S14: Top 14 Virginia Scorers From Last Five NCAA Tournaments

Excited that five teams from the state made the NCAA tournament, though looking back on the top scorers from the past five tournaments, not much going on from the state of Virginia. George Mason's run was exactly five years ago, so the majority of the top of this list is their starting line-up from that year. Everything else is faded state superstars who play in Europe now mostly, and had one two game run at some point. Sad...
#1: WILL THOMAS (George Mason forward, 90 total points) - Holmes was a sophomroe the Final Four year, so padded a couple points two years later as well to go to the top of this list. He is playing in Belgium for Base Oostende. He's been in Belgium ever since he didn't hook up with the Wizards after NBA preseason after his senior year.
#2: FOLARIN CAMPBELL (George Mason guard/forward, 81 total points) - Another sophomore on that Final Four team, who got one more game in the tournament since that point. After college, he went to Germany, where he has played for Telekom Baskets Bonn ever since.
#3: LAMAR BUTLER (George Mason guard, 72 total points) - One of the Senior stars of that Final Four George Mason team, with the chick-melting smile. He actually got on the cover of Sports Illustrated during that run, before the Final Four, and post-college, he went to the Czech Republic for a year, came back to play in the NBA D-League, never caught on in the NBA, and then spent two years playing for Tofas Bursa in Turkey. This year, his whereabouts are unknown in relation to basketball.
#4: JAI LEWIS (George Mason forward, 59 total points) - Lewis was the other Senior face of that team, a pudgy huggable brute in the paint who actually got a shot at the NFL after college, with the New York Giants. Here has been his path since then through the strange world of international basketball: KK Bosna in Bosnia, Ironi Ramat Gan in Israel, Strasbourg IG in France, Hapoel Galil Elyon back in Israel, Rera Kamuy Hokkaido in Japan, Rain or Shine in the Philippines, and then this past season, he started back in Israel for Ironi Ramat Gan again for four games, before going back to Japan to play for Hokkaido again. Not sure if the Philippines Rain or Shine team is some sort of summer league, because he is still listed as part of their current team. Not bad for a pudgy black dude, getting paid to ball in Japan, summering in the Philippines. I bet he has seen things.
#5: ERIC MAYNOR (VCU guard, 57 total points) - Maynor hit the clutch shot that killed Duke a few years back, a moment that had me jumping off the couch, yelling silently in the way I am expected to do once the kids are asleep. Maynor is a prominent bench player for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA, who by having Maynor and Kevin Durant, who is about the most unassuming and chill NBA superstar there is, and also by being in fucking bumfuck Oklahoma where I once spent a week drinking with hobos in the ran-down Continental Inn, they have become my favorite NBA team. That really means nothing though, because I watch about 23 minutes of NBA basketball annually.
#6: J.R. REYNOLDS (Virginia guard, 54 total points) - Solid Virginia dude, through and through. Raised in Roanoke, hand-selected to go the Oak Hill basketball Academy in southwest Virginia. Came to UVA and starred, and after college played in Italy mostly, some time in France, before returning home to Virginia, where he is today.
#7: TONY SKINN (George Mason guard, 45 total points) - Another Senior starter on that George Mason Final Four team, who went on to play in France for Roanne, come back to NBA summer league, back through Italy and now is based in Germany, playing for the New Yorker Phantoms, whatever the fuck that is. Being it is Germany, I can't help but think that's like an all-black team they have over there with a sambo logo.
#8: SEAN SINGLETARY (Virginia guard, 42 total points) - The other half of UVA's dynamic duo that had a two-game run in the 2007 NCAA tournament. Drafted by the Sacramento Kings, but traded to the Houston Rockets, but traded again to the Charlotte Bobcats, but then sent to the D-League Sioux Falls Skyforce, but then cut and signed by the Philadelphia 76ers, but didn't stay, so he went to Spain. Is not currently playing professionally in any known by the internet manner.
#9: GERALD LEE (Old Dominion forward, 34 total points) - Last year's state player of the year, who helped Old Dominion get into the second round of the tourney. Somehow he's some sort of Finnish heritage black dude, so naturally he is balling in Europe now.
#10: JESSE PELLOT-ROSA (VCU guard, 34 total points) - Former 3-point specialist for the Rams who already was married and had a 3-year-old while in college. And god bless that dude, he's still chasing his basketball dream. He bounced through Israel, playing summers in Puerto Rico, spent a whole year in Puerto Rico, and now is playing in Mexico. Somewhere in there he briefly was on the New York Jets as well as a WR. VCU doesn't even have a football team.
#11: B.A. WALKER (VCU guard, 30 total points) - I don't know, I don't feel like looking this dude up because he went by B.A. and I've watched a lot of A-Team reruns this past year on the Lynchburg Retro TV station, so really all I can think about is a black van with a red stripe on the side. I saw one just like that when I was in Tampa last year, but was afraid to take a picture of it because I thought dudes with guns might jump out and force me to help them overthrow a blood diamond dictator who was based out of St. Petersburg. (There, if you are the girl reading this, there was your wacky tangent. I doubt you made it here though.)
#12: FRANK HASSELL (Old Dominion senior forward, 30 total points) - Hassell is the only dude on this list still playing, with a shot to add to his total this year. You figure most of the George Mason dudes will lose that Final Four year in the five-year window for next year, and Frank Hassell will probably be the best NCAA tournament star from a Virginia-based college if I do this again next year. That's kinda fucking pathetic.
#13: DERON WASHINGTON (Virginia Tech guard/forward, 29 total points) - Deron Washington was awesome in college, as was his mom. I am sad that Seth Greenberg tarnishes his awesomeness with lackluster teams that just miss out on the NCAA tournament. Maybe he should have more than six players at once. Oh man, a Deron Washington/Malcolm Delaney team would have been awesome as fuck.
#14: JAMON GORDON (Virginia Tech guard, 26 total points) - Jamon Gordon was the other dude with Deron Washington the one year the NCAA tournament committee was like, "Okay, we'll let Virginia Tech in," and then never did again. And I may have Gordon and Washington mixed up. I don't get J.R. Reynolds and Sean Singletary mixed up though. That means, in my head, that Virginia basketball is still more prominent.