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BTD’s Best All-Time Basketball Player: #2 Charlie Sitton v. #7 Charlie White (Orange Bracket)

Related Topics: Charlie Sitton, Gary Payton, Verb

The Case For Sitton: A two-time All-American and three-time All-Pac-10 selection who helped Oregon State to a 93-25 record during his stay in Corvallis, there’s not enough ways to measure the impact that Charlie Sitton had on the Beavers program. He’s arguably the most highly touted recruit in program history, the 1983 team MVP, a career 1,561 point scorer and one of the star players in the Beavers three NCAA Tournament trips during the early 1980’s.

The Case For White: A trail blazer in terms of racial equality through the social landscape of the mid-1960’s , Charlie White was the first African-American basketball player to earn a scholarship at Oregon State, when he joined the Beavers program after three years in the United States military.