Our Big East Lottery Look Back series continues today with a triple threat of hoopers from three different schools in three different years. New millennium be damned, the Big East continued to run in the lottery after a brief, one-year hiatus back in 1998. Following Rip Hamilton’s selection in 1999, these three players were next on deck to maintain the conference’s status as the premier conference in America.
2000 - Etan Thomas, Syracuse
Harlem, New York’s Etan Thomas brought the heat when he arrived on campus in upstate New York back in 1996. Thomas grew as a player under Jim Boeheim in nearly every single year that he played, seeing a majority of his numbers increase across the four years spent at Syracuse.