The selection of any sports Mount Rushmore ultimately proves an imperfect exercise.

Opinions differ. Comparing eras is impossible. Personal bias rules, as our own eyeballs and lived experiences create emotional attachments impossible to marry with objective truth.

Earlier this summer, the Journal Star sports reporters selected their Mount Rushmore of Bradley men’s basketball — and we asked for your picks.

You answered. We received more than 40 names from readers via email and social media, spanning the many fruitful decades of Bradley basketball.

Now, you get to choose. Included in this story is a poll with every nomination from readers. You select up to four, and we’ll compile a readers’ choice Mount Rushmore for Bradley basketball. Poll closes noon Monday, July 14.

Bradley basketball Mount Rushmore: Who did the Journal Star pick?

On June 23, PJS reporters Dave Eminian, Adam Duvall and Wes Huett each picked their Mount Rushmore of Bradley basketball. Here is a look at each. You can read the entire story at pjstar.com.

Eminian: Hersey Hawkins, Chet Walker, Mitchell “JJ” Anderson and Gene “Squeaky” Melchiorre.Duvall: Hawkins, Walker, Anthony Parker, Roger Phegley.Huett: Hawkins, Walker, Parker, Mitchell.Bradley basketball Mount Rushmore: What did the readers say?

Readers Dan Thomas and Mike King dropped us emails to give their foursomes, led by seemingly unanimous entries Hawkins and Walker. Both readers were first to mention one of our bubble players: Paul Unruh, a consensus first-team all-America pick and “a leader on Bradley’s best team of all time,” wrote Thomas.

“This is a fun exercise, but none of you got the full list correct (Ha!),” wrote King.

A couple other 1960s-era players were mentioned by multiple readers: Chicago native Joe Allen and Peoria Manual grad Al Smith.

“Joe Allen — the most courageous physically challenged player ever to grace the hardwoods at Bradley,” wrote Jeffrey Bogart, who also said Smith was “considered by many the greatest athlete ever to come out of Peoria.”

Former Woodruff coach Charlie Thomas picked Walker, Hawkins, Anderson and Allen, the latter his MVP. “Nothing better than going to the field house for a night game,” Charlie Thomas said. “The raised court lit up. So cool!!”

Some answers were even tongue-in-cheek, including one reader wanting 5-foot-4 guard Frankie Sylvester added to the conversation. Sylvester started 77 games for Braves teams between 1968 and 1971.

“He won’t take up much room,” wrote the reader, with a smiling emoji.

Below, you can vote for up to four players on the Mount Rushmore of Bradley basketball: