Best NCAA basketball players ever from every state

Missouri: Bill Bradley

Despite how impressive the ‘one and done’ Durant was the previous year, there is just something special about a player who returns for his senior year after sweeping all six Player of the Year awards the season before. Tyler Hansbrough then; obtained his degree was named to the All-American first team twice, led his team in scoring over the regular seasons, helped his team to a National Third Place while making All-tournament Team in the process.

After142 games and a communications degree, Hansbrough was the ninth-ranked freshman who committed to North Carolina, he averaged 20 points, over eight rebounds, and shot 54 percent from the field and 84 percent from the charity stripe. HIs tournament averages were very similar, which speaks for his consistency when it counts. There is just one Missouri born player who can also lay claim as the best from Missouri and it is a 6-foot-5 Bill Bradley who played forward for three years at Princeton in the early 60s.

Bradley never won a National Championship but his 35 points and 11 on 57 percent field goal shooting and 92 percent from the free-throw line earned him the Tournament Most Outstanding Player. His career 30 point and12 rebound average was enough to be an All-American first team twice, he also swept the three Player of the Year awards, winning the AP Player of the Year for the second straight year.

It will be argued that Hansbrough is the most celebrated and perhaps most successful Missouri born college player, but as far as best goes, it is Bradley.