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1977 & 2007 High School Basketball Playoffs





1992 UK - Reversal of Fortune


Daily Independent article by Mark Maynard on 1996 UK vs. 2012 UK
(click above)


1996 Kentucky vs. 2012 Kentucky
(click above for preview and box score)





California High School Hoop Greats
(click above to read how the 1968 Tarbabes captured the crown!)



Championship


1968 Compton  69
1958 Oakland McClymonds  64  


Starters

1958 McClymonds                   1968 Compton
Aaron Pointer             G        Dwight Taylor
Charles McKinney     G            Larry Morris
James Hadnot             C        Mike Hopwood
   Ed Thomas                  F      Tommy Campbell
 Paul Silas                     F        Larry Hollyfield
                     



1st Team

Bill Walton - 1970 Helix
Bill Cartwright - 1975 Elk Grove
Jason Kidd - 1992 St. Joseph Notre Dame
Raymond Lewis - 1971 Verbum Dei
Curtis Rowe - 1967 LA Fremont


2nd Team

Tom Lewis - 1985 Mater Dei
Jason Collins - 1997 Harvard-Westlake
David Greenwood - 1974 Verbum Dei
Paul Silas - 1958 McClymonds
Stevie Thompson - 1985 Crenshaw



All-Name Team

Mission Labasan - 1982 Carson
Ainsley Truitt - 1968 SF Wilson
Chuck Moore - 1964 LB Poly
Woody Sauldsberry - 1952 Compton
Hassan Adams - 2002 Westchester







Boomer, BF & the Boys
(story by Jim Owen)

Texas Baseball Greats
(click above)


1967 H.S. Basketball





California High School
 Football Greats


Thank you for following along!!
If you enjoyed the California Greats Football tournament, information is needed for about five more teams to perform a California Greats Basketball tournament that should start in January of 2012. 




California H.S. Greats
(click above to read how 1969 Pasadena Blair became the big cheese, the head honcho, the top dog, etc.)



Championship
From the Rose Bowl in
Pasadena, CA

1969 Pasadena Blair Vikings  42
2000 Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits  35


http://www.mghelmets.com/











1990 National Championship
(click above for preview)


http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

Saturday, January 12, 1991
Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, LA

Georgia Tech
Yellow Jackets
vs.
Colorado
Buffaloes









Basketball Doubleheader

Game One:
Broadcaster Challenge

1974 Mason (OH)

vs.

1995 Tustin (CA)


??????????
Why would a highly ranked squad from Orange County be playing a team from Ohio that's 21-years their elder?
Because Dan Patrick (known as Dan Pugh back in the day) from Mason and Tustin's Doug Gottlieb get to leave the studio to battle on the hardwood.



1974 Mason (OH) vs. 1995 Tustin (CA) BB
(click above for preview & results)



Mason takes the lead
(click above to listen)






Game Two:
Hoosiers vs. The White Shadow

1952 Hickory (IN)

vs.

1980 Los Angeles Carver


Thank you to Rob Curry (via Bill Simmons "The Sports Guy") for this suggestion.
Big Warren Coolidge, Hayward, Thorpe and yes, Abner Goldstein battle Norman Dale's legendary Hickory team.
Expect a three-point barrage by a certain sharp-shooting Husker.
Hint: the website is not named after Ollie McClellan.


1952 Hickory (IN) vs. 1980 L.A. Carver
(click above for preview & results)


Hickory's "Shooter" causes a stir
(click to listen)









Overtime

November 19, 1966.
Notre Dame (#1) battled Michigan State (#2) to a 10-10 tie, that left the sellout crowd in East Lansing and millions of television viewers pondering "now what?".
With no way to decide it on the football field, the chase for number one was left to the voters.

Now, we go back to that chilly, overcast afternoon in Michigan to decide it on the field...in overtime...using
the current (2011) rules.

We do it to eliminate a championship decided by vote.
We do it for the fans who remember what may not have been a great game, but was certainly built up as "The Game of the Century".
And finally, we do it to give Irish coach Ara Parseghian a reprieve on his decision to "settle" for the tie.

As for undefeated Alabama, who finished 3rd in the final polls, your case for #1 may be addressed soon...stay tuned.


Notre Dame 25
Michigan State 19
in five overtimes!!


1966 ND vs. MSU - Overtime
(click above for story & box score)












Rocky Top Skirmish

2006 Brentwood Academy

vs.

2006 Memphis Hamilton

Both state basketball champions, both ranked in the top-ten nationally at the end of 2006. It's time to settle it on the hardwood.


2006 Brentwood (TN) Aca. vs. 2006 (TN) Hamilton
(click above for preview & box score)








1970 Jimmy Chitwood Invitational


Jimmy Chitwood - 1970
(click above for brackets and results)


1970 Basketball Champions

La Mesa (CA) Helix
"Highlanders"







Legends Game


1987 (KY) Clay County

vs.

