A fun Duke bball quiz...

[bdh21]

http://www.sporcle.com/games/bdh/Duke_1000_scorers

How many 1000 point scorers for Duke men's basketball can you name in 9 minutes? If anyone can get all 59 of them, major kudos! Even getting half of them may not be a simple matter for us young'uns. Good luck!

[BlueDevilBaby]

Got 37 but somehow it did not take Banks, so I'm sayin' I got 38. Easy to guess with a list of players in front of you.;)

[DukeCO2009]

Got 38, but missed some easy ones like Verga, Spanarkel, Brickey, Marin, and Dennard. If I played my A-game I'd have gotten in the low 40's. BTW, Ricky Price--who knew?

[jesus_hurley]

38 also. I started with retired jerseys, went to players I remember as stars and then on to players I hear about but never saw. Would have had 40 if I read the directions and saw it included players on this years team. Stupid reading comprehension...

[JasonEvans]

I had no list in front of me and I got 44. Felt really good about that score.

You can see the list as well as how many people have guessed the players by clicking here. (http://www.sporcle.com/games/bdh/Duke_1000_scorers/results)

I was particularly proud to nail a few that very few people seem to have gotten including Kevin Strickland , Ricky Price, Vince Taylor, and Kenny Dennard.

--Jason "some of the names that are in the low-teens in terms of people getting them really surprise me" Evans

[jesus_hurley]

I had no list in front of me and I got 44. Felt really good about that score.

You can see the list as well as how many people have guessed the players by clicking here. (http://www.sporcle.com/games/bdh/Duke_1000_scorers/results)

I was particularly proud to nail a few that very few people seem to have gotten including .....

--Jason "some of the names that are in the low-teens in terms of people getting them really surprise me" Evans

I'm a tad surprised that our top 2 scorers are #2 and #9 in the percentage of people who got took the quiz. How could you NOT know those two?

[NSDukeFan]

Only 34 for me. Can't believe I forgot Trajan Langdon, one of my all-time favorites. Also missed Ewing, Dunleavy, Spanarkel (spelled him wrong), Boozer and Duhon as my worst omissions.

[sagegrouse]

I got 45 just from memory. The only misses in the first column were Trajan (my worst miss) and Ronnie Mayer (before my time, but I remembered to include Bernie Janicki). Other bad miss was Tate Armstrong. I missed Carroll Youngkin because I put a "-man" at the end of his name.

I wasted a lot of time figuring out how to spell Wojo, but he wasn't on the list in any spelling.

sagegrouse

Edit: I looked at the standings, and I was scored in the "100th percentile," which doesn't exist, so I don't believe there is a professional statistician keeping score.

[BlueintheFace]

49, but I am calling it 51 since I typed two incorrectly that didn't register as a result. Reading "100 Years of Duke Basketball" really has upped my knowledge level on this kind of stuff. ;)

If you got Katherman, just crown yourself the King right now. I mean really?

[BobbyFan]

Only 34 for me. Can't believe I forgot Trajan Langdon, one of my all-time favorites. Also missed Ewing, Dunleavy, Spanarkel (spelled him wrong), Boozer and Duhon as my worst omissions.

I missed Duhon too, but I can proudly say he was the only player I missed who played after I started following the team.

I would have thought Elton, despite only playing 2 years and missing a chunk of his first year, would have still been ahead guys like Ricky Price and Bilas.

[ChicagoCrazy84]

Got 36, but really 37 because I kept mis-spelling Alla Abdelnaby. I missed Jeff Mullins and some of the older guys that I should have gotten. Surprised I got Ricky Price considering his last couple years were very forgettable. Antonio Lang too! He was my favorite back in the early 90's. You guys missed Duhon??!! Shame shame

[ChicagoCrazy84]

Wait, yeah, 38! Jim Spanarkel?? Or Spenarkel?

[ChicagoCrazy84]

I missed Nate James! That's my big one, damn!

[DukieBoy]

Got 34 right. Biggest one I missed was Danny Ferry (start judging me) and Jay Bilas. Other than that, I hadn't heard of the others. Jus a young gun I guess :)

[BlueintheFace]

I can't believe I missed Dunleavy...

[superdave]

Based on this list, Scheyer and Singler could reasonably get into the top 20 all time this season. And with a 4th year, Singler could potentially be a top 5 scorer.

That was a tough quiz. I could picture a few guys in my head but was blanking on the names.

Tougher name to spell - Spanarkel or Abdelnaby?

[MulletMan]

43 including all of the Top 20. I'll take it.

Not list either :p

[darthur]

Thanks for the quiz. That was a lot of fun! I only got 28, but I also only started following basketball (of any kind) in '01 so I don't feel too bad. I missed only one from that era and got a decent number from before my time.

