Stew's top 20: No. 18 - Brian Green

This is the first one on the list that stings me a little bit. There's a couple guys who I would love to rank higher than where they're ending up, but based on the selection criteria and trying to keep emotions out of things as much as possible, reason will prevail.

It was still tough to not put Green higher, but a lot of that speaks both to how many good players have come through USU in recent years.

Green's go-to ability was obviously his 3-point shooting, which stands in the record books as the best in USU history, hitting on 48.1 percent of his attempts from deep. He also set the USU single-season record for 3-point percentage making 50 percent of his attempts during his junior season, which included a mind-blowing 63.3 percent made in conference play.

Above that though, Green also was capable of scoring in plenty of other ways to round out a solid all-around game that landed him on the all-WAC second team in 2010-11, despite coming off the bench.

Maybe most endearing about Green though was his grit. Dude was as tough and as fierce as you'll ever see them. He's the kind of guy that will go cliff jumping with you the first time you meet him and chuck a gainer from 45 feet up on his first jump ever from those cliffs (seriously, that happened). Watching a guy like him play was a thrill every time out because you knew the opposition was never going to out-hustle him.

Plus there was that double-overtime game against Hawaii where Green played just out of this world. Even the very mention of his name gave every Aggie basketball fan the chills for weeks after that game. While Chaz Spicer put together a handful of clutch finishes in his senior season, that Hawaii game from Green might be the most all-around clutch performance of the last 10 years of Aggie basketball.