Alan Seiden

Some things you have to take in pairs, and St. John's tremendous backcourt combination of Alan Seiden and Gus Alfieri is one of them. One of the best duos in college basketball history, Gus and Al – or Al and Gus – piled up victories in the late 1950s and starred in the 1959 NIT final with an overtime defeat of Bradley. They were adept at reading each other's games and also in seeing inside their opponents' to set up scoring plays that boggled the mind.  Seiden had a pair of 20-point seasons, but you can't always go on statistics. They played as if joined at the hip, and they played basketball with a boundless joy.