Block Party: Holmes and Black and Friends*

[Globetrotter]

CAREER Blocked Shots
Player (Years) BLK
1. Otis Polk (06-10) 159
2. Tom Hall (89-92) 117
3. Ed Colbert (88-91) 116
4. Josh Almanson (00-05) 107
5. Kevin Netter (00-03) 105
5. Cam Black (10-present) 105
7. Cornelius Cash (72-75) 93
8. Kirk Cowan (96-99) 92
9. Shane Kline-Ruminski (92-95) 86
10. Joe Moore (88-91) 85
11. Richaun Holmes (2012-present) 84

Cam Black is tied for 5th all time and Holmes is 11th.

[h2oville rocket]

Kind of amazing Cash is that high. He was not that tall and played on a front line with 6'10" Skip Howard and 7 Cartwright. if I recall correctly. Plus he had only three years of eligibility

[Rollo83]

Did they keep block statistics when Nate Thurmond played?

[Globetrotter]

Nope.

[Globetrotter]

CAREER Blocked Shots
Player (Years) BLK
1. Otis Polk (06-10) 159
2. Tom Hall (89-92) 117
3. Ed Colbert (88-91) 116
4. Josh Almanson (00-05) 107
5. Kevin Netter (00-03) 105
5. Cam Black (10-present) 105
7. Cornelius Cash (72-75) 93
8. Kirk Cowan (96-99) 92
9. Richaun Holmes (2012-present) 89
10. Shane Kline-Ruminski (92-95) 86

Cam Black is tied for 5th all time and Holmes is 9th.

[Globetrotter]

What would be hilarious is if around some home game Black and Holmes tie and then start going back and forth and the announcer can say. Holmes just passed cam black for fourth all time. Black just passed Holmes for fourth all time. Holmes just passed black for fourth all time.

[Globetrotter]

CAREER Blocked Shots
Player (Years) BLK
1. Otis Polk (06-10) 159
2. Tom Hall (89-92) 117
3. Ed Colbert (88-91) 116
4. Cam Black (10-present) 110
5. Josh Almanson (00-05) 107
6. Kevin Netter (00-03) 105
7. Richaun Holmes (2012-present) 101
8. Cornelius Cash (72-75) 93
9. Kirk Cowan (96-99) 92
10. Shane Kline-Ruminski (92-95) 86

Cam Black is 4th all time and Holmes is 7th.

[Globetrotter]

CAREER Blocked Shots
Player (Years) BLK
1. Otis Polk (06-10) 159
2. Tom Hall (89-92) 117
3. Ed Colbert (88-91) 116
4. Cam Black (10-present) 115
5. Richaun Holmes (2012-present) 108
6. Josh Almanson (00-05) 107
7. Kevin Netter (00-03) 105
8. Cornelius Cash (72-75) 93
9. Kirk Cowan (96-99) 92
10. Shane Kline-Ruminski (92-95) 86

Cam Black is 4th all time and Holmes is 5th.

[Globetrotter]

CAREER Blocked Shots
Player (Years) BLK
1. Otis Polk (06-10) 159
2. Tom Hall (89-92) 117
3. Ed Colbert (88-91) 116
3. Cam Black (10-present) 116
5. Richaun Holmes (2012-present) 110
6. Josh Almanson (00-05) 107
7. Kevin Netter (00-03) 105
8. Cornelius Cash (72-75) 93
9. Kirk Cowan (96-99) 92
10. Shane Kline-Ruminski (92-95) 86

Cam Black is tied for 3rd all time and Holmes is 5th.

[Class of 61]

Kind of amazing Cash is that high. He was not that tall and played on a front line with 6'10" Skip Howard and 7 Cartwright. if I recall correctly. Plus he had only three years of eligibility

Pretty sure that Cash was 6'8" or 6' 9"....not a midget by any means... IIRC that was the team that lost in the NCAA's playing the game at KSU... think Dave Cowens played for Fla. State in the other game. Could be wrong after all these yrs, but thought that was the team.

[fredthefalcon]

Kind of amazing Cash is that high. He was not that tall and played on a front line with 6'10" Skip Howard and 7 Cartwright. if I recall correctly. Plus he had only three years of eligibility

Pretty sure that Cash was 6'8" or 6' 9"....not a midget by any means... IIRC that was the team that lost in the NCAA's playing the game at KSU... think Dave Cowens played for Fla. State in the other game. Could be wrong after all these yrs, but thought that was the team.

61. You're right about Cash's height. He was a 2nd round draft choice by both NBA and ABA but only played 6 games in the big time. But, he did not play on the NCAA team which was in '68. Cash played in the early 70's. The NCAA BG front line was anchored by Walt Piatkowski (6'8") and Al Dixon (6'10")

[Flipper]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... hco01.html

24th overall pick...he would have made some nice $$$ for a couple of years in today's game. His only NBA minutes were with the Pistons...that Piston team had some talent at PF (Marvin Barnes and Leon Douglas) so I think he got lost in the shuffle a bit

[h2oville rocket]

Kind of amazing Cash is that high. He was not that tall and played on a front line with 6'10" Skip Howard and 7 Cartwright. if I recall correctly. Plus he had only three years of eligibility

Pretty sure that Cash was 6'8" or 6' 9"....not a midget by any means... IIRC that was the team that lost in the NCAA's playing the game at KSU... think Dave Cowens played for Fla. State in the other game. Could be wrong after all these yrs, but thought that was the team.

They listed him at 6'7" which is pretty short for a shot blocker. The NBA bio says 6'8". Tall, but when you're bookended by 6'10" and 7' it's pretty impressive that he got that many blocks.

[Globetrotter]

CAREER Blocked Shots
Player (Years) BLK
1. Otis Polk (06-10) 159
2. Cam Black (10-present) 119
3. Tom Hall (89-92) 117
4. Ed Colbert (88-91) 116
5. Richaun Holmes (2012-present) 113
6. Josh Almanson (00-05) 107
7. Kevin Netter (00-03) 105
8. Cornelius Cash (72-75) 93
9. Kirk Cowan (96-99) 92
10. Shane Kline-Ruminski (92-95) 86

Cam Black is tied for 2nd all time and Holmes is 5th.

[Globetrotter]

CAREER Blocked Shots
Player (Years) BLK
1. Otis Polk (06-10) 159
2. Cam Black (10-present) 125
2. Richaun Holmes (2012-present) 125
4. Tom Hall (89-92) 117
5. Ed Colbert (88-91) 116
6. Josh Almanson (00-05) 107
7. Kevin Netter (00-03) 105
8. Cornelius Cash (72-75) 93
9. Kirk Cowan (96-99) 92
10. Shane Kline-Ruminski (92-95) 86

Cam Black and Holmes are currently tied for 2nd all time. They are 34 away from Otis Polk's record.