1990 Bedford (IN) North Lawrence

Two iconic squads from great basketball states, tussle in Louisville. Thanks again to Rob Curry for the suggestion.


1987 (KY) Clay Co. vs. 1990 BNL
(click above for preview and results)








Father's Day 2011


Doc / Austin

1980 Maywood (IL) Proviso East  70
2011 Winter Park (FL)  66

1980 (IL) Proviso East vs. 2011 Winter Park (FL)
(click here for preview & box score)



Also...


Jimmy Walker / Jalen Rose

1993 Michigan  88
1965 Providence  60


1965 Providence vs. 1993 Michigan BB
(click here for preview & box score)









The Miracle Invitational

1952 Hebron (IL)
Green Giants
vs.
1954 Milan (IN)
Indians

A couple of small town state champions battle to see who is the bigger giant killer


1952 Hebron (IL) vs. 1954 Milan (IN) BB
(click above for box score and story)
















1982 National Championship















1967 High School Basketball Crossword
(click above for printable page)


Crossword Answers








Falcon Feud!!

Wichita Heights High captured their third consecutive state basketball crown this month, finishing 25-0 led by star forward Perry Ellis.
In 1977, the Falcons produced what was arguably one of the state of Kansas' greatest squads. Led by future pros Darnell Valentine and Antoine Carr, Heights rampaged through an undefeated season (23-0), including a dismantling of Wyandotte in the championship which saw the Falcons race to a 25-0 lead.
Now the two titans take the court to claim bragging rights for the school and possibly as the state's best ever basketball team.



Lineups


2011 Falcons (25-0)

Coach: Joe Auer

Terrence Moore
Eric "E.J." Dobbins
Perry Ellis
Evan Wessel
Dreamius Smith





1977 Falcons (23-0)

Coach: Lafayette Norwood

Darnell Valentine
Antoine Carr
Calvin Alexander
James Carr
Doc Holden





Acrophobia 1977
The remarkable story of one of America's greatest high school teams

By Mark Nale






Result

1977 Falcons  73
2011 Falcons  65



1977 Wichita Heights vs. 2011 Wichita Heights BB
(click here for box score and story)





Some comments from visitors...

From Mark:

"Very interesting matchup between the 1977 legends and the current
boys teams!  The computer apparently never saw Calvin Alexander, James Carr, and
Doc Holden play though. Had Perry Ellis and Evan Wessel been saddled with 2
early fouls in reality we would have had them a least 40 points behind at the
half..."



From Steve:

"So curious…..if you don’t throw into the mix that there are 2 NBA players on the 77 team, would the outcome be the same?   Who’s to say that Perry Ellis and Terrance Moore won’t be pros?Food for thought….Pretty neat…..thanks for doing this."



From anonymous:

"It was interesting your Heights vs Heights.  But I have a few things I disagree with.
2011 would have made some three pointers,  EJ would have scored 6 points, 2011 team would have had more steals and assists and Perry would not have had 3 TO's.  Perry would have gone to the line  a lot more times than 3.  But it was interesting."











2010 H.S. Football



2010 National Champions

Don Bosco Prep
Ironmen












Minnesota Hockey (1969-2010)


Championship

1993 Bloomington Jefferson wins game three,
4-3 in overtime to defeat 1983 Hill-Murray two games-to-one and capture the
Minnesota Hockey Greats (1969-2010) title.







Contact us 











Looking For...

My name is Dean Prator, creator of the raymondlewis.com website. I have
been searching for basketball footage of Raymond at any level (Verbum Dei, LA State, or in a summer pro-league game) to post on the website.
If anybody has or knows somebody who might have this, please contact me at
dean@raymondlewis.com








Kentucky Greats Basketball Tournament


1961 Ashland (KY) vs. Collinsville (IL)

Thank you to Mark Maynard of The Daily Independent (Ashland, KY) for the articles below:

Web site's detail makes simulations sing

Web site brings matchups to life

Players (current and former), coaches (current and former), fans and historians of Pennsylvania football...click on the link below and contribute your input to the list of state champions!

PA State High School Football Champions

Polls

Click on the link below to view some random yearly football and basketball polls from years past. The polls' rankings were done for the National Sports News Service by Art Johlfs from Minnesota. If anybody has football poll results from before 1959 for football, 1996 for basketball please e-mail us and we will fill in the missing years.



H.S. Football Polls    

H.S. Basketball Polls





 

Team Indexes

Listed in the link below are teams going back to the 1940s that we have enough information for to play simulations. If there is a match-up that you would like to see, please e-mail us and give us a little background (or not) about why you would like to see this simulation. If there are some teams that you would like to see included, let us know and we'll attempt to get information on them.

Basketball Team Index  
 

Football Team Index 

Sports Heritage Publications
(click link above)

Thanks to Tim Hudak

Using every available resource, Sports Heritage once again brings to life the tradition that is your school. Whether it is one particular sport or the whole program, we capture your school’s great sports history in an elegant coffee table book, one that features a complete and comprehensive compilation of the school’s athletic achievements.