duke in some way, shape or form.
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Laley23
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May 22, 2010 3:02pm
Azubuike24 wrote: Antoine Pettway played for Alabama.
haha, I thought he meant Brent....who was a nasty dunker in his own right.
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reclegend22
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May 23, 2010 11:46pm
Azubuike24 wrote:Antoine Pettway played for Alabama.
Thanks Laley and Az. I couldn't remember which Pettway was which.
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reclegend22
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May 23, 2010 11:49pm
The Temple dunk was definitely great, too, swami. Al McGuire's call is ingrained in my mind to this day. "Maggette Maggette spaghetti ... Ha..Ha.. Holy mackerel."

I miss them both.
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se-alum
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May 24, 2010 3:20pm
James White was also my first thought. Muhammad had some nasty dunks to! Can't rule out Darvin Ham either!
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reclegend22
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May 25, 2010 12:46am
Yes, Ham was nasty (and he played for Texas Tech, not Cincy. Not sure why I originally wrote that). His inverted 360 in the '97 NBA dunk contest is still one of my favorite slams of all-time. It's about 45 seconds into the video below.

http://dimemag.com/2008/10/we-reminisce-1997-nba-dunk-contest/

Here he is in college. Pure domination of that rim.



Ham was the man.
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Early Cuyler
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May 27, 2010 1:37pm
James White for the 2000s

...and it isn't even close.
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SQ_Crazies
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May 27, 2010 1:39pm
Probably not. He did a legit 2 handed FT line dunk. Insanity.
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cview
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Jun 2, 2010 3:31pm
Oden definitely doesn't belong on this list at all, but this would have been the dunk of the decade and it isn't even close. Plus I just wanted to post it because it's fucking sweet. And everyone on the bench makes me LOL every time I see it. As far as the actual topic, James White, Maurice Ager, and Shannon Brown were the first three I thought of although Brown probably because of some of the nasty shit he's thrown down this year moreso than at MSU. I'm a little surprised Blake Griffin hasn't been mentioned. I remember one where he kinda smashed his face on the padding that goes around the underside of the glass.