Best college basketball player from every state in America (ITBO)

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Kansas: Perry Ellis

Alabama: Fennis Dembo
Of course, Charles Barkley stands out as the Alabama native with the best overall basketball career...

Arkansas: Glen Rice
Natural State has quietly been home to a fair amount of  talent in recent years, particularly after Nolan Richardson brought Arkansas basketball into the national spotlight in the early 1990s.

Still, the best player in state history was from a slightly earlier era, as Rice became one of the most productive scorers in NCAA Tournament history with Michigan from 1986-1989. Before moving to Flint for his high school basketball career and committing to Michigan, Rice grew up just outside of Little Rock in Benton...

Hamburg native Scottie Pippen is a Hall of Famer at the professional level, but...

Florida: David Robinson
Florida is a talent factory for just about any sport, but Robinson still stands out as clearly the best player from the Sunshine State.

A native of Key West, Robinson moved around a lot in early life as his father was in the U.S. Navy...

Georgia: Pervis Ellison
For his heroics in the 1986 NCAA Tournament, Ellison earns the top honors from the state of Georgia.

Kentucky: Wes Unseld
Few players in college basketball can match the domination of Unseld, who became a star at both the collegiate and professional levels after growing up in Louisville. After winning two Kentucky state championships, Unseld stayed at home to play for coach Peck Hickman and the Cardinals.

Unseld put up eye-popping numbers at Louisville with an average of 20.6 points and 18.9 rebounds per contest. A career total of 1,551 rebounds still ranks in the all-time top 25 across college basketball...

Louisiana: Elvin Hayes
Louisiana is one of the more underrated sources of talent in the nation with a number of college basketball Hall of Famers, with Hayes standing out from the crowd with some truly incredible career stats.

Born in remote Rayville in the northeastern part of the state, Hayes led Britton High School to the state championship as a senior in 1964 with some huge numbers. Hayes committed to an up-and-coming Houston team, joining fellow Louisiana native Don Chaney on the 1966 team.

At 6-foot-9, Hayes could not be stopped, as he averaged 31 points and 17.2 rebounds per game over a three-year career.

Maine: Jeff Turner
Maine's greatest basketball accomplishment is having two current NBA head coaches in Steve Clifford and Brett Brown, as only a few players from The Pine Tree State have enjoyed productive playing careers.

Turner, a native of Bangor, enjoyed a successful run at Vanderbilt in the early 1980s. At 6-foot-9 early in his high school days, Turner got an offer from Commodores head coach C.M Newton and went on to be a three-year starter.

After a slow first two years, Turner excelled as an upperclassman, and averaged nearly 17 points per game on 53.3 percent shooting from the field as a senior in 1984.

Mississippi: Danny Manning
As arguably the greatest college player to put on a Jayhawks uniform, Manning easily earns the honors as the top college player from Mississippi.

Manning was born and raised in Hattiesburg before moving to Lawrence as a senior in high school, as his father Ed became an assistant coach for the team.

Missouri: Tyler Hansbrough
With one of the greatest college basketball careers of the 21st century so far, Hansbrough runs away with the top spot in The Show-Me State.

New Hampshire: Matt Bonner
New Hampshire will likely never be known as a basketball standout, but was still home to a key player in Billy Donovan's early tenure at Florida.

Pennsylvania: Pete Maravich
While Pennsylvania has a rich basketball tradition, nobody has yet to top the stardom of Maravich in Keystone State history.

Maravich was born in Aliquippa in the Pittsburgh metro area before moving to Raleigh, where his father was a head coach at NC State. When his father took the job at LSU in 1966, Maravich made the journey to Baton Rouge.

South Carolina: Xavier McDaniel
South Carolina could produce more college basketball standouts in the future with an up-and-coming Gamecocks program, but it will take a special talent to top the career of McDaniel.

A native of Columbia, McDaniel starred at A.C. Flora High School as a 6-foot-7 forward. Rather than stay near home, McDaniel joined a Wichita State team that already had a pair of future NBA players in Antoine Carr and Cliff Levingston in 1981.

McDaniel piled up huge stats over his four-year career with averages of 18.4 points and 11.6 rebounds per contest. Following the graduation of the other two Shockers stars, McDaniel absolutely took over with an average of 27.2 points per game in 1985, earning an All-American nod along with his second MVC Player of the Year Award.

South Dakota: Mike Miller
An outstanding perimeter shooter, Miller rose all the way from rural South Dakota to stardom at Florida in the late 1990s.

Tennessee: Oscar Robertson
As one of the all-time greats at every level of the game, Robertson runs away from the rest of the field as the best college basketball player from Tennessee.

Roberston was born in Charlotte before settling in Indianapolis for high school, where he led Crispus Attucks to two state titles and 45 consecutive victories overall.

Texas: Grant Hill
Lone Star State might be more known for churning out football talent, but legends like Hill give it a strong tradition on the hardwood.

Hill originally was raised in Dallas before becoming a prized recruit at South Lakes High School in Virginia.

West Virginia: Jerry West
Prior to making his mark on the NBA with a storied career, West became a legend in the Mountain State with a terrific stint in Morgantown.

West was born in Chelyan and went on to play high school basketball in East Bank, a town of less than 1,000 people. Top colleges around the nation still noticed West after he was named an All-American in 1956. but he chose to stay in-state to play for a West Virginia program that was in the midst of its best stretch in program in history