Trickle down from the NBA

We are prone to remember what a player did lately, and if he had a great NBA career, that tends to color our opinion of his college career, and vice versa. Michael Jordan is a great example of that. He had a fine college career, but he was far from being one of the all-time greats, which is where he gets ranked all too often. He averaged only 17.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists over his career - very good numbers, but hardly the stuff that legends are made of. And, he made the one shot at the end of the NCAA Championships. If he had not played in the pros, only basketball historians and hard-core North Carolina fans would remember much about him.