Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 2:47 pm  |  63 responses

Video: Top 50 NCAA Dunks Of All Time

Looking for reasons to get excited for upcoming college season? How about the possibility of catching a vicious sky-walking dunk live? They happen every season, in every neck of America, in every division.

Watch this mix in its 14-minute epic entirety. Even the honorable mentions make most SLAMadadays seem like backyard horseplay.

And don’t sleep on all the hard work that made this mix possible. Mixst311 started to compile footage over two years ago. This summer, he handed the footage to two of the best mixmakers in the game (Damnshow — editing; and Venom — color correction/restoration) to make it all vivid as possible. This is truly a project of passion, which clearly turned out to be something unlike anything we’ve ever seen:

Bonus: Here’s Mixst311 on the process of making this epic mix: “I started working on this project over two years ago after I had a growing interest in rare dunk footage. Finding these dunks wasn’t easy. I read hours and hours of fan comments on college basketball forums, watched thousands of YouTube videos, and read hundreds of articles, to track down dunks I’ve never heard of before then. After finding a dunk that sounded good, I had to figure out the date and then find someone who carried the game. I talked with many college game traders and game collectors, a few players themselves, and a handful of universities. DeAngelo Newson, who played for the Southern Utah Thunderbirds from 2003 to 2005, was actually willing to send me his college highlight reel of which I used two dunks for the video. It was a lot of work, but it was definitely worth it to see all these nasty dunks and share them with the world.”

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  • Red Posted: Sep.2 at 3:10 pm
    Boom goes the dynamite.

  • Czechmate Posted: Sep.2 at 3:17 pm
    MONEY!!

  • Kevin Posted: Sep.2 at 3:23 pm
    Wow Stackhouse’s jam was just honorable mention

  • GIANNIS BOUROUSIS Posted: Sep.2 at 3:34 pm
    GREAT!!!!

  • hangtime Hec Posted: Sep.2 at 3:42 pm
    Send it in JEROME!

  • Ryne Nelson Posted: Sep.2 at 3:52 pm
    Someone tell me they saw that Shaq dunk at No. 22.

  • GIANNIS BOUROUSIS Posted: Sep.2 at 3:53 pm
    dunks that should have been much higher: 43,36,33,31,12. Happy to see again Melvin “the helicopter” Levett, and hearing the “secreterian”(greatest horse ever) comment for Dirk.!! As for one, “send it in Jerome”!!!
    No Jordan though. neither the “best college dunker ever” Darrel Griffith…

  • Allenp Posted: Sep.2 at 4:04 pm
    I ain’t even gonna quibble over the rankings. I’m just going to thank this gentleman for helping me waste 15 minutes at work in a most enjoyable way. Thank you sir.

  • SMK Posted: Sep.2 at 4:06 pm
    #23 Maxiell just CRUSHES that poor dude. #16 aka the Texas Teabag that whole thing was ill.. nice work fellas.

  • rob stewart Posted: Sep.2 at 4:11 pm
    I used to wear jersey #2 when I played at Mizzou. So when I saw dunk 17 I felt like it was me. Thx for this video SLAM.

  • bentherealdeal Posted: Sep.2 at 4:29 pm
    Omg crazy vdo, Love the two dunk bye warrick and the number 2 oh god! great video

  • abaci Posted: Sep.2 at 4:42 pm
    Nice job that was awesome. Congrats. I really liked
    # 36 and # 21. # 15 seemed tame and out of place.
    Yea Ryan i saw Shaq hahaha ILL! Dear god #12 was brutal.

  • Sejackson Posted: Sep.2 at 4:43 pm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6hS0UqWCs my no.1

  • clockwork Posted: Sep.2 at 4:48 pm
    That was awesome!I didn’t know Kerry Kittles could get up like that…

  • Waggle Posted: Sep.2 at 4:50 pm
    HAHA. Amazing. Loved #30. Drop step and smash. Lol.

