Greg Oden is often considered the biggest NBA Draft bust ever, but it wasn't really his fault. The center from Ohio State had ...

Purdue basketball forward Zach Edey ... Zach Edey will likely not replicate. Only one player has won multiple Wooden Awards, as Virginia's Ralph Sampson achieved the feat in 1982 and 1983.

Sampson seemed destined to be a basketball player standing at 6-foot-7 in ninth ... The team already had 7-foot-4 Ralph Sampson, the reigning Rookie of the Year, playing the center role.

That led to him dominating college basketball ... Ralph had previously theorized a potential partnership, yet the results panned out well for the Lakers. Sampson was still a relatively successful ...

The crowd of around 180 included Cory Alexander, an All-ACC basketball player for UVA in the 1990s who hails from Waynesboro, some 30 miles south of Sampson’s native Harrisonburg. “I was a huge Ralph ...

Ralph Sampson was initially ... he was simply a different player and slowly fell out of favor with then-coach Bill Fitch. Sampson was traded to the Golden State Warriors during the 1987-88 season ...

Wooden Award winner as the nation’s top men’s college basketball player on Wednesday. The 7-foot-4 center joins Virginia’s Ralph Sampson, who won in 1982 and ’83. Edey led the nation in ...

The Naismith College Player of the Year award recognizes the most outstanding men's and women's college basketball players ... Bill Walton of UCLA and Ralph Sampson of the University of Virginia ...

Purdue basketball forward Zach ... He's looking to become only the second player ever to win the honor in back-to-back seasons, joining Virginia's Ralph Sampson, who won the award twice in 1981-82 ...

Terry Holland, the gentlemanly coach who brought Ralph Sampson to Charlottesville and turned the University of Virginia into a college basketball ... Holland was a star player for Driesell at ...