[CameronBlue]

Named 42 including 27 out of the top 30. Number 20 was Ronnie Mayer, whom I've never heard of. Gonna give myself credit for +1 because I guessed Tom Emma who isn't on the list and assumed that his running mate Chip Engelland wouldn't be on the list either. Gonna give myself another +1 because I guessed Bilas and wasted 30 seconds because I couldn't stop laughing and another +1 because I wasted another 45 seconds trying to spell Wojo's name, even though he didn't make the list.

So 45 for me.

[CameronBlue]

49, but I am calling it 51 since I typed two incorrectly that didn't register as a result. Reading "100 Years of Duke Basketball" really has upped my knowledge level on this kind of stuff. ;)

If you got Katherman, just crown yourself the King right now. I mean really?
49 (or 51) is pretty stout but Katherman was easy for me. Same class as Denton and Divenzio, nicknamed the Manchester Rifle, wore #22.

[Indoor66]

49 (or 51) is pretty stout but Katherman... the Manchester Rifle, wore #22.

I loved to watch Rick spot up in the right corner and let it go. He would have scored a lot more with the three point line.

[CameronBlue]

I loved to watch Rick spot up in the right corner and let it go. He would have scored a lot more with the three point line.

That's right, Katherman loved the corner, I'd forgotten. I was 10-11 at the time and would listen to the games on my transistor radio trying to dig the announcer's voice (Add Penfield maybe?) out of the background static. He would punch each syllable of Katherman's nickname after a crucial basket "the man-chest-er RIF-le".

[Son of Mojo]

Had 41 while slaving myself at work........:p . I cannot believe I missed C-Well, Ewing, Dennard, and Bad @ss. The others I missed, admittingly, I'm not that familiar with but still feel it was a decent score. Kudos to whomever created it!!

[theAlaskanBear]

I only hit 27, but im not disappointed.

The only ones I miss that I am kicking myself: Langdon, Amaker, Carrawell and Capel.

I got all after 2000, the top 15 except for Langdon.

I probably could have been in the mid 30s, but I had several mispells that I had to keep correcting. I DID get Alaa Abdelnaby tho!

[bdh21]

FYI, for those who haven't tried yet, the quiz will recognize "Bad @ss" and a few other monikers as well. If I had known about the "Manchester Rifle" that would definitely have been valid!

[JDev]

Fun quiz, thanks for posting. I got 38, including all of the top 15. There were a few others I should have gotten, but that's the nature of a time limit.

[dukemsu]

Got 36.

The number 21 cursed me-missed Brickey (ridiculous as he was one of my favorites), Trajan, and Markie.

Shame on me. Also missed Greg and Jon, too fresh in my mind, I guess.

dukemsu

[gotoguy]

76 grad here and picked 42 with my era players Chris Redding, Willie Hodge, and Bob Fleischer topping my list as hard to remember picks. Forgot about Trajan duhhh and kinda surprised to see Rickey Price on the list (thanks for that buzzer beater against the Terps, Rickey!) and also Tony(fingertip) Lang.

No surprise that Art finished tops of the three year players, tied with my all time favorite Shaolin hoops meister Shane.

Also surprised to see Gary Melchionni not on the list, I wasted a few precious seconds trying to find the correct spelling of his name. He finished with 803. Other near misses were Elton and Dahntay and I believe Brian Davis with 950 plus.

It might be interesting(not fun mind you) to do a similar exercise with the 'holes or overall ACC conference list.

[JasonEvans]

In the modern era, if you are at least a 3-year starter or significant sub, you are not gonna have that tough a time getting to 1000 career points. Remember that since the mid-80s, virtually all Duke teams play 33+ games in a season. So, if you get significant time for 3 years, all you need to do is be about a 9 ppg player and you are going to get there.

If you look at the list of guys who played significant minutes for 3 or more seasons, it is really only the hard-core defensive specialists like Billy King, Wojo, Brian Davis, and Lance Thomas who come up short of 1000 (and Brian Davis came very close to getting there).

I got to the mid-40s largely by thinking of the teams in order from the early 1980s and trying to recall all the significant seniors on each team. Typing their names in correctly was a big challenge though.

--Jason "I tried Elton too... thought he might have made it" Evans

[guybrush]

41... i forgot Alarie and Verga

[Tom B.]

Got 45 of 59. Only one of the top 30 I misssed was Ronnie Mayer. The only two I missed since I started following the program closely (circa 1984) were Ricky Price (really?) and DeMarcus Nelson (should've gotten that one). There were a few others that played either before my time or before I started following the program closely, but whom I still should've gotten: Chip Engelland, Jack Marin and Carroll Youngkin.