UNC Basketball: All-time “what if” Roy Williams team

Greg Oden

Hear me out on this one.

Greg Oden was one of the best college players of the last 10-15 years. He was a physical specimen as a freshman, which allowed him to dominate his competition.

That is why the Blazers picked him No. 1 overall.

But for this list, it doesn’t matter that he did not pan out as a professional. Oden was so dominant in college that he automatically warranted a spot on this list.

In his one college season, Oden averaged 16 points and 10 rebounds, on his way to beinf named to the All-American team.

Coming out of high school, it was known that he and Mike Conley would end up going to the same school. That ended up being the case, just not at Carolina.

Adding him to a team with Brandan Wright and Hansbrough may not have been ideal, but with Oden being a true center, they could have made it work. But adding Oden, Durant, and Conley all to a 2006-07 team that lost in the Elite 8 would have been unfair.

That team very well could have gone down as one of the best Tar Heels teams of all-time when adding those three players.

But for that to work out, you can not think of Oden simply as the draft bust that most see him as today.

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