Virginia Cavaliers - All-Time Basketball Team

Over the next two weeks, I will release my All-Time team for each of the 12 Atlantic Coast Conference.

Each team will consist of 5 starters (at least 2 guards and 2 forwards) and 4 reserves to make up a 9 man rotation. The team can only include players who played their entire career in the last 50 years (1961-Present) and only their accomplishments in college taken into consideration.

Virginia

Starting Five

Sean Singletary – Point Guard – 2004-2008
Singletary was selected as 1st Team All-ACC as a SO, JR and SR. As a SR, Singletary averaged 19.8 points, 6.1 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 1.9 steals, which was enough to garner him Honorable Mention All-American honors. Singletary finished his career as the only player in ACC history to collect 2,000 points, 500 assists, 400 rebounds and 200 steals. Singletary ranks 5th in Cavalier history in career points, 3rd in career assists and 2nd in career steals.  Singletary’s #44 jersey was retired by the Cavaliers in 2009.

Barry Parkhill – Shooting Guard – 1970-1973
Parkhill was dominate as a junior averaging 21.6 points and 4.5 points per game, which garnered him ACC Player of the Year, ACC Athlete of the Year and consensus 2nd Team All-American honors. Parkhill was 1st Team All-ACC in 1972 and 2nd Team All-ACC in 1971 and 1973. He holds the UVA record for points in a game with 51 against Baldwin-Wallace in 1971. Parkhill averaged 18.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.7 assists for his career.

Jeff Lamp – Guard/Forward – 1977-1981
Lamp was selected All-ACC in every year of his career at UVA collecting 1st Team accolades in 1979 and 1981 and 2nd Team honors in 1977 and 1980. Lamp’s 18.2 points per game on 54.9% shooting and 4.2 rebounds per game in 1981 allowed him to walk away with consensus 2nd Team All-American honors. Lamp combined with Ralph Sampson to lead UVA to the Final Four in 1981. Lamp ranks 2nd in Cavalier history with 2,317 points.

Bryant Stith – Guard/Forward – 1988-1992
Stith is 1st in Cavalier history with 2,516 career points, 4th in career rebounds with 859 and 7th in career steals with 177. Stith also holds the UVA record for most offensive rebounds in a season with 12.1  Stith was named ACC Rookie of the Year in 1989 and 1st Team All-ACC in 1990, 1991 and 1992. Stith’s #20 jersey was retired by UVA.

Ralph Sampson – Center – 1979-1982
The 7’4” Sampson is considered one of the greatest players in the history of the NCAA and argueable the greatest player in the history of the ACC. Sampson was ACC Player of the Year, National Player of the Year and consensus 1st Team All-American as a SO, JR and SR. Sampson scored 2,228 points, pulled down 1,511 rebounds and blocked 462 shots over the course of his career, which ranks 4th, 1st and 1st respectively. Sampson holds the rebounding record by 396 and the block record by 314, which is 3 times the next closest player. Sampson averaged a career double-double and lead Virginia to a 112-23 record over the course of his career and the 1981 Final Four. Sampson was drafted #1 overall in the 1983 NBA Draft.



Bench

Wally Walker – Forward – 1972-1973
Walker was a prolific post scorer on the 1976 ACC Championship team, which earned the Cavaliers their first birth into the NCAA Tournament in school history. Walker is the only Cavalier to win the Everett Case Award as ACC Tournament MVP. As a SR, “Wonderful” Wally Walker averaged 22.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game and was named 2nd Team All-ACC. Walker finished his career 7th in total points with 1,849.

Curtis Staples – Shooting Guard – 1994-1998
Staples’ finished his career with 413 made 3-pointers, which was the most in NCAA history until J.J. Reddick broke the record in 2006. Staples scored 18.1 points and 4.6 rebounds per game as a SR and was named 3rd Team All-ACC. He finished his career with 1,757 points, which ranks 10th in Cavalier history.

Junior Burrough – Forward – 1991-1995
Burrough was Virginia’s best low-post player during the decade of the 90s. He averaged 18.1 points, 8.7 rebounds per game as a SR and was named 3rd Team All-ACC and accolade that Burrough also won as a JR. For his career, Burrough finished with 1,970 points, which ranks 6th all-time and 929 rebounds, which ranks 3rd all-time.

Harold Dean – Guard – 1993-1997
Deane started all four years for the Cavaliers from 1994-97. He ranks 9th with 1,763 career points, 6th in school history with 468 career assists and 5th in school history with 179 career steals. Dean was ACC All-Freshmen Team in 1994, All-ACC 2nd Team in 1995 and 1996 and All-ACC 3rd Team in 1996. Dean was also a standout defensive player who was named Dick Vitale’s Defensive Player of the Year.