INSIDE: Standings, statistics 3B Shortly after the euphoria of making the state tournament wears off - actually, less than 12 hours later - a few teams run smack into a stark reality when the tournament seeds are released.
We're on a quest to find the top 10 basketball players in Colorado Springs area history. We've solicited opinions from all over town. Let us know what you think and we'll list the top 10 in Friday's paper in advance of the big game between two players who may well be on that list -- Sierra's Wesley Gordon and Lewis- Palmer's Josh Scott. Here are the current front-runners to be included on the list (listed in alphabetical order). Let us know what you think by commenting below, emailing us at preps@gazette.com or like GazettePreps on Facebook and make your voice heard there. We want any details (years, stats) that you have as well. As with any list like this, the criteria is absolutely subjective. Perhaps you weigh the post-prep career heavily, or maybe you just remember what a player did...
MORMON YANKEES: Giants On and Off the Court," by Fred E. Woods, Cedar Fort, $24.99, 292 pages (nf) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the game of basketball are intertwined to the point that almost every ward building has a basketball court, and any "cultural" event must take place on the hoops' hardwood (or carpet as the case may be). Basketball has even played a role as a missionary tool at various times and places. "Mormon Yankees: Giants On and Off the Court," by Brigham Young University professor Fred E. Woods, recounts how the game helped 1937-61 proselyting efforts in Australia.
West Virginia opens practice for its 102nd men's basketball season in two weeks. As for the first 101 seasons - especially the last one that ended with an NCAA Final Four trip - they have been warmly and cogently distilled into 288 pages in a new book.
Funny what a harmless bribe and reams of determination did for Cindy Roybal. Back in the winter of 1971, they made her a professional basketball player at the ripe old age of 18. On Monday, they landed her -- or at least the team she played for -- a spot in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
With this week's Class AAA boys basketball state tournament set to mark the end of White Station senior guard Joe Jackson's already legendary high school career, some of us here at The Commercial Appeal got to wondering how this Class of 2010 stacks up against some of Memphis' best ever. (Be sure to check out Tuesday's story in Sports about Memphis' best-ever boys hoops classes.) Along with Jackson (who's signed with the University of Memphis), this year's class features three more seniors ranked among the nation's top 105 prospects by Rivals.com in Ridgeway forward Tarik Black (signed with Memphis), Sheffield guard Chris Crawford (Memphis) and Mitchell transfer Mardracus Wade (Arkansas), who's now at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Va.
We reflect on the words of Jim Boeheim back in 2008, following a game at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. Boeheim was effusive in his praise of Jim Calhoun, saying that what he's done at UConn may be the single greatest job by any coach in the history of college basketball. Of course, Boeheim, an original coach in the Big East, recalls what UConn was during a more provincial era, and we have to believe he figured that the little school in Storrs would never be much of an obstacle to Syracuse and the other powers of the Big East. We bring that story up because it is part and parcel of what the UConn men accomplished this year.
The Tecumseh girls basketball team is in an unfamiliar position. The Braves have won only one sectional championship and own just three winning seasons in their history. But this winter, the Braves are 14-4, ranked ninth in Class A, and haven't lost to another Class A team all season.
The longstanding feud between the former U.N.L.V. coach Jerry Tarkanian and the N.C.A.A. still hangs over the coach and his family, even if his style would be readily accepted today. It is a Monday afternoon, and one of the most controversial figures in college basketball history sits quietly at the end of a rectangular table at Landry's, a seafood restaurant on West Sahara Avenue that is, both physically and metaphorically, a long, long way from the glitz and glitter of the Strip.
The history of the Westside basketball program isn't nearly as rich as that of Bridgeport. Unless, of course, you're talking about the 10-game winning streak the Renegades have been on since the end of January.
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