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Russell Brown<\/p>\n
Arizona Daily Star file photo<\/p>\n
While Brown played during UA’s downward trend toward the end of the Snowden era, his impact was immense. His single-season assist record of 247 in 1978-79 still stands, even though he had 11 fewer games to play in that season than second-place T.J. McConnell (238) did in 2014-15.<\/p>\n
G Jim Rappis (1972-73 to 1975-76)<\/p>\n
Another of the Kiddie Korps who grew up quickly, Rappis wasn\u2019t known for eye-popping numbers as much as the glue he provided for some of Snowden\u2019s best teams and the way he played through pain.<\/p>\n
\u201cSteve Kerr and Jim Rappis were damn near identical in the way they played,\u201d Elliott said, referring first to the legendary Lute Olson-era guard. “He was that steady influence on all of us. High basketball IQ. Knew how to play the game. Not the most athletic person but was very, very effective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rappis averaged 12.0 points as a junior in 1974-75 and 13.4 as a senior in 1975-76, when he was named a second-team All-WAC pick. He had 24 points and 12 assists in the Wildcats\u2019 1976 Sweet 16 win over UNLV, despite injuring his left heel in the first half.<\/p>\n
In 2015, All Sports Tucson ranked Rappis No. 10 on its list of \u201cArizona Wildcats hoops badasses.\u201d<\/p>\n
G Joe Nehls (1976-77 to 1979-80)<\/p>\n
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Arizona guard Joe Nehls against Oregon at McKale Center in Jan. 1980.\u00a0<\/p>\n
H. Darr Beiser, Tucson Citizen<\/p>\n
One of the best shooters in UA basketball history \u2014 even though, again, there was no 3-point line \u2014 Nehls started 72 of 84 games over his four-year career and was particularly lethal during his last two seasons after UA joined the Pac-10.<\/p>\n
Nehls averaged 19.1 points in 1976-77 and 19.3 points in 1979-80. That last season, he averaged 20.2 points in Pac-10 games and was named a first-team all-conference pick. Nehls was also drafted by Houston in the seventh round of the 1980 NBA Draft, though he did not play in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Brown Arizona Daily Star file photo While Brown played during UA’s downward trend toward the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,450560,450561,450562,3017,85],"class_list":["post-881160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-bob-elliott-basketball","tag-coniel-norman","tag-fred-snowden","tag-men","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}