Best NCAA basketball players ever from every state

Maine: Jeff Turner

Maine is famous for all kinds of seafood, no matter where you go you can find something made of lobster. It is just as easy to see who the best Maine born college player is. In order to continue the trend of 6-foot-9 centers, the player to have the best college career out of Maine is a 6-foot-9 center who played four years at Vanderbilt, Jeff Turner.

Over his career the lefty from Bangor, Maine would make a second and a first All-Sec Team, while compiling career averages of 11 points, five rebounds, one assist and knocked down 51 percent of his field goals and 77 percent of his free-throws.

The Commodores never participated in the National Tournament while Turner roamed the Nashville located campus. A privilege that the only other player born in Maine to make the NBA can boast. Duncan Robinson’s regular-season stats pale in comparison to Turner’s, except for Robinson’s 85 percent from the free-throw line. But his 8.5 points per game and 2.2 rebounds per game are very similar to his regular-season stat line.

Picking out individual highlights from various games is possible for Robinson and he must be recognized for being the first player to participate in a Division I and Division III championship game. It is, however, the overall body of work by Jeff Turner who averaged the second-most points and had the best free-throw percentage among the members of the three All-Sec teams that makes Jeff Tuner the main man from Maine.