The Best Dunks So Far in the 2014-15 College Basketball Season

The name of the game is hang time.

These athletes make video games look unreal. They are anti-gravity. The laws of physics are mere suggestions to these gravitational contrarians.

That’s enough of that nonsense.

Sometimes it’s best to just get out of the way and let these cats rattle the rim and raise the roof.

These are the best dunks that I was able to curate in this young season. Hopefully you don’t end up posterized.

You’ve been warned.

10. Party Foul

Portland State’s Bryce White’s dunk against Portland wasn’t at all impressive. It was one of the more inexplicable displays of basketball you’ll ever see.

This is tantamount to jumping the offensive line in victory formation.

Down 14, White steals the ball and dunks to cut the lead to 12 with 1.4 seconds to go.

What if the point spread on this game were 13 points?

9. Body Contortionist

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There's that look on the face of that Savannah State player. It's the I-just-got-on-Sports-Center-for-all-the-wrong-reasons look.

This is how it went down. Miami's Sheldon McClellan swept around on an inbounds play, jumped bending fully backwards, grabbed the ball in mid-air, then slammed the ball down with two hands.

We'll see this guy one more time.

8. Hello, SportsCenter Top 10

It appears nobody sent Buffalo’s Justin Moss the memo that Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein is one of the best shot-blockers in the country.

Moss took Cauley-Stein head on and threw down the one-handed dunk at Rupp Arena. This was the college version of John Starks dunking over Horace Grant in the Eastern Conference Finals.

7. The Air Is Thin Where He Resides

J.P. Tokoto is like Vince Carter.

Tokoto isn’t flashy, yet he has every right to be.

He pointed. He got the ball. Davidson could do nothing but watch.

Tokoto can nearly head-butt the rim, and when he takes this feed, palms it and rains it down, there’s no one in sight. Davidson ghosted when Tokoto took flight.

6. Posterization Defined

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It may be only seven seconds long (this after watching a colorful 30-second ad), but Jordan Railey's dunk may have broken all we know about space and time. 

We're talking wormholes, people, wormholes.

The above photograph is a still from Railey's blatant disregard for UTSP's low-block defense.

5. Cowboy Up

“His daddy was a pistol, and he is a son of a gun."

Boy, howdy, what’s not to like about that little turn of phrase?

Larry Nance Jr. trails the field and finishes.

4. Fans, Teammates Lose It over Dunk

Sam Thompson has made a name for himself as a great dunker of inbounds passes.

Troy Machir of The Sporting News wrote:

"

In-bound dunks. There is no player in the country who has recorded more in-bounds dunks over the past three years than Thompson.

If he is dunking on you from an in-bounds set, it means you haven't done your job. You know it's coming. Then again, stopping him isn't all that easy.

"

Morehead State, you’ve been served by Sheriff Thompson.

3. Straight Up Bounce, Right There

When a few degrees aren’t enough, Miami’s McClellan gives you 360.

McClellan’s 360-degree jam was charged with suspense. The ball was stolen at Akron’s 3-point line. He took the ball at half court, and you didn’t know what he was going to do—you just knew it was going to be memorable.

On top of that dunk, he rattled the rim as an extra exclamation point.

2. 7'6"? No Problem

Poor Mamadou Ndiaye. Rondae Hollis-Jefferson was coming for him no matter what.

Hollis-Jefferson said he planned on dunking on college basketball’s tallest player. He dunked through Ndiaye.

“He told us at some point in the game he was going to dunk on him,” Arizona guard Gabe York said in The Arizona Daily Star. “I always get hyped for situations like that. That was definitely a big-time play.”

1. Glass Half-Full

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Green Bay has been told on occasion to “relax.” Aaron Rogers even went all spelling bee on the cheesiest and most delicious state in all the land.

Don’t tell Alfonzo McKinnie to relax. You will get burned. Prepare for a nosebleed.

Allow McKinnie to take you places you never thought possible. You may call this one, de-Vine.