Each was a two-time pick as AP national player of the year and three-time AP first-team All-Americans, and combined to be named the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player five times. 2 for every week of the 1956-57 season, then spent the next season inside the top 10. ELVIN HAYES, HoustonThe 6-9 center put up big numbers in a career that included being AP national player of the year over Alcindor in 1968. 2 all-time scorer helped the Cougars spend the 1966-67 season inside the top 10 and then stay at No. RALPH SAMPSON, VirginiaThe 7-4 center was a three-time AP national player of the year who singlehandedly made the Cavaliers a power in the early 1980s.

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Persons: Kareem Abdul, Jabbar, Bill Walton, BILL RUSSELL, San Francisco Russell, WILT CHAMBERLAIN, ELVIN HAYES, DAN ISSEL, —, DAVID THOMPSON, “, LARRY, Magic Johnson, Bird's Sycamores, hasn't, RALPH SAMPSON, Virginia, PATRICK EWING, CHRISTIAN LAETTNER, Duke, Mike Krzyzewski, TYLER HANSBROUGH Organizations: Bruins, Associated Press, Dons, NCAA, Chamberlain's Jayhawks, OSCAR ROBERTSON, Cincinnati The Bearcats, Cincinnati, AP, Alcindor, Cougars, Wildcats, North Carolina State, Wolfpack, Indiana State, Michigan State, Cavaliers, Hoyas, Blue Devils Locations: WILT CHAMBERLAIN , Kansas, North Carolina, Cincinnati, Houston, DAN ISSEL , Kentucky, N.C, State, Indiana, RALPH SAMPSON , Virginia, Georgetown, TYLER HANSBROUGH , North Carolina