Nebraska putting 4 players on the court. Duke’s last 10 seconds up 2. Florida helping and giving up the 3.
Just a reminder the next time you’re at a high school game: mental mistakes happen at EVERY level.
And screaming at 15-18 year olds from the stands isn’t changing that.
The Iowa Print Sports Writers Association met with boys basketball coaches around the state on Saturday. Here’s who made the all state teams from the area.
Class 1A First Team
Eli Dee, sr., Baxter
Class 1A Third Team
Sawyer Veldhuizen, sr., Lynnville-Sully.
#iahsbkb
Congrats to Eli Dee on becoming the all time leading scorer for Baxter with 1,441 points and counting. 56 points tonight vs rival Collins Maxwell is a single game record as well! @Bound_IA@IHSAA@elidee_1
According to a story on AP today ... Indiana has the fourth biggest decline in girls high school basketball participation since the year 2000, down 39% .. over 4,000 less girls playing! In the US, numbers are down 45%. I wrote a column on this a year ago. https://t.co/w8WdfX3KxH
Every time I see data like this, I get angrier and angrier. Educators were hoodwinked by the ed-tech industry, and the casualty of that experiment has been a generation of children who are cognitively impaired because we brought screens into schools.
It was a tense game. A Baxter fan was ejected. And both fan bases were out of line at times. But saying after the game that “we should have taken out (Dee’s) knees, is beyond out of bounds. It’s high school sports. Let’s take a step back and remember that.