Starting lineup five positions and is called the 2-1-2 lineup: In American college basketball, a starting lineup is announced for each team before the game. Starting players are designated as either centers, forwards, or guards. A team can name at most one center, but otherwise any combination of positions is allowable, as long as five players are named. Lineups of three guards, one forward, and one center, or of three guards and two forwards, are the most common alternate lineups. In Canadian football, a team starts with 12 players on offense, 12 players on defense, and a special teams squad of 12
1957–58 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team 1957–58 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team The 1957–58 Illinois Fighting Illini men’s basketball team represented the University of Illinois. Starting his second decade as the head coach of the University of Illinois' Fighting Illini basketball team, Harry Combes and his assistant coach and top recruiter, Howie Braun, were beginning to lose some of the top recruits from the state of Illinois. Talented players, such as Tom Hawkins, Charlie Brown, McKinley "Deacon" Davis, Nolden Gentry, John Tidwell and Charles ""Chico"" Vaughn were lured away to play for other programs during the late 1950s, a trend that would continue for Combes