17. Reggie Williams: Georgetown - (1983-87) Baltimore, MD

Four years: 15.3 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 2.4 apg, 1.5 spg, 38.6% 3FG, 76.8% FT.

Player of the Year (1987)

First Team Consensus All-American (1987)

If you look at just his career statistics, this may look too high for Williams. But then you have to take into account the team he was on and the lack of a college three point shot until his senior year. Only then can one see that on a lesser team and with a few more years with the three point shot, the final totals would be much more impressive.

As a freshman, Williams joined a powerful Hoyas team that included Patrick Ewing and eventually went on to beat Houston in the National Championship game. In the title game, Williams, despite not starting for most of the season, responded with 19 points and 7 rebounds. For the season, he averaged 9.1 ppg. In his sophomore season, Ewing was a senior and therefore was the obvious central point of the team. Williams still responded with 11.9 ppg, 5.7 rpg, and 1.5 spg, while shooting 50.6% from the field and 75.5% from the line. Unfortunately for Williams, and Hoyas fans, that season ended in a loss to Villanova in the National Championship game. In his junior season, Ewing was gone and Williams joined with former high school teammate David Wingate to lead the team. He responded with 17.6 ppg, 8.2 rpg, and 1.5 spg, while shooting an excellent 52.8% from the field. The rebounding totals were especially notable as Williams was a rail thin 6’7” wing. As a senior, Williams finally became the focal point of a team so young that their unexpected 29-5 record resulted in the team being dubbed “Reggie and the Miracles”. Williams was clearly the dominant player on the team, and in the conference, as he averaged 23.6 ppg and 8.6 rpg, while making 80.4% from the free throw line and coming up big defensively with 2.1 spg. Finally the great shooter also got to play with a three point shot and took the chance to fire up 202 of them for a 38.6% success rate.

Former Big East announcer Mike Gorman remembered Williams as a “terrific scorer that thrived in the Georgetown system” under Hall of Fame coach John Thompson.

For his career, he totaled 2,117 points and 886 rebounds. Taken by the Los Angeles Clippers with the fourth overall pick in the NBA draft, Williams played nine seasons and averaged 12.5 ppg for his career.