On August 8, ESPN released a 30 For 30 documentary titled “Baltimore Boys” about the special high school basketball teams at Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Md. The documentary is about triumph in the face of real-life tragedy and overcoming extreme odds to see four players off the same high school team reach their dreams of the NBA. While the documentary focuses on the humanitarian aspects of the game, we present facts about the basketball team and its on-court performance against the backdrop of this fascinating story about arguably the greatest high school basketball team of all-time.
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New FAB 50 National Rankings
Only one new team cracks this week’s GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50 national rankings. It’s longtime NYC power Lincoln (Brooklyn, N.Y.), but it came at the expense of another Big Apple squad. Read along for our explanation and understand why local consensus is so important — and why as veteran pollsters we sometimes have to go against it.
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Updated FAB 50 National Rankings
Only three new teams crack this week’s GrassrootsHoops.net FAB 50 national rankings, but there are also three new teams in the top 10. The recurring themes are to not harshly penalize teams that lose to another ranked foe, reward teams that have played tough schedules and reward teams that are still unbeaten at this point of the season.
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Findlay Prep, Sierra Canyon Keep Pace
Findlay Prep (Henderson, Nev.) keeps pace with Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) in the Grassroots Hoops FAB 50 with a victory over Our Savior New American (Centereach, N.Y.) at the Hoophall West Classic in Scottsdale, Ariz. Sierra Canyon (Chatsworth, Calif.) notches another quality win after capturing Maxpreps Holiday Classic with a victory over previously unbeaten DeMatha Catholic (Hyattsville, Md.).
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Gary McKnight Wins No. 1,000
With its 67-44 victory over Corona del Mar (Calif.) Friday night, veteran coach Gary McKnight of FAB 50 No. 17 Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) became the 14th reported coach nationwide to win 1,000 career games. We have some reaction from McKnight and a quick historical look at McKnight’s accomplishment.
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Preseason FAB 50: (31-50)
Today we kick off the 2014-15 high school basketball season with our first installment of the preseason 2014-15 Grassroots Hoops FAB 50 national team rankings. We begin with teams No. 31-50 and our second installment will be teams No. 16-30 on Monday, November 3. The complete FAB 50 rankings will be released by Tuesday, November 4.
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Memorable Weekend For Mike Jones
DeMatha Catholic (Hyattsville, Md.) coach Mike Jones gets his 300th win at the Hoophall Classic over MLK weekend, knocking off a FAB 50-ranked team in the process. Not only did Jones reach a milestone win, his team broke into this week’s FAB 50 a day after he was announced as coach of the 2014 USA Junior National Select Team.
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HSBB: Blasts From The Past
Periodically, StudentSportsBasketball.com will take a look at happenings in the world of high school basketball dating back five, 10, 15, 20, 25 years ago and beyond! Today, we take a peek back at big news in December of 2003, 1998 and 1978.
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