  • Loaf Posted: Sep.2 at 4:58 pm
    its messing up! wont play properly… not happy! this mix is disgusting i want to watch the whole dam thing you tube you cuuuuuuuuunts!

  • gurkirat Posted: Sep.2 at 5:08 pm
    not one dunk in this video was done by a white person

  • WangChung Posted: Sep.2 at 5:56 pm
    Man, how would you even rank these? What happened to JR Ryder? I know he put plenty of dudes on posters.

  • Kid Dynamite Posted: Sep.2 at 6:02 pm
    @gurkirat-I know hahaha! I thought one would pop up somewhere but alas….
    The mix is fiiiiilthy!!!!!!! hands down.

  • logues Posted: Sep.2 at 6:09 pm
    before i watch this, vince carter better be on here atleast once

  • The Black Rick Kamla Posted: Sep.2 at 6:22 pm
    …who remembers Ishmael Muhammad from Georgia Tech….one of the legendary NCAA dunkers that will probably be forgotten.

  • JTaylor21 Posted: Sep.2 at 6:24 pm
    ^^^gurkirat so what you’re trying to say is that “white man can’t jump”.

  • tavoris Posted: Sep.2 at 6:41 pm
    I didn’t watch at all. Was Darvin Ham’s shattering the backboard #1? If not…then meh. Oh yeah..did they throw Michael Wilson in there…he has a 51-in vert

  • spit hot fiyah Posted: Sep.2 at 6:44 pm
    Ismaeel Muhammad was SICK WITH IT!!!

  • The Philosopher Posted: Sep.2 at 6:51 pm
    My EGO is stroked.
    I called it with The Jerome Lane Dunk!
    Anyways, shout out to Lester Earl.
    Dirk Minnifield is my dude.
    I’ve shouted him out on these threads.
    Absolutely brilliant video!

  • Robb Posted: Sep.2 at 7:02 pm
    this white boy definitely can jump
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9drNlclSzE&feature=related

  • Royal Posted: Sep.2 at 7:58 pm
    I have no comment on the Hakim Warrick dunk…..

  • arjae828 Posted: Sep.2 at 8:00 pm
    def missing some steve francis dunks. he was one of the sickest in college.

  • nastierthanu4 Posted: Sep.2 at 8:11 pm
    i haven’t watched it but if jerome lane isn’t in the top 5 I’m gonna be pissed.

  • Zak_Knutson13 Posted: Sep.2 at 8:18 pm
    @clockwork that’s exactly what I was thinking.

  • doppler Posted: Sep.2 at 8:29 pm
    Just buss’ed a nut watching this.

  • Jacob (from Australia) Posted: Sep.2 at 8:57 pm
    #45 reminds me of Slamball? And Hakim Warrick, that is just plain silly. I’m utterly perplexed as to how that was even possible.

  • Benjamin Stone Posted: Sep.2 at 10:25 pm
    Haven’t even watched it yet, but thanks in advance. I know how much work this stuff can be. One quibble would be if there’s no Jordan, like someone said above, because his killer game-ending swinging cradle dunk against Maryland one year was sick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMOlqgoHgPE (wish it was better footage, but it’s good enough!)

  • chrisneww Posted: Sep.2 at 10:34 pm
    suuucha good video. every single jam is VICIOUS

  • DREPDX Posted: Sep.2 at 11:57 pm
    yo what were the names of the tracks in that video?

  • Jess Posted: Sep.3 at 1:40 am
    OH MY LORD ! THAT Kerry Kittles dunk was a monstrosity oh man

  • dirty frank Posted: Sep.3 at 1:43 am
    Awesome. Thank you. & that first Warrick dunk…wierd. Looks like his arm extends in the middle of the dunk.

  • C-Mac Posted: Sep.3 at 6:21 am
    I can’t believe that Jordan and Stackhouse’s dunks were only honourable mentions…

  • Dagsby Posted: Sep.3 at 6:48 am
    That was some of the sickest shit I have ever seen, but I’m feeling a bit sorry for all the white boys getting dunked on. Used as props…

  • KH10 Posted: Sep.3 at 9:50 am
    sick video, but guys need to stop trying to take a charge while stood under the rim you will end up with nuts in your face! either jump or get the F out of the way!

  • drdunkenstein Posted: Sep.3 at 10:20 am
    This video is just filled with awesome dunks. I never knew some many guys got completely jumped over and then crammed on. Amazing.

  • unrel Posted: Sep.3 at 10:24 am
    chick hearn calling number 5?

  • HD Posted: Sep.3 at 11:06 am
    vince carter only had 1 highlight reel dunk in college? i trust this top 50 but aren’t we missing something???

  • Nomad33 Posted: Sep.3 at 11:53 am
    Great Video. I always tease the dude that Jerome Lane immortalized in his dunk. He’s famous for the wrong reasons lol

  • davidR Posted: Sep.3 at 4:00 pm
    a lot of the dudes trying to take charges ended up getting knee’d in the face, ouch!

  • davidR Posted: Sep.3 at 4:05 pm
    @DREPDX,
    off the top of my head, some of them are (instrumental):
    jay-z – a million and one stories
    method man – even if
    mos def – bboy document

  • BostonBaller Posted: Sep.3 at 4:08 pm
    chitty chitty bang bang

  • windowlicker_son Posted: Sep.3 at 7:47 pm
    #32 Carlon Brown! Utes!

  • ConeyIslander Posted: Sep.3 at 10:22 pm
    Great video!

  • chase Posted: Sep.4 at 12:25 am
    slam did royal wrong by putting a poster of that warrick dunk, (aka the texas teabag)*credit SMK, in the same issue that they put in an article about Royal being underrated and a great defender. Well deserved article at the time btw.

  • HT Posted: Sep.4 at 3:44 am
    @Jacob first thing i thought of after seeing #45

  • PlanetAsia14 Posted: Sep.4 at 5:06 am
    Thank you, I loved this mix, too good.

  • Jray Posted: Sep.4 at 5:30 pm
    @Robb Yes he can.. Henrys from my hometown and his dunks were on par with some great nba dunkers

  • str8 from samoa Posted: Sep.4 at 8:15 pm
    this is da best dunk mix i have seen in awhile!

  • drogo Posted: Sep.4 at 8:52 pm
    the #1 elaborated dunk mix ever!

  • Saku 39 Posted: Sep.5 at 2:39 am
    Awesome work. Really liked the Transformers beat. Would have liked to have seen Rodney Rogers 360, but you can’t get them all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Bl-5Dzcf4

  • Hussman25 Posted: Sep.5 at 12:25 pm
    The Ishmail Muhammad dunk wasnt even his best; in my top 10 college dunkers list.

  • Jon Riggs Posted: Sep.7 at 11:56 pm
    blakely #10 baby!

  • mike tobin Posted: Sep.8 at 12:19 am
    Glaring omission–’94 Glenn Robinson over Greg Ostertag in the midst of a 44-point performance in a regional semifinal

  • J The Superfan Posted: Sep.8 at 1:47 pm
    I was there LIVE when Kittles made that dunk at the Big East tourney. He launched himself fromn the foul line! UNREAL!

  • Kevin Clark Posted: Sep.8 at 2:57 pm
    Only one glaring omission – Keyon Dooling vs. KU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io24lQQ32Ho

  • j7logan Posted: Sep.8 at 3:45 pm
    Does anyone know the name of the track at the 3:50 mark? The one with the transformer sound?

  • tkiller Posted: Sep.10 at 10:57 pm
    So, no Danny Green over Paula? No Hansbrough over Kenny George? Psycho-T dunks DIRECTLY on a guy who’s 7’7″, and -> nothing?

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