GW Countdown #3 and #4

Listed below are the third and fourth best teams in the GW era. It is interesting to note that the 1999 team had six future NBA players. GW has had a total of 17 NBA players in his 19 years at MD (18 if you count Vasquez).

$50,000,000.

This is the amount of money that Joe Smith lost by turning down a seven year, $80M contract with the Warriors in 1998. He earned a total of $30M in the following seven years. I am guessing that Walt Williams thought it was a bad idea to turn down that contract.

#3:

1999:
Final USA Today Ranking: 8
Record: 28 - 6
ACC: 13 - 3 (second)
ACC First Round: Beat FSU by 24
ACC Second Round: Lost to UNC by 7
NCAA Seed: 2
NCAA Round 1: Beat Valpo by 22
NCAA Round 2: Beat Creighton by 12
NCAA Round 3: Lost to St. Johns by 13 (Artest)
NCAA Champion: UCONN
- Francis (Jr): 17 - 5 - 4 - ACC1 -- NBA (9+ years, 576 gp, 18 ppg, 6 rpg, 6 apg, $65M in career earnings)
- Morris (So): 15 - 7 - 2 - ACC1 -- NBA (3 years, 139 gp, 3 ppg, 3 rpg, 1 apg, $1.8M in career earnings)
- Profit (Sr): 15 - 5 - 3 - ACC3 -- NBA (4 years, 135 gp, 3 ppg, 2 rpg, 1 apg, $2.9M in career earnings)
- Ekezie (Sr): 13 - 6 - 2 -- NBA (4 years, 143 gp, 4 ppg, 3 rpg, 0 apg, $3.0M in career earnings)
- Dixon (Fr): 7 - 3 - 1 -- NBA (6+ years, 371 gp, 9 ppg, 2 rpg, 2 apg, $8.6M in career earnings)
- Baxter (Fr): 7 - 4 - 1 -- NBA (4 years, 162 gp, 4 ppg, 3 rpg, 0 apg, $3.3M in career earnings)
- Stokes (Sr): 4 - 3 - 2

#4:

1995:
Final USA Today Ranking: 11
Record: 26 - 8
ACC: 12 - 4 (Co-Champion)
ACC First Round: Beat FSU by 7
ACC Second Round: Lost to UNC by 4
NCAA Seed: 3
NCAA Round 1: Beat Gonzaga by 24
NCAA Round 2: Beat Texas by 14
NCAA Round 3: Lost to UConn by 10 (Allen)
NCAA Champion: UCLA
- Smith (So): 21 - 11 - 1 - ACC1 - ACCPOY - APPOY -- NBA (13+ years, 868 gp, 12 ppg, 7 rpg, 1 apg, $52M in career earnings)
- Rhodes (Jr): 14 - 5 - 4 - ACC3
- Hipp (Jr): 14 - 4 - 3
- Booth (So): 11 - 7 - 2 -- NBA (2 years, 45 gp, 3 ppg, 2 rpg, 1 apg, $2.1M in career earnings)
- Simpkins (Jr): 11 - 2 - 5
- Lucas (Jr): 7 - 4 - 1
- Bristol (Sr): 4 - 1 - 1

#3. 1999: 28 - 6 (#8 in Nation; #2 Seed - Lost to St. Johns in NCAA Third Round)
#4. 1995: 26 - 8 (#11 in Nation; #3 Seed - Lost to UCONN in NCAA Third Round)
#5. 1994: 18 - 12 (#11 in Nation; #10 Seed - Lost to Michigan in NCAA Third Round)
#6. 2003: 21 - 10 (#17 in Nation; #6 Seed - Lost to Michigan State in NCAA Third Round)
#7. 1998: 21 - 11 (#22 in Nation; #4 Seed - Lost to Arizona in NCAA Third Round)
#8. 2000: 25 - 10 (#25 in Nation; #3 Seed - Lost to UCLA in NCAA Second Round)
#9. 2004: 20 - 12 (#24 in Nation; #4 Seed - Lost to Syracuse in NCAA Second Round)
#10. 2007: 25 - 9 (#23 in Nation; #4 Seed - Lost to Butler in NCAA Second Round)
#11. 1997: 21 - 11 (#32 in Nation; #5 Seed - Lost to College of Charleston in NCAA First Round)
#12. 1996: 17 - 13 (#47 in Nation; #7 Seed - Lost to Santa Clara in NCAA First Round)
#13: 2005: 19 - 13 (Lost to South Carolina in NIT Semi-Finals)
#14. 1990: 19 - 14 (Lost at PSU in NIT Second Round)
#15. 2006: 19 - 13 (Lost to Manhattan in NIT First Round)
#16. 1991: 16 - 12 (Banned from NCAA Tournament)
#17. 1992: 14 - 15 (Banned from NCAA Tournament)
#18. 1993: 12 - 16 (Did not make NIT or NCAA Tournament)

Note: The NBA statistics and salary information is from basketball-reference.com. It was valid as of March, 